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How to play a 5-string banjo (instruction) / performed by Pete Seeger.

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Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries, Volume 1 Available online

Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries, Volume 1
Format:
Sound recording
Author/Creator:
Seeger, Pete, 1919-2014.
Contributor:
Alexander Street Press.
Series:
Smithsonian global sound for libraries
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Music--Instruction and study.
Music.
Genre:
Sound recordings.
Physical Description:
1 online resource.
Place of Publication:
Washington, D.C. : Folkways Records, 1954.
System Details:
Mode of Access: World Wide Web.
Contents:
3/4 and 6/8 Time
A Basic Strum
A Loud Strum
A roll is a special banjo effect
Another common blues guitar
Blues and Jazz
Double Thumbing
For a more sustained effect
Frailing
Hammering On
Here is a variation of the above
Here's a little bit of the
Here's a sample blues passage
Here's another devleopment of
Here's one way to get a rhumba
Here's still another way of
Here's the song
"Cindy"
Here's the song. 'Hard Ain't It Hard'
If you ever want to play a
In the G tuning
you might try
Incidentally
this type of
Now 6/8 time is the same
Now, for just one more time
Now
frailing is the best way
not all songs
afterall
Now take that same song
Now with the index finger
Now with the left hand
Pulling Off
Spanish and South American Guitar Techniques
The Fifth String
This last pattern can be
Three Micscellaneous Postscripts
Three-Finger Picking
Using this method
and a little
Well
now
if you study the.
Notes:
Title from resource description page (viewed Sept. 7, 2010).
Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2009. (Smithsonian global sound for libraries). Available via World Wide Web.
Other Format:
FW08303
OCLC:
689537952
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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