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12/20/07

By: Bluegrass Banjo

Avram Siegel provides detailed step by step instructions to start your journey into playing the 5-string Banjo. You will also learn many classic Bluegrass Songs!

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Learn a new left hand technique for the banjo - the slide.

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12/20/07

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