How to Play the Five-String Banjo - The Dick Weissman Method, vol. I

Designed for newcomers to the banjo, this is the first volume of Dick Weissman and Dan Foxs simple method to mastery of this, the only indigenous American musical instrument.
Includes a fully illustrated method book and compact disc featuring every exercise and composition featured.

Track Listing

• 1) Tuning the Banjo: Reading Music for the Five-string Banjo
• 2) Skip to My Lou
• 3) Trad.- Go Tell Aunt Rhody
• 4) Polly Wolly Doodle
• 5) Introducing the Basic Strum
• 6) Hush Little Baby
• 7) Trad.- Buffalo Gals
• 8) Whoa Mule
• 9) Introducing the C Chord
• 10) Trad. (American cowboy song)- Red River Valley
• 11) Foster- Oh Susanna
• 12) Hammering On
• 13) London Bridge
• 14) Crawdad Song
• 15) Hammering on the G Chord: Advanced Hammering On
• 16) Sourwood Mountain
• 17) Jesse James
• 18) Weissman- 3/4 Time
• 19) Trad.- Down in the Valley
• 20) Trad.- On Top of Old Smoky
• 21) The C Tuning
• 22) Merrily We Roll Along
• 23) Trad.- Clementine
• 24) More on the C Tuning
• 25) Wabash Cannonball
• 26) Pulling Off
• 27) Trad.- Careless Love
• 28) Worried Man Blues
• 29) The Capo and How to Use It: Buying a Banjo, Selecting a Teacher, Etc.
• 30) Transposition

Additional Details

• Composer|Artist -
  Weissman, Dick
• Solo Instrument -
  Banjo
• Media -
  Book & CD
• Soloist Name -
  Dick Weissman, banjo