How to Play the 5-string Banjo: A Manual for Beginners, 3rd Revised Edition by Pete Seeger

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Pete Seeger demonstrates a variety of banjo techniques (up-picking, frailing, whamming, double-thumbing, tremolo, 6/8 time, calypso rhythm, hammering-on, pulling-off, two-and three-finger picking) he uses in a wide range of music.

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keylawk 2,152 reviews

The author has a place of prominence on my short list of the greatest Americans. Invented instruments, and composed the anthems of our age: Kumbaya, Turn Turn Turn, We Shall Overcome, If I had a Hammer, Long Time Passing.

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