Pete Seeger's "How to Play the 5-String Banjo"

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Take a lesson with America's most beloved banjo picker! You'll learn the techniques Pete used to make his songs come alive - up-picking, frailing, whamming, double-thumbing, hammering-on and pulling-off, two and three-finger picking, and more.

Pete demonstrates more than a dozen songs including Darlin' Cory, Lady Gay, Risselty Rosselty, Sloop John B., Dink's Song, Leather Britches, Coal Creek March, In The Evening When The Sun Goes Down, Quite Early Morning, and East Virginia, among others. This lesson will make an enlightening and valuable part of your music collection, even if you don't play the banjo!



00:00 Introduction
00:40 Discussion
01:26 Lady Cay