This book and two CD combo is like having a friend show you all your favorite bluegrass songs. Bluegrass virtuoso Dennis Caplinger teaches you the techniques and concepts you need to start playing hot bluegrass banjo right away---all in the context of 16 classic bluegrass standards. The included CDs feature full explanations of all techniques and songs, and demonstrations of all the music examples. For each song there is a slow tempo demonstration, a complete demo track featuring a world-class bluegrass band, and a complete band track without banjo for you to play along with. Plus, with the included TNT software, you can slow tracks down, loop sections, and even change keys for ultimate usability. We've even included a short refresher course on music theory, and a banjo chord dictionary in the back of the book. 'With just a little guidance, you can be playing great bluegrass without spending years on boring exercises and scales.'- Making Music magazine / Banjo

Banjo Play-Along Volume 1-This volume of the Banjo Play-Along series features 8 traditional Bluegrass tunes all expertly arranged for Banjo in TAB notation.The Banjo Play-Along Series will help you play your favorite songs 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 separate backing 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! Each Banjo Play-Along pack featureseight cream of the crop songs.

Banjo Play-Along Volume 6-The Banjo Play-Along series will help you play your favorite songs 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 separate backing 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. Each Banjo Play-Along pack features eight cream of the crop songs.This volume includes: Bill Cheatham • Black Mountain Rag • Cripple Creek • Grandfather's Clock • John Hardy • Nine Pound Hammer • Old JoeClark • Will the Circle Be Unbroken.

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.

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.

3 Finger Pickin' Banjo Songbook. All of the arrangements in this book were especially prepared for the beginning bluegrass banjo student. Written in G tuning, melody and accompaniment tabs are shown for 51 banjo favorites! Lyrics are included with the melody tabs. Includes access to online audio for all the songs in the book in split-track format with banjo only track on right and the guitar only on the left.

The Banjo Encyclopedia is a comprehensive in-depth Banjo instructional tool that covers the many intricacies of bluegrass Banjo playing including numerous topics that may have been overlooked in Banjoinstruction to date.The Banjo Encyclopedia can take a student from the beginning to intermediate and right through to more advanced styles of Banjo playing. Ross Nickerson uses his many years ofexperience helping hundreds of aspiring Banjo pickers by offering the Banjo student an opportunity to learn in a practical straightforward manner.This wide-ranging Banjo instructional book will focus on many techniquesthat will help every aspect of a Banjo player's musicianship while simplifying many subjects in the learning process. The downloadable audio with 99-track recording will enable the student to learn easily by hearing authorRoss Nickerson demonstrate each song and perform many of the Banjo licks and phrases included in the book slow and up to tempo.The audio download available online includes an advanced song section with a fullbluegrass band accompanying Ross along with additional intermediate songs for the student to learn. The Banjo Encyclopedia is undoubtedly one of the most complete five-string Banjo books on the markettoday and a must for every Banjo player's collection. Includes access to online audio.

The Absolute Beginners Irish Tenor Banjo book tells you everything you need to know about playing this unique instrument from the very first moment you pick it up. Featuring helpful and practical guides toeverything from holding your Tenor Banjo to playing your first tunes this book and accompanying download card will take you through your beginning stages and beyond. Beginning with a short history of theinstrument the book takes you through the anatomy of a Tenor Banjo how it's tuned and how to hold it before getting you playing and picking. The book continues by teaching you the D Major scale and basic rhythm then moves onto your first tunes. The inclusion of real songs (in notation and tablature) from the very beginning helps you to put what the theoretical concepts that you've learned into context developing your musicality as well as yourknowledge. As you are introduced to more strings more scales and more tunes you will see how Tenor Banjo players use ornamentation to embellish their playing and make it more musical and more fun. Withhelpful detailed explanations of each concept clear pictures throughout and short musical passages transcribed in standard notation and tablature the Absolute Beginners Irish Tenor Banjo tutorial book willteach you the basics and get you playing some really fun tunes at the same time. The unique download card that accompanies this book features over 60 demonstrations of each tune recorded by the author to help you pick and pluckyour way through every note. It's simple to use all you have to do is download each track to your computer and listen as you go through. If you have always wanted to learn Irish Tenor Banjobut have never been able to find a comprehensive method or you've just discovered its fantastically distinctive sound this edition of the Absolute Beginners series is for you. With authoritative

