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.

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.

The First Jam series was created to give children and beginners of all ages a book of simple common tunes to learn. These are standard ???Jam??? tunes in the Bluegrass/Old Time music styles. All the books in this series are writtenin the same keys; they can all be played together without any problems. So get your friends or family who play guitar mandolin banjo ukulele dulcimer or Dobro together grab these books and start jamming. Improvisation Another idea behind writing the First Jam series was to provide a number of tunes that were easy to learn but that are also a great to begin working on improvising. Each books offer the melody for that particular instrument aswell as back-up chords for another instrument to accompany you. Each song is represented in Tab notation and chord symbols. The accompanying CD has two tracks for each song. The first playing the song with the melody line thesecond track offers just the backup so you can play the melody over it or even improvise. Tunes include: Cripple Creek Old Joe Clark Will the Circle Be Unbroken and many more.