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Banjo By Ear: Box Set 1 by Bill Brown
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Banjo By Ear: Box Set 1

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Narrator Bill Brown

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Length 17 hours 57 minutes
Language English
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This Banjo by Ear box set is designed for the beginner banjo player who wants to learn the standard bluegrass tunes while progressing in proficiency. Here you will find song lessons at a beginner level as well as those at an intermediate level that will take the student into alternate tunings and positions up the neck. Included in this box set is the lesson “Banjo Basics,” designed to bring the absolute beginner up to speed on banjo terminology and techniques. At the other end of the spectrum is the lesson “Rhythms and Changes,” which builds the student’s knowledge of moveable chord shapes, tonal chords, and accompanying rhythm patterns.

Lessons include:

Banjo Basics“Rhythms and Changes”“Amazing Grace”“American Pie” Accompaniment“Ashokan Farewell”“Blackberry Blossom”“Bury Me beneath the Willow”“Cumberland Gap”“Dixie Hoedown”“Eastbound and Down”“Home Sweet Home”“I Saw the Light”“Jingle Bells”“Kentucky Mandolin”“Little Darling Pal of Mine”“Mountain Dew”“Mrs. Robinson” Accompaniment“Oh, Susanna!”“Old Dangerfield”“Old Joe Clark”“Pike County Breakdown”“Red Rubber Ball” Accompaniment“Redwing”“The Star Spangled Banner”“The Ballad of Jed Clampett” (Earl Scruggs)“The Banks of the Ohio”“This Land Is Your Land”“Train 45”“Wabash Cannonball”“When the Saints Go Marching In”“Whiskey before Breakfast”“Wild and Restless Foam”“Wreck of the Old 97”

Bill Brown began teaching music when he was in middle school alongside his mother, who was a respected classical piano teacher (Piano Teacher’s Guild Hall of Fame Recipient). In the mid 1980s he started recording lessons for his students to take home to learn “by ear.” He discovered that learning songs without any print or video helped his students develop their ability to pick out other songs “by ear” as well. The By Ear catalogue has rapidly expanded till now it includes over 1400 song lessons for more than a dozen instruments. Brown resides in South Georgia with his wife, also a music teacher, where he teaches and records lessons in his own private recording studio.

Bill Brown began teaching music when he was in middle school alongside his mother, who was a respected classical piano teacher (Piano Teacher’s Guild Hall of Fame Recipient). In the mid 1980s he started recording lessons for his students to take home to learn “by ear.” He discovered that learning songs without any print or video helped his students develop their ability to pick out other songs “by ear” as well. The By Ear catalogue has rapidly expanded till now it includes over 1400 song lessons for more than a dozen instruments. Brown resides in South Georgia with his wife, also a music teacher, where he teaches and records lessons in his own private recording studio.

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