Banjo Primer Book for Beginners: with Online Video & Audio Access

Excelente producto

Online video wouldn’t work on iPad… I am updating my earlier review because the publisher replied. They provided a working link via email. Now I’ve had a few goes at adding 5 string 3-finger banjo to my repertoire… and tried several methods, including looking at random youtube videos.This is very clear and well-paced. The book and tab are completely useable in the Kindle edition… which is really nice, as I’ve looked at others where the tab is unreadable on Kindle.The videos are updated, and excellent.In summary, if you are serious about learning this style, or are returning to banjo having got nowhere before, just buy this… it is excellent value, and the best I have found. The tunes are relevant in sessions, and gently add technique as you work through the book and videos.There are other books Geoff Hohwald has produced that complement the instruction here with routines for practice etc, and you will likely end up buying a couple more because they are so handy.Best of all, they are all amazing value. I cannot stress this enough, based on my experience buying plenty of much more expensive material… I can say with certainty more expensive definitely does not guarantee you better instruction than this… this IS the best I have found.

A very good DVD starts this course, which provides a step by step easy to follow progression on basic Banjo rolls. The text breaks down songs into measures which can then be put together to complete simple songs like ‘Boil ‘Em Cabbage’ and Cripple Creek.

I have been playing the jazz guitar (electric, bass) for 43 years now. I have no banjo background/experience. I got this book yesterday in Kindle format. The Kindle format comes with the video access to see the digital version of the DVD that came with the hardcopy version of the book. On the very first page of the Kindle book, there is a URL there. Just click that URL, and it will take you to a page where you need to enter your email address only once. I believe the email address is a token that matches to your amazon email address. Do not wait for Amazon to send you an access link. The link to access the video, as I said is on the front page of the digital version of the book.Geoff Hohwald, the author, is one tough instructor, and I like it. He's serious about what he wants you to do and stresses the importance of getting things right first before going to another section of the instruction. The book touches everything, from the posture, tuning, using the fingerpick, to reading the tablature (love this part)...AND it comes with the backing track bass and guitar mp3s (downloadable) to accompany your playing. The backing tracks some in three speeds- slow-med-fast. There's no need to read music notation as, from what I have seen so far, there are all in tablature format. I am only on the first 10 minutes of the video, and then I stop and read the Kindle book. It is important that you read the book and supplement it with the video or vise versa. But the book has a lot of info that really gets into the specifics and fundamentals of banjo playing.There are online banjo instructions sites out there; there's one that charges $250/month. Ridiculous. Uhh no thank you. This book should suffice as a good starting point to learning the banjo. For a guitar player like me, the transition or rather the learning curve is slightly easier to cope with because some of the fundamentals of guitar playing do apply to banjo playing... hand positioning, picking/plucking, posture, even tablature reading. But there are other basics in banjo playing that are completely different from guitar playing. The tuning is one thing which is completely different from your standard EADGBE guitar tuning. So all the blues scales, pentatonics, major, minor scales you know in guitar is out the window completely because of banjo's GDGBD tuning. And this is the beauty of learning the banjo, the learning to "walk-again" moment to me is a priceless experience.Get this book. This is all you need to get started with banjo playing. To a guitar player wanting to learn to play the banjo, this is the only book you will need. To someone with no experience in playing an instruments, guess what, this book is all you need to. Highly recommended!

Didaktisch sehr gut aufbereitetes Buch. Die Videos motivieren zum Lernen.