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Would you like to take a banjo lesson at home? Try a banjo video from PlayBetterBluegrass.com. A video is a great way to take a banjo lesson because, unlike a lesson with a live banjo instructor, you can rewind and replay sections that you did not quite understand. Some videos are also in split screen so you can see a close up of the right and left hand. The price of a banjo video is a fraction of the cost of a lesson with a banjo instructor and you can view it many times.

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Beginning Banjo Videos
Murphy Method Beginning Banjo Vol. 1
Murphy Method Beginning Banjo Vol. 1
If you've never played banjo before, this is the place to start! Learn the basics of Scruggs-style three-finger bluegrass banjo picking. No Tab! Each tune is explained note-by-note. Banjo in the Hollow, Cripple Creek, Cumberland Gap, Foggy Mountain Breakdown, John Hardy. (1 hour, 50 mnutes)
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Murphy Method Beginning Banjo Vol. 2
Murphy Method Beginning Banjo Vol. 2
Build on what you learned in Volume One. More advanced tunes teach the harder basic licks. Move up-the-neck to play several tunes. No Tab. Includes Foggy Mountain Breakdown (high break), Lonesome Road Blues, Old Joe Clark, Salt Creek, and Fireball Mail. (1 hour 45 minutes)
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Murphy Method Jam Session Standards
Murphy Method Jam Session Standards
Five banjo standards, guaranteed to come up in almost any jam session. Chock full of great, new licks! Vamping explained. No Tab. Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms, Salty Dog, Mountain Dew, Dueling Banjo, Rocky Top. (1 hour, 45 minutes)
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Murphy Method Banjo for Misfits
Murphy Method Banjo for Misfits
Having trouble with banjo? Want to play songs that sound like something? Banjo for Misfits is what you need! Uses basic licks to play great arrangements. Basic chording explained. No Tab. Includes Boil Them Cabbage Down, I Saw the Light, Worried Man, Do Lord, and Two-Dollar Bill. (1 hour, 50 minutes) New Lower price!
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Murphy Method Amazing Grace
Murphy Method Amazing Grace
NOW ON DVD! Gospel tunes for banjo! Murphy teaches hard-driving Scruggs-style breaks to 5 favorite gospel tunes. Each tune explained note-by-note. 'When the Roll is Called Up Yonder', 'I'll Fly Away', 'What a Friend We Have in Jesus', 'Will the Circle Be Unbroken', and 'Amazing Grace'. No Tab. (1 hour 45 minutes)
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Murphy Method Rawhide and Other Banjo Favorites
Murphy Method Rawhide and Other Banjo Favorites
Been wanting to tackle these hot jam tunes, but didn't know where to start? Murphy makes it easy! How? 1. By using easy-to-learn variations of basic Scruggs licks. 2. By explaining the hard parts in detail. Bluegrass Breakdown, Theme Time, Rawhide, and Hazel Creek. No Tab. (2 hours) New Lower price!
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Murphy Method Vamping
Murphy Method Vamping
Learn how to vamp to all the songs on the Beginners' Banjo Videos, Vol 1. and 2. Vamping is what you do when the other person is playing the melody or playing the 'lead' or 'taking a break.' Lots of slow playing so you can play along. Ending licks taught for each song. NO TAB. (2 hours) New Lower price!
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Five String Banjo For Beginners
Five String Banjo For Beginners
Clear, easy, hands-on lessons. Happy teaches a wide variety of country and folk tunes in traditional banjo style. Learn right-hand picking patterns, hammer-ons, slides and pull-offs, and more. 90-MIN. VIDEO · INCLUDES MUSIC TAB · LEVEL 1
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Bluegrass Banjo Texas Video
Bluegrass Banjo Texas Video
This course starts with very easy chord forms for song accompaniment and progresses to a variety of five-string techniques. Beginners will soon be playing their favorite bluegrass songs and having a great time with this video course. Many all-time favorite bluegrass banjo songs are presented. (60-minutes)
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Bluegrass Banjo Tunes & Techniques
Bluegrass Banjo Tunes & Techniques
Learn how the bluegrass masters get their distinctive sound and style. Includes free 'Homespun Practice Tracks' audio cassette featuring back-ups to all tunes taught on the video. 90-MINUTE VIDEO INCLUDES TAB + PRACTICE TAPE LEVEL 2/3.
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Blazing Bluegrass Banjo Vol 1 Jamming Skills
Blazing Bluegrass Banjo Vol 1 Jamming Skills
In this video, Greg covers the things you'll need to know when you start getting together with other people for informal picking or to start a band. These are topics that have been consistently requested by his students over the many years he's been teaching.
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Blazing Bluegrass Banjo Vol 2 Stylistic Variety
Blazing Bluegrass Banjo Vol 2 Stylistic Variety
Learn how to play tunes in different keys, positions, and timings. Margarita Breakdown-Scruggs Style breakdown using Keith/Scruggs tuners. Danny's Dance In-6/8 time, this Irish Jig will broaden your banjo horizons.