Par HATFLIELD JACK. Ce livre présente 31 des chansons gospel Old-Time-aimé la plupart disposés dans le style de trois doigts, complète avec la notation musicale, de tablature banjo, de cordes et de paroles. Chaque chanson est présenté tout d'abord comme un arrangement débutant intermédiaire, a joué en première position dans le style Scruggs. La plupart des chansons sont ensuite présentés dans un arrangement up-nuque. Le CD comporte des solos de banjo à cinq cordes a joué dans le style de trois doigts et accompagné à la guitare, la mandoline et la basse. Il s'agit d'un enregistrement de split-track, le banjo de plomb est sur une voie et des instruments d'accompagnement de l'autre. Le CD peut servir un solo d'enregistrement, un enregistrement d'enseignement ou un enregistrement le long de jeu. / Niveau : Débutant à Intermédiaire / Gospel-Old Time - Solos / Tablatures / Banjo Tablatures à 5 Cordes

This book presents 31 of the most-loved old-time gospel songs arranged in the three-finger style complete with musical notation Banjo tablature chords and lyrics.Each song is presented first as a beginner-intermediatearrangement played in the first position in Scruggs style. Most songs are then presented in an up-the-neck arrangement.The audio download available online features five-string Banjo solos played in three-finger style andaccompanied by Guitar Mandolin and Bass. This is a split-track recording the lead Banjo is on one channel and the accompaniment instruments on the other. Includes access to online audio that can be used as a solo recording ateaching recording or a play-along recording.

Learning to play the 5-string Banjo is a highly rewarding experience, but getting started can be a challenge! Here at last is a book that helps you choose the right instrument and accessories and then gets you playing - fast!Full colour pictures, clear diagrams and genuinely practical advice combine to make Start-Up 5 String Banjo do exactly what is says on the cover. You'll start off on the right track and that makes everything else come more easily.Contents include:Tuning your banjoChord shapesReading tablatureBasic strum styleHammer ons and pull-pffsClawhammer styleDrop thumb frailingBluegrass styleA selection of timeless bluegrass and folk songs to play / Banjo

The Complete Bluegrass Banjo Method is one of the very best G tuning five-string bluegrass tutors available! The book teaches how to pick out tunes single-string style (one note at a time) how to play chordaccompaniment and how to play solos in the full three-finger bluegrass style. The accompanying audio includes Acoustic Bass Acoustic Guitar and a rhythm track as well as the 5-string Banjo. Other topics inthe method include note and tab reading chord background styles traditional bluegrass techniques fills and endings use of the capo rolls slides hammers pull-offs choking harmonics and up-the-neck playing. In notationand tablature.  All songs and most exercises are included in this teaching recording performed at a tempo that the student should be able to maintain in short order.

Hal Leonard Banjo Method-This innovative method teaches 5-string bluegrass style and is an inspirational course with a proven track record. With two instruction books and two cross-referenced supplement books this method offers the beginner a carefully-paced and interest-keeping approach to the bluegrass style. Covers easy chord strums for the beginner; learning tablature; right-hand rolls characteristic of bluegrass; techniques such as hammer-on slide and pull-off. Includes a recording for tuning and standard patterns.

Banjo Play-Along Volume 8-This volume in Hal Leonard's Banjo Play-Along series contains eight pieces in the Celtic Bluegrass style with downloadable backing tracks that will make you sound like a pro. This series has been designed to help you play your favourite songs quickly and easily. Just follow the Banjo tab listen to the audio to hear how the Banjo should sound and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The book includes access to audio tracks online for download or streaming featuring Playback+ a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down the audio without changing pitch set loop points change keys and pan left or right.Banjo Play-Along Volume 8: Celtic Bluegrass includes the pieces: Billy in the Low Ground Cluck Old Hen Devil's Dream Fisher's Hornpipe Little Maggie Over the Waterfall The Red Haired Boy and Soldier's Joy.