Long-time Banjo picking ace Alan Munde brings his considerable Banjo arranging skills to some of the most played songs in the bluegrass tradition. In these stylistic revealing arrangements running from straightforwardroll approach to the delicately beautiful melodic fingerings Munde lets the melody of each piece stand out to its fullest.Great Picking Tunes For Banjo includes all-time winners Red Wing Turkey in the Straw Arkansas Traveler Down Yonder and Home Sweet Home bluegrass favorites Blackberry Blossom Cumberland Gap Black Mountain Rag John Hardy and Bury Me Beneath the Willow fiddle favorites Whiskey BeforeBreakfast Flop-Eared Mule Boston Boy St. Anne's Reel and 8th of January plus a host of other jam session standards. In tablature only. Includes access to online audio.

Description The non-jazz improvisation series is a concept that germinated in Dick Weissman's mind while he was attending music school. He wrote a 15-piece arrangement of the old square dance tune, Cripple Creek, and wanted the trombone to take a solo as part of the arrangement. When the trombonist kept playing a bebop solo that was totally unsuitable for the chart, Dick realized that - in addition to the many musicians who do not improvise - there are even jazz musicians who don't know how to improvise outside the limits of their own stylistic backgrounds. This book approaches the five-string banjo as a musical instrument freed from the prison of specific musical genres. Old-time music, clawhammer, bluegrass and many eclectic adaptations of the banjo are utilized to demonstrate a variety of musical styles. A number of the selections are in different tunings. All examples are written out in traditional and tablature notation.