Intermediate 5-String Banjo Video

This instructional video is designed for the intermediate to advanced level player. If you've completed "Beginning Banjo" from SMP or if you can already play a few banjo tunes, then you're ready. If you are already taking lessons, this video will supplement and expand your learning between lessons. Several months of valuable banjo lessons are programmed into this one video. The songs are demonstrated slowly, phrase by phrase, with split-screen close-ups so you can see exactly how to play them.

Guitar accompaniment is provided so you can play along, and a music booklet is included with exact transcriptions of fingering techniques in tablature.

After a brief review of timing and tablature, you will begin using every inch of your banjo fingerboard as you develop more of that flashy hard-driving bluegrass sound. Not only will you learn to play more songs, but you'll learn corresponding up-the-neck breaks to them as well. You'll learn movable chord formations, minors and 7ths, along with backup techniques and licks. You'll also learn melodic scales and some more flashy endings.