Alfred's Teach Yourself to Play Banjo Complete Starter Package

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Get everything you need to learn at your own pace! A steel-body construction with a mahogany neck makes this a banjo that can stick with you as you learn.

Alfred's Teach Yourself to Play Banjo Complete Starter Pack: High-quality Firebrand Five-string Banjo Features: Mylar resonating head for a full, rich soundboard, die-cast, chrome tuning machines that keep the instrument in tune and sounding great, light-gauge steel strings that make playing easier, mahogany neck with a rosewood fretboard, enhanced steel-body construction. Deluxe Firebrand Accessories include: Custom-fit gig bag carrying case and strap, clip-on portable tuner with batteries included, a set of fingerpicks.

Alfred's Teach Yourself to Play Banjo (Book, CD & DVD): Start with the fundamentals such as the history of the banjo, its components, how to hold and tune it, caring for your very own instrument, and how to read standard musical notation.

You will then move right along to playing different chords, strums, and songs, lesson by lesson, all while continuing to increase your knowledge of reading banjo music.

Cover important banjo techniques such as the hammer-on, pull-off, and more. There are also fingering charts and a dictionary of chords in G and C tunings. The DVD includes video lessons and performances for everything in the book, and also includes the TNT 2 audio player that lets you adjust the tempo and pitch, and isolate parts. The CD includes audio performances of every exercise and song. It plays in your CD player or you can download the tracks to your PC.

Upon completion of the book, you will be able to play your favorite songs on the banjo, read read more music, play more than a dozen different strums and perform with a musical group.

Features:

Firebrand Five-string Banjo:
- Mylar resonating head for a full, rich soundboard, die-cast, chrome tuning machines that keep the instrument in tune and sounding great, light-gauge steel strings that make playing easier, mahogany neck with a rosewood fretboard, enhanced steel-body construction.
- Accessories include: Custom-fit gig bag carrying case and strap, clip-on portable tuner with batteries included, a set of fingerpicks.

- Pack includes: Banjo, Book, CD, DVD & Software, Gig Bag, Strap, Tuner, and Fingerpicks (Boxed Set)
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