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Blazing Bluegrass Banjo Volumes 1 & 2 Set
Blazing Bluegrass Banjo Volumes 1 & 2 Set
Complete 2 Volume set in VHS format.
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Branching Out On Bluegrass Banjo - Video 1
Branching Out On Bluegrass Banjo - Video 1
Hundreds of building blocks to create licks, back-ups and solos. Dozens of left-hand chord groups, versatile right-hand rolls, classic up-the-neck licks and variations, rhythm patterns and chord vamping for back-up, movable chord positions and other techniques. 110-MINUTE VIDEO INCLUDES TAB LEVEL 2/3.
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Branching Out On Bluegrass Banjo - Video 2
Branching Out On Bluegrass Banjo - Video 2
The 'big tree of licks,' chord progressions, ascending and descending runs, back-ups, modulations, , improvising ideas, favorite Scruggs and Reno-style runs and licks, breaks in C, D and F, picking out melodies, creating bluegrass solos and more! 90-MINUTE VIDEO INCLUDES TAB LEVEL 2/3/4.
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Fun with the Banjo
Fun with the Banjo
An excellent beginner's video featuring Joe Carr teaching chords, strums, and songs. An ideal beginner's course for 5-string banjo (concert C tuning).
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Jammin Bluegrass Banjo Video
Jammin Bluegrass Banjo Video
This video covers soloing on the five-string banjo, as well as playing back-up. Introduces the three basic elements of music--melody, harmony, and rhythm--in relation to playing back-up banjo, as well as the most often-used bluegrass rolls, licks, and spills. Jam with the band! Instructional booklet included.
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Beginning Bluegrass Banjo Volume 2
Beginning Bluegrass Banjo Volume 2
This Program takes up where 'Beginning Bluegrass Banjo Vol One' leaves off. Includes: study of tunes in the Scruggs, melodic, & single-string styles. Also explains use of the capo & How to play tunes in the G, D, & C positions.
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Murphy Method Ralph Stanley Style Banjo
Murphy Method Ralph Stanley Style Banjo
An entire video devoted to the songs of Ralph Stanley! Includes 'Man of Constant Sorrow' (two versions in D & G positions), 'Little Maggie,' 'Clinch Mountain Backstep,' 'Daybreak in Dixie,' 'Riding That Midnight Train' and 'How Mountain Girls Can Love.' All taught the Murphy Method way, note by note without tab. 136 min. New Lower price!
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Murphy Method Advanced Earl
Murphy Method Advanced Earl
Earl Scruggs is THE MASTER! Murphy has studied Earl's picking closely for over twenty years. SHE CAN TEACH IT! Here are five of Earl's greatest tunes, carefully explained note-by-note. Sally Goodwin, Groundspeed, Pike County Breakdown, Bugle Call Rag,and Foggy Mountain Special. 2 hours and 21 minutes! No Tab. New Lower Price!
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Easy Solos for the Five-String Banjo
Easy Solos for the Five-String Banjo
With just a few elementary right hand roll picking patterns and some easy left hand fretting positions, you can learn to play eight of the all-time great country, gospel and bluegrass standards and be able to participate more in informal jam sessions with your picking friends. If you already play a little, these easy and beautiful arrangements will increase your repertoire and provide hours of musical fun.
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Festival Favorites for Five String Banjo
Festival Favorites for Five String Banjo
Festival Favorites is packed with great bluegrass standards arranged by Alan Munde and is sure to be a treat at any festival. Step-by-step explanations and accompanying tablature will have you playing Alan's outstanding arrangements of these bluegrass classics in no time!
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Gospel Banjo
Gospel Banjo
Alan Munde teaches five popular gospel songs set in the three-finger style. Munde teaches his bluegrass-rich arrangements using both down-the-neck and up-the-neck solos. In addition, Munde teaches standard banjo turnarounds that can by used in many gospel songs.
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Murphy Method Advanced Banjo
Murphy Method Advanced Banjo
Six challenging new tunes including Don Reno's Limehouse Blues and Dixie Breakdown.. Introduces basic melodic licks, new chord positions, and jazzy Reno sounds. No Tab. Also includes The Goldrush, Bill Cheatum, Shenandoah Breakdown. (2 hours, 15 minutes) New Lower price!
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Murphy Method Capos, Chords and Theory
Murphy Method Capos, Chords and Theory
At last! A banjo video that explains capos, chords, and theory in words that a beginner can understand. The focus of this video is on vamping and using the capo. If you've ever had a question about vamping and capos, this video is for you! NO TAB. (1 hour 20 minutes) New Lower price!
