Hot Licks for Bluegrass Banjo. Over 650 bluegrass, blues and jazz licks in Scruggs, single-string and melodic style. Use licks to create solos and play back up and expand your musical understanding and knowledge of the fingerboard. The licks of J.D. Crowe, Bela Fleck, Bill Keith, Alan Munde, Don Reno and Peter Wernick are featured.

Par WEISSMAN DICK. Learning chords for the five-string banjo have never been so easy. Basic chords in G tuning, C tuning, D tuning and D-minor tuning are clearly shown. Neck diagrams are used that show easy-to-read fingerings. Music notation is explained and tips on tuning are given. Identifying keys and the capo are also explained. / Instrumental Music, Methods

This handy book/video shows left-hand fingering photos notation and diagrams for all of the basic 5-string Banjo chords in G tuning (GDGBD). The sections are arranged alphabetically grouping all chords with the same root in asection. Includes access to online video.

This is a very popular beginner's text for 5-string banjo. Written in C tuning it shows basic chords includes instructions for tuning and positioning and contains many fun songs with lyrics included for singing and strumming.This package includes the companion CD which is in stereo play-along format and contains each song from the book along with tuning instructions.

Media Type : Book+DVD Level : Beginning Musical Genre : Bluegrass & Country Series : Photo Chords Number of pages : 56 This handy book/DVD shows left-hand fingering photos, notation, and diagrams for all of the basic 5-string banjo chords in G tuning (GDGBD). The sections are arranged alphabetically, grouping all chords with the same root in a section. DVD is 125 minutes.

Get a Better Grip on Neck Navigation!-Mastering the 5-string banjo neck can be a challenge even for very experienced players. The diagrams in this book will help you quickly memorize scales and chords that may have previously seemed difficult to grasp. You'll be able to easily see and understand how scale and chord shapes are laid out and how they connect and overlap across the neck. The material is presented in all 12 keys using complete 12-fret neck diagrams with color-coded displays of the most common fingerings.

Today's foremost player of the melodic Clawhammer Banjo presents a comprehensive guide to the instrument the style its heritage and culture complete with a supporting CD.Learn to play authentic versions of Appalachian fiddle tunes string band tunes New England hornpipes Irish jigs Scottish reels and much more. The arrangements showcase the unique styles of many important contemporary players and are presented alongside chapters detailing basic and advanced playing techniques as well as over 70 musical illustrations historical notes and period photos.A truly wide-ranging guide to this wonderfully characterful and exciting genre of music rich inhistorical detail and with every technique and tune you'd ever need to know!

A superb instructional text for five-string Banjo dealing with the 5th through the 22nd fret. Included are chapters on roll patterns chords songs licks chord progressions arranging songs improvising melodic style chromatic style chromatic style back-up and much more! Also included is an abundance of great Janet Davis solo tabs. Written in tablature.The extended play audio recording contains 144 tracks in stereo toaccompany the book. Listen and play along with Janet Davis as she explains and plays each exercise. Includes access to online audio and video.

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.'

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.

Media Type : Book/CD Set Level : Beginning Musical Genre : Gospel-Old Time Number of pages : 48 Welcome to Gospel Tunes for Clawhammer Banjo. After many years of requests by you and the publisher, I have made this collection of Gospel favorites available to those of you who play the clawhammer banjo style. The versions of the tabs presented here are neither overly simple nor particularly complex. Anyone with basic clawhammer skills should be able to play the tab as written or get close enough so they can create a satisfying version of each tune for themselves. Should you find you need an instructional book, please get my Clawhammer Banjo From Scratch book with companion CD's (MB20190BCD) and the corresponding DVD's which are also available from Mel Bay. You may also wish to see Jack Hatfield's Old-Time Gospel Banjo Solos (MB96755BCD) for 3 finger bluegrass/Scruggs versions of many of the tunes presented here.