Here are some of the most unusual "home movies" you'll ever get a chance to see. After sitting on a barn shelf for decades, a few of them are finally being offered here; including rare footage of Sonny Terry, Big Bill Broonzy, Pete Steele, Jean...
For the absolute beginner banjo player, this 75 minute DVD takes you from your first notes to your first solo in an easy, step-by-step manner. It features live stage performances with Gavin Ralston on guitar and Paul McNevin on fiddle. Gerry's...
Earl Scruggs is considered THE MASTER of the five-string banjo. Murphy has studied Earl's picking closely for over twenty years. She not only can play the Scruggs style herself, SHE CAN TEACH IT! Here are four of Earl's greatest tunes, carefully...
Gospel tunes for banjo! Murphy teaches hard-driving Scruggs-style breaks to 5 favorite gospel tunes. Includes a fancy up-the-neck break to Amazing Grace, in ¾ time. Many familiar licks, lots of new licks, all easy to learn the Murphy Method way....
This DVD is designed to teach the basics of bluegrass banjo playing to the beginning student who has no previous music experience. It includes a broad discussion of Scruggs-style banjo playing with a brief introduction to melodic-style playing....
Janet Davis' comprehensive text is now a video! Learn the basic techniques commonly used on five-string banjo to accompany vocalists and instrumentalists. Separates the various back-up techniques into categories determined by song tempo, by lead...
This great 5-string banjo chord DVD makes it possible to learn all the essential chords. Learning becomes much more interesting when you can see and hear each chord. Joe Carr teaches the chord shapes and positions that are used by all leading...
This handy DVD takes the banjo student through all the basic banjo chords then moves into some advanced voicings. Chords are shown in all keys. Chords include major 7, minor 7, 6, minor 6, 9, diminished, augmented and many more. DVD format makes...
Now on DVD. Having trouble with banjo? Want to play songs that sound like something? Want to play songs your friends might recognize? Songs that aren't so darn fast? Banjo for Misfits is what you need! Designed especially for adults. Uses basic...
If you've never played banjo before, this is the place to start! We teach you all the basics of Scruggs-style three-finger bluegrass banjo picking. We use no tablature because each tune is explained note-by-note. Develop your ear as you learn to...
Build on what you learned in Volume 1. More advanced tunes teach the harder basic licks. We move up the neck to play several tunes. No Tab. Includes Foggy Mountain Breakdown (high break), Lonesome Road Blues, Old Joe Clark, Salt Creek, and Fireball...
Ken Perlman is one of the most celebrated clawhammer banjo stylists performing today. In this new DVD, he teaches how to play this exciting style, with ample close-ups and clear explanations of techniques such as: hand positions, chords, tunings,...
(Formerly Titled "Melodic Banjo") Murphy Method students have been waiting a long time to learn Blackberry Blossom. Well, here it is and the teacher is none other than Casey Henry! Following in her mother's footsteps, Casey is a natural at teaching...
Clawhammer Banjo Volume 1: Rounder Records artist Lynn Morris has taken the mystery out of clawhammer playing! She has broken clawhammer playing into small segments so that you can easily learn this popular style. Using the frailing strum, Lynn...
FINALLY! An instructional video that starts from the beginning! Clawhammer From Scratch begins as though you really have NO knowledge of how to play the five string banjo clawhammer style. Beginning at the beginning, Dan presents a brief history of...
