If you've not listened to this, do youself a favour and get a copy. I was thinking about getting a 6 string banjo as a break instrument in a set pertty much dominated with acoustic and electric guitar in all sorts of styles. This tutorial by Steve has convinced me I'm in the right track. It's not one of Steve's many DVDs but a pair of CDs and a PDF book to go wht the recordings. At first I was a bit disappointed that it wasn't a DVD (I actually put it straght into my DVD drive on the computer and was traeted to the tracks and a visual of the wave form across the sceen - dah!). But actually it's so much content and support material it's well worth getting a copy and getting down to some new twangy, banjo stuff. There's two CD lasting over 40 minutes each. And the PDF document on disc 2 is 103 pages long - so this isn't material you'll get through in a couple of days. As a guitar teacher I can see some of my beginners still on this in 6 months and the intermedaites would still be working after 2 or 3.

Steve gives you the lowdown of getting a six string banjo - but all the details are from the deering range. So if you're into getting the real thing then this will be very useful - for me I'm going to opt of something less expensive and work my way up to a deering in the future. There's also some background info Steve gives us to get started - but the body of this document is mainly instruction on the songs - 90+ pages.

I picked up some confusing info and thought this would be distributed by Mel Bay - but I got my copy direct from Steve's website here - must have misread something somewhere - but no problems buying direct anyway.

If you want anymore info get in touch with Faltpik or give me an email at coach@chrisdowning.co.uk and i'll give you some guidence on this one.