Oak Publications Teach Yourself Bluegrass Banjo

outre le fait qu'elle soit en anglais, et qu'il faille tout traduire (sur tout pour moi) je la trouve assez bien faite mais je la déconseillerai à un tout débutant. Par ailleurs, je n'apprécie pas que les notes des tablatures soient inscrites dans les interlignes (ainsi la 1ère corde - ré) est matérialisée au-dessus de la ligne la plus haute. Généralement, les notes des tablatures sont matérialisées sur lignes qui correspondent aux cordes de l'instrument. Toutefois, je ne regrette pas cet achat.

I bought this book to learn bluegrass banjo and found it very disappointing. There's a quick overview of basic technique and some serviceable chord diagrams, but beyond that it's not much use for actually learning the music or the instrument.

The biggest problem is the included CD. Each song is included once by full band & vocals and once as a backup track without banjo. They're covered only very briefly (30 to 90 seconds each, typically closer to 50 seconds) and only at fast tempo, so they're useless to play along with, particularly when learning. The sound mixing of the recording doesn't bring out the banjo part, so the banjo is hard to hear and pretty much blends into the background most of the time, meaning that the CD is also useless for learning by listening. Many (most?) of the songs to learn as lead banjo are tabbed and recorded using a capo, which is an unnecessary complication.

I have used books to learn instruments many times before, and honestly, this is the worst one I have had. It ultimately wasn't helpful either for learning basic technique nor for learning any of the individual included songs. I got far better results out of free videos on YouTube and other tabs. Unfortunately I was not able to return the book for a refund.