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Learn how to tune your banjo.
Start
with the basics. One month of lessons from Pete Pardee
(complete one per week). All lessons are in PDF format.
Pete Pardee is available for private lessons in Sonora
and Angels Camp, CA. Please email Pete at pete@thebanjoman.com
for more information. To schedule lessons, click on
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Released September 2006
BANJO PICKING offers banjo players
a valuable new method book and CD focused on training
the picking hand. Square one beginners through seasoned
professionals will and resources to improve and grow
musically. The many exercises and tunes give banjoists
all they will need to learn to pick confidently with
complete control and facility. There are lots of photographs,
many helpful suggestions on set up, tuning, ear training,
hand positions, thumb and finger picks, timing and
use of the metronome, rhythms, reading music and tablature,
chords and music theory. A unique, integrated banjo
notation is introduced. The CD contains the audio
of many of the exercises and tunes, played slowly
and deliberately. Once learned, players can then play
them at other tempos of their choice.
There’s lots here
for any five string banjo player to learn music from
lots of musical styles: bluegrass, folk, celtic, classic
fingerstyle (the urban banjo style which nourished
from c. 1860 to 1915 in America), jazz, and modern
classical music. With some study, banjo players can
master the imbedding of a melody among surrounding
notes from the prevailing harmony, characteristic
of the bluegrass banjo style and nowadays adapted
to many kinds of music. The needed tools for a player
to develop their own arrangements are all here too,
and there are six “mystery” tunes to do
just that as part of the appendices. The appendices
give further projects, help in reading and understanding
music, bass and piano accompaniments.
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