| | |  | FOLK MUSIC | Home » » How To Play The 5-String Banjo | | | | | | | Description: | | Seeger teaches his playing techniques and more than a dozen songs. Included is a special guest appearance by Doc Watson. | | | Features: | |
• DVD/Instructional/Folk Instrument
• 60-Minutes
• Includes TAB
• Early Intermediate Level
| | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| Pete Seeger | | Director:
| Happy Traum | | Format:
| Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC | | Language:
| English | | Number of Discs:
| 1 | | Studio:
| Homespun Tapes | | Run Time:
| 60 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| June 11, 2004 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 6 reviews |
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17 of 17 found the following review helpful:
 This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender.Apr 27, 2007
By Rabbit
I consider this DVD a must-have for any Pete Seeger fan. He sings and plays entire songs, so it makes it great for musicians or people looking just to be entertained. If you're looking to learn how to play banjo, and are not familiar with a stringed instrument, getting this dvd only will leave you slack-jawed. You'll have to buy his book "How to Play the 5-String Banjo" to get started. In this dvd he shows strumming styles, picking styles, how to make extra sounds with your left hand, and many other things. He plays many songs including "Ode to Joy", and a wonderful blues song...who woulda thunk, blues on the banjo? It is awesome. (And btw, a xeroxed copy of his book is NOT included with the dvd, as someone stated in another review. It is a small book of banjo tablature of some of the songs on the dvd. )
16 of 17 found the following review helpful:
Worth BuyingOct 02, 2006
By David E. Szymanski
A few of these reviews are a bit unfair. Imagine footage of Einstein late in his career. Every story he told would be priceless. It would be unrealistic, however, to expect a lecture on physics 101. This is such a nice DVD of the grand old man of American folk music. He has been like a geological force (as Lee Hayes put it) in American music. Sit back and enjoy this one-on-one visit with Pete. No, he's not going to tell you to put your middle finger here on the third fret, etc. -- but who cares.
11 of 14 found the following review helpful:
 This is NOT an instructional DVD!Sep 24, 2006
By Dos Passos
I love Pete Seeger. He's a national treasure. BUT this DVD is mistitled. It's not an instructional DVD at all. Anyone who is looking to learn the banjo should look elsewhere.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Not a good learning videoFeb 02, 2010
By J. Hamilton
"bigbike4"
I have been playing 5 string banjo for a number of years. i decided this year to try and branch out and try different technics-like folk style. So whom better to learn from I figured, but good ole Pete. Well this video is not very good at showing Petes style. It is more about Pete demonstrating just what he can do, but he does not explain it well at all. Sort of like half of the teachers out there, who when you go into the music store and pay for a lesson, then you sit back and watch them show off what THEY can do. They never explain what or why they are doing what they are doing. They just do it. This video is much the same.
If you love Pete and want to hear him and see him playing some great tunes, this video is a fun watch, but if you are trying to learn to emulate the folk style, you would do better to get the video "banjo styles of the Kingston Trio". At least on that video they not only show you but explain step by step the how and why of what they are doing.
34 of 50 found the following review helpful:
 DO NOT BUY THIS DVD!!!Nov 07, 2005
By OneEarthJC
This DVD is entitled "How to Play the 5-String Banjo" but the title is very deceiving. It is a one hour of Pete Seeger playing songs and reminiscing. He gives absolutely NO information on what he is doing and a lot of what he plays is quite advanced.
If you are new to the banjo and looking for some guidance on how to play, this DVD will be useless to you. I watched it once (fast forwarding through the parts where he is singing) and threw it in the trash.
Sorry to be so harsh, but I don't want anyone who is looking to learn some basic (or even advanced for that matter) banjo skills to waste their money on this item.
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