This 51/2x 8' 'Qwikguide' book/audio download presents 30 favorite folk tunes in tablature for the Scruggs- or melodic-style 5-string Banjo in G tuning with suggested accompaniment chords. The selections include: Auld LangSyne; Someone's in the Kitchen with Dinah; Swanee River; Camptown Races; Oh Susanna; The Yellow Rose of Texas; La Cucaracha; Wabash Cannonball; Tom Dula;Beautiful Brown Eyes; Little Brown Jug; Chopsticks; Twinkle Twinkle Little Star; William Tell Overture; Skip to My Lou; and more. Audio download available online.

Complete with full lyrics and easy-to-read chord boxes this songbook allows Banjo players to pick and sing along to 30 of Dylan's greatest hits including All Along The Watchtower Blowin' In The Wind Like A Rolling Stone The Times They Are A-Changin' and more.

Art Rosenbaum is one of America's foremost performers and teachers of traditional five-string Banjo playing. He has a long-time interest in the myriad of old-time tunings that give breadth and richness to mountain andold-time Banjo picking and has learned first-hand from old-timers in the South and Midwest.Pete Seeger (whose pioneering book How to Play the Five-String Banjo gave Rosenbaum his start in the 1950s) praised theinclusion of 23 tunings in Art's 1968 Oak Publications book Old-Time Mountain Banjo. Art Rosenbaum's Old-Time Banjo Book doubles (plus one) that number of tunings. Rosenbaum groups the tunings into'families' and shows how they can be used with various picking styles in playing Banjo tunes and string band music and in song accompaniment.Experienced players will broaden their knowledge of unusual and interestingtunings and styles and novice players can get started with 'common' tunings for easy pieces like Cripple Creek and Shout Lulu - the first tunes many old-timers learned. Combined duration of DVDs: 240minutes.

This friendly book is filled with clawhammer banjo instruction tablature lyrics tune histories chords playing tips vintage photos and more. Includes such classid oldtime tunes as Soldier's Joy; Cluck Old Hen; ArkansasTraveler; Leather Britches; Mississippi Sawyer; Chicken Reel; Shady Grove; Red Rocking Chair; John Henry; Uncle Joe; Little Rosewood Casket; The State of Arkansas; Hogeye; The Old Spinning Wheel; and When You and I Were YoungMaggie. A companion recording Southern Mountain Classics is available on CD.

Media Type : Book/CD Set Level : Beginning-Intermediate Musical Genre : Gospel-Old Time Number of pages : 112 This book presents 31 of the most-loved old-time gospel songs arranged in the three-finger style, complete with musical notation, banjo tablature, chords and lyrics. Each song is presented first as a beginner-intermediate arrangement, played in the first position in Scruggs style. Most songs are then presented in an up-the-neck arrangement. The CD features five-string banjo solos played in three-finger style and accompanied by guitar, mandolin and bass. This is a split-track recording, the lead banjo is on one channel and the accompaniment instruments on the other. The CD can be used as a solo recording, a teaching recording or a play-along recording.

Media Type : Book/CD Set Level : Beginning-Intermediate Musical Genre : Acoustic Music Number of pages : 112 This book covers all of the major scales in depth as applied to the 5-string banjo, answering potential questions concerning the use of major scales for any level of player, beginning through advanced. It features finger-strengthening exercises, chords, licks, practical applications of the scales and corresponding exercises which will increase the player's speed, accuracy and ability. While this is not a dictionary of all scales for the banjo, it will teach you how scales work in songs and will help you play in any key. With this knowledge and these skills, you should have a solid foundation and the necessary background for understanding and using all scale types. Written in tablature only.

Description The non-jazz improvisation series is a concept that germinated in Dick Weissman's mind while he was attending music school. He wrote a 15-piece arrangement of the old square dance tune, Cripple Creek, and wanted the trombone to take a solo as part of the arrangement. When the trombonist kept playing a bebop solo that was totally unsuitable for the chart, Dick realized that - in addition to the many musicians who do not improvise - there are even jazz musicians who don't know how to improvise outside the limits of their own stylistic backgrounds. This book approaches the five-string banjo as a musical instrument freed from the prison of specific musical genres. Old-time music, clawhammer, bluegrass and many eclectic adaptations of the banjo are utilized to demonstrate a variety of musical styles. A number of the selections are in different tunings. All examples are written out in traditional and tablature notation.