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 bluegrassstyle. Slide hammer and pull-off techniques are taught. A basic chart of banjo chords is also included.
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. …
This left-handed chord book includes pictures and diagrams for all of the basic chords for four-string or tenor banjo. Fingering photos and fretboard diagrams are presented for all of the major minor seventh diminished augmented and ninth chords. Major seventh minor seventh sixth minor sixth seventh augmented fifth and seventh diminished fifth chords are shown in diagram form only. The in…
Learn to play scales on the banjo with this comprehensive yet easy-to-use book. The Banjo Scale Finder contains more than 1 300 scale diagrams for the most often-used scales and modes including multiple patterns for each scale. Also includes a lesson on scale construction and a fingerboard chart of the banjo neck. This edition is in A5 format (6ins x 9ins) and contains all the same scales and dia…
Banjo Tab-22 favorites from the fab four arranged for 5-string Banjo in notes and tab including: All My Loving • Can't Buy Me Love • Come Together • Day Tripper • Eleanor Rigby • Here There and Everywhere • I Want to Hold Your Hand • Let It Be • Michelle • Paperback Writer • Penny Lane • Something • While My Guitar Gently Weeps • Yellow Submarine • Yesterday and more.
This 51/2x 8' 'Qwikguide' book/audio download 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 LangSyne; 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; Lit…
This book/CD pack provides beginning and intermediate banjo players with two versions of 18 of the most popular fiddle tunes heard at bluegrass jam sessions. The 'basic' solos generally begin on the first beat contain lots of quarter notes and use only simple rolls. The 'intermediate' solos use more 8th notes and complex roles and require more difficult formations of the left hand. Tunes includ…
Banjo Song Book. A thorough survey of three-finger picking classics of the early 1900s, transitional styles of the 1930s, and the Scruggs style of the 1940s and beyond. Includes over 75 bluegrass, old-time fiddle and classic tunes in tablature for 5-string banjo. Songs include: Bugle Call Rag · Cripple Creek · Cumberland Gap · Galway Hornpipe · Home Sweet Home · John Henry · Little Maggie · Maple …
2 Pieces Arranged for 5-String Banjo-The banjo shares many of the same sonic qualities as a harpsichord so although it's so closely associated with more homespun genres the instrument actually lends itself very well to classical music! The pieces in Bach for Banjo are in tablature only with chord symbols arranged at the beginning to intermediate level for five-string banjo players. As in classi…
A comprehensive 96-page pocket/case sized perfect-bound Banjo tune book with over 50 tunes. Songs include gospel bluegrass patriotic and popular tunes. Chord charts are included showing all chords needed to play these songs.Tunes shown in tablature only.
Old Time String Band Banjo Styles introduces the traditional rural string band Banjo styles as played in the southern mountains of the eastern United States which were used to ?second? Vocal songs and Fiddle tunes during the Golden Age of recorded String band music from the early 1920s through to the early 1930s.
A comprehensive 96-page large print perfect-bound banjo tune/solo book with over 50 tunes. Songs include gospel bluegrass patriotic and popular folk tunres. Chord charts are included showing all chords needed to play thesesongs. The tunes are shown in tablature only.
Complete with full lyrics and easy-to-read chord boxes this songbook allows Banjo players to pick and sing along to 30 of Dylan's greatest hits including All Along The Watchtower Blowin' In The Wind Like A Rolling Stone The Times They Are A-Changin' and more.
Stuff All The Pros Know & Use-Ready to take your Banjo playing up a notch? Renowned teacher Fred Sokolow presents valuable how-to insight from which Banjo players of all styles and levels can benefit. The text photos music diagrams and accompanying CD provide a terrific easy-to-use resource for a variety of topics including techniques ear training performance and much more.
Renowned instructor and Grammy nominee Bob Carlin is one of the best-known banjoists performing today. This book an update of his 1983 classic with the welcome addition of a CD teaches readers how to play 32 best-loved pieces from his first two solo recordings: Fiddle Tunes for Clawhammer Banjo and Where Did You Get That Hat?. Includes fantastic photos from throughout Bob's career.
