How to Play the 5-String Banjo by Pete Seeger
Written in 1962, this book has probably started more banjo players out, than any other.
Informative and instructional. Covers up-picking, frailing & 3-finger. A book every player should own.
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B-OK61291 BOOK:$14.95
Contents:
History
A Basic Strum
The Fifth String
Hammering On
Pulling Off
Double Thumbing
3/4 and 6/8 Time
Frailing
Three Finger Picking and Bluegrass Banjo
Other Styles of Picking
Whamming
Three Miscellaneous Postscripts
Blues and Jazz
Spanish and South American Music
Summary
Description and Maintenance
Where to buy a banjo
Lengthening a banjo neck
On the subject of banjo cases
Chords! Chords!
280 (Count'em) chords
Other Tunings
How to read music - slightly
Tablature
Fingernails
A footnote to history
Books on the banjo
Books of songs to sing
Phonograph records
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