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Murphy Method High Breaks and Backup
Murphy Method High Breaks and Backup
Fancy Scruggs backup found here! Five up-the-neck breaks, taught note-by-note, with backup licks included for each song.No Tab. Two-Dollar Bill, Mountain Dew, Worried Man, Do Lord, I Saw the Light. (1 hour, 50 minutes) New Lower price!
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Murphy Method Improvising: the First Stage
Murphy Method Improvising: the First Stage
Ever wondered how banjo players play a song they don't know? They improvise using licks that they do know! You can learn this! Explained at a basic level. No Tab. Blue Ridge Cabin Home, Bury Me Beneath the Willow, Foggy Mountain Top, On and On, and more! (1 hour, 50 minutes). New Lower price!
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Murphy Method More Advanced Earl
Murphy Method More Advanced Earl
This video has four of Earl's best tunes: Earl's Breakdown, Flint Hill Special, Randy Lynn Rag, and Reuben. Detailed information on how to set your D-tuners included. Includes Earl's Breakdown, Flint Hill Special, Reuben, and Randy Lynn Rag. NO TAB. (2 hours) New Lower price!
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Murphy Method Melodic Banjo
Murphy Method Melodic Banjo
Blackberry Blossom, Turkey In The Straw, Big Panther Creek Waltz, Katy Hill, and Roanoke. Casey's arrangements of all these tunes are strong on melody. Murphy joins her at the end of each lesson to play guitar. You'll need some playing experience to handle this one! (1 hour 48 minutes). New Lower price!
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Murphy Method Playing in C Volume 1
Murphy Method Playing in C Volume 1
Tired of playing the 'same old stuff?' Then explore the key of C without a capo! New sounds, new ideas, new techniques, new directions for your playing! No Tab! Includes Wildwood Flower, Uncloudy Day, Arkansas Traveler, and more! (2 hours) New Lower price!
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Murphy Method Playing in C Volume 2
Murphy Method Playing in C Volume 2
More great tunes in C including Home Sweet Home, Soldier's Joy, Farewell Blues, Liberty, Old Spinning Wheel. No Tab. (2 hours) New Lower price!
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Classic Bluegrass Banjo Solos
Classic Bluegrass Banjo Solos
Tony Trischka teaches bluegrass banjo solos in the styles of the world's greatest players: Earl Scruggs, Don Reno, Ralph Stanley, Bill Emerson, Bill Keith, Doug Dillard and other masters. Tony performs each piece and then breaks down the essentials for the learning player. 60-MIN. DVD OR VHS · INTERMEDIATE LEVEL.
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60 Hot Licks for Bluegrass Banjo
60 Hot Licks for Bluegrass Banjo
World-famous bluegrass banjoist Alan Munde teaches 60 of his greatest licks. Get ready for a lot of fun and some of the best banjo patterns and fills you have ever heard
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60 Hot Licks for Bluegrass Banjo
60 Hot Licks for Bluegrass Banjo
World-famous bluegrass banjoist Alan Munde teaches 60 of his greatest licks. Get ready for a lot of fun and some of the best banjo patterns and fills you have ever heard
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Backup Techniques for Bluegrass Banjo
Backup Techniques for Bluegrass Banjo
Alan is considered one of the finest accompanists in the Bluegrass world. Using chord changes to popular bluegrass standards, Alan teaches the most used roll patterns, chord shapes, fill-in licks and runs in both open and up the neck positions.
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Backup Techniques for Bluegrass Banjo
Backup Techniques for Bluegrass Banjo
Alan is considered one of the finest accompanists in the Bluegrass world. Using chord changes to popular bluegrass standards, Alan teaches the most used roll patterns, chord shapes, fill-in licks and runs in both open and up the neck positions.
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Creating Your Own Bluegrass Banjo Solos
Creating Your Own Bluegrass Banjo Solos
Master player Alan Munde offer a new and successful approach to building you own stylized and beautiful banjo solos. Using several standard melodies as models, Alan teaches you vocabulary needed to translate these melodies into the exciting threefinger bluegrass style.
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Creating Your Own Bluegrass Banjo Solos
Creating Your Own Bluegrass Banjo Solos
Master player Alan Munde offer a new and successful approach to building you own stylized and beautiful banjo solos. Using several standard melodies as models, Alan teaches you vocabulary needed to translate these melodies into the exciting threefinger bluegrass style.
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Backup Techniques for Bluegrass Banjo
Backup Techniques for Bluegrass Banjo
Alan draws on his 30 years of experience to bring you the essential of backup. Using chord changes to popular bluegrass standards, Alan teaches the most used roll patterns, chord shapes, fill-in licks, and runs in both open and up-the-neck positions.
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Banjo Picking Styles
Banjo Picking Styles
Shows Bela's stylistic innovations that will add sparkle, interest and new repertoire to your playing. He covers bluegrass, single-string style, harmonics, blues improvisations, Celtic sounds and lots more in fascinating arrangements. 60-MINUTE VIDEO - INCLUDES TAB - LEVEL 3/4.
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