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Subject: Oversea banjo beginner From: M.O Date: 23 Jul 99 - 11:54 AM I've been owning banjo for at least 2 years. Believe it or not, I still don' t understant how to play. Banjo in france is not very common and I feel lonely and looking for materials to learn. I've tried trillions of time this boon-ti-ti affair but I stil dont figure how it goes. Please help me with few words, or all that I can do is light up a big fire and burn the intrument. Well, I know, some will say 'Oh yeah! do it' thanks for my wife! |
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Subject: RE: Oversea banjo beginner From: Mudjack Date: 23 Jul 99 - 12:09 PM M.O, You have the banjo and the desire to play and thats a good start. May I suggest you find a good music source and listen for about an hour. While listening, focus on a part or song and then try in on your own. Go back to the listening session and then try it again. Music in the beginning is very repetitive. I usually stay with basic chords and build from there. Have you learned yet to play a set of chords? If not, you might want to start there. The best advice I can give anyone who struggles in the beginning is, don't give up, invest the time and it will all pay off in the end. Mudjack |
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Subject: RE: Oversea banjo beginner From: Rick Fielding Date: 23 Jul 99 - 12:16 PM Hi Mo. You say you can't do the "boom ti-ti, so I assume you want to learn to frail the banjo rather than 3 finger picking. It's tough without someone there to show you the right way. If I could have 20 minutes with you I could get you started and you could practice the required 50 or more hours it usually takes someonr to become really smoothe. Do you have access to the Pete Seeger "How to play the 5 string Banjo" book and tape. It's still one of the best methods. Try and find it. Good luck Rick |
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Subject: RE: Oversea banjo beginner From: Dani Date: 23 Jul 99 - 01:01 PM Rick, I am in a similar banjo-boat. I got Pete's book and videotape, but (God bless 'im) he assumes a lot. I couldn't get started with it, but I know when I DO get started I'll have a lot of fun with it. |
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Subject: RE: Oversea banjo beginner From: Chris Nixon UK Date: 23 Jul 99 - 02:19 PM Depends what bit of France you're in. If you're anywhere near the Channel Ports, about half an hour from Dover is Andy Perkins, who has a banjo shop at Faversham and is a total guru on banjos of all descriptions. Email me at cwn42@yahoo.com for more details if this is any use.. |
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Subject: RE: Oversea banjo beginner From: Bert Date: 23 Jul 99 - 05:04 PM Overseas is the BEST place to begin playing the banjo:-) Bert (Tee Hee) |
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Subject: RE: Oversea banjo beginner From: bseed(charleskratz) Date: 23 Jul 99 - 07:38 PM Pete Seeger teaches the boom-titty (one-two and) rhythm in "up picking" before he gets to frailing--but frailing is a more popular style these days. If you can get ahold of either of Ken Perlmand's "clawhammer" style books/videos, you can start right with the frailing--and skip the up-picking (which is easy to learn, but gets in the way of learning to frail). And try to get ahold of Art Thieme's "The Older I Get the Better I Was" CD--he plays guitar most of the time here, but three or four songs he accompanies with some of the prettiest clawhammer banjo playing you'll ever hear. (Art is one of our local heroes: Waterbug [www.waterbug.com] is his label). --seed |
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Subject: RE: Oversea banjo beginner From: Banjoman_CO Date: 23 Jul 99 - 11:36 PM The above advice is good. Seegar's book is one of the ones I learned from. Oh, seed .... I was able to find Ken Pearlman's book but was not able to find the tapes or videos. Are they still available? Fred |
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Subject: RE: Oversea banjo beginner From: bseed(charleskratz) Date: 24 Jul 99 - 01:19 AM M.O--Our own Songster Bob (you can send him a message from your personal page if you're a member) also has a fine banjo instruction book, printed many years ago and still for sale at the original cost, $4.25 (a light enough book that international air mail might not double the price, so a great value). And Banjoman, Elderly Instruments has the Perlman two-video set for $39.95. That's, of course, www.elderly.com. I found it by asking first for the book by title (Clawhammer Style Banjo) and following links to instruction videos. The price of the videos doesn't, I think, include the book, which is priced at $15.95--and provides tablature for everything on the videos, close to 80 songs. --seed |
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