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The Online Guitar Store - How To Play The 5-String Banjo
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List Price: $16.95
Our Price: $11.53
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Manufacturer: Pete Seeger
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 787
EAN: 9781597731645
ISBN: 1597731641
Label: Pete Seeger
Manufacturer: Pete Seeger
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 72
Publication Date: 2006-12-07
Publisher: Pete Seeger
Release Date: 2006-12-07
Studio: Pete Seeger
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The basic manual for banjo players, with melody line, lyrics and banjo accompaniment and solos notated in standard form and tablature.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Not the Key
Comment: I agree with other reviewers that this book has historical merit and is interesting to have on your shelf. But inside the cover Pete Seeger says himself that the one useful revision of this book would be to rewrite it for G tuning. Why did he or a colleague NOT do so? When buying this book over the internet it is not apparent that the whole book is written in C tuning. Hence the book as an instruction manual on how to play the 5 string banjo was pretty useless for me. I would rather have spent my $$s elsewhere.
Carole M
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Summary: Something Nice To Own
Comment: This edition, with its facsimile handwritten notes inside the covers, has that something extra over and above the books value as a banjo tutorial.
It's nice to have it there on the shelf and the enjoy looking at from time to time, and there's also a feeling of carrying on something traditional for future generations.
Music is a wonderful social thing; something we can share with family and friends, and today's electronic generation have maybe lost that. Books like this encourage us to start over. Even if you're not going to take up the banjo in the end you can at least learn the songs and pass them on.
I'd encourage you to buy this book as an investment for future generations if for no other reason.
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Summary: Claw Hammer Banjo Book
Comment: There wasn't any way I could tell when I ordered this book that it was written for C tuning banjo. I was interested to learn with G tuning. The book was helpful but not what I was looking for.
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Summary: banjo from a to z condensed
Comment: pete seeger has given us a over view of many styles of banjo play-ability along with some historical background.Many tabbed songs from the 19 teenth and early twentieth century. Not just bluegrass but frailing/clawhammer(old time) styles also, along wtih some jazz and other timing variations. Very light in it's approach
with his whimsical comments through the book.
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Summary: Second Generation
Comment: I hadn't realized just how much I had worn out this delightful, Pete Seegerish banjo manual until my daughter wanted to take up the instrument. We dug out my 1962 red-covered edition and between the stains, rips and tatters, I saw all the things that made me love it way back when. It's probably not the perfect way to learn for absolutely everyone, as Pete himself would certainly agree, but it is the perfect way to learn the banjo while being warmed by the insight and soul of this wonderful American.
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