Deluxe 2-CD Set-This album filled with some of the greatest banjo classics is designed to help musicians develop basic bluegrass techniques based on the styles of groups such as Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys Flatt and Scruggs the Foggy Mountain Boys the Stanley Brothers and the Clinch Mountain Boys. The banjo solos on the CD featuring such classics as The Ballad of Jed Clampett Salty Dog Blues and Jesse James are written out note-for-note in easy-to-follow tablature notation in the booklet enclosed with the album. You listen to the complete version with soloist then you step in as soloist with the great Country Cookin' bluegrass band featuring fiddle guitar mandolin bass andvocals! Performed by Peter Wemick banjo

Take your Banjo playing to the next level with this fantastic daily resource songbook by Michael Bremer which provides a year's worth of practice material with a two-week break. Banjo Aerobics is for players of all levels ? from beginner to advanced ? who will benefit from the lessons provided. The accompanying audio tracks feature demos for all the examples in the book to reinforce how the Banjo should sound. Teaches essential Banjo techniques using lots of musical styles to increase speed and accuracy and improve dexterity and coordination.

This insightful book is about sound perception and execution on the banjo. Its purpose is to shed light on simple auralconnections unique to this instrument including closed-position as well as open-string fingerings found throughout the entire fretboard. In notation and tablature. Includes access to online audio    

With Online Audio-This book and accompanying audio download include popular and lesser-known old-time tunes for the clawhammer banjo. This book is a followup to Dan Levenson's Old-Time Festival Tunes for Clawhammer Banjo (MB20313M) and includes62 more tunes of varying difficulty. Old favorites as well as new additions are presented including many time-tested standards. The material is presented in standard notation and basic/advanced tablature. Suggested chords arealso included to help you along the way. Fiddle players will enjoy the companion to this book Old-Time Favorites for Fiddle and Mandolin (MB30225BCD) which shares the same basic standard notation. Includes access to onlineaudio.

for 5-String Banjo-With More Easy Banjo Solos: 2nd Edition - For 5-String Banjo you can play 5-string Banjo arrangements of your favourite songs from Flatt & Scruggs Hank Williams Steve Martin Bill Monroe Carolina Chocolate Drops and more.This collection of 16 songs is presented in order of difficulty beginning with roll variations and ending with melodic style.Songs include Abilene Big Sandy River Cornbread and Butter Beans Foggy Mountain Breakdown I Am a Man of Contant Sorrow Jambalaya (On the Bayou) Words Unspoken and more.The price of this book includes online access to audio demo tracks of every song for download or streaming using the unique code inside the book.

The ultimate self-teaching method designed to offer quality instruction terrific songs and professional-quality backing tracks is now available for Banjo! This book and online audio pack can be used by students who want to teach themselves or by teachers for private or group instruction. Simply follow the tips and lessons in the book as you listen to the teacher on the audio. You'll learn all the basics: songs chords and melodies; pinching rolling and picking; playing tips and techniques; music notation; and much more! Learn at your own pace and open the door to the world of Banjo music! Over ninetygreat songs and examples with full-demo tracks.

For Banjo-A comprehensive repertoire book of Fiddle tunes adapted for Banjo in easy to read tablature by the renowned player and teacher of the 5-String Banjo Tony Trischka. For the early picker to the advanced player thisbook and its online audio will enable the player to learn by example and broaden their technical range. Fiddle tunes have been adapted for Banjo since the early 1850's. The explorations contained here include a largecollection of popular American Fiddle tunes and a section of Celtic tunes played in the three major Bluegrass Banjo styles. These Bluegrass Old Time and Celtic Banjo traditions will expand the players' knowledge of theinstrument and deepen their understanding of bluegrass and traditional music.The techniques employed will build the players technical prowess and broaden their enjoyment of playing. And the tunes both popular and lesserknown will add new variety to the next jam session! Tablature only.Repertoire of Fiddle tunes for the early to the advanced Banjo player.In easy to read tablature with downloadable onlineaudio.Expands the players' knowledge of Bluegrass Banjo styles and Banjo music.Builds playing skills and adds variety to their playing. Online Audio download available.

Bach's cello suites are among the most famous solo instrumental works of all time. The cello and the tenor banjo share the same tuning and banjo players might be surprised at how well this great music fits on the fretboard.Rob MacKillop has provided tablature for the first three suites. Here is a chance for tenor banjo players to explore Bach on their instrument which could be tuned to either regular CGDA or Irish tuning GDAE. Includes onlineaccompanying audio using three different tenor banjos: a regular tenor (Deering Eagle II) a gourd tenor (Jaybird Banjos) and a cello banjo (Gold Tone) which has the same low pitch as the cello.A 'suite' is acollection of dances of varying speeds and time signatures conceived to be performed as a whole and preceded by a prelude. Bach's Prelude to the 1st Suite is magnificent and justly famous. The Bourree from the 3rd Suite is alsovery popular. Enjoy playing Bach on the Tenor Banjo!

