Beginning with basic left- and right-hand techniques, Dennis Caplinger guides you through developing great backup parts and playing all over the neck. You'll learn the classic Scruggs style of picking along with the melodic style. Plus you'll study over 20 classic bluegrass standards, and you'll learn how to play them in several different styles. All books in the Ultimate Beginner Bluegrass Basics series are fully correlated to work together. This is the ideal method for the family that wants to play music together!

The definitive step-by-step guide to playing 5-string bluegrass banjo. From learning how to hold the banjo to playing complete bluegrass songs, this easy-to-understand method will turn you into a 5-string banjo player no time. You'll learn how to read banjo tablature, all the basic banjo rolls, chords, authentic bluegrass techniques, banjo tuning and maintenance, and more! This book also has an audio CD with demonstration tracks of the essential bluegrass songs including: Cripple Creek, John Hardy, Nine Pound Hammer, Red River Valley, among others. With detailed photographs and simple instructions, this is the 5-string banjo method for getting results - fast! / Banjo / 48 pages / Partition Cd

This course covers the bluegrass melodic style from the very basics to advanced techniques and provides many well-known fun-to-play songs arranged in the three-finger melodic style. The pieces in this book are suitable forupper level beginning players to advanced level players. Access to downloadable audio is included. The bluegrass melodic style is a beautiful three finger picking style which can be traced to the early1900's. It became a fully accepted style for playing the five-string Banjo in the 1960's and is today an integral part of the three-finger style of many Banjo players at all playing levels. Songsarranged in the bluegrass melodic style are easy and fun to learn. Although the impressive-sounding style may sound impossible to learn with all of those notes coming from it surprisingly you will find that it is not thatdifficult and no previous musical knowledge is required in order to pick it up.

Banjo Play-Along Volume 5-This volume in Hal Leonard's Banjo Play-Along series features eight songs by the American folk singer Pete Seeger including the favourites Blue Skies Get up and Go If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song) Kisses Sweeter Than Wine Mbube (Wimoweh) Sailing Down My Golden River Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season) and We Shall Overcome. This book will help you to play these Pete Seeger hits quickly and easily with incredible backing tracks to help you sound like a bona fide pro! Just follow the Banjo tab listen to the demo track on the CD to hear how the Banjo should sound and then play along with the separatebacking tracks. The CD is playable on any CD player and also is enhanced so Mac and PC users can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing the pitch. This special volume also includes extensive performance notes for all of the featured songs. The songs are arranged and recorded by renown clawhammer banjoist Michael Miles and up-picking banjoist Mike Kropp.

An instructional video that starts from the beginning! Clawhammer From Scratch begins as though you really have NO knowledge of how to play the five string Banjo clawhammer style. Beginning at the beginning Dan presents abrief history of the 5-string Banjo then goes over the parts of the Banjo holding the Banjo right and left hand styles and his basic clawhammer strum. Even the strum is broken down into the steps of the finger andthumb.Based on Dan's innovative Meet the Banjo(TM) program where Dan brings 15 banjos and teaches players who may have never held a Banjo this video assumes no prior experience. Using one tune Spotted Pony youare guided through the chords the scale and then the individual notes of the tune. This video ends with a few tips and frequently asked questions and even a chance for YOU to play with the Fiddle and Guitar just like in a privatejam session. If you have been looking for that one instructional recording to get you started this is the one for you. If you already have many books or videos but still can't seem to get the basics this is the one for you too!A 2-page pamphlet is included.Picking up where Volume 1 left off in Volume 2 you will learn to capo up to D tuning review the basics of the Double Thumb Pony then head off into the Banjo world by learning to drop thumb hammer-on pull-off and slide your way into the Full Blown Pony. Just as in Volume 1 you are guided through the chords the scale and then the individual notes of the tune as well as each of the techniques that make Old TimeSouthern Appalachian clawhammer banjo music as exciting as you have heard. Each technique is taught then applied to the tune and repeated in easily learnable segments. This video even gives you a chance to play Banjo with theFiddle and Guitar just like in a real jam session. Booklet included.

Builds on the material covered in Lessons 1 and 2. Learn some common left hand techniques and add them to your songs. Learn three common left hand techniques -hammer ons pull offs and slides - and how to incorporate them intoyour right hand patterns. Learn valuable drills for coordinating movements of the left and right hands. Learn how to add these left hand techniques to the roll arrangements we learned in Lesson 2. Also includes the tab readingand string changing chapters from Lesson 1.

This book is a must have for the novice as well as the professional player! Each and every lick Banjo players learn provides another vital piece to add to their repertoire and help develop their individual ability.Each lick is important and Todd Taylor shares his licks and personal techniques he has spent a lifetime developing for the first time in this volume. These licks will make you a better player!Music examples are included in the online audio available for download or streaming.

Here is the Forgotten Heritage: Great Banjo Music! Discover the birth of the American fingerstyle banjo in this collection of 28 of the finest tunes culled from banjo publications between 1860 and 1887. Learn amazing banjomusic by some of the early leading players James Buckley Albert Baur and the great Frank B. Converse the greatest virtuoso of his day. From folk-style dances to parlor dances such as the Polka Mazurka and Schottische toadvanced Romantic-period classical-style solos. Can be played on modern banjos or period-style instruments. The audio recording by Rob MacKillop features a gut-strung banjo and is played with the flesh of the fingertips in theold American tuning. For modern instrument players Rob has provided TAB and a Standard Notation stave at modern banjo pitch. Clawhammer players will find many of the pieces in the book suitable for their technique andbluegrass/fingerstyle players will be able to play all the pieces. Rob MacKillop provides a fascinating introductory essay placing the music in its historical context while his audio of performances can be viewed as astand-alone recording by a leading player in the revival of this great American banjo heritage. Includes access to online audio.