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.

Are you finding the key of G too limiting' What do you do if someone calls for a song in C or D or E or F' Learn to play out of C position and expand your horizons on the banjo. No Tab. Featuring Wildwood Flower Uncloudy Day Arkansas Traveler Worried Man and more.

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.'

This Banjo instruction book is a complete progressive method for beginners. It offers a brief history of the Banjo a detailed description of the instrument its parts and accessories. It also explains how to tune your Banjo proper technique for the right and left hand musical theory and chords.Inside you will find many exercises and examples in tablature form with recordings on the accompanying CD. The second part provides 27 tunes intablature form including the famous 'Duelling Banjos'.

An instructional video that starts from the beginning! Clawhammer From Scratch begins as though you really have NO knowledge of how to play the five string Banjo clawhammer style. Beginning at the beginning Dan presents abrief history of the 5-string Banjo then goes over the parts of the Banjo holding the Banjo right and left hand styles and his basic clawhammer strum. Even the strum is broken down into the steps of the finger andthumb.Based on Dan's innovative Meet the Banjo(TM) program where Dan brings 15 banjos and teaches players who may have never held a Banjo this video assumes no prior experience. Using one tune Spotted Pony youare guided through the chords the scale and then the individual notes of the tune. This video ends with a few tips and frequently asked questions and even a chance for YOU to play with the Fiddle and Guitar just like in a privatejam session. If you have been looking for that one instructional recording to get you started this is the one for you. If you already have many books or videos but still can't seem to get the basics this is the one for you too!A 2-page pamphlet is included.Picking up where Volume 1 left off in Volume 2 you will learn to capo up to D tuning review the basics of the Double Thumb Pony then head off into the Banjo world by learning to drop thumb hammer-on pull-off and slide your way into the Full Blown Pony. Just as in Volume 1 you are guided through the chords the scale and then the individual notes of the tune as well as each of the techniques that make Old TimeSouthern Appalachian clawhammer banjo music as exciting as you have heard. Each technique is taught then applied to the tune and repeated in easily learnable segments. This video even gives you a chance to play Banjo with theFiddle and Guitar just like in a real jam session. Booklet included.

Builds on the material covered in Lessons 1 and 2. Learn some common left hand techniques and add them to your songs. Learn three common left hand techniques -hammer ons pull offs and slides - and how to incorporate them intoyour right hand patterns. Learn valuable drills for coordinating movements of the left and right hands. Learn how to add these left hand techniques to the roll arrangements we learned in Lesson 2. Also includes the tab readingand string changing chapters from Lesson 1.

With Online Audio-This collection includes 30 songs as played by the renowned old-time Clawhammer Banjo player Wade Ward. Written in Banjo tab these traditional pieces have here been given modern interpretations by Bob Carlinand Dan Levenson. The repertoire in Wade Ward Clawhammer Banjo Master is the perfect starting point for your journey through the world of old-time music. As such each piece is presented inmultiple arrangements both on the page and the accompanying audio. Available to download these recordings are for the most part played at a learning tempo and are close to the written notation but not exact in allcases. Songs include: Arkansas Traveler Chilly Winds Cindy Cluck Old Hen Peachbottom Creek Polly Put The Kettle On Sally Ann Shady Grove Silly Bill and more.

Banjo Solo-More Easy Banjo Solos is a bluegrass/country supplement to the Hal Leonard Banjo Method Book 2. This volume contains 16 songs including Abilene I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry Jambalaya (On The Bayou) and more.

Hot Licks for Bluegrass Banjo. Over 650 bluegrass, blues and jazz licks in Scruggs, single-string and melodic style. Use licks to create solos and play back up and expand your musical understanding and knowledge of the fingerboard. The licks of J.D. Crowe, Bela Fleck, Bill Keith, Alan Munde, Don Reno and Peter Wernick are featured.

This book presents more than 70 tunes in the unique highly developed clawhammer style known as 'Round Peak' -named after the Blue Ridge Mountain North Carolina community where it originated. While not intended for theabsolute beginner this book will benefit players at various experience levels. Tunes in the book are organized according to the specific Banjo tuning used with A and D tunings most prominent. Much of the book's commentary andthe audio download recording is directed towards the fretless variant of the 5-string Banjo but as these tunes are written in standard 5-string Banjo tablature they can most definitely be played on the more common frettedinstrument. Includes tune lyrics and extensive historical and biographical notes plus technical tips and a discography.Written in 5-string Banjo tablature only.Audio download availableonline.

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.

With My Banjo On My Knee... The Banjo Songs of Stephen Foster includes some of the first and most popular songs written for this evocative instrument. As well as the complete lyrics to each song and an extensive bibliography there are also historical notes that describe the meaning of the songs their place in history the significance and influence of the musicians who first performed them. The included CD contains demonstration recordings of each arrangement performed on solo minstrel banjo.

Southern Appalachian native Dan Levenson and Mel Bay Publications present Clawhammer Banjo from Scratch - A Guide for the Claw-less! This book teaches Clawhammer Banjo the way we play not theway others say. It really begins as though you really have NO knowledge of how to play the five string Banjo clawhammer style. Based on Dan's innovative Meet the Banjo program (where Dan brings 15 Banjos andteaches players who may have never held a Banjo) this book assumes no prior experience.Beginning at the beginning Dan presents a brief history of the 5-string Banjo then goes over the parts of the Banjo holdingthe Banjo right and left hand positions and his basic clawhammer strum. Even the strum is broken down into the steps of the finger and thumb. You are guided through the chords the scale and then the individual notes of each of12 jam session favourite tunes from scratch. Includes audio recordings available for download online with all exercises tunes (slow and up to speed) and a Fiddle version of each tune.

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.

Instrumental Album-14 Dylan classics arranged specifically for clawhammer-style 5-string Banjo including: All Along the Watchtower Blowin' in the Wind Hurricane It Ain't Me Babe Knockin' on Heaven's Door Lay Lady Lay Like a Rolling Stone Mr. Tambourine Man Positively 4th Street Shelter from the Storm Tangled up in Blue The Times They Are A-Changin' You Ain't Goin' Nowhere and Don't Think Twice It's All Right.