This handy book/video shows left-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 asection. Includes access to online video.

Now on DVD. Having trouble with Banjo? Want to play songs that sound like something? Want to play songs your friends might recognize? Songs that aren't so darn fast? Banjo For Misfits is what youneed.Designed especially for adults. Uses basic licks to play great arrangements. Basic chording explained. No Tab.Includes: Boil Them Cabbage Down I Saw the Light Worried Man Do Lord and Two-DollarBill. (1 hour 50 minutes)

Play and improvise with more expression and freedom in bluegrass and related styles. These ideas exercises and etudes will help you expand your palette of improvisational and compositional techniques and sounds. Develop yourversatility over the fingerboard and master rhythmic ideas on the banjo. The CD features demo and play-along tracks performed by an all-star bluegrass band!?This book opens up new vistas on the banjo particularly usefulfor advanced players.? Tony Trischka Banjo Great

Flathead 5 String Banjos Of The 1930s And 1940s-While Gibson produced literally thousands of banjos prior to WWII only a handful were made in the now most desirable configuration: the Original Flathead Five-String Mastertone. Since Earl Scruggs helped to make them the most sought-after banjos in the world over 60 years ago these instruments have amassed a cult-like following.These particular banjos featured a completely innovative design when the Gibson Company introduced them around 1930. They have since become the benchmark in design sound quality and just sheer power among banjo players. They have therefore also become the inspiration for nearly every successful 5-string banjo that has been manufactured for the pastfive decades.Like Martin Dreadnaught and Fender Stratocaster guitars the Gibson Mastertone Banjo has achieved an exalted status: It is appreciated far beyond its utilitarian purpose as a musical instrument and considered a truly original American art form. The Mastertone design and style are instantly recognizable by musicians and music lovers around the world even if imitated by other manufacturers.Of the 130 or so Original Flathead Five-String Mastertones known to exist 19 of the absolute best are featured here. The Scruggs Reno Jenkins Crowe Osborne Huber and Mills banjos are shown in all of their glory with details of their known histories and provenances as well as never-before-seen photos bills of sale factory shipping ledgers and other ephemera relating to these rare and highly desirable instruments.

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 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.

Get your hands on this classic 1984 tutorial and discover how Bela Fleck has since become arguably the greatest Banjo player of our time! Now on DVD Bela's detailed and expert demonstrations will give you the key to mastering many techniques and disciplines including:Bluegrass pickingKeith/Scruggs tunersDon Reno-style single-string workBlues improvisationCeltic instrumentals...and much moreYou will also learn some complete Banjo pieces including Texas Bar-B-Que and Brilliancy. A must for every aspiring Banjo picker.

In this follow-up DVD Pete Wernick makes it easy to create convincing solos in common keys that normally challenge learning players: D C F and G without a capo. Pete explores nine bluegrass standards taking each song's melody and showing how to weave it into a full arrangement. Songs: Down in the Valley to Pray; Angeline the Baker; New River Train; and more. LEVEL 3; INCLUDES TAB .PDF ON DISC; 1 HR. 55 MIN.

Here is a foolproof system that will improve your ear and help build stamina power and confidence in your banjo picking. Steve Kaufman and Bennie Boling play through 49 classic bluegrass tune - slowly then up to speed - sobanjo players at all levels can play along.With your stereo balance control you can turn off the lead and play along with the rhythm track to get your soloing together. The solo banjo part is on the other channel so youcan practice your back-up parts and learn the tune. These CDs provide an invaluable tool to practice your licks and solos and really get your jamming chops together!

Master the art of clawhammer Banjo playing with this easy-to-follow instructional DVD.Great Banjo Lessons: Clawhammer Style contains eight lessons chosen to provide learners with new techniques tunes and musical insights.Suitable for beginning and advanced players alike this DVD includes tuition by professional Banjo players for the songs Shortenin' Bread John Brown's Dream Cherokee Shuffle and more.Contributors to this DVD include Bob Carlin Mike Seeger Cathy Fink David Holt Kirk Sutphin Ralph Stanley Mark Johnson and Frank Lee.

Grab a private lesson with one of the true innovators of the five-string banjo Eddie Adcock and discover the secrets to his unmistakable Bluegrass style in this unique DVD tutorial.Adcock's style combines the traditional Scruggs-style bluegrass with country folk blues gospel and rockabilly sounds. Working with some of his most-requested instrumentals Adcock analyses licks and chord shapes for each tune opening up new techniques and a host of ideas for the picking student. Discover how a basic Travis picking guitar line can be transferred to the banjo (complete with a damped bass string and bluesy details). Larn how to create pedal-steel style hammer-ons anddouble bends as well as how to play melodic lines and scales with single string rolls.

Here is the Lost Heritage of the Irish-American Banjo! The Irish-style Tenor banjo has become immensely popular of late yet the roots of Irish influence on American Banjo music extends right back to the 1840s when the legendary Joel Sweeney picked up a gourd Banjo from Black American Banjo players and proceeded to perform 'jigs reels and breakdowns'. Other Irish-Americans played a leading role in the development and popularity of theBanjo in America and Rob MacKillop has collected 27 of their finest pieces in this collection the first of its kind. Early Irish-American Banjo is a solo instrumental collection writtenin standard notation plus 3 lines of tablature for the 5-string Banjo the 4-string tenor Banjo in standard tuning (CGDA) and for the Irish tenor Banjo in octave-mandolin tuning (GDAE low-to-high). Lyrics are not included in thisvolume.Can be played with either a flat pick or fingerstyle.The audio recording contains brilliant performances of all 27 pieces by Rob MacKillop a leading performer of historical Banjo music.Rob performs fingerstyle with the flesh of his fingertips on gut strings on a period-appropriate banjo in the old American tuning. This online recording is a treasure in itself.Tunes included: StPatrick's Day; Rocky Road To Dublin; Savourneen Deelish; McCormick Party Reel Sheridan's Hornpipe Connaught Man's Rambles and many others. Includes access to online audio.

One of Mel Bay's most popular videos is now on DVD. Same great songs with a clearer picture and better sound. If you donâ??t think you are a beginner but donâ??t know where to start we suggest Jam SessionsStandards.Familiar songs solid Scruggs arrangements with vamping included. All tunes explained note-by-note. A great place to start if you are trying to break away from tab. Includes: Roll in My Sweet Babyâ??sArms Salty Dog Mountain Dew Dueling Banjos Rocky Top. No Tab.