Description This handy book/CD pack will get you playing all over the banjo fretboard in any key! You'll learn to: increase your chord, scale and lick vocabulary; play chord-based licks, moveable major and blues scales, melodic scales and first-position major scales; and much more! The book features easy-to-follow diagrams and instructions for beginning, intermediate and advanced players, and the CD includes 51 demonstrations of the exercises.

The Banjo Chord Finder is an extensive reference guide to over 2 800 banjo chords covering four of the most commonly used tunings. Thirty different chord qualities are covered for each key and each chord quality is presented in two different voicings. Also includes a lesson on chord construction and a fingerboard chart of the banjo neck! Also available in a 9 inch. x 12 inch. edition

Media Type : Book/CD Set Level : Beginning Musical Genre : Bluegrass Series : Qwik Guide Series Number of pages : 32 This 51/2x 8 QWIKGUIDE book/CD set 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 Lang Syne; 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. Also available in Japanese from ATN, Inc.

Play Banjo Today! - Level 2 features: more songs chords and melodies; melodic single-string and chord-melody styles; playing tips and techniques; banjo tablature; and more with a 97-track CD. Learn at your own pace and open the door to the world of banjo music!Play Today! is the ultimate self-teaching series designed to offer quality instruction terrific songs and professional-quality demo tracks. This banjo method 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 CD.

Alan Munde is one of the finest players to ever pick up the five string banjo. From his early days with Jimmy Martin through his tenure with Country Gazette Alan has continually expanded the breadth of his vision. Drawn from aseries of recordings released on Slim Richey's Ridge Runner label in the early 1980's this compilation contains an incredible display of banjo musicianship. Each cut combines logic beauty and rhythmic propulsion. The tunessparkle with freshness as the old is made new. The tunes are presented in tablature only.

A massive collection of transcriptions representing the history of three-finger style five-string banjo playing up to the style?s culmination with Earl Scruggs coming on the scene. This is a one-of-a-kind resource containing 49transcriptions beginning with some of the style?s earliest forms up through those that approach the fully developed Scruggs style. These solos written in easy-to-read tablature are also a great source of beginner tointermediate level arrangements that players will want to learn. Players will gain a deeper understanding of the structure as well as the significance of the Scruggs Style of banjo playing. These note-for-note transcriptionsserve as a companion to the CD recording of the same title featuring such players as Snuffy Jenkins Larry Richardson Joe Stuart Smiley Hobbs Junie Scruggs Mike Seeger Eric Weissburg Pete Kuykendall Veronica (Roni) StonemanCox and more. These field recordings were made on location in the hills and hollers of the Appalachian region in the late 1950?s by Mike Seeter. Songs forty-nine in all includes favorites like ?Cripple Creek? ?Home SweetHome? ?John Henry? ?Liza Jane? ?Lonesome Road Blues? ?Sally Goodin? ?Turkey in the Straw ? ?Wildwood Flower? and many more. ?

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.

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.

This book presents an extremely comprehensive collection of 5-string and plectrum banjo chord forms for G and C tunings. Beginning with C and proceeding chromatically through B every possible inversion of every chord from basictriads to thirteenth chords are shown in easy to read diagrams. To aid in comprehension of chord construction every chord is shown in root position in standard notation. A general review of hand positions general technique bridge adjustments strings and use of the capo is provided in the last few pages. Illustrated with pencil drawings diagrams and photographs.

With this volume the reader is pleasantly surprised with two books in one- Section One by Alec Slater and Section Two by Lisa Schmitz. Alec's portion is intended as a guide for the clawhammer or frailing banjo player with someprevious experience in this style. He stresses the fact that this style of music can be fully learned only from within the oral tradition in which it grew. The instruction included here is meant to provide a review and not totake the place of qualified teacher. Alec recommends that '...anyone wanting to get this playing right should find someone in your area who plays and have him/her teach you. Listen to it watch it and make it your own.' InSection Two Lisa Schmits presents an extensive collection of 163 jigs reels polkas hornpipes strathspeys waltzes and songs from Ireland Scotland the Shetland Islands Cape Breton New England and Southern Appalachia forbanjo solo. The national origin of each tune is indicated. Lisa offers personal authoritative settings of a great variety of tunes at an intermediate level. Written in tablature only.

Finally! A chord book written for the young beginner (or even beginners of any age) showing a creative and simple way to learn and play banjo chords. Chords are taught beginning with the most essential to more advanced. Chords arepresented with exercises that build upon each other and eventually lead the student to playing logical and common chord progressions. Chords are shown in chord diagram form with photographs showing finger positions in relationshipto the fretboard. Examples and exercises are presented in strum bar notation. •

Media Type : Book Level : Beginning Musical Genre : Bluegrass Series : Easiest Number of pages : 24 A lively collection of songs for strumming, plus easy G-tuning solos for fingerpicking 5-string banjo. The solos are in tablature with both melody and solo parts and feature three-finger picking technique in the popular bluegrass style. Slide, hammer, and pull-off techniques are taught. A basic chart of banjo chords is also included.