Earl Scruggs and the 5-String Banjo

Book with online audio. Revised and enhanced! The classic method book for learning traditional Scruggs style. This edition features more songs, updated lessons, and many other improvements. Includes everything you need to start playing banjo: a history of the 5-string banjo, Scruggs tuners, chords, how to read tablature, anatomy of Scruggs-style picking, tuning the banjo, exercises in picking, over 40 songs, how to build a banjo, making Scruggs tuners, and much more. The online audio features Earl Scruggs playing and explaining over 60 examples, and Playback+, a player that lets you slow down without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right. If you plan to get very far with the 5-string, we highly recommend you get this book! Tablature only. 199 pp.