Are you finding the key of G too limiting? What do you do if someone calls for a song in C or D or E or F? Learn to play out of C position and expand your horizons on the banjo. No Tab. Featuring Wildwood Flower Uncloudy Day Arkansas Traveler Worried Man and more.

This is a landmark instructional text on bluegrass banjo. Written by the legendary Sonny Osborne it presents the basics needed to successfully play bluegrass banjo (G tuning). A special bonus is the inclusion of seven favoritesongs for banjo solo. In notes and tab.

A fully revised and enhanced edition of the world-famous Earl Scruggs method - the best selling Banjo tutor in the world! The Earl Scruggs method is proven to work time and again and has helped thousands of beginners get to grips with the instrument over the years. This new edition boasts more songs updated lessons and much more.Everything you need to start playing the Banjo is presented right here including:Scruggs tunersReading music and TabChordsRight hand rollsLeft hand techniquesUnusual Banjo tuningsPicking exercisesAlong with information on how to play Scruggs' guide will teach you the history of theinstrument how to build a banjo and over 40 songs to master and enjoy.

With Online Audio-Easy to play five-string Banjo arrangements of twelve Christmas favourites by Banjo master Ross Nickerson. Each song is arranged and performed using proper three-finger bluegrass technique. The arrangements arecarefully designed to bring out the melody but easy enough for a beginner or intermediate player to learn quickly. The tablature in the book is large and easy to read with accent marks for melody notes as well as rightand left-hand fingering indications. This book is not simply a tablature book! Christmas Music Made Easy for Banjo also features instruction on learning the chords to each song chord progression charts for eachsong special learning tips for each arrangement a full page of advice on memorising the songs and more. In the instructional sections of the book Nickerson draws on his many years of experience teaching studentsprivately to anticipate and point out the most common obstacles and challenges with each song. This section also features a page of general advice that includes suggestions on the best use of practice time and how to develop theskills needed to succeed with each piece. Additionally Christmas Music Made Easy for Banjo features a high-quality studio recorded online audio accompaniment of all the songs played at three speeds including abackup rhythm track to practice along with. Also included is a page entitled Advice on using the online audio and rhythm tracks to help ensure that the student fully utilises the audio recordings to learn the songs moreefficiently and with greater ease.

Start picking the five-string Banjo like a pro with this definitive guide to bluegrass Banjo. Whether you?re an absolute beginner or an experienced player Bluegrass Banjo For Dummies gets you started offthe right way and is your road map for mastering today?s most popular traditional and contemporary Banjo picking styles. Online audio and video clips combine with the book?s clear step-by-step instructions to providethe most complete ? and fun - Banjo instruction experience available anywhere! Bluegrass Banjo has never been more popular and is heard today not only in country and folk music but in jazz rock and country styles.Bluegrass Banjo For Dummies provides everything you need to know to play just about any kind of music on the five-string Banjo by getting you started with the roll patterns essential to Scruggs style picking.You?ll then add left-hand techniques such as slides hammer-ons and pull-offs play great sounding licks and perform classic tunes like ?Cripple Creek? and ?Old Joe Clark.? You?ll navigate upthe neck on the instrument as well as learn the essential skills you need to play with others in jam sessions and in bands. You?ll even tackle contemporary banjo styles using melodic and single-string scales and pickingtechniques. Choose a Banjo and accessories that are just right for you and your budget. Put on your fingerpicks find your optimal hand position and start playing with the help of online audio and video.Explore the fingerboard using melodic and single-string playing styles. Accompany others in different keys with roll patterns and chord vamping techniques. Keep your Banjo sounding its best with practical andeasy set up tips.

