Bay Mel - Fun With The Tenor Banjo - Banjo

The Absolute Beginners Irish Tenor Banjo book tells you everything you need to know about playing this unique instrument from the very first moment you pick it up. Featuring helpful and practical guides toeverything from holding your Tenor Banjo to playing your first tunes this book and accompanying download card will take you through your beginning stages and beyond. Beginning with a short history of theinstrument the book takes you through the anatomy of a Tenor Banjo how it's tuned and how to hold it before getting you playing and picking. The book continues by teaching you the D Major scale and basic rhythm then moves onto your first tunes. The inclusion of real songs (in notation and tablature) from the very beginning helps you to put what the theoretical concepts that you've learned into context developing your musicality as well as yourknowledge. As you are introduced to more strings more scales and more tunes you will see how Tenor Banjo players use ornamentation to embellish their playing and make it more musical and more fun. Withhelpful detailed explanations of each concept clear pictures throughout and short musical passages transcribed in standard notation and tablature the Absolute Beginners Irish Tenor Banjo tutorial book willteach you the basics and get you playing some really fun tunes at the same time. The unique download card that accompanies this book features over 60 demonstrations of each tune recorded by the author to help you pick and pluckyour way through every note. It's simple to use all you have to do is download each track to your computer and listen as you go through. If you have always wanted to learn Irish Tenor Banjobut have never been able to find a comprehensive method or you've just discovered its fantastically distinctive sound this edition of the Absolute Beginners series is for you. With authoritative

Ragtime music has a character all its own. While it lends itself ideally to a variety of settings and moods it always maintains its unique joyful feeling. The banjo is an instrument ideally suited for ragtime. The bright crispbanjo sound truly adds a new dimension to the ragtime feeling. Mel Bay and Roy Smeck have teamed together in arranging a variety of Scott Joplin and some original rags. All of the music contained herein can be played by tenor plectrum or 5-string banjo. It is with great pleasure that we present the joyful sound of Ragtime Banjo! Standard notation only.

First Lessons Tenor Banjo. The great sound of Tenor Banjo is a cornerstone of Dixieland and traditional jazz. Using classic favorites Joe Carr teaches the basics of accompaniment basic melody and thepopular chord melody style. Chords and melody are combined to produce professional sounding solo arrangements. This book with downloadable online audio and video combo includes play-along practice tracks that speed up thelearning process. It doesn't get any easier! Online video duration: 47 min.

Media Type : Book Level : Beginning Musical Genre : Folk Series : Fun With Number of pages : 40 A good beginner's text showing tuning, basic chords, and songs to sing and strum. Companion play-along CD is available. Standard banjo tuning. Tuned for Mandola.

This fun easy-to-follow guide for beginning Banjo players presents tuning basic chords and songs to sing and strum. Includes online audio and video. Tuned for Mandola.

Par BAY MEL. Du débutant un bon texte montrant tuning, accords de base et chansons à chanter et à strum. Le CD compagnon le long de jeu est disponible. Banjo standard de réglage. Calibré pour mandole. / Niveau : Débutant / Folk - Methods / Méthode / Banjo Ténor

Media Type : Book Level : Multiple Levels Musical Genre : All Styles Number of pages : 117 How can I read sheet music and play tenor banjo melody chord solos?� Mel Bay's own step-by-step method for melody chord performance will show you precisely how it's done. Also suitable for tenor mandola. Written primarily in standard notation with tablature and fretboard diagrams given for chord patterns, this book might be considered a sequel to the Complete Tenor Banjo Method. After a few pages of elementary information, the author goes to the heart of the matter with challenging exercises and solos presented in order of difficulty in various keys. The book also includes a thorough education in chord construction from simple triads to thirteenth diminished ninth chords. Most importantly, the author offers a system for learning to apply tenor banjo chords in a creative manner.

Featuring 28 well-known Christmas songs arranged for tenor banjo with chord symbols for an accompaniment instrument. Book contains chord diagrams for tenor banjo and guitar as well as common strum patterns to use for rhythmbackup. All songs are arranged in standard notation and tablature for tenor banjo.This book may be used along with Mel Bay?s Mandolin Christmas Songbook (MLB21013) Mel Bay?s Dobro Christmas Songbook (MLB21508) and MelBay?s Ukulele Christmas Songbook (MLB20886). All songs except ?Away in a Manger? are in the same key and can be played together. Most songs are in the same key.

Media Type : Chart Level : Beginning Musical Genre : All Styles Number of pages : 4 This chart shows essential chords and secondary minor chord relationships in all 12 keys for the tenor banjo in C-G-D-A tuning. The chords shown for each root note are major, seventh, minor, diminished, and augmented, with relative minor I, IV, and V7 chords al fingerboard with all the frets numbered and the corresponding notes shown in standard notation. This chart is also applicable to the tenor mandola, which uses the same tuning. Unfolds to 17.5 by 11.75. Also suitable for mandola.