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Your cart is empty.These two 2hour DVDs will give you everything you need to discover the heritage and master the techniques of the Clawhammer Banjo. Ken Perlman, celebrated tutor and Clawhammer authority, leads you stepbystep through this exciting style of Banjo playing, including:
- Basic left and right hand positions
- Simple chords
- The brush
- The Bummtitty strum
- Pulloffs and slides
- SyncopationWhen you feel you have got to grips with the basics, the second DVD then raises your playing to yet another level of expertise, including:
- Double thumbing
- Quick slides
- Fretted pulloffs
- Harmonics
- Grace notes
- ImprovisationIn the process of learning the skills of the instrument, you will also be introduced to over 80 Banjo favourites and authentic tunes, building a repertoire to match the library of techniques on offer in this comprehensive tutorial.
Roosterblooze
Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2025
This dvd is as good as you are! If you are willing to put in the effort the lessons will turn you into a pro level picker. No fooling around just great info and demonstrtions.
S. Hays
Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2021
I was working my way through the book for several months before ordering the DVDs. It took me a while to figure out the DVD structure, because the "chapters" on the DVD include multiple book chapters. Still, it seems like everything's there. It's good to hear the songs played at normal speed, and he also plays at a slower speed so you can (try to) play along. He also plays the exercises from the book so you can play along with those. A lot of the songs in the book were unfamiliar to me, and often the versions I found on YouTube weren't helpful, so having them all on this DVD set is great.The cameras show both hands in a sort of split screen effect when he's playing or demonstrating.It's obviously an old recording from the days of videotape. The video's nothing fancy, but it works.
willie wombat
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 6, 2013
this is excellent a must for anyone who wants to learn claw hammer banjo easy to follow clear and precise instructions
JC
Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2012
This is a great dvd, but be aware that it is not a stand-alone product. Instead, Ken Perlman wrote a book on which the dvd is based with the same title ("Clawhammer Style Banjo"). The book is also available on Amazon.What the dvd provides is a video demonstration of each and every song and exercise in the book, plus some expanded explanations for how to hold the banjo, position the fingers, play a tricky part of individual songs, etc. It would be hard to learn the songs only from the DVD because you would need the tablature in the book that shows where to position the fingers. Used with the book, however, it is like having a huge number of lessons from a top instructor for a comparatively very cheap price. The video is about 4 hours with a large portion of that consisting of the actual exercises and songs as opposed to fluffly background talk. In other words, it is chock full of content.I have purchased a number of clawhammer banjo books at this point. This little "intro" goes far beyond most of them in terms of taking you from simple clawhammer "bum ditty" strums to complex melodic runs and positions up the neck that are important for improvisation. Follow this with Perlman's "everything you wanted to know about clawhammer" book as an encyclopaedic follow-up and it is quite a large amount of useful material.Highly recommended.
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