Learn Banjo: Level 2
Now that you're past the beginner's category you can start developing your own style and technique. These lessons are user-friendly and get you on the next step up the ladder, whether you are learning clawhammer, Scruggs-style or folk and country banjo. And these instructors make it fun to learn!
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS ONLY A PARTIAL LIST. WE INVITE YOU TO EXPLORE OUR WEBSITE FOR OTHER GREAT LESSONS AT THIS LEVEL.

Banjo Arrangements of the Kingston Trio
George Grove
Learn to Play Classic Folk Songs
If you're among the millions of fans who love the signature sound of the Kingston Trio and want to create it on your banjo, this fun and easy lesson is for you! Playing his long neck Vega 5-string, veteran Kingston Trio member George Grove teaches the banjo style, originally created by Dave Guard, that has long been instantly recognizable ...
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Bluegrass Banjo
Bill Keith
This series of four lessons combines traditional bluegrass banjo picking with the unique and exciting “melodic” style that has won Bill Keith accolades throughout the world. These tapes are simple enough to get a beginner started, but so filled with valuable ideas that they will benefit a professional player as well. Starting with some standards of the bluegrass ...
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Bluegrass Banjo Backup
Pete Wernick
Basic Level
The first important goal for beginning banjo players is to learn to play with other musicians and singers in a bluegrass jam session. On this two-hour DVD, one of the world's most experienced banjo teachers provides all the tools you need to give rhythmic support, play fill-ins and help the music sparkle. Pete "Dr. Banjo" Wernick developed this lesson ...
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Bluegrass Banjo Favorites
Bill Evans
Develop Your Skills with 8 Essential Jam Tunes
Learn to play eight must-know bluegrass instrumentals that you are likely to hear in jam sessions, picking parties and band performances. Bill Evans, one of America’s best-loved players and teachers, helps you build your technique from the ground up, showing you the techniques that will give these tunes power and authenticity:
Jesse James • John Hardy • Foggy Mountain Breakdown ...
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Bluegrass Jamming - Intermediate Level
Pete Wernick
Here's a full-to-the-brim DVD made especially for bluegrass pickers who want to take their jamming ability to the next level. It will help you build your repertoire and will vastly improve your confidence so you can join in and jam in any situation. In this carefully organized session led by Pete "Dr. Banjo" Wernick, a professional bluegrass band plays ...
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Clawhammer Banjo -Video 1
David Holt
Repertoire & Technique
David Holt has long been considered one of the finest players and teachers of old-time clawhammer banjo. He learned his craft directly from some of the original masters who lived and played near his home town in the mountains of western North Carolina -- Byard Ray, Fred Cockerham, Kyle Creed, Tommy Jarrell and other legendary players. The combination of David's ...
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Complete Bluegrass Jamming and Banjo Backup
Pete Wernick
If you want to start getting in on bluegrass jam sessions and get really good at it, this is the package for you!
Start out a beginning jammer and work your way up to a solid intermediate level so you can join in the picking fun and hold your own on your favorite instrument. Pete Wernick and his musical buddies ...
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Essential Practice Techniques for Bluegrass Banjo
Tony Trischka
Here's a lesson that's a "must-have" for all bluegrass banjo players. Tony Trischka, who has been called "one of the most inventive banjo players alive" by Billboard Magazine, has recorded a nuts and bolts practice session that is designed to improve your timing, strengthen your hands and help you play with precision, power and rhythmic sophistication. It is ...
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How to Make Up Your Own Banjo Solos - Lesson 1
Pete Wernick
What to Play When It's Your Turn to "Take It"!
Learn how to create convincing banjo solos, both "on the fly" in jam sessions and with more precision in your practice time. Here's the alternative to total dependence on tab and memorizing other people's arrangements. Even novice pickers will be able to follow Pete's gradual approach to soloing. He starts with the basic chords and rolls - showing ...
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How to Make Up Your Own Banjo Solos - DVD 2
Pete Wernick
What To Play When It?s Your Turn to ?Take it?!
An accomplished banjo player should be able to step out and take a solo in a wide variety of keys, even without the use of a capo. Many learning pickers are challenged by this concept, but master teacher Pete Wernick breaks it down in a way that makes it easy. You'll learn how to create solos in the keys ...
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How to Make Up Your Own Banjo Solos - Two-Video Set
Pete Wernick
What To Play When It?s Your Turn to ?Take it!?
BUY THE COMPLETE TWO-DVD SET AND SAVE! Players at all levels will benefit from the user-friendly information that Pete imparts on these two groundbreaking DVD lessons. Whether you're a beginner or a veteran picker, Pete gives you the tools you need to build your improvisational and composing skills. Magazine Review: "The two volumes in this series are well worth ...
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How To Play The 5-String Banjo
Pete Seeger
Take a lesson with America's most beloved banjo picker! You'll learn the techniques Pete uses to make songs come alive-- up-picking, frailing, whamming, double-thumbing, hammering-on and pulling-off, two- and three-finger picking and more. Pete teaches more than a dozen songs including: Darlin' Cory, Lady Gay, Risselty Rosselty, Sloop John B., Dink's Song, Leather Britches, Coal Creek March ...
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