Absolute Beginners - Banjo | Complete Picture Guide to Playing the 5-String Banjo | Step-by-Step Instruction Songbook with Audio and Online Access | Learn Banjo for Adults and Kids

Ideal beginners tutorial.

If you're 100% fresh to playing a banjo, or have never played a guitar, then the Absolute Beginners Banjo book is a great place to begin. It starts off introducing the banjo to you, naming the various parts and talks a bit about tuning. It then moves on by teaching you your first chords with some classic Bluegrass songs to learn. The accompanying CD is helpful to hear the examples in the book and also provides backing tracks for you to play along to of each of the various songs. Obviously the 5-string banjo is not all about strumming a few chords, so the book quickly moves on to teaching a few classic finger picking styles. It's very easy to follow with clear illustrations and tips on techniques. If you play another stringed instrument such as a guitar, then you may find the first half of the book a bit too basic. I already play guitar so for me I jumped well over half, and being a short book there wasn't much left for me to get from it. But then it is an ABSOLUTE beginners book and with that in mind, it;s an excellent and friendly place to start.

Good for beginners, lots of info to get you started, Cd disk included, though not everyone will use a disk nowadays, this could be updated.

This is probably the best little book you can ever buy, if you want to learn the basics of how to understand and play a 5 string banjo. I have read it from cover to cover many times and I have learnt something new every time I read it. As a complete novice it has put me on the right path to learn and play this wonderful instrument. It takes you through the anatomy of a 5 string banjo, how to change strings, how to tune it, how to hold it, and more importantly how to learn to play it. When you have followed this book, you will be able to play songs using basic chords You will be able to read and understand how banjo music is written. You will learn to play rolls which are the building blocks of bluegrass banjo music. I cannot recommend this book more highly. The free tutorial CD that comes with this book is outstanding.

Useful, especially on tuning!

Expected this to include an online audio link as indicated on image of cover, but it arrived with a CD so will probably return it. Contents of book look good though.

Good book for beginner

Good book to encourage progress

tout petit livre, quelques morceaux interessants pour débuter mais il n'y a meme pas tous les accords : seulement sol do ré ... c'est quand meme un peu juste je l'ai pris en kindle et bien sur ... pas d epossibilité de récupérer les audios pas l'achat du siecle en somme....

Aunque está en inglés, no es un obstáculo para el que no entiendo da el idioma, ya que las explicaciones son conocidas y claras. Buen método para iniciarse.

This book should give me the start I need to play some Banjo stuff.

I found this book to be great. I had never played the banjo before and this was an easy to understand and drill along with the CD book. I hope there is a second book in this series. I got a book from a different author and I need more basic instruction before moving on.

Habe das Buch an einen Banjo Neuling verschenkt. Er war begeistert.