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How To Play The 5-String Banjo (Music Sales America)
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| Part No: | 1597731641 |
| Manufacturer: | Pete Seeger |
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| Customer Rating: | 4.5 / 5.0 |
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- ISBN13: 9781597731645
- Condition: New
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The basic manual for banjo players, with melody line, lyrics and banjo accompaniment and solos notated in standard form and tablature.
| A voice from the past | 2009-08-19 | 4 / 5 |
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I was 17 years old when I came under the spell of an American protest, folk singer called Pete Seeger. I bought a copy of "How to play the 5 String Banjo". Somewhere down the years I mislaid both my banjo and the book. Hearing of Pete's 90th Birthday Party in Madison Square Garden, NYC, I wanted to recapture the influence that made my guitar style what it is. The book is a piece of history, recapturing memories of a music that has survived the test of time.
Play a Pete Seeger song and even a rabid right winger will sing along and identify with this national treasure, conveniently setting aside his politics and life spent standing up for the underdog and the down trodden. This book is an instruction manual, but also a piece of history. It is now a treasured possession in my household. |
| Best by far | 2009-06-15 | 5 / 5 |
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| This book will not teach you any thing if you don't practice with it. If you are willing to put in the time, this book will make you a skilled Banjo player with many different styles in your repertoire. Excellent for a beginner. Pete Seegar is an American treasure and some where I read that he said this book helped him pay the electric bill. This is the same as the older REd covered version with a few added stories. You won't be disappointed. |
| Pete Seeger is SOOO Bomb! | 2009-06-02 | 5 / 5 |
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| I like this book because its more about Folk Banjo styles instead of Bluegrass. Don't get me wrong, Bluegrass is great, but if you are interested in sitting on a porch strummin on a Banjo I think you will find this book very helpful. |
| Not the Key | 2007-08-10 | 1 / 5 |
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I agree with other reviewers that this book has historical merit and is interesting to have on your shelf. But inside the cover Pete Seeger says himself that the one useful revision of this book would be to rewrite it for G tuning. Why did he or a colleague NOT do so? When buying this book over the internet it is not apparent that the whole book is written in C tuning. Hence the book as an instruction manual on how to play the 5 string banjo was pretty useless for me. I would rather have spent my $$s elsewhere.
Carole M |
| Something Nice To Own | 2007-05-28 | 4 / 5 |
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This edition, with its facsimile handwritten notes inside the covers, has that something extra over and above the books value as a banjo tutorial.
It's nice to have it there on the shelf and the enjoy looking at from time to time, and there's also a feeling of carrying on something traditional for future generations.
Music is a wonderful social thing; something we can share with family and friends, and today's electronic generation have maybe lost that. Books like this encourage us to start over. Even if you're not going to take up the banjo in the end you can at least learn the songs and pass them on.
I'd encourage you to buy this book as an investment for future generations if for no other reason.
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