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Learning Tenor Banjo
HOMESPUNTaught by Buddy Wachter
Level 1
60-min. video, Includes chords + music book
Buddy Wachter teaches essentials of pick technique: proper wrist and hand positions, the tremolo, accents and dynamics, developing speed and control, and ten basic strums. Learn movable chords and left-hand exercises for strength and coordination, plus chord theory and basic positions for major, minor, 7th, augmented and diminished chord formations. Invaluable knowledge to enable you to move on to playing virtually any tune on the banjo.
Buddy Wachter is one of the world's foremost 4-string banjoists. He began his professional career at the age of 17 with the Fred Waring Orchestra, and he has subsequently played with Benny Goodman, Bob Hope, Arthur Fiedler, Ferrante & Teicher and Max Morath, to name a few. He has performed and conducted workshops throughout North America and Europe, and has recorded several albums, both solo and with others.