Master the art of clawhammer Banjo playing with this easy-to-follow instructional DVD.Great Banjo Lessons: Clawhammer Style contains eight lessons chosen to provide learners with new techniques tunes and musical insights.Suitable for beginning and advanced players alike this DVD includes tuition by professional Banjo players for the songs Shortenin' Bread John Brown's Dream Cherokee Shuffle and more.Contributors to this DVD include Bob Carlin Mike Seeger Cathy Fink David Holt Kirk Sutphin Ralph Stanley Mark Johnson and Frank Lee.

Lessons Licks Riffs Songs & More-Best selling author Fred Sokolow teaches you how to play blues on the Banjo with this instructional book and audio pack.Includes classic blues tunes like Ain't Nobody's Business Careless Love Frankie and Johnny and St. Louis Blues.

This chart shows essential chords and secondary minor chord relationships in all 12 keys for the tenor banjo in C-G-D-A tuning. The chords shown for each root note are major seventh minor diminished and augmented withrelative minor I IV and V7 chords al fingerboard with all the frets numbered and the corresponding notes shown in standard notation. This chart is also applicable to the tenor mandola which uses the same tuning. Unfolds to17.5' by 11.75'. Also suitable for mandola.

Covers the rudiments of music from the very beginning. Includes daily exercises all forms of scales and a dictionary of musical terms.

Tuning basic melody techniques including: picking triplets slides moving triplets long notes different rhythms and repertoire.

The Getting Into Bluegrass Banjo book and audio by Alan Munde is the accumulation of successful teaching concepts developed in his 40 plus years as a professional bluegrass musician and teacher.Munde presents a straight-forward and well-founded course of bluegrass Banjo essentials. Designed for those who have never played a stringed instrument to those taking up bluegrass Banjo as a second instrument. Access toonline audio available provided. Getting Started - Covers the parts of the Banjo hand positions first picking patterns pull-offs hammer-ons slides exercise songs ending with the professional sounding'Levelland Mountain Breakdown.' Review of Rolls New rolls and combinations of Rolls with Examples - Offers the most used rolls in bluegrass Banjo playing with often-played examples of each. The player learns many ofthe licks used in the style with an example of how to combine them to make a solo. Roll Logic - How to place a melody into the several different roll patterns. Tools and Techniques - Helps develop left handtechniques through the use of intervals of thirds and sixths. Creating Solos to Songs - At the heart of the book is this revealing section with many examples of how to create many many solos to the song 'JesseJames.' Songs - Put to use all you have learned on these great standards 'Ground Hog ' 'Wildwood Flower' (two versions) 'Nine Pound Hammer ' 'Worried Man Blues ' 'Lost All MyMoney ' 'Old Country Church ' 'Kneel at the Cross ' and 'Train 45.'

The Banjo in America from Folklore to Factory-This history of the banjo is a second edition of a publication originally published to coincide with a groundbreaking exhibition of the same name at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Museum. Includes information on the instrument's enduring popularity the banjo makers of Boston instruments from the exhibition a glossary and bibliography of the banjo and more.

This is the ideal beginner's book presenting the basics of the 5-string Banjo in a way that is both fun and easy. Janet Davis takes you on an extensive tour of this instrument's fundamental techniques as wellas some intermediate possibilities including rolls chords bluegrass Banjo techniques playing up the neck licks endings and other basics needed to play bluegrass and melodic-style Banjo. Thorough performance notesare provided from beginning to end revealing the secrets of this versatile instrument. Audio and video download available online.

Join Swiss banjo player extraordinaire Jens Kruger for an exciting journey into the art of five-string banjo. This outstanding lesson by a true virtuoso contains a wealth of ideas for players at all levels and will help you expand your musical knowledge build your technique and make your playing stand out from the crowd. Heklping to develop skills creativity and musicianship Jens passes on numerous concepts exercises and gorgeous original tunes to: help get a better sound sustain the notes you play greater tone faster picking speed and incorporate tempo and dynamics changes. As well as demonstrating some of the tunes Jens isaccompanied by the Kruger Brothers Band with Uwe Kruger on guitar and Joel Landsberg on bass.