Banjo Play-Along Volume 7-The Banjo Play-Along series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily. Just follow the Banjo tab listen to the audio to hear how the Banjo should sound and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The book includes access to audio tracks online for download or streaming featuring Playback a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down the audio without changing pitch set loop points change keys and pan left or right. This volume includes: Cryin' Holy unto the Lord How Great Thou Art I Saw the Light I'll Fly Away I'll Have a New Life Man in the Middle Turn Your Radio On Wicked Path of Sin.

If you are a banjo player whose enjoyment of music isn't limited to bluegrass and country you'll find this collection of tunes fun and sometimes challenging. Contains ragtime blues old-time jazz and bluegrass blues G tuning.Banjo tab. For five-string banjo.

Played Bluegrass Style-Alternate Tunings For Five-String Banjo is the first three-finger style Banjo instruction book written specifically for the bluegrass banjoist wishing to explore alternate tunings. Written using standardtablature the book takes the learner through the G modal Standard C Open C Bb D modal Open D and E tunings.Students will learn new arrangements for such traditional pieces as Cumberland Gap Shady Grove KansasCity Railroad Blues Pretty Polly and seventeen others. Audio download available online with examples of each tuning and song taught. The songs are played slowly and up to standard tempo on the audio.

This book is the ideal primer for anyone wishing to participate in an 'Irish session'. This musical gathering is apparently quite different than a blues jazz or bluegrass jam session in that it is customary at Irish sessions toplay in tight unison with the other musicians adapting appropriate tempos rhythms and ornaments in an attempt to fit in with the 'groove'. The 'Irish Session Tune Book' features 300 reels hornpipes polkas slides andslip-jigs written without chord symbols for the melody instruments commonly played in Irish Sessions. The author shares a wealth of melodies collected over the past 10 years the majority learned by ear at Irish sessions: fiddle accordion tinwhistle tenor banjo mandolin bouzouki etc. Authentic ornamentation is suggested for each tune with the admonition that ornamentation may vary from region to region and chorus to chorus.

This book presents an extremely comprehensive collection of 5-string and plectrum banjo chord forms for G and C tunings. Beginning with C and proceeding chromatically through B every possible inversion of every chord from basictriads to thirteenth chords are shown in easy to read diagrams. To aid in comprehension of chord construction every chord is shown in root position in standard notation. A general review of hand positions general technique bridge adjustments strings and use of the capo is provided in the last few pages. Illustrated with pencil drawings diagrams and photographs.

Designed for the left-handed Banjo player this handy book includes right-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 each section.

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.

Tony Trischka teaches twenty traditional Banjo solos that demonstrate new ideas licks and techniques. Acquire the basic skills necessary to play in the styles of Earl Scruggs and Don Reno.

First Lessons on Banjo is an ultra-easy instruction manual for beginning five-string Banjo played in the three finger style in G tuning. It can be used by those with no previous experience with the Banjo or music of any sort.It is so basic it can be used even by small children. The book features very detailed descriptions of even the most basic aspects such as wearing the picks properly the correct picking motion and noting the strings properly.These are aspects that are so basic most manuals skip over them. There are many detailed photos several from the player's point of view not from in front of the Banjo.First Lessons on Banjo covers themost basic rolls the Alternating Thumb Roll and two Forward Rolls the three basic chords plus the relative minor chord. All musical examples are presented in tablature with the melody notes in boldface type so the student knowswhich notes to emphasize.All arrangements include lyrics which is very important to the novice who is trying to train the ear to hear the melody among the fill notes. Several tips and suggestions about the proper mentalapproach are included that will lead to playing by ear and arranging at an earlier stage in the student's development. There are also suggestions about developing the proper mental approach and about speed reading of tablature.These suggestions are not found in any other Banjo instruction book. The 'finale' arrangement is Cripple Creek a popular Banjo standard that when mastered should give the novice a great sense ofaccomplishment.The accompanying audio download includes all tabbed examples with the rhythm instruments and lead Banjo in separate channels. The songs are played at three tempos the first tempo VERY slow then a mediumtempo version and finally at performing speed with Guitar Mandolin and Bass accompaniment. The up- tempo accompanied versions are all together at the end of the recording so the final tracks can be used as a listening recording.

Frailing/Clawhammer and 3-Finger Scruggs Style-This collection contains 18 songs that are ideal for “dueling” Banjos each playing the song in a different style. The songs are arranged in tablature for bluegrass old-time and folk styles using standard rolls and multiple tunings. Online audio is included so you can hear how the songs should sound.Songs include: Cripple Creek Cotton-Eyed Joe Distant Thunder Groundhog Old Joe Clark Skip to My Lou Tom Dooley Will the Circle Be Unbroken and more.

Banjo Play-Along Volume 4-Banjo Play-Along Volume 4: Old-Time Christmas will help you play some of your favourite Christmas songs quickly and easily with incredible backing tracks to help you sound like a bona fide pro. Just follow the Banjo tab listen to the demo track on the CD to hear how the Banjo should sound and then play along with the separate backing tracks. The CD is playable on any CD player and also is enhanced so Mac and PC users can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing the pitch.

Ten Christmas favorites are presented in exciting arrangements by Banjo virtuoso Todd Taylor in this collection which is both challenging and fun to play. The music is arranged at an intermediate to advanced level and is in standard G tuning. Includes a CD so you can listen to hear how the Banjo should sound and then play along with the note-for-note tablature provided for each song.

Banjo Edition-A collection of over 200 great bluegrass old time country and gospel standards. Melodies are presented with standard notation and tablature along with lyrics and chords. Learn to play songs written andrecorded by the giants of traditional American music: Bill Monroe The Stanley Brothers Flatt & Scruggs Ralph Stanley The Osborne Brothers Jimmy Martin Doc Watson and many more. Also included: step-by-stepinstruction on how to transpose any song to any key!Includes access to online audio containing recordings of EVERY song in the book with Bill Evans on banjo and vocals Dix Bruce on guitar mandolin and vocals.

15 Blues Classics Arranged for 5-String Banjo-The form and spirit of Robert Johnson's original recordings are faithfully captured in these 15 arrangements while incorporating the unique sonic qualities of the 5-string banjo. The results are a heretofore unavailable opportunity for banjo players to experience the immense satisfaction of performing the music of one of the greatest legends of the blues. Also includes historical information on the origins of the banjo and its ties to the blues: biographical information of blues banjo artists from the 1920s to the present: song-by-song performance notes: and a tunings list. Songs include: Cross Road Blues (Crossroads) - Drunken Hearted Man - From Four Until Late - HellHound on My Trail - I Believe I'll Dust My Broom - I'm a Steady Rollin' Man (Steady Rollin' Man) - Kind Hearted Woman Blues - Love in Vain Blues - Me and the Devil Blues - Ramblin' on My Mind - Stop Breakin' down Blues - Sweet Home Chicago - They're Red Hot - 32-20 Blues - Walkin' Blues.