DVD-Bluegrass Slow Jam for the Total Beginner

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Product Feature

• Includes lyrics and chordsSuitable for all skill levelsArtist: Pete WernickSeries: Homespun TapesPublisher: Homespun VideoMedium: DVD125 minutes5" W x 8" L

Product Description

Anyone, with any instrument, can get into this bluegrass jam session, even if you’ve never tried it before. All you need to know are four basic chords (G, C, D and A) to be able to play along with the band!

This DVD will give you the practice and the confidence you’ll need to join a real jam session. Pete Wernick makes it easy, providing encouragement, instruction and important advice on how to hold your own when you jam with others. By playing along with these top bluegrass musicians, you’ll get a feel for the songs, where the chords change, how to enter a group, and even how to take a simple solo when the time is right.

Each song is played at a slow, easy tempo so you won’t have any problem keeping up. All 17 are standards that should be part of every bluegrass picker’s repertoire: Bile Them Cabbage Down, My Home’s Across the Blue Ridge Mountains, John Henry, Pretty Fair Maid, Little Birdie, Shady Grove, Darling Corey, Roll in my Sweet Baby’s Arms/ Saints Go Marching In/ Coming ‘Round the Mountain (Medley), You Are My Sunshine, I'll Fly Away, Nine Pound Hammer, This Land is Your Land, Amazing Grace, Wabash Cannonball, Will the Circle be Unbroken.

Pete Wernick’s best-selling instructional books have sold over a quarter million copies, and his "How to Jam" classes and banjo camps have inspired players worldwide. The all-star cast of musicians he has assembled for the band on this DVD include members of Hot Rize (Pete, Nick Forster), Yonder Mountain String Band (Ben Kaufmann), Leftover Salmon (Drew Emmitt) and Grammy winner Sally Van Meter.

DVD-Bluegrass Slow Jam for the Total Beginner Review

People, it doesn't get much easier than this when it comes to practicing at home. "Dr. Banjo" Pete Wernick slows it down even further than his successful Bluegrass Jamming video so that anyone with an acoustic instrument (even the most novice player) can get comfortable performing with other musicians.

With the help of Colorado bluegrass musicians such as Nick Forster, Sally Van Meter, Drew Emmitt and others, this video covers nearly two hours worth of folk and bluegrass standards that are sure to be familiar to almost anyone. Wernick has chosen to keep these interactive performances to their simplest form by sticking with four common music chords (G, C, D and A), and eliminating solo breaks on most of the songs.

Along with the 17 play-along songs, there are also jamming tips presented between songs. Wernick is a great motivator to get people started playing musical instruments, and his laid-back yet factual presentation shows that he is probably the best at this position. A great addition to this edition is the simultaneous viewing of the guitar player's fretting hand so that the student can be familiar with chord changes. Wernick also varies up the overall performance by having everyone at the session perform vocally. While the vocal skills vary in quality, it does give off the message that at bluegrass and folk jam sessions such as this, one doesn't have to be "professional" to have a good time performing.

The only weakness to this video is the overall production and editing. There are too many times that Wernick has make up "excuses" for changes to props and lineups that could flow better if a script was followed more closely. However, since this is being used more for educational and instructional entertainment purposes, the flaws are not a major factor.

Besides being a useful tool for the absolute beginner, this video has another useful purpose. Many musicians learn a second or third instrument to make themselves more versatile, especially when attempting to join a band. Since these are familiar songs, a guitarist attempting to learn banjo, mandolin, fiddle or whatever may find that he/she has an instant backing track to simple but complete songs to work on the new instrument.

Wernick has been a great ambassador of teaching bluegrass and folk music for a number of years, and this video helps to get his wonderful educational message out to more potential musicians who are not familiar with him. Bluegrass Slow Jam should be recommended to anyone learning a new acoustic instrument and wanting to see and hear how it is to work with other musicians before going "live." (Matt Merta, The Bluegrass Journal)

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