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.

Banjo Play-Along Volume 7-The Banjo Play-Along series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily. Just follow the Banjo tab listen to the audio to hear how the Banjo should sound and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The book includes access to audio tracks online for download or streaming featuring Playback a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down the audio without changing pitch set loop points change keys and pan left or right. This volume includes: Cryin' Holy unto the Lord How Great Thou Art I Saw the Light I'll Fly Away I'll Have a New Life Man in the Middle Turn Your Radio On Wicked Path of Sin.

Transcriptions from Buckley???s Banjo Guide of 1868-Early American Banjo?by Tim Twiss provides complete banjo tablature transcriptions of the instrumental solos that first appeared in standard notation in?Buckley?s Banjo Guide of 1868.?Thismodern tablature edition of over 100 mid-19th century jigs waltzes polkas hornpipes and reels provides insight to the transition between the African down-stroke technique which preceded claw-hammer style and the newer morerefined plucking technique. James Buckley (1803 ? 1872) sometimes referred to as the ?Father of the Classical Banjo ? was one of the most prolific transcribers of early banjo music. His compositions andarrangements were performed on the minstrel stage and his scholarly discipline produced a lasting record of banjo music of his era. This repertoire collection includes easy tunes as well as more complex pieces suited for theconcert stage. The player will delight in discovering how fresh and unusual some of this music sounds even today?all in modern banjo tab. While best experienced on a period reproduction gut-string fretless banjo ina lower tuning any 5-string banjo in C tuning (gCGBD) may be used to interpret this collection. Includes access to online audio.

With Online Audio-Gospel Songs For Banjo Made Easy is a collection of gospel favorites arranged for bluegrass 5-string Banjo. The arrangements stay true to the classic three-finger 'Scruggs style' techniques with the melody skillfullywoven in. On the 68-track downloadable online audio Nickerson plays each song at three speeds with a rhythm track for each song to practice along with. The tab is large and easy to read with accent marks for melody notes.Chord charts for each song are also provided to give instruction on how to play through the songs using only the chords Nickerson also writes out tips and suggestions for each song which is not normally seen in song books.This should give you a significant head start by having the most challenging spots pointed out to you before you even get started. In Gospel Songs For Banjo Made Easy. Ross Nickerson brings all his knowledge fromyears of teaching privately and writing books to help you learn these fun to pick classics the EASY way! Includes access to online audio.

With its wealth of information on how technique can be tastefully applied Back-Up Banjo is the definitive book on the subject of Banjo accompaniment. Since a Banjo player in a band plays accompaniment at least75% of the time it is extremely important to master playing in this style. Janet Davis offers specific suggestions for accompanying a vocalist or instrumentalist in a variety of styles-- and then provides musical examplesillustrating her points. Janet breaks her concepts down into their basic components making them crystal clear in lay terms. The various back-up techniques are separated into categories determined by song tempo by lead instrumentbeing accompanied and by the area of the fingerboard in which the chords are being played. In notation and tablature. Includes an extended play audio recording which demonstrates the examples in the book. Access to audioand video downloads available online which demonstrate the examples in the book.

Fred Cockerham and Tommy Jarrell's Clawhammer Banjo Masters is a collection of 23 Clawhammer Banjo solos written in tablature. The pieces are transcribed as played by FredCockerham and Tommy Jarrell by Bob Carlin. Also included are modern interpretations by Dan Levenson. This is the third book in a series of transcribed tunes from the old masters. Previous books are Kyle Creed -Clawhammer Banjo Master and Wade Ward - Clawhammer Banjo Master. Fred Cockerham and Tommy Jarrell both gave unique definition to the style of old-time Clawhammer Banjo playing. The repertoire presented intablature is intended to be a starting point for your journey through the old-time music world. Each piece is presented in multiple arrangements both on the page and in the online audio. Most of the recordings are played atlearning tempos and correspond to the tablature.

O'Carolan's best-loved Harp tunes are notated in a contemporary style that makes them accessible to all instrumentalists. This ideal collection with accompanying audio lays bare 20 classic Irish compositions for melody andbacking players using standard notation and chords. For all 5-string Banjo players fretting and picking-hand fingerings are included in the transcriptions which match the play-along tracks.This is Hanway's fourthcollection demonstrating Celtic fingerstyle Banjo in G tuning. It is part of a Celtic 5-string series that includes Mel Bay's Easy Irish and Celtic Tunes for 5-String Banjo: Best-Loved Jigs and Reels (2012) and Mel Bay's EasyIrish and Celtic Melodies for 5-String Banjo: Best-Loved Airs and Session Tunes (2013).Tom Hanway's pioneering work Mel Bay's Complete Book of Irish