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Take a lesson with America's most beloved banjo picker! You'll learn the techniques Pete uses to make songs come alive-- up-picking, frailing, whamming, double-thumbing, hammering-on and pulling-off, two- and three-finger picking and more. Pete teaches more than a dozen songs including "Darlin' Cory," "Lady Gay," "Risselty Rosselty," "Sloop John B.," "Dink's Song," "Leather Britches," "Coal Creek March," "In The Evening When The Sun Goes Down," "Quite Early Morning" and "East Virginia," among others. This video will make an enlightening and valuable part of your music collection, even if you don't play the banjo!
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 Not a good learning video |
| Review Date: February 2, 2010 |
| Reviewer: J. Hamilton, Rogersville TN |
I have been playing 5 string banjo for a number of years. i decided this year to try and branch out and try different technics-like folk style. So whom better to learn from I figured, but good ole Pete. Well this video is not very good at showing Petes style. It is more about Pete demonstrating just what he can do, but he does not explain it well at all. Sort of like half of the teachers out there, who when you go into the music store and pay for a lesson, then you sit back and watch them show off what THEY can do. They never explain what or why they are doing what they are doing. They just do it. This video is much the same.
If you love Pete and want to hear him and see him playing some great tunes, this video is a fun watch, but if you are trying to learn to emulate the folk style, you would do better to get the video "banjo styles of the Kingston Trio". At least on that video they not only show you but explain step by step the how and why of what they are doing. |
This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender.
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| Review Date: April 27, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Rabbit, USA |
| I consider this DVD a must-have for any Pete Seeger fan. He sings and plays entire songs, so it makes it great for musicians or people looking just to be entertained. If you're looking to learn how to play banjo, and are not familiar with a stringed instrument, getting this dvd only will leave you slack-jawed. You'll have to buy his book "How to Play the 5-String Banjo" to get started. In this dvd he shows strumming styles, picking styles, how to make extra sounds with your left hand, and many other things. He plays many songs including "Ode to Joy", and a wonderful blues song...who woulda thunk, blues on the banjo? It is awesome. (And btw, a xeroxed copy of his book is NOT included with the dvd, as someone stated in another review. It is a small book of banjo tablature of some of the songs on the dvd. ) |
Worth Buying
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| Review Date: October 2, 2006 |
| Reviewer: David E. Szymanski, Ottawa Lake, MI |
| A few of these reviews are a bit unfair. Imagine footage of Einstein late in his career. Every story he told would be priceless. It would be unrealistic, however, to expect a lecture on physics 101. This is such a nice DVD of the grand old man of American folk music. He has been like a geological force (as Lee Hayes put it) in American music. Sit back and enjoy this one-on-one visit with Pete. No, he's not going to tell you to put your middle finger here on the third fret, etc. -- but who cares. |
This is NOT an instructional DVD!
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| Review Date: September 24, 2006 |
| Reviewer: Dos Passos, USA |
| I love Pete Seeger. He's a national treasure. BUT this DVD is mistitled. It's not an instructional DVD at all. Anyone who is looking to learn the banjo should look elsewhere. |
Not useless
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| Review Date: April 17, 2006 |
| Reviewer: Banjo Player, |
| The title is taken from Seeger's long-standing book on how to play the 5-string banjo, a xeroxed copy of which is provided with the VHS version of this video (and, I assume, with the DVD as well). If you work through the book, the video can be very useful, but it is not your typical Homespun instructional tape. Without the book, the video is still a nice look at the variety of styles Seeger plays, but it has very little instructional value. |
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