Now You Can Play The Banjo
Video Plectrum Banjo Lessons by Don Van Palta

PROGRAM #3

 FOREWORD

    Welcome to "Now You Can Play The Banjo", Program #3.  In Program #1 you got acquainted with your banjo, learned several chords and then learned to play two banjo solos.  In Program #2 you studied some basic harmony and then really learned to find your way around the banjo.  But it's  this program that'll make a banjo player out of you!

    When you see a professional banjo player performing somewhere, what is it about his playing that sets him apart?  I believe it's the excitement and variety that he's able to put into his performance.  Where does this excitement come from?  Part of it is his mental attitude and the variety of tunes that he or she picked for that particular performance.  But a bit part of that excitement is the way those tunes were arranged, the rhythms, the strokes and syncopations that were put into the arrangements.

    This is what Program #3 is all about, the right hand technique.  How to do the two vibration, three vibration and four vibration tremolos.  You'll learn how to do those glissandos and trills and syncopations that you've heard other banjoists use, but never could duplicate yourself.

    In Program #2 you learned the tune "Just Let Me Play My Banjo".  Starting out the video of this program you'll hear me play an exciting arrangement of that tune.  Towards the end of this program I'll teach this same arrangement to you note for note and stroke for stroke.  Once you know how to do these various strokes in one solo, then it's much easier to put them into your other solos and add that special brand of excitement to your playing that has always been unique to the banjo.

Video Lessons For The Plectrum Banjo By:
Don Van Palta

INDEX TO PROGRAM 3

Lesson 1, The Pick and How To Hold The Banjo

Pictures

Lesson 2, The Four Vibration Tremolo

Lesson 3, Accents

Lesson 4, "Beautiful Brown Eyes"

Lesson 5, The Three Vibration Tremolo

Lesson 6, The Two Vibration Tremolo

Lesson 7, The Trill

Lesson 8, The Glissando

Lesson 9, "Just Let Me Play My Banjo" arrangement

Lesson 10, Duo-Banjo Technique

Lesson 10, "Liebestraum"

Lesson 11, More About Triplets

Lesson 12, More Syncopated Strokes

Lesson 13, The Arpeggio

Lesson 14, Modern Chords

Lesson 15, "Dancing Strings"

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