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Mel Bay You Can Teach Yourself Banjo

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Janet Davis book, CD, DVD are excellent sources for learning how to play the 5 string banjo. A suggestion for video techniques that would be extremely helpful would be to position the camera so the the views would show the left hand with the right hand by shooting over the left or right shoulder or above the hands to show the movement from right to left and vice versa that corresponds with the person playing or viewing, following the video. JGM K9JWJ

Skeptical am I when it comes to buying self teaching books and dvd's. I am surprisingly happy with the book and dvd. Janet Davis is a teacher (I would suspect not only of banjo) with a great manner. My only wish is that the dvd were longer to touch on some of the other points of the book(which I am muddling through.) The dvd I think was copied from an old vhs due to the fact that Ms. Davis refers to time on the tape several times, but the quality is still good. I would highly recommend this item for the beginner banjo student.

Get this book with the DVD and it will give you an excellent start for learning Bluegrass or Scruggs Style banjo. No book or DVD can teach you any musical instrument. You have to put in the practice to learn. But this will give the beginner a great path to follow. The DVD adds visual learning aids, you can watch Janet Davis play and show you how to place your hands and which fingers to hold down for the cords. I highly recommend this book

This is a very good teaching aid for beginning banjo pickers because she does it slow ;one new instruction at a time so one can understand what she's doing.

good starting video, use with it with the book and had no problems, the book alone has hard to do later with out the video. helped to know what the songs should sound like