DVD Two: Intermediate-Bob Carlin explores the intricacies of old-time clawhammer banjo for players ready to move beyond the basics. He presents a variety of classic tunes and techniques each broken down in careful detail and enhanced by Bob's tried-and-true playing tips and advice.Bob kicks off the lesson with an analysis of drop-thumb applying this and other previously learned skills to the fam…

Written by Bill Evans an accomplished five-string Banjo player teacher writer and historian Banjo For Dummies features updated practice lessons with step-by-step examples and advice on the most helpfullearning techniques.An instrument traditionally associated with folk country and bluegrass music the Banjo has gained popularity in recent years. This complete guide makes the Banjo accessible …

This is a landmark instructional text on bluegrass banjo. Written by the legendary Sonny Osborne it presents the basics needed to successfully play bluegrass banjo (G tuning). A special bonus is the inclusion of seven favoritesongs for banjo solo. In notes and tab.

With Online Audio-Easy to play five-string Banjo arrangements of twelve Christmas favourites by Banjo master Ross Nickerson. Each song is arranged and performed using proper three-finger bluegrass technique. The arrangements arecarefully designed to bring out the melody but easy enough for a beginner or intermediate player to learn quickly. The tablature in the book is large and easy to read with…

First Lessons Tenor Banjo. The great sound of Tenor Banjo is a cornerstone of Dixieland and traditional jazz. Using classic favorites Joe Carr teaches the basics of accompaniment basic melody and thepopular chord melody style. Chords and melody are combined to produce professional sounding solo arrangements. This book with downloadable online audio and video combo includes play-along practice …

Lessons Licks Riffs Songs & More-Best selling author Fred Sokolow teaches you how to play blues on the Banjo with this instructional book and audio pack.Includes classic blues tunes like Ain't Nobody's Business Careless Love Frankie and Johnny and St. Louis Blues.

This chart shows essential chords and secondary minor chord relationships in all 12 keys for the tenor banjo in C-G-D-A tuning. The chords shown for each root note are major seventh minor diminished and augmented withrelative minor I IV and V7 chords al fingerboard with all the frets numbered and the corresponding notes shown in standard notation. This chart is also applicable to the tenor …

This collection for the 5-string Banjo features a selection of well-known traditional Irish tunes along with a comprehensive scholarly treatise on the history techniques and etiquette of playing the Banjo in the Celtictradition. The Complete Book Of Irish and Celtic 5-String Banjo includes segments on tuning pick preferences and tablature reading followed by 101 jigs slides polkas slip jig…

This is the ideal beginner's book presenting the basics of the 5-string Banjo in a way that is both fun and easy. Janet Davis takes you on an extensive tour of this instrument's fundamental techniques as wellas some intermediate possibilities including rolls chords bluegrass Banjo techniques playing up the neck licks endings and other basics needed to play bluegrass and melodic-style Banj…

Join Swiss banjo player extraordinaire Jens Kruger for an exciting journey into the art of five-string banjo. This outstanding lesson by a true virtuoso contains a wealth of ideas for players at all levels and will help you expand your musical knowledge build your technique and make your playing stand out from the crowd. Heklping to develop skills creativity and musicianship Jens passes on n…

With Online Audio-Banjo Picking is the ultimate Banjo method to develop tone timing and rock solid rhythm for the picking hand thorough in scope from the beginning level to the challenges of 'extreme Banjo'.With lots ofexercises tunes photos and helpful text tools for learning bluegrass classical jazz folk urban classic fingerstyle or other music no finger picking Banjoist should be with…

Repertoire and Technique-Beginning with the simplest of exercises internationally renowned Banjo player David Holt presentes the old-time clawhammer style. Holt covers basics such as single and double thumb rolls continous picking and many of the important nuances that characterise the Clawhammer sound. Along with tunings licks and slurs you will also learn a bunch of essential Clawhammer tun…

This picture/diagram chord book shows all of the basic chords for four-string or tenor banjo. For all of the major minor seventh diminished augmented and ninth chords there is a photo of the fingering on the banjo fretboardand a diagram. Major seventh minor seventh sixth minor sixth seventh augmented fifth and seventh diminished fifth chords are shown in diagram form only. The introducti…

Grab a private lesson with one of the true innovators of the five-string banjo Eddie Adcock and discover the secrets to his unmistakable Bluegrass style in this unique DVD tutorial.Adcock's style combines the traditional Scruggs-style bluegrass with country folk blues gospel and rockabilly sounds. Working with some of his most-requested instrumentals Adcock analyses licks and chord shapes fo…

This is a very popular beginner's text for 5-string Banjo. Written in C tuning it shows basic chords includes instructions for tuning and positioning and contains many fun songs with lyrics included for singing andstrumming. The audio is recorded in stereo play-along format and contains each song from the book along with tuning instructions. The video features Joe Carr teaching simple chords…