Beginning Banjo with Avram Siegel
with Avram Siegel
Beginner
33 lessons (1h 35m)
Sheet music included
Mobile, Tablet + Desktop
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Course Trailer
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- Getting started
- Introducing the five string banjo
- hand position
- tuning
- introducing scales
- Right hand patterns
- Basic Chords
- Your first song
- Developing Technique
- More Right hand patterns
- Expanding the scale
- Worried man blues
- Learning Eliza Jane to develop time feel
- Left hand techniques
- Left hand techniques - the slide
- Hammer on
- Putting all together with Cripple Creek
- Rolls
- Round the world roll
- Forwards and Backwards Rolls
- Putting rolls into practice - 'Cumberland Gap'
- Pull offs + Reverse Roll
- Down the road
- Mastering Forward Rolls
- Fireball Mail
- Experimenting with Rolls
- Vamping
- Chord shapes
- chord sequences
- Vamping - Worried Man Blues
- Vamping - Cripple Creek
- Vamping - Fireball Mail
- Bluesgrass classics
- Old Joe Clark
- The tag lick
- Foggy Mountain Breakdown
- Foggy Mountain Breakdown Vamp - minor chords
- Rollin' in my sweet baby's arms
- Takeaways
- Takeaways
Lesson plan (1h 35m)
This course is a tried and tested method for learning the five string banjo from Avram Siegel, an acclaimed banjo player and educator on the Californian bluegrass scene.
Avram starts with the basics, introducing some classic right hand patterns, and simple licks. At every stage techniques are placed in the context of tunes, and this course includes more than 8 tunes, including 'Bile 'Em Cabbage Down', 'Foggy Mountain Breakdown', and 'Fireball Mail'.
Each lesson includes tablature as a downloadable PDF, including for all tunes. Before long you'll be playing classic tunes from the banjo repertorie with rolls, slides, hammer ons, and authentic bluegrass right-hand patterns. On MusicGurus you'll be able to slow-down and loop any part of the lesson.
This is an ideal course for beginners, those coming from other instruments like guitar, or those who have played a little banjo already.
Please note this course was converted from a DVD licensed from MVD entertainment group, it is therefore in Standard Definition quality.
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