Description

A Beginner’s Guide, Featuring Step-By-Step Lessons with Audio, Video, and Bluegrass Songs!
Author: Kristin Scott Benson
Format: Softcover with Media Online
Instrumentation: Banjo TAB
The First 15 Lessons series provides a step-by-step lesson plan for the absolute beginner, complete with audio tracks, video lessons, and real songs! Designed for self-teaching or for use with an instructor, you’ll build a solid foundation as you work through each lesson, learning the basics of the instrument and music reading while practicing the many exercises, concepts and song excerpts within. Must-know instruction so you can start playing right away, with a free online tuner and metronome!
This banjo book features video and print lessons by author and banjo master Kristin Scott Benson on:

• banjo fundamentals
• music reading
• tuning
• three-finger Scruggs style
• bluegrass banjo rolls
• chords & scales
• slides, hammer-ons & pull-offs

Includes lead & backup banjo parts for these bluegrass songs:

• Boil Them Cabbage Down
• Cripple Creek
• Oh! Susanna
• Old Joe Clark
• When the Saints Go Marching In