Par NICKERSON ROSS. Easy to play five-string banjo arrangements of twenty-four Children's favorites by banjo master Ross Nickerson. Not only are these songs fun to play but from an instructional standpoint they are perfect for helping you develop the ability to bring out the melody in the bluegrass banjo style. Accenting the melody within the steady rhythmic roll of banjo playing is one of the biggest challenges facing banjo students and these familiar melodies are ideal for your development of that skill. Each song is arranged and performed using proper three-finger bluegrass technique. The arrangements are carefully 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 right and left-hand fingering indications. This book is not simply a tablature book! Children's Made Easy for Banjo also features instruction on learning the chords to each song, chord progression charts for each song, special learning tips for each arrangement, a full page of advice on memorizing the songs and more. Also, in the instructional section of the book Ross includes a page of suggestions on the best use of practice time and how to develop the skills needed to succeed with each piece. Children's Songs Made Easy for Banjo features a high quality studio recorded CD of all the songs played at three speeds and a bonus track of Ross performing improvised versions of several of the songs in the book. / Niveau : Débutant / Children's - Solos / Tablatures / Banjo Tablatures à 5 Cordes

Par DAVIS JANET. Well-known composer, performer, bluegrass and five-string banjo specialist Janet Davis has arranged this fantastic book of Christmas songs for five-string banjo. Selections include material for various levels of ability and offer wide variety of songs for the holiday season. Tablature only with lyrics for each song. The companion CD is included. This is a stereo recording which contains all the music in the book, played slow and up-to-speed. The fast version includes guitar accompaniment. / Niveau : Débutant à Intermédiaire / Christmas - Solos / Tablatures / Banjo Tablatures à 5 Cordes

With Online Audio-The traditional sound of the Banjo is well-suited to Christmas tunes lending them an authentic truly festive air. Christmas Songs For 5-String Banjo contains 20 well-loved songs forthe holiday season all arranged by the well-known composer performer and five-string Banjo specialist Janet Davis. Selections include material for various levels of ability and offer a variety of styles. This book isarranged in a tablature and lyric only format. Christmas Songs For 5-String Banjo contains the favourites Deck The Halls God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen Good King Wenceslas Hark! The Herald AngelsSing It Came Upon A Midnight Clear Jingle Bells Jolly Old Saint Nicholas Joy To The World O Come All Ye Faithful and more.      This book comes with a companion online audio download. This is astereo recording which contains all the music in the book played slow and up-to-speed. The fast version also includes Guitar accompaniment.

With Online Audio-Gospel Songs For Banjo Made Easy is a collection of gospel favorites arranged for bluegrass 5-string Banjo. The arrangements stay true to the classic three-finger 'Scruggs style' techniques with the melody skillfullywoven in. On the 68-track downloadable online audio Nickerson plays each song at three speeds with a rhythm track for each song to practice along with. The tab is large and easy to read with accent marks for melody notes.Chord charts for each song are also provided to give instruction on how to play through the songs using only the chords Nickerson also writes out tips and suggestions for each song which is not normally seen in song books.This should give you a significant head start by having the most challenging spots pointed out to you before you even get started. In Gospel Songs For Banjo Made Easy. Ross Nickerson brings all his knowledge fromyears of teaching privately and writing books to help you learn these fun to pick classics the EASY way! Includes access to online audio.

Traditional Songs for the 5-String Banjo features 22 classic old-time favourites specially arranged for 5-string Banjo.The distinctive sound of the 5-string Banjo is most usually associated with folk country and bluegrass music. In this book you’ll find a superb collection of traditional songs that lend themselves perfectly to a variety of Banjo styles.From the lively The Midnight Special to the wistfulWild Mountain Thyme each song has been chosen and arranged to make the most of the instrument’s unique capacity for rolling rhythms and flexible fingerpicking patterns. Whether your favourites are jazzy folky orcountry you’ll find plenty here to help you play sing and extend your repertoire.

Banjo Songs guides you straight to the heart of bluegrass banjo. This book provides you with thirty popular songs with over seventy-five exciting variations that capture the true essence of banjo playing. Witheasy-to-follow tablature this book along with the two accompanying CDs will help you to improve the tone of your playing and your timing. It also includes fingerings to help improve your left hand technique.

Easy to play five-string Banjo arrangements of twenty-four Children's favorites by Banjo master Ross Nickerson. Not only are these songs fun to play but from an instructional standpoint they are perfect for helping youdevelop the ability to bring out the melody in the bluegrass Banjo style.Accenting the melody within the steady rhythmic roll of Banjo playing is one of the biggest challenges facing Banjo students and these familiarmelodies are ideal for your development of that skill. Each song is arranged and performed using proper three-finger bluegrass technique. The arrangements are carefully designed to bring out the melody but easy enough for abeginner or intermediate player to learn quickly. 

The distinctive sound of the 5-string Banjo is most usually associated with folk country and bluegrass music...but this instrument can sound at home in lots of popular genres.In this book you’ll find a superb collectionof 20 favourite songs all specially arranged to show off the adaptability of the Banjo.Ho Hey and Wagon Wheel are naturals but you’ll also enjoy just how well hits by Ed Sheeran Adele and The Who soundin 5-string Banjo arrangements.Whatever your favourites you’ll find plenty here to help you play sing and extend your repertoire.

Twenty-four Christmas songs arranged especially for Banjo by Jim Schustedt. Includes Away In A Manger The First Noel God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen Hark! the Herald Angels Sing Jingle Bells O Holy Night O Christmas Tree Silent Night We Wish You A Merry Christmas Up On the Houstop and It Came Upon The Midnight Clear. Presented in both TAB notation with the melody line printed alongside in standard clef notation the lyrics are also included in-line making this volume easy to use for any player whatever their level of ability. Whether this is used for busking in the snow singing round the Christmas Tree or simply playing on your own every Banjo player is sure to find a use for this comprehensive volume!

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.

After the Civil War the ?up picking? finger style of playing the 5-string banjo came into vogue ? eventually finding its way into the Victorian parlor and later college glee and music clubs. The original down picking style didn't entirely die out because throughout the reaminder of the 19th Century new methods for the banjo often included a number of songs in the older two-finger banjo style of performance. Perhaps the most intricate set of songs to appear in the ?original? banjo style were these 34 progressive pieces found in Frank B. Converse's Analytical Banjo Method from 1887. Those songs presentedin this book for clawhammer banjo offer a nice mix of banjo characteristic pieces medleys and new compositions from Converse.

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.'

Featuring 28 well-known Christmas songs arranged for tenor banjo with chord symbols for an accompaniment instrument. Book contains chord diagrams for tenor banjo and guitar as well as common strum patterns to use for rhythmbackup. All songs are arranged in standard notation and tablature for tenor banjo.This book may be used along with Mel Bay?s Mandolin Christmas Songbook (MLB21013) Mel Bay?s Dobro Christmas Songbook (MLB21508) and MelBay?s Ukulele Christmas Songbook (MLB20886). All songs except ?Away in a Manger? are in the same key and can be played together. Most songs are in the same key.