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 handy book/Online Audio pack will get you playing all over the banjo fretboard in any key! You'll learn to: increase your chord scale and lick vocabulary; play chord-based licks moveable major and blues scales melodic scales and first-position major scales; and much more! The book features easy-to-follow diagrams and instructions for beginning intermediate and advanced players and the Audio download includes 51 demonstrations of the exercises.

Bluegrass banjo has all the drive excitement rhythmic complexity and melodic possibilities that you could want in an instrument. This collection of lessons compiled from Homespun's vast library of music instruction covers a variety of skills and tunes. The segments are graded to take you from elementary to advanced levels and will open up myriad playing possibilities while allowing you to sample lessons before purchasing any of these DVDs in full. Taught by seven of the most celebrated pickers this collection will expand your repertoire improve your technique and enhance your musical knowledge. Before long you'll be tackling everything from working onyour basic rolls to playing hot bluegrass solos.

Learn to play scales on the banjo with this comprehensive and easy to use book. Contains over 1300 scale diagrams for the most often used scales and modes. Also includes a lesson on scale construction.

Repertoire and Technique-Beginning with the simplest of exercises internationally renowned Banjo player David Holt presentes the old-time clawhammer style. Holt covers basics such as single and double thumb rolls continous picking and many of the important nuances that characterise the Clawhammer sound. Along with tunings licks and slurs you will also learn a bunch of essential Clawhammer tunes to play.

Tools Techniques & Recipes for Playing Clawhammer Banjo-Whether you're explaining how to cook food or make great music there are two approaches that can be taken to writing a cookbook. One way is to give the reader a bunch of recipes and explain 'here's how to make the dish'. Another way is to teach them how to cook by sharing with them techniques for mixing flavors and the knowledge of when where and how to apply heat. With ideas on how to add your own touches it is easy to make the dish or the tune your own. The Clawhammer Cookbook takes the second of these paths. Michael Bremer doesn't tell the reader how to play the songs he teaches ways to approach arrange and personalise any tune helping them to develop their own unique style.The Clawhammer Cookbook features old-time music as well as pieces in a few other musical styles. This book comes complete with a CD containing demos of all the songs and examples to aid in the learning process.

A terrific lesson specifically devised for Banjo players that wish to sing and accompany themselves in the clawhammer style featuring Grammy-winning performer Cathy Fink.Starting with easy songs Cathy shows how to find the right key for your voice use the capo play a simple accompaniment and pick out scales and melody notes within the chords. You'll discover how to embellish your tunes with slides hammer-ons pull-offs and other important tricks that will add drive and complexity to your performances.Cathy also introduces some more advanced techniques and different tunings including double thumbing old-time modal sounds waltz time and a superb showcaserendition of Oh! Susanna that combines them all!

Flatpicking stellaire Steve Kaufman se décompose un tas des chansons plus axée sur le banjo, montrant étape par étape comment construire un solo puissant flatpick lorsque c'est votre tour sur place ! Rejoint par Gary Davis ' Biscuit ', chaque morceau est effectuée et puis disséqués car c'est la plupart des caractéristiques intéressantes et difficiles. Vous apprendrez des astuces pour développer la rapidité et précision, se déplacer efficacement autour du cou et généralement devenir un meilleur joueur. / Guitare / Dvd

In this follow-up DVD Pete Wernick makes it easy to create convincing solos in common keys that normally challenge learning players: D C F and G without a capo. Pete explores nine bluegrass standards taking each song's melody and showing how to weave it into a full arrangement. Songs: Down in the Valley to Pray; Angeline the Baker; New River Train; and more. LEVEL 3; INCLUDES TAB .PDF ON DISC; 1 HR. 55 MIN.

Guitar Play-Along Volume 162-Guitar Play-Along Volume 162: Eagles Hits will help you play your favourite Eagles songs quickly and easily.Songs include Hotel California Life in the Fast Lane Heartache Tonight Already Gone and more.Just follow the tab listen to the accompanying online audio to hear how the Guitar should sound and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The melody and lyrics are also included in the book in case you want to sing or to simply help you follow along.