Instructional DVDs by Janet Davis

Instructional DVDs by Janet Davis
5-Sring Banjo and Reso Instructions for the Beginner through Advance and Setup and Maintenance DVD's
5-String Banjo DVDs with Instructional Tablature Books

For the beginning banjo player, we recommend starting with You Can Teach Yourself Banjo. This course will definitely give you an understanding of how and why, as well as demonstrates each technique with a song. Each lesson builds upon the techniques learned in the previous lesson. By the end of this course, you should be able to play any song you want to play on the banjo.

The course which follows these is Splitting The Licks on the 5-String Banjo. By the end of this you should be able to play any song "by ear" on the banjo in several different styles-Scruggs, melodic, and advanced.

Up-The-Neck should follow this, so that you can play any song you want to play in the 5th-22nd fret areas of the fingerboard.

Back-Up Banjo will teach you to play along with vocalists and other instruments. It is a very comprehensive course, designed to help you improvise your back-up. A lead arrangement is included with each song, too, so that you can record the lead and practice the back-up along with the lead.

5-String Banjo Instructional DVDs with TAB

Play Back-up on the 5-String Banjo Vol 1 and 2

A complete course for playing back-up on the 5-String Banjo--WITH TABLATURE!
From Beginner to Advanced
Add purpose & direction to your back-up! Step by step instruction! Tablature included.

DVD 2hrs each.

"Please Note: These have been transferred from Video to DVD at the request of many people, because they contain a wealth of information. These were self published in 1995, and are still in the original format, without menus, etc."

Please Note: These videos are a complete course on Back-Up. These are not companions to the books/tapes by Janet Davis, which we also highly recommend.

The DVD, Create Your Own Arrangements By Ear, is also for beginning players. It goes into detail on the chord locations all over the fingerboard, how to pick out the tune for a song, and how to turn a tune into a bluegrass song on the 5-string. This works well as a supplement to You Can Teach Yourself Banjo, although, if you have some playing experience, you should be able to work with this by itself.

"Please Note: These have been transferred from Video to DVD at the request of many people, because they contain a wealth of information. These were self published in 1995, and are still in the original format, without menus, etc."

Reso Instructional DVD with Tablature Book

YOU CAN TEACH YOURSELF DOBRO by Janet Davis - A Mel Bay Publication
An easy to understand course written in tablature, in lesson format for the beginning through intermediate levels. Each lesson builds on the previous lesson. Starts with the basics. Covers barring techniques, licks, picking patterns, chords, natural and artificial harmonics, scales, waltzes, fiddle tunes an much more.

Setup and Maintenance DVD's

Banjo Set-Up & Maintenance DVD by Janet Davis

Completely disassemble & reassemble a Gibson 5-String Banjo. Covers in detail: setting the bridge, changing strings, tightening the head, changing the head, adjusting the tailpiece, raising & lowering the playing action, replacing the tone ring & more! All techniques demonstrated close-up!

This has been transferred from Video to DVD at the request of many people, because they contain a wealth of information. The video has been updated for the DVD format, but is still the original content.
It does include a menu.

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