Includes: introducing the 5-string banjo to the complete beginner, identification of all the parts, how to tune, basic chord formations, how to read banjo tablature, wearing your picks, 5 roll patterns, and he teaches you to play 4 tunes in complete detail. Tunes include: Cripple Creek, She'll be Comin Round the Mountain, Oh Susannah, and Cumberland Gap (two variations: regular and up-the-neck). * accompanying tablature sheet music inside this package
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About Greg Cahill
Greg Cahill has Grammy nominations for one of his Banjo LPs, & several LPs by his Bluegrass Band, 'The Special Consensus'. He has recorded & performed with the likes of Jethro Burns & Byron Berline, & his playing can be heard on countless major radio & TV commercials & on recordings of various Country, Folk, & Bluegrass artists. If youíve seen a TV commercial featuring John Lithgow (from the hit TV series 'Third Rock from the Sun'), with a banjo, thatís actually Greg Cahill doing the playing! Greg has been featured twice on the cover of 'Banjo Newsletter' & appears periodically as a guest columnist. He teaches at 'The Old Town School of Folk Music' in his hometown of Chicago, & conducts workshops at music festivals & venues nationwide & internationally. He has toured with his band all over the U.S. and Canada, South America (Argentina, Chile, Uruguay), & Europe (England, Finland, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Switzerland. Greg is on the Board of Directors of the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA), & is chairman of the IBMA 'Bluegrass in the Schools' committee.
