The Warren Yates Method of Playing Bluegrass Banjo DVD

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The content covered in this video includes the following:

Tuners and Tuning

Parts of the Banjo

Rolls

Blocking

Capos and Picks

Chords

Hammer-ons, Pull-offs and Slides

Amazing Grace

Hot Corn Cold Corn

Cripple Creek

More Pretty Girls Than One

Blackberry Blossom

Nine Pound Hammer

Back-ups

Bluegrass Endings

A Blooper From a Cut Scene

The Warren Yates Method is a simple technique of learning to play by ear. Songs can be broken down into segments that often times are common to every song. By placing these segments together, we can create longer sections which eventually become complete songs. By arranging them differently, we can create new pieces of music more easily.

In this video, you will learn many of the most common roles and runs and how to use them; in addition to exercises that will help you learn how to connect them with melody notes. Some of the old standards are broken down so that you to can reproduce them. Enclosed for your reference, is a chord chart of the entire neck.

This 66 minute DVD was filmed at an old cabin and in a farm setting so that you not only receive good, solid instruction, but is relaxing to watch. Special guest, Doug Trivette plays guitar.

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Author’s Comment: As a young boy from Hamlet, North Carolina, I remember the occasions when my father and mother would take me to visit my cousin, Lloyd Patterson. He lived so far back in the sticks that even daylight had a hard time finding it. Though it was not much of an exciting outing for a young boy, my heart did seem to skip beats when Lloyd would pick his banjo with his old, thick, farmer fingernails.

In later years, Roy Clark and Earl Scruggs moved into the limelight and again I had to have more of it; it was in my blood for sure. At that time and in my area, bluegrass music was not readily available and I had a severe hunger for it. My Mother and two uncles, Fred and Henry Gibson, would often play other instruments to give me all of the help and guidance that they could. I thank God for them.

In 2001, the internet became available to me and I was connected to the world at last. Not only was more information available to me, but I was able to see to it, that anyone with the desire to learn as I did, would not lack. Leisure Unlimited, Inc. with www.projectsandhobbies.com was created with free bluegrass music lessons. Because of so many requests for more, this video system was created.

Happy Picking! Warren Yates