Know only 20 Banjo solo licks? How about 50? 100? 200? If that's all then you need this book designed to help you improvise bluegrass style Banjo solos. These 400 licks are played over standard chord progressions; the use of licks sometimes will take precedent over stating the melody. The progressions used are based primarily on common vocal numbers. Some of the licks included are: chromatic licks embellishing a fiddle tune high position licks Reno style pentatonic blues boogie licks swing phrasing sequential licks back-up licks and many more.Uses standard G tuning.

This book is a must have for the novice as well as the professional player! Each and every lick Banjo players learn provides another vital piece to add to their repertoire and help develop their individual ability.Each lick is important and Todd Taylor shares his licks and personal techniques he has spent a lifetime developing for the first time in this volume. These licks will make you a better player!Music examples are included in the online audio available for download or streaming.

5-String Banjo Tablatures-Published by popular demand this long-awaited songbook contains exact transcriptions in banjo tablature that capture the unique playing style of Douglas Dillard. This fantastic collection includes all of his best-loved tunes from the Andy Griffith Show from his many great years of recording as the original Dillards and from his solo banjo albums and his releases with The Doug Dillard Band. Features more than 20 tunes in G tuning C tuning amd G modal tuning including classics such as: Cripple Creek · Hickory Hollow · Jamboree · John Henry · Old Joe Clark · Buckin' Mule · and more. A must-have for all banjo players!

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.

Part of a universal repertoire familiar to all traditional jazz musicians the 35 standards in this collection are arranged for the tenor banjo but chord symbols make playing suitable for all banjo tunings as well as other chord instruments. Popular keys have been chosen with melodies in notes and tab plus large easy-to-read chord diagrams lyrics commentary and more. Includes: Margie ? Wabash Blues ? Tishmingo Blues ? Avalon ? Back Home Again in Indiana ? Shimmy Like My Sister Kate ? St. Louis Blues ? Jazz Me Blues ? Old Green River ? By and By ? and more.

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.

Learn How to Pick the Bluegrass Way. Here's a surefire way to get going and learn how to play the 5-string banjo bluegrass style! Detailed tips and explanations provide help and understanding of the fundamentals and how to apply them to make you a great banjo player. Topics covered include: tuning - reading tablature - basic rolls - intros, breaks, fills

This book/CD pack provides beginning and intermediate banjo players with two versions of 18 of the most popular fiddle tunes heard at bluegrass jam sessions. The 'basic' solos generally begin on the first beat contain lots of quarter notes and use only simple rolls. The 'intermediate' solos use more 8th notes and complex roles and require more difficult formations of the left hand. Tunes include: Arkansas Traveler • Old Joe Clark • Red Wing • Salt Creek • Soldier's Joys • and more!

A complete guide for beginner and advanced Banjo players! Written by Ken Perlman  Clawhammer Style Banjo is destined to become the handbook on how to play the Banjo. The style is easy to learn and covers the instruction itself basic right and left-hand positions simple chords and fundamental clawhammer techniques; the brush the 'bumm-titty' strum pull-offs and slides. For the advanced player there is instruction on more complicated picking double thumbing quick slides fretted pull-offs harmonics improvisation and more. The book includes more than 40 fun-to-playBanjo tunes.

Old Time String Band Banjo Styles introduces the traditional rural string band Banjo styles as played in the southern mountains of the eastern United States which were used to ?second? Vocal songs and Fiddle tunes during the Golden Age of recorded String band music from the early 1920s through to the early 1930s.