Bluegrass Classics

SKU: HL.400504

ISBN 9781596156371. UPC: 077712344012. 9x12 inches.

This book, 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 and the Foggy Mountain Boys, the Stanley Brothers and the Clinch Mountain Boys. The banjo solos, 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 book. You listen to the complete version with soloist, then you step in as soloist with the great Country Cooking bluegrass band, featuring fiddle, guitar, mandolin, bass and vocals! Also includes basic techniques and pointers. Performed by Peter Wernick, banjo Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK , a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.

SKU: MB.30561

ISBN 9780786697816. 8.75 x 11.75 inches.

Fiddling Classics contains 14 arrangements of classic fiddle tunes from Texas, cowboy and Western Swing music traditions, written in an exciting twin/triple fiddle style. The series includes three books for different instrumentation. This book is: MB30562 Fiddling Classics for Solo and Ensemble: Cello/Bass(Includes cello/bass melody and harmony parts). The others are: MB30560 Fiddling Classics for Solo and Ensemble: Violins 1 and 2(Includes 2 violin parts). MB30561 Fiddling Classics for Solo and Ensemble: Viola, Violin 3 and Score(Includes parts for viola melody, harmony, third violin and a full score). Each book includes piano accompaniment with guitar chords. All three work together, providing readers with material for all possible combination of instruments; solo instrument with piano or guitar, duets, trios, string quartets and much more.