Title: Banjo for dummies
First published: 2007
Description: A complete guide to the world of the five-string banjo written for both beginners and more experienced players.  Packed with over 120 how-to photos and 130 musical examples.  94 track CD included - hear and play along with every exercise and song.  The only book to offer instruction in clawhammer, bluegrass, melodic, single-string, minstrel and classic styles.     From Earl Scruggs' driving bluegrass picking to the genre-busting jazz fusion of Bela Fleck and the multi-million selling movie soundtrack  O Brother Where Are Thou?, the five-string banjo can be heard just about everywhere in American music these days.   Banjo For Dummies is the most complete guide to the five-string banjo ever written. It covers everything you need to get into the banjo: including how to choose, tune and care for your instrument, developing a good playing posture, fretting your first chords and ...
Subjects: Instruction and study, Banjo, Music, Nonfiction, Methods, Self-instruction, Instrumental music, instruction and study