The ultimate self-teaching method designed to offer quality instruction terrific songs and professional-quality backing tracks is now available for Banjo! This book and online audio pack can be used by students who want to teach themselves or by teachers for private or group instruction. Simply follow the tips and lessons in the book as you listen to the teacher on the audio. You'll learn all the basics: songs chords and melodies; pinching rolling and picking; playing tips and techniques; music notation; and much more! Learn at your own pace and open the door to the world of Banjo music! Over ninetygreat songs and examples with full-demo tracks.

40 Traditional American Folk Songs Arranged for Clawhammer Banjo-40 American folk songs arranged for the Clawhammer Banjo by Michael Miles.This songbook includes the well-known traditional tunes She'll Be Comin' 'Round The Mountain Amazing Grace When The Saints Go Marching In In The Good Old Summertime and more.

An easy-to-use guide to over 2800 banjo chords covering four of the most commonly used tunings. Thirty different chord qualities are covered for each key and each chord quality is presented in two different voicings. Also includes a lesson on chord construction and a fingerboard chart of the banjo neck!

Flathead 5 String Banjos Of The 1930s And 1940s-While Gibson produced literally thousands of banjos prior to WWII only a handful were made in the now most desirable configuration: the Original Flathead Five-String Mastertone. Since Earl Scruggs helped to make them the most sought-after banjos in the world over 60 years ago these instruments have amassed a cult-like following.These particular banjos featured a completely innovative design when the Gibson Company introduced them around 1930. They have since become the benchmark in design sound quality and just sheer power among banjo players. They have therefore also become the inspiration for nearly every successful 5-string banjo that has been manufactured for the pastfive decades.Like Martin Dreadnaught and Fender Stratocaster guitars the Gibson Mastertone Banjo has achieved an exalted status: It is appreciated far beyond its utilitarian purpose as a musical instrument and considered a truly original American art form. The Mastertone design and style are instantly recognizable by musicians and music lovers around the world even if imitated by other manufacturers.Of the 130 or so Original Flathead Five-String Mastertones known to exist 19 of the absolute best are featured here. The Scruggs Reno Jenkins Crowe Osborne Huber and Mills banjos are shown in all of their glory with details of their known histories and provenances as well as never-before-seen photos bills of sale factory shipping ledgers and other ephemera relating to these rare and highly desirable instruments.

Tony Trischka is one of the world's most innovative players as well as a historian of banjo styles and lore. In this DVD Tony Trischka teaches 11 classic pieces prime examples of banjo playing at its best.

Stuff All The Pros Know & Use-Ready to take your Banjo playing up a notch? Renowned teacher Fred Sokolow presents valuable how-to insight from which Banjo players of all styles and levels can benefit. The text photos music diagrams and accompanying CD provide a terrific easy-to-use resource for a variety of topics including techniques ear training performance and much more.

A Complete Guide to the Basics-Learn at your own pace and open the door to the world of banjo music! Play Today! is the ultimate self-teaching method and this DVD is designed to offer quality instruction terrific songs and on-screen Banjo tablature so you can play all the music examples.Simply follow along with the music on the screen as you watch and listen to the teacher. This complete guide to the basics covers:songs chords and melodiespinching rolling and pickingplaying tips and techniquesmusic notationand much more.

Grab a private lesson with one of the true innovators of the five-string banjo Eddie Adcock and discover the secrets to his unmistakable Bluegrass style in this unique DVD tutorial.Adcock's style combines the traditional Scruggs-style bluegrass with country folk blues gospel and rockabilly sounds. Working with some of his most-requested instrumentals Adcock analyses licks and chord shapes for each tune opening up new techniques and a host of ideas for the picking student. Discover how a basic Travis picking guitar line can be transferred to the banjo (complete with a damped bass string and bluesy details). Larn how to create pedal-steel style hammer-ons anddouble bends as well as how to play melodic lines and scales with single string rolls.

David Holt continiues son guide étape par étape au style traditionnel clawhammer banjo, présentant des techniques plus avancées. Il s'agit du pouce double rouleau, le rouleau de brosse et moyens de développer la complexité de vos idées mélodiques. Vous apprendrez également un grand ensemble de Clawhammer tunes pour le joueur plus avancé. / Banjo

Cette poursuite de 90 minutes de 'feuille de route du Wernick pour le banjo apportera à votre jeu à un tout autre niveau que vous apprenez à utiliser ses techniques de vos chansons préférées et instrumentales. Wernick introduit le grand arbre de licks, avec l'ascendant et descendant des pistes, les riffs de Scruggs et Reno-style et les méthodes de concevoir des solos de complètes. / Banjo

Sélecteur de banjo plus aimé de l'Amérique enseigne les techniques de son jeu et plus d'une douzaine de chansons. Comporte une apparition spéciale par Doc Watson. / Banjo

Par TRISCHKA TONY. Un indice d'octane élevé cours de banjo Scruggs-style qui aura votre joue au prochain niveau avec une foule de tunes terrific et instruction inestimable. Apprendre un peu des instrus traditionnels qui forment le répertoire essentiel de chaque aspirant picker. Découvrez les rouages internes de chaque morceau et comment employer des rouleaux, selfs, les diapositives et les inversions pour obtenir un son de Bluegrass authentique. Vous apprendrez comment sauvegarder un soliste, utilisez des syncopes, improviser et surmonter les problèmes avec la vitesse et le minutage. Tony est accompagné de musiciens vétéran David Grier et Andrea Zonn, fournissant des exemples de comment chaque morceau est joué dans le contexte d'une bande de Bluegrass. / Niveau : Elémentaire / Méthode en anglais / Date parution : 2005-10-10/ Accessoire / Banjo

This encyclopedia of licks you need to know to play 5-string bluegrass banjo includes accompaniment (backup) licks soloing licks as well as basic music theory the Numbers system listening suggestions and many complete solos plus 119 audio tracks available online for download or streaming to help you learn how and when to play the licks. 14 bluegrass standards are used as examples showing how to apply the licks: Amazing Grace · Bury Me Beneath the Willow · John Henry · Little Birdie · Nine Pound Hammer · Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms · This Train · Wabash Cannonball · When the Saints Go Marching In · Will the Circle Be Unbroken · and more. Audio is accessed online using theunique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch set loop points change keys and pan left or right.