Bluegrass Banjo Tunes and Techniques - DVD

Par GRIFFIN NEIL. One of the very best G tuning five-string bluegrass banjo methods available! The book teaches how to pick out tunes single-string style (one note at a time), how to play chord accompaniment, and how to play solos in the full three-finger, bluegrass style. Topics include note and tab reading, chord background styles, traditional bluegrass techniques, fills and endings, use of the capo, rolls, slides, hammers, pull-offs, choking, harmonics, and up-the-neck playing. In notation and tablature. / Niveau : Tous Niveaux / Bluegrass - Methods / Tablatures / Banjo Tablatures à 5 Cordes

Start picking the five-string Banjo like a pro with this definitive guide to bluegrass Banjo. Whether you?re an absolute beginner or an experienced player Bluegrass Banjo For Dummies gets you started offthe right way and is your road map for mastering today?s most popular traditional and contemporary Banjo picking styles. Online audio and video clips combine with the book?s clear step-by-step instructions to providethe most complete ? and fun - Banjo instruction experience available anywhere! Bluegrass Banjo has never been more popular and is heard today not only in country and folk music but in jazz rock and country styles.Bluegrass Banjo For Dummies provides everything you need to know to play just about any kind of music on the five-string Banjo by getting you started with the roll patterns essential to Scruggs style picking.You?ll then add left-hand techniques such as slides hammer-ons and pull-offs play great sounding licks and perform classic tunes like ?Cripple Creek? and ?Old Joe Clark.? You?ll navigate upthe neck on the instrument as well as learn the essential skills you need to play with others in jam sessions and in bands. You?ll even tackle contemporary banjo styles using melodic and single-string scales and pickingtechniques. Choose a Banjo and accessories that are just right for you and your budget. Put on your fingerpicks find your optimal hand position and start playing with the help of online audio and video.Explore the fingerboard using melodic and single-string playing styles. Accompany others in different keys with roll patterns and chord vamping techniques. Keep your Banjo sounding its best with practical andeasy set up tips.

The Complete Bluegrass Banjo Method is one of the very best G tuning five-string bluegrass tutors available! The book teaches how to pick out tunes single-string style (one note at a time) how to play chordaccompaniment and how to play solos in the full three-finger bluegrass style. The accompanying audio includes Acoustic Bass Acoustic Guitar and a rhythm track as well as the 5-string Banjo. Other topics inthe method include note and tab reading chord background styles traditional bluegrass techniques fills and endings use of the capo rolls slides hammers pull-offs choking harmonics and up-the-neck playing. In notationand tablature.  All songs and most exercises are included in this teaching recording performed at a tempo that the student should be able to maintain in short order.

This Banjo instruction book is a complete progressive method for beginners. It offers a brief history of the Banjo a detailed description of the instrument its parts and accessories. It also explains how to tune your Banjo proper technique for the right and left hand musical theory and chords.Inside you will find many exercises and examples in tablature form with recordings on the accompanying CD. The second part provides 27 tunes intablature form including the famous 'Duelling Banjos'.

Here is the Forgotten Heritage: Great Banjo Music! Discover the birth of the American fingerstyle banjo in this collection of 28 of the finest tunes culled from banjo publications between 1860 and 1887. Learn amazing banjomusic by some of the early leading players James Buckley Albert Baur and the great Frank B. Converse the greatest virtuoso of his day. From folk-style dances to parlor dances such as the Polka Mazurka and Schottische toadvanced Romantic-period classical-style solos. Can be played on modern banjos or period-style instruments. The audio recording by Rob MacKillop features a gut-strung banjo and is played with the flesh of the fingertips in theold American tuning. For modern instrument players Rob has provided TAB and a Standard Notation stave at modern banjo pitch. Clawhammer players will find many of the pieces in the book suitable for their technique andbluegrass/fingerstyle players will be able to play all the pieces. Rob MacKillop provides a fascinating introductory essay placing the music in its historical context while his audio of performances can be viewed as astand-alone recording by a leading player in the revival of this great American banjo heritage. Includes access to online audio.

Par FLINT TOMMY. A collection of traditional and Southern mountain songs progressively arranged in flatpicking guitar style. Many tunes are shown as both lyric versions with guitar chords and as flatpicking guitar solos. Selections include: This Train - John Henry - Old Smokey - The Midnight Run - Deer Lick Creek - Kentucky Hoe-down - Bill Cheatham - and many more. Written in standard notation and tab. The author also offers lead guitar solo concepts for traditional tunes like: The Galway Piper, Liberty, Billy in the Low Ground, Leather Britches, and others. A short fingerstyle segment on 'How to Play Bluegrass Banjo Style on the Guitar' closes the book. Throughout, the author displays an intuitive awareness of various left and right-hand techniques and their imaginative application. With the enclosed companion CD containing all of the selections and exercises in the book, this outstanding Mel Bay Value Line book offers the beginning to intermediate bluegrass guitarist a significant value. / Niveau : Débutant à Intermédiaire / Bluegrass - Solos / Tablatures / Guitare Tablatures Flatpick et Plectre

Fiddle Tunes Crosspicking and Blues-Although originally regarded as a rhythm instrument the Guitar has developed a solo voice all of its own in the world of Bluegrass - a voice that is revealed by Scott Nygaard in this DVD tutorial. Tunes and solos traditionallyperformed on the fiddle have been adapted by a generation of guitarists as the basis for their own solos within the Bluegrass sound. The style is an organic mix of fiddle tunes banjo techniques such as crosspicking and theBlues.In this DVD renowned guitarist Scott Nygaard guides you through the old-time fiddle tune Little Billy Wilson a cross-picking arrangement of Home Sweet Home a melodic solo on the blues song Troublein Mind and shows you how to combine these influences when creating a solo on a bluegrass tune like East Virginia Blues. Crosspick fiddle and blues techniques are rigorously examined and explained giving you the bestpossible basis for developing your own Bluegrass solo sound.

Playing Banjo Backup in a Bluegrass Band-Bill Evans demonstrates effective banjo backup for 7 standard tunes showing the techniques in detail and also playing them with a band. A variety of keys styles and tempos are demonstrated in this 2 hour DVD with examples ofroll based backup vamping and two finger techniques. Both up and down the neck backup are shown and a tab booklet is included.