Product Details

• Actors: Greg Cahill
• Directors: Greg Cahill
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Number of tapes: 1
• VHS Release Date: June 15, 1995
• Run Time: 82 minutes
• ASIN: 1584961082
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #650,053 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

From the Actor

Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine (Review): May 1998 issue Many years ago I had an opportunity to review an old LP by the Chicago-gased bluegrass band Special Consensus & was amazed at the banjo gymnastics by bandleader, Greg Cahill. I remember making special mention of Cahill’s fine bluegrass banjo playing in the review. Cahill has remained one of my favorite bluegrass musicians ever since first hearing him on record. In the intervening years I’ve had an opportunity to hear Cahill live with Special Consensus & in late-night jam sessions. I’ve never met another professional musician with a stronger commitment to the bluegrass banjo & such an honest enjoyment in picking informally.

Blazing Bluegrass banjo is a set of two bluegrass banjo insturction videos & tablature by Greg Cahill. The instruction is considered of an intermediate level: you won’t find beginners’ information on picks, parts of the banjo, & basic rolls on these videos. Instead, Cahill covers a wide variety of examples of banjo technuque & theory & a great selection of tunes.

Blazing Banjo 1 provides a 60-plus minute course in banjo theory intended to help develop jamming skills. Cahill first teaches scales, initially playing out of the G-chord position on the 5th fret & then moving the pattern to other keys. Following information on up-the-neck chord inversions. Cahill covers examples of song introductions, pre-endings, & endings in the keys of G, openC, & open D. Some famous licks from the likes of Earl Scruggs & Don Reno are explained before being put to use on tunes like "Pike County Breadkown" in the key of G, "Wildwood Flower" in the keys of G & C, "Eighth of January" in the keys of G & open-0D, & "Arkansas Traveler" in open-D & D played with the capo on the 2nd fret

Product Description

Developing Jamming Skills In this video, Greg covers the things you’ll need to know when you start getting together with other people for informal picking or to start a band. These are topics that have been consistently requested by his students over the many years he’s been teaching. Topics include: chord theory, structure & positions • count-offs • "pre-ending" and ending licks • adapting various licks to different keys & positions, and much more!
Tunes include:
Arkansas Traveler (in C and D positions), 8th of January (in G and D positions), Pike County Breakdown and Wildwood Flower (in C and G positions). (Intermediate Level)(82 Min.) (Video & Tablature)

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