NOW YOU CAN PLAY THE
BANJO
Programs 1, 2, and 3
Each in easy-to-follow 3 hour videos or DVDs, with book.
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Like having a banjo teacher in your own home!
Don Van Palta has created three exceptional instruction programs, filled with good advice, wit, playing tips, and his own philosophies on life.
Note: Video and DVD format is NTSC (American Format). DVDs are also available in PAL format.
PRICE: $65.00 each program (+5.00 S&H)
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$180.00 for the full set of 3 Programs, FREE SHIPPING in U.S., plus a FREE Van Palta CD of your choice.
Each easy-to-follow program contains several lessons and 3 hours of video instruction. A comb-bound booklet of 30+ pages assists you with each lesson as Van Palta demonstrates, plainly, patiently and thoroughly on the videos.
Program #1 is a beginner's program, with 14 lessons. Program #2, the intermediate program, has 17 different lessons, and the advanced Program #3 has 15. These books and videos are the equivalent of 46 hours of private lessons .. in your home, whenever you want! Don Van Palta's relaxed style makes learning from his programs a true pleasure.
Here
is how Don Van Palta describes
his instructional programs:
Dear Banjo Enthusiast,
You are going to be excited when you find out about these unique video banjo lessons and the free banjo music cassettes or CD that will be yours as a bonus.
Back in 1971, when I was the banjoist with the well known Mickie Finn show, I developed a system for teaching the plectrum banjo with a combination of cassettes and books. (The plectrum banjo has four strings, tuned CGBD, and 22 frets.) This system was the result of many years of teaching private lessons. Over the years this system has been so successful that I receive letters from students all over the world telling me how much they enjoy and benefit from it.
Many of these students started from scratch. They didn't know a thing about music or the banjo. They started with Program #1 which taught them fundamental chords. In a very short time they were accompanying me on the cassette, and feeling a real sense of accomplishment. You can do the same thing, and before you know it we'll be having that jam session! What's so much fun is that right away you're making music, because on the cassette I'll be playing the melody to ten different songs while you're reading the correct chords and accompanying me. At the end of Program #1 you'll learn, note for note, two regular banjo solos, and then on the cassette, I'll accompany you!
With Program #2 you'll do a basic study of harmony. You'll go on to learn how to construct all of your chords, and then you'll practice those chords by accompanying me while we play nine more beautiful melodies. Towards the end of Program #2 you'll learn three more solos, and then we're ready for another jam session!
Program #3 gets really interesting. It is devoted mostly to teaching you right hand techniques. These are all the interesting strokes, rolls, tremolos, and syncopations that make the banjo such a unique instrument. You'll learn how to make an interesting, flashy arrangement, using your knowledge of chords, strokes, and syncopatis. By this time your friends will be begging you to play them your latest solos! Towards the end of Program #3, I explain the duo-banjo technique. This is the technique that makes it sound as if you are playing two banjos at once. We also go into more complicated syncopated strokes, many of them used by the top professional banjoists. Then I'll give you some hints on arranging your own solos.
If you've followed the three programs diligently, then you could very well be ready to play some professional jobs, or you might be interested in volunteering your talent to cheer up the shut-ins at a local hospital or rest home.
