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title: "Clawhammer Style Banjo: A Complete Guide For Beginning and Advanced Banjo Players, Vol. 1 & 2"
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# Clawhammer Style Banjo: A Complete Guide For Beginning and Advanced Banjo Players, Vol. 1 & 2

**Brand:** ken perlman
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- **What is this?** Clawhammer Style Banjo: A Complete Guide For Beginning and Advanced Banjo Players, Vol. 1 & 2 by ken perlman
- **How much does it cost?** € 57.05 with free shipping
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## Description

This four-hour, two-DVD set is the companion to Perlman's bestselling book, which is the definitive guide to playing clawhammer banjo, the one purely American style on probably the one truly American instrument. Perlman leads you step by step to a thorough understanding of the style & instrument, basic hand positions, simple chords, and fundamental clawhammer techniques like the brush, bumm-titty strum, pull-offs, slides, and on to more advanced topics on DVD 2.

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    No fancy modern tech but good solid instruction
  

*by S***S on Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2021*

I was working my way through the book for several months before ordering the DVDs. It took me a while to figure out the DVD structure, because the "chapters" on the DVD include multiple book chapters. Still, it seems like everything's there. It's good to hear the songs played at normal speed, and he also plays at a slower speed so you can (try to) play along. He also plays the exercises from the book so you can play along with those. A lot of the songs in the book were unfamiliar to me, and often the versions I found on YouTube weren't helpful, so having them all on this DVD set is great.The cameras show both hands in a sort of split screen effect when he's playing or demonstrating.It's obviously an old recording from the days of videotape. The video's nothing fancy, but it works.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Excellent, but also buy related book
  

*by J***C on Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2012*

This is a great dvd, but be aware that it is not a stand-alone product.  Instead, Ken Perlman wrote a book on which the dvd is based with the same title ("Clawhammer Style Banjo").  The book is also available on Amazon.What the dvd provides is a video demonstration of each and every song and exercise in the book, plus some expanded explanations for how to hold the banjo, position the fingers, play a tricky part of individual songs, etc.  It would be hard to learn the songs only from the DVD because you would need the tablature in the book that shows where to position the fingers.  Used with the book, however, it is like having a huge number of lessons from a top instructor for a comparatively very cheap price.  The video is about 4 hours with a large portion of that consisting of the actual exercises and songs as opposed to fluffly background talk.  In other words, it is chock full of content.I have purchased a number of clawhammer banjo books at this point.  This little "intro" goes far beyond most of them in terms of taking you from simple clawhammer "bum ditty" strums to complex melodic runs and positions up the neck that are important for improvisation.  Follow this with Perlman's "everything you wanted to know about clawhammer" book as an encyclopaedic follow-up and it is quite a large amount of useful material.Highly recommended.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Ken Perlman's Clawhammer Style Banjo DVD course
  

*by K***E on Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2009*

After many years of guitar playing, and a few months of trying to learn bluegrass style banjo, I decided to try to learn clawhammer banjo.  I bought Ken Perlman's book and DVD, and started learning.  His method of teaching is pretty easy to understand, however, I am not a good source of info for this because of my background of knowing how to play the guitar, and previous banjo playing.  I advanced quite quickly in the DVD/book, I think due to that fact.  I know that you should buy the book too, if you buy the DVD.  The DVD alone is not enough to get the whole picture of what Ken is teaching you. The DVD starts off with quite simple material, then advances slowly to intermediate for a while, then quickly goes into quite advanced clawhammer techniques.  I was in the midst of the intermediate stage when I found a local teacher.  He was impressed with what I had learned so far, and said my technique was good.  So I guess I owe it to Ken Perlman for that!

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