FREE STUFF HERE

Wow you guys! 

I'm thankful to say you are finding my materials and grabbing them up.  My eBook is off and running and the video lessons are a big hit! 

I want to give away some stuff now. 

I'm going to make it a little bit of a treasure hunt for you though.  So here's what you get -

• My eBook - 65 pages of instruction, pictures, and tablature that you can print off if you'd like.
• 28 audio exercise files to go along with the book

You get this for FREE  - that's a $19.99 value for just clicking "Like" then commenting on my FB page.

I'll also pick 1 winner to get my CD (downloadable mp3 files).  And I'll pick a couple of people (US only for this) and I'll send you out my Banjo Lemonade case sticker.

So here we go.

 Banjo Lemonade FB page


Remember - first hit "Like", then comment in the top post about which player is your favorite.  I'll randomly select the winners on Friday the 20th. 

Game on  - 

Let me tell you about Curious.com

 Curious is a fun place to learn!

Check out Curious here


You may be going WHAT?  Ok here goes.  Curious is a website that is a compilation of video lessons for learning to do anything under the sun.  I mean anything.  Want to learn to play banjo, check out my lessons at Banjo Lemonade, want to learn to do some jiujitsu move, some workout, cooking, making paper airplanes, learning to paint, fly real airplanes, etc.  It just goes on and on, you can learn anything on Curious.

So if you you use the link I've provided above you can sign up and you will get $25 in free lessons.  No catch here.  Just $25 in free lessons of any kind you would like.  You can take my lessons or any others using this.  My lessons are either free or 99 cents.

So what are you waiting for?  $25 bucks in free lesson vids that would normally cost you money is a good deal.  Have fun with it. 

Let me know what fun ones you take.  I've already done several fun crafts with my daughter using these lessons, and I've tried out a few new recipes that are keepers too. 

Easy Clawhammer Banjo eBook is here!

I've just finished my eBook!  What are you waiting for?  If you've wanted to learn how to play banjo there is no easier method than mine out there.  This eBook is PACKED full of useful information, tablatures, exercises, and 28 audio exercise files. 

• 65 page eBook
• 28+ audio files, there are some bonus files
• 5 songs in tablature and audio (and instruction on how to play and variations)
• a multitude of tablature exercises
• packed full of advice and tips

Whether you just got a banjo for Christmas or you've been playing for years in another style of banjo and want to learn Clawhammer, this eBook has what you want.

From Day 1 you will be playing banjo.  Early on you will learn how to sing while playing.  By using my easy method you can take virtually any song and play it with ease.   Check it out.

Once you purchase, you will receive a link where you can download both the book and the accompanying audio files.  

Purchase now

If you purchase and provide me with feedback through commenting here or emailing through the website, I will send you out a FREE GIFT. 

New Year New Banjo Player

Well it's 2015!  YIPPIE


Pictured left is a Bob Carlin 350 banjo :-)




So one of your resolutions was to practice your banjo more.  I actually asked this question on my FB page and several other places.  Overwhelming majority said they just wanted to play more. 

Well if you want to play more I have a few tips that may make this resolution easy for you to keep. 

1. Keep your banjo accessible.  Is your banjo sitting in a case in a closet?  If so, try and move it out into the open somewhere.  Hang it on a wall and have some functional artwork, or put it on a stand in your living room.  Just have that baby out where you will see it and it WILL call to you.   "Hey you, play me you jerk I'm getting lonely".  
2. If you don't have the time to put in a 30 minute or hour long session break your time up into 3 10 minute sessions or wake up a half hour early (LOL, yeah right just like you'll wake up early to exercise).  
3. Plan on only learning only a handful of tunes each year.  For you to get good and cozy with a song (to the point where you feel comfortable improvising) you need to play it at least 1000 times.  So get in deep into each song before trying to add more songs.  People often get in too much of hurry and think somehow that memorizing more songs is a good thing.  I think the opposite is really true.  The way I teach you to play you can easily play along with any song if you know the chords, while you take the time to get intimate with the songs you really love and want to learn.  
4. Consider getting MOBILE with your banjo.  Going to shoot hoops with friends at a park?  Why not throw the banjo in your trunk and grab it afterwards and play for awhile under the trees?  Going on vacation - make room for it, the banjo is more essential than underwear in my opinion.  You can always hit up a store and get a pack of underwear, can't get a banjo very easily.  If you need a cheaper model that you won't worry about having in your car or at work I can help you (since I'm a banjo dealer).  Which leads me to this.....
5. Consider purchasing a cheaper banjo to leave at work, leave at relatives homes that you frequent, etc.  Or just buy one to use as your bang around camping sort of banjo.  
6. Finally, KISS.  Keep It Simple Stupid.  I cannot stress this enough.  Don't make everything so complicated.  Banjo playing can be as simple or as hard as you want.  Make time for it, make room for it, love it, pet it, name it George for goodness sakes.  

I hope this can help you to keep your resolutions to yourselves to become that banjo player you want to be in 2015! 

As always I leave you with a verse.

Mandy

Galatians 6:9 And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.