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Earl Scruggs and the 5-String Banjo: Revised and Enhanced Edition - Book with CD

Earl Scruggs and the 5-String Banjo: Revised and Enhanced Edition - Book with CD
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Earl Scruggs and the 5-String Banjo: Revised and Enhanced Edition - Book with CD

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The best-selling banjo method in the world! Earl Scruggs's legendary method has helped thousands of banjo players get their start. The "Revised and Enhanced Edition" features more songs, updated lessons, and many other improvements. It includes everything you need to know to start playing banjo, including: a history of the 5-string banjo, getting aquainted with the banjo, Scruggs tuners, how to read music, chords, how to read tablature, the anatomy of Scruggs-style picking, tuning the banjo, exercises in picking, 39 songs, how to build a banjo, making Scruggs tuners, biographical notes, and much more! The book/CD version includes a CD with Earl Scruggs playing and explaining over 60 examples!

 
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Product Details
Author:Earl Scruggs
Paperback:200 pages
Publisher:Hal Leonard Corporation
Publication Date:August 01, 2005
Language:English
ISBN:0634060422
Package Length:11.9 inches
Package Width:9.0 inches
Package Height:0.7 inches
Package Weight:1.6 pounds
Average Customer Rating: based on 31 reviews

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Average Customer Review:4.5
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2Not the best organization  Oct 03, 2008
This book is good at giving information about the banjo and helping one develop techniques. I would have liked to have had more songs interspersed within the exercises so I felt like I was progressing. As of right now, I am still trying to get through the techniques sections and have not been able to play a song yet. If I do cheat and move forward to where all the songs are located, they are too advanced for me to apply the techniques I have already learned. With better organization, this can be a fantastic book.

3Learning Banjo The Scruggs Way  Sep 08, 2008
The book is great...I wish it wasn't so technical...I guess you have to be further along than I am

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2old style isnt better  May 30, 2008
this is an origional book and the tab isnt the same as in the new books, notes sit above the line instead of thru it.

4Great book, but not how-to  Apr 06, 2008
This book is ok... but you will purchase it with "Foggy mountain banjo" CD to have some samples. The CD included show some techniques to improve the right and left-hand rolls and tips, and some licks, but that's not a how-to-play earl scruggs songs. Tablatures are right, and the history of bluegrass banjo and scruggs' biography is superb.

This is a good book to get a solid right-hand, learning all the rolls and pattens used in Earl's songs, but remember to get a CD with the songs listed in tablatures.

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5Scruggs Banjo review  Jan 08, 2008
This is definitely the package for those with a desire to learn the Earl Scruggs method of playing the 5 string banjo. It does not make you practice, but it does encourage you to do so. Great product!

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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