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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 782
EAN: 9780634060427
ISBN: 0634060422
Label: Hal Leonard Corporation
Manufacturer: Hal Leonard Corporation
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 200
Publication Date: August 01, 2005
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Studio: Hal Leonard Corporation

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
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!

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Not the best organization
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 ... Read More

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- Learning Banjo The Scruggs Way
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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- old style isnt better
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.

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- Great book, but not how-to
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 ... Read More

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- Scruggs Banjo review
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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