Twenty-four Christmas songs arranged especially for Banjo by Jim Schustedt. Includes Away In A Manger The First Noel God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen Hark! the Herald Angels Sing Jingle Bells O Holy Night O Christmas Tree Silent Night We Wish You A Merry Christmas Up On the Houstop and It Came Upon The Midnight Clear. Presented in both TAB notation with the melody line printed alongside in st…
Kyle Creed Clawhammer Banjo Master is a collection of clawhammer banjo tablature as played by Kyle Creed, with modern interpretations by Bob Carlin and Dan Levenson. This book is the first in a series of transcriptions of tunes from the old mastersâ'in this case, Kyle Creedâ'who gave definition to our style of old time clawhammer banjo playing. The repertoire, presented in tablature, is intended t…
Art Rosenbaum is one of America's foremost performers and teachers of traditional five-string Banjo playing. He has a long-time interest in the myriad of old-time tunings that give breadth and richness to mountain andold-time Banjo picking and has learned first-hand from old-timers in the South and Midwest.Pete Seeger (whose pioneering book How to Play the Five-String Banjo gave Rosenbaum his sta…
Centerstream Publishing is proud to present Todd Taylor's incredible arrangements in notes & banjo tab of classics including: Dust in the Wind • El Cumbachero • Freebird • How Great Thou Art • I Can't Stop Loving You • Norwegian Wood • Rocket Man • Wayfaring Stranger • Yakety Sax • and more plus some of Todd's terrific originals. The book incl…
The distinctive sound of the 5-string Banjo is most usually associated with folk country and bluegrass music...but this instrument can sound at home in lots of popular genres.In this book you’ll find a superb collectionof 20 favourite songs all specially arranged to show off the adaptability of the Banjo.Ho Hey and Wagon Wheel are naturals but you’ll also enjoy just how well hits by Ed Sheer…
This book presents 31 of the most-loved old-time gospel songs arranged in the three-finger style complete with musical notation Banjo tablature chords and lyrics.Each song is presented first as a beginner-intermediatearrangement played in the first position in Scruggs style. Most songs are then presented in an up-the-neck arrangement.The audio download available online features five-string Ban…
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 fo…
Best-Loved Airs And Session Tunes-This album for 5-string Banjo contains 32 traditional airs and melodies from the British Isles including the folk favourites Danny Boy The Water is Wide (O Waly Waly) Whiskey in the Jar and The Skye BoatSong. Easy Irish And Celtic Melodies For 5-String Banjo demonstrates contemporary Celtic fingerstyle Banjo in G tuning using modern techniques. The tunes are …
This book and extensive online audio recording is intended to be a tune repertoire book. It includes over 100 Old-Time festival favourites. Some are cliche others unusual some easy some difficult.The book contains 2lines of tablature (one basic and one advanced) as well as standard notation and suggested chords. The basic version should be playable by those with general Clawhammer skills. The a…
This friendly book is filled with clawhammer banjo instruction tablature lyrics tune histories chords playing tips vintage photos and more. Includes such classid oldtime tunes as Soldier's Joy; Cluck Old Hen; ArkansasTraveler; Leather Britches; Mississippi Sawyer; Chicken Reel; Shady Grove; Red Rocking Chair; John Henry; Uncle Joe; Little Rosewood Casket; The State of Arkansas; Hogeye; The…
Hal Leonard Banjo Method-Easy Banjo Solos For 5-String Banjo contains arrangements for 16 well-known songs by artists such as The Beatles Hank Williams Flatt & Scruggs Woody Guthrie Merle Travis and more.The songs are presented in order of difficulty beginning with basic rolls and chords and ending with 16th notes and fret-hand techniques.This songbook includes the favourites Ashokan Farewell…
This 51/2x 8' 'Qwikguide' book/audio download 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 LangSyne; 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; Lit…
