Banjo -
Beginning-Intermediate
SKU: MB.20803M
Composed by Alan Munde.
Squareback saddle stitch,
Banjo: 5-String,
Bluegrass, Method.
Getting Into. Style. Book
and online audio. 96
pages. Mel Bay
Publications, Inc
#20803M. Published by Mel
Bay Publications, Inc
(MB.20803M).
ISBN
9780786690916. 8.75 x
11.75 inches.
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.
Includes access to online
audio. 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 of the
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 hand
techniques 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 Jesse
James.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 My Money,
Old Country Church, Kneel
at the Cross, and Train
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