ROCKET SCIENCE BANJO
WWWeb sources:
There are a lot of guys giving a lot of bad advice on the
www, but
these are some guys who are giving good advice on playing the banjo.
Hunter
Robertson
Hunter Robertson, banjoist extrordinaire, has a wonderful
website with some lessons, some tunes and a whole lot of good banjo
info. If I gave stars this site would get 4 out of four. Furthermoer
you can buy Hunter's new cd "If You Want To Sleep Go To Bed." It sounds
like an Irish tune title but is really a quote from Charlie Lowe. You
can read a full review of the cd on my blog or at the Banjo Hangout
"reviews" section.
Fretless
Fury - Round Peak Banjo
At this writing Tom has three lessons in playing Round
Peak style fretless banjo on youtube. You will also find videos of him
playing a number of tunes from the RP region both in solo versions and
with his string band New Hot Times.
Donald
Zepp – Clearhead Banjo
Zepp has a number of videos taken through a banjo sporting
a clear head (hence the name) for a stomach’s eye view of the
various clawhammer strokes. He also has tutorials and a enough banjo
material to keep you up all night for many many nights.
Banjo
Brad's Prickly
Pear Music
Tutorials, tabs, links, and all sorts of Good Stuff. A
tremendous amount of banjo material gathered up in one place. Fred has
also written up a good selection of easy tabs for beginners –
Both old time tunes and folk songs – using Tabledit. He is
head Technical Advisor for the Rocket Science Banjo project –
Which means that without his help I would still be using Sharpies to
scribble out tabs on recycled college ruled paper).
The Tabledit
© site where you can download the free TEFViewer program that
allows you to read and print the tabs provided in the Rocket Science
Banjo materials.
You can also, if you desire, check out the full version of Tabledit
program that allows you to write your own tabs. The full program costs
$59.95 US, but once registered, all updates are available for free, for
life.
