--- product_id: 5792689 title: "Clawhammer Style Banjo: A Complete Guide For Beginning and Advanced Banjo Players, Vol. 1 & 2" price: "₱5752" currency: PHP in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.ph/products/5792689-clawhammer-style-banjo-a-complete-guide-for-beginning-and-advanced store_origin: PH region: Philippines --- # Clawhammer Style Banjo: A Complete Guide For Beginning and Advanced Banjo Players, Vol. 1 & 2 **Price:** ₱5752 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Clawhammer Style Banjo: A Complete Guide For Beginning and Advanced Banjo Players, Vol. 1 & 2 - **How much does it cost?** ₱5752 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ph](https://www.desertcart.ph/products/5792689-clawhammer-style-banjo-a-complete-guide-for-beginning-and-advanced) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description This four-hour, two-DVD set is the companion to Perlman's bestselling book, which is the definitive guide to playing clawhammer banjo, the one purely American style on probably the one truly American instrument. Perlman leads you step by step to a thorough understanding of the style & instrument, basic hand positions, simple chords, and fundamental clawhammer techniques like the brush, bumm-titty strum, pull-offs, slides, and on to more advanced topics on DVD 2. Review: Excellent, but also buy related book - This is a great dvd, but be aware that it is not a stand-alone product. Instead, Ken Perlman wrote a book on which the dvd is based with the same title ("Clawhammer Style Banjo"). The book is also available on desertcart. What the dvd provides is a video demonstration of each and every song and exercise in the book, plus some expanded explanations for how to hold the banjo, position the fingers, play a tricky part of individual songs, etc. It would be hard to learn the songs only from the DVD because you would need the tablature in the book that shows where to position the fingers. Used with the book, however, it is like having a huge number of lessons from a top instructor for a comparatively very cheap price. The video is about 4 hours with a large portion of that consisting of the actual exercises and songs as opposed to fluffly background talk. In other words, it is chock full of content. I have purchased a number of clawhammer banjo books at this point. This little "intro" goes far beyond most of them in terms of taking you from simple clawhammer "bum ditty" strums to complex melodic runs and positions up the neck that are important for improvisation. Follow this with Perlman's "everything you wanted to know about clawhammer" book as an encyclopaedic follow-up and it is quite a large amount of useful material. Highly recommended. Review: A Must Have - Quite a book. I recommend, like I am sure others do, that you get the 2 DVD set which SHOWS you what the words in the book can sometimes only hope to explain. My strategy with learning clawhammer was to buy a few different books and pick and choose, since any given long-winded and wordy explanation for some technique is not necessarily understood by all. Also,the more ways you can think about something, the better you can show it to someone else, and thus the stronger your own awareness of the knowledge is. I play guitar and piano and more, yet I think particularly with clawhammer, you have to "manhandle" the instrument by slapping your hands all over it, and when you discover sounds that you like, you remember how to approach them, and you just have to practice to repeat them with consistency. After all, the first banjar player had to teach himself! ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | ASIN | B0002YCUWU | | Actors | Ken Perlman | | Aspect Ratio | 1.33:1 | | Best Sellers Rank | #24,559 in Movies & TV ( See Top 100 in Movies & TV ) #276 in Special Interests (Movies & TV) | | Customer Reviews | 4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars (55) | | Item model number | 2230303 | | MPAA rating | Unrated (Not Rated) | | Media Format | Closed-captioned, Color, Multiple Formats, NTSC | | Number of discs | 2 | | Product Dimensions | 7.75 x 5.75 x 0.5 inches; 4 ounces | | Release date | September 21, 2004 | | Run time | 4 hours | | Studio | Hal Leonard | ## Images ![Clawhammer Style Banjo: A Complete Guide For Beginning and Advanced Banjo Players, Vol. 1 & 2 - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81L-jOeNS6L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent, but also buy related book *by J***C on February 10, 2012* This is a great dvd, but be aware that it is not a stand-alone product. Instead, Ken Perlman wrote a book on which the dvd is based with the same title ("Clawhammer Style Banjo"). The book is also available on Amazon. What the dvd provides is a video demonstration of each and every song and exercise in the book, plus some expanded explanations for how to hold the banjo, position the fingers, play a tricky part of individual songs, etc. It would be hard to learn the songs only from the DVD because you would need the tablature in the book that shows where to position the fingers. Used with the book, however, it is like having a huge number of lessons from a top instructor for a comparatively very cheap price. The video is about 4 hours with a large portion of that consisting of the actual exercises and songs as opposed to fluffly background talk. In other words, it is chock full of content. I have purchased a number of clawhammer banjo books at this point. This little "intro" goes far beyond most of them in terms of taking you from simple clawhammer "bum ditty" strums to complex melodic runs and positions up the neck that are important for improvisation. Follow this with Perlman's "everything you wanted to know about clawhammer" book as an encyclopaedic follow-up and it is quite a large amount of useful material. Highly recommended. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Must Have *by L***T on September 14, 2017* Quite a book. I recommend, like I am sure others do, that you get the 2 DVD set which SHOWS you what the words in the book can sometimes only hope to explain. My strategy with learning clawhammer was to buy a few different books and pick and choose, since any given long-winded and wordy explanation for some technique is not necessarily understood by all. Also,the more ways you can think about something, the better you can show it to someone else, and thus the stronger your own awareness of the knowledge is. I play guitar and piano and more, yet I think particularly with clawhammer, you have to "manhandle" the instrument by slapping your hands all over it, and when you discover sounds that you like, you remember how to approach them, and you just have to practice to repeat them with consistency. After all, the first banjar player had to teach himself! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Ken Perlman's Clawhammer Style Banjo DVD course *by K***E on September 6, 2009* After many years of guitar playing, and a few months of trying to learn bluegrass style banjo, I decided to try to learn clawhammer banjo. I bought Ken Perlman's book and DVD, and started learning. His method of teaching is pretty easy to understand, however, I am not a good source of info for this because of my background of knowing how to play the guitar, and previous banjo playing. I advanced quite quickly in the DVD/book, I think due to that fact. I know that you should buy the book too, if you buy the DVD. The DVD alone is not enough to get the whole picture of what Ken is teaching you. The DVD starts off with quite simple material, then advances slowly to intermediate for a while, then quickly goes into quite advanced clawhammer techniques. I was in the midst of the intermediate stage when I found a local teacher. He was impressed with what I had learned so far, and said my technique was good. So I guess I owe it to Ken Perlman for that! --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.ph/products/5792689-clawhammer-style-banjo-a-complete-guide-for-beginning-and-advanced](https://www.desertcart.ph/products/5792689-clawhammer-style-banjo-a-complete-guide-for-beginning-and-advanced) --- *Product available on Desertcart Philippines* *Store origin: PH* *Last updated: 2026-06-02*