Clawhammer Style Banjo
by Ken Perlman
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Author: Ken PerlmanBrand: Centerstream Publishing
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1989-05-01
ISBN: 0931759331
Number of pages: 194
Model: 118
Publisher: Centerstream Publications
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- Published by Centerstream Publications 194 Pages
- Book by Ken Perlman
- Author: Ken Perlman
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Book Review: most comprehensive teaching guide
Summary: 5 Stars
Ken Perlman's book has been around for almost 30 years and, with the sentimental exception of Pete Seeger's "How to Play the 5 String Banjo", is clearly the leading "how to" book on this unique style of play. However comprehensive and well written a book is if you don't get the earliest lesson down pat you're gonna be dead meat when things speed up down the road. If you don't have a competent teacher and are trying to learn from any book alone clawhammer, more than any other picking style, will beat you into the ground.
Fortunately for those of us too cheap to hire an instructor Perlman has produced a 2 DVD (originally VHS) set that bests most teachers for clarity and continuity in following the text of this excellent book. I can't recommend highly enough just how effective the book and DVD combination is. You'll save years of struggle and have a great time learning this most fascinating style of play. A great book made much better with the available video.
Summary of Clawhammer Style Banjo
A complete guide for beginning and advanced banjo players! From Ken Perlman, here is a brilliant teaching guide that is destined to become the handbook on how to play the banjo. The style is easy to learn, and covers the instruction itself, basic right and left-hand positions, simple chords, and fundamental clawhammer techniques; the brush, the 'bumm-titty' strum, pull-offs, and slides. For the advanced player, there is instruction on more complicated picking, double thumbing, quick slides, fretted pull-offs, harmonics, improvisation, and more. The book includes more than 40 fun-to-play banjo tunes.Songbooks
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