Play Banjo Today! Level One

The ultimate self-teaching method designed to offer quality instruction terrific songs and professional-quality backing tracks is now available for Banjo! This book and online audio pack can be used by students who want to teach themselves or by teachers for private or group instruction. Simply follow the tips and lessons in the book as you listen to the teacher on the audio. You'll learn all the basics: songs chords and melodies; pinching rolling and picking; playing tips and techniques; music notation; and much more! Learn at your own pace and open the door to the world of Banjo music! Over ninetygreat songs and examples with full-demo tracks.

This course covers the bluegrass melodic style from the very basics to advanced techniques and provides many well-known fun-to-play songs arranged in the three-finger melodic style. The pieces in this book are suitable forupper level beginning players to advanced level players. Access to downloadable audio is included. The bluegrass melodic style is a beautiful three finger picking style which can be traced to the early1900's. It became a fully accepted style for playing the five-string Banjo in the 1960's and is today an integral part of the three-finger style of many Banjo players at all playing levels. Songsarranged in the bluegrass melodic style are easy and fun to learn. Although the impressive-sounding style may sound impossible to learn with all of those notes coming from it surprisingly you will find that it is not thatdifficult and no previous musical knowledge is required in order to pick it up.