Everything a Beginner Needs. Four Books. One Package.
The Complete Beginning Banjo Special bundles all four of Geoff Hohwald’s beginner books into one package — from your very first roll to playing 27 songs at a jam. Every book includes free online video and audio access so you can see and hear every lesson as you learn it.
- ✔ 4 books covering warm-ups, technique, songs, and gospel
- ✔ Hours of step-by-step video instruction
- ✔ Audio jam tracks at multiple speeds
- ✔ 27 songs total — bluegrass standards and gospel favorites
- ✔ Add a note at checkout and Geoff will sign each book
- ✔ Ships from our family shop in Yellow Springs, Ohio
Description
The Complete Beginner’s Path — From First Roll to First Jam.
Learning banjo doesn’t have to mean guessing which book to buy next, or wondering if you’re doing things in the right order. The Complete Beginning Banjo Special gives you the entire beginner series in one package — four books that take you from never having touched a banjo to confidently playing 27 songs. Every book includes free online video and audio access, so you’re never guessing what something is supposed to sound like.
This is the exact learning path Geoff Hohwald has used to teach thousands of students over the past six decades. The books are designed to be worked through in order, and each one builds on what came before.
What’s Included
Book 1: Beginning Banjo Warm-Up Series
Before you learn songs, you build the engine. This focused course trains your right-hand picking — the foundation of everything in Scruggs-style banjo. Geoff guides you through forward rolls at gradually increasing speeds with video and audio practice tracks. Start slow, get it clean, then add speed. By the time you move to the Primer, your right hand will be ready.
- ✔ Right-hand speed and accuracy training
- ✔ Forward rolls at gradually increasing tempos
- ✔ Online video and audio access included
Book 2: Banjo Primer for Beginners
The core of the series. The Banjo Primer is the #1 best-selling banjo book on Amazon with over 1,500 ratings because it starts at absolute zero and actually teaches you to play. You’ll learn how to tune, how to read tab, right-hand rolls, left-hand fretting, slides, hammer-ons, pull-offs, and easy arrangements of classic bluegrass songs — all with video showing Geoff playing every example at multiple speeds.
- ✔ 64 pages of step-by-step instruction
- ✔ Tuning, tab reading, rolls, fretting, and real songs
- ✔ No music reading required
- ✔ Online video and audio access included
Book 3: Easy Banjo Songbook
Now you play real songs. Nineteen of the most-called tunes at bluegrass jams, each arranged at a beginner level with full tabs. Geoff teaches every song slowly on video, then you practice along with professional audio jam tracks — a backing band playing at tempo so you learn to keep time the way you would at a real jam. Songs include Dueling Banjos, Cumberland Gap, Wildwood Flower, Old Joe Clark, Soldier’s Joy, and 14 more.
- ✔ 19 classic bluegrass songs with full tabs
- ✔ 3+ hours of video instruction
- ✔ Audio jam tracks for every song
Book 4: Easy Banjo Gospel Songbook
Eight of the most beloved gospel songs in the bluegrass tradition, arranged so the melody is clear enough to sing along with. These are the songs people play at church, at gospel sings, and around the kitchen table. Includes 166 minutes of video instruction and audio jam tracks at multiple speeds. Songs include Amazing Grace, Precious Memories, Swing Low Sweet Chariot, What a Friend We Have in Jesus, and more.
- ✔ 9 classic gospel songs with sing-along melodies
- ✔ 166 minutes of video instruction
- ✔ Audio jam tracks at multiple speeds
Why Buy the Package
All four books purchased individually would cost $79.80. The Complete Beginning Banjo Special gives you the entire set for $74.95 — and you get the complete learning path from day one. No wondering which book to buy next, no gaps in your education, no doubling back. Start with Book 1 and work your way through. By the time you finish Book 4, you’ll know 27 songs and have the technique to learn more on your own.
Want Geoff to sign each book? Just add a note at checkout and he’ll personally sign all four before they ship.
Who Geoff Is, and Why That Matters
Geoff Hohwald has been playing banjo since 1964 — back when Columbus, Ohio was a genuine bluegrass hot spot — and studied under John Hickman. He’s performed with two of Bill Monroe’s guitar players, shared stages with Red Allen, Frank Wakefield, and Hylo Brown, played with the Atlanta Pops Orchestra, and co-founded the Greater Atlanta Bluegrass Band. He’s been teaching beginners the whole time, which means he knows exactly where new players get stuck — and how to get them unstuck.
Geoff also runs Banjo Warehouse, our sister shop in Yellow Springs, Ohio and Atlanta, Georgia, where he’s been buying, selling, and setting up banjos since 1980.
Buy Direct. Skip the Warehouse.
When you order from GeoffHohwald.com, you’re buying directly from us — a small family business in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Your books are packed and shipped by people who actually play banjo, and if you have a question about a lesson, Geoff is the one who answers the email.
- ✔ Signed by Geoff on request — add a note at checkout and he’ll personally sign each book in the package
- ✔ Direct access to the author if you get stuck on a lesson
- ✔ Your purchase supports a small family business, not a warehouse
- ✔ Ships from Yellow Springs, Ohio, usually within one business day
Package Details
- Includes: 4 paperback books with free online video and audio access
- Total songs: 27 (19 bluegrass + 9 gospel)
- Level: Absolute beginner through advanced beginner
- Style: 5-string Scruggs-style bluegrass banjo
- Ships from: Yellow Springs, Ohio, USA
Or Buy Each Book Individually
- Beginning Banjo Warm-Up Series — $19.95
- Banjo Primer for Beginners — $19.95
- Easy Banjo Songbook — $19.95
- Easy Banjo Gospel Songbook — $19.95
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Additional information
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