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Complete Bluegrass Banjo Method

Catalogue No: MLB93345M
£30.99
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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. The audio includes acoustic bass, acoustic guitar, and a rhythm track as well as the 5-string banjo. All songs and most exercises are included in this teaching recording, performedat a tempo that the student should be able to maintain in short order. Includes access to online audio.


CONTENTS

  • Part One
  • The Picks
  • About Part One
  • The Quickest Way to Learn
  • The Author
  • Music-Reading Section
  • Left-Hand Position
  • The Rudiments of Music
  • Right-Hand Position and Fingering
  • Other Musical Signs and Terms
  • Tuning the Banjo
  • Reading Tablature
  • Time Values of Notes and Rests
  • The Time Signature
  • Counting Time in Tablature
  • Counting Time
  • Playing Songs on the First, Second, and Fifth Strings
  • Bile 'Dem Cabbage Down
  • Merrily We Pick Along
  • Shoo Fly
  • Skip To My Lou
  • Playing a Song on the Second and Third Strings
  • French Song
  • Cripple Creek
  • Old MacDonald
  • I Wish I Was Single Again
  • Chord Background
  • The Chord Symbol
  • The Basic Chords
  • Down and Up Strumming
  • Pinching the Chords
  • The Bugle-Call Pinch
  • Melody and Pinch Chords Together
  • Good-Night Ladies
  • Bile 'Em Cabbage Down
  • Chromatics
  • Key Signatures
  • Yankee Doodle
  • Down in the Valley
  • Clementine
  • Counting Review
  • 3-Finger Picking Section
  • Counting Bluegrass Style
  • The Basic Rolls
  • Forward Rolls
  • Backward Rolls
  • Thumb-Alternating Rolls
  • Combination Rolls
  • Rolls on the D and D7 Chords
  • Daily Practice Patterns
  • Right-Hand Patterns
  • County Lineÿ
  • Frog Pond
  • Haystack
  • Fiesta
  • Backingÿ Up
  • Moving On
  • Big Dipper
  • The Basic Banjo Picking Effects
  • Fills and Endings
  • The Capo
  • Solo Section
  • Old Dan Tucker
  • I've Got Peace Like a River
  • Old TIme Religion
  • Hand Me Down My Walking Cane
  • Careless Love
  • When the Saints Go Marcking In
  • Lean on Jesus
  • This Train
  • Banks of the Ohio
  • The Yellow Rose of Texas
  • Pickin' On the Old Banjo
  • Li'L Liza Jane
  • The Lonesome Road
  • Mama Don't 'Low
  • She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain
  • Worried Man Blues
  • Red River Valley
  • The Banjo and Its Parts
  • Part Two
  • Chart of Banjo Tunings
  • Foreword
  • Chord Studies
  • Playing in the Higher Positions
  • Mixing the Major Chord Forms
  • The I, IV, and V Chords
  • Little Brown Jug - Pinch Style
  • The I, IV, V, I Progression
  • Other Movable Chord Forms
  • The Dominant Seventh Chord
  • The Diminished Seventh Chord
  • The Augmented Seventh Chord
  • Right-Hand Chord Background patterns
  • Blues & Boogie Back-Up Section
  • Blues Rock Back-Up
  • 5-String Boogie
  • Melodic Thirds and Sixths
  • Melodic Thirds and Sixths Mixed
  • Blues-Rock Chorus
  • "Melodic" or "Chromatic" Picking
  • Advanced Solo Song Section
  • Chord Diagrams for Solo Section
  • Circled Tab Numbers
  • The Choke
  • Chimes
  • Blue Mountain Train
  • Chime Time
  • Georgia Gallop
  • Pickin' Around
  • Wabash Cannonball
  • Bury Me Beneath the Willow
  • Wildwood Flower
  • Will the Circle Be Unbroken
  • Arkansas Traveler
  • Wreck of the Old 97
  • Nine Pound Hammer
  • Carry Me Back to Old Virginia
  • Banjo Blues
  • Bluegrass Joe
  • Mama Don't Low
  • Stockade Blues
  • Salty Dog
  • Catfish Creek
  • Grandfather's Clock
  • Frankie and Johnny
  • Bill Bailey
  • Hard and It's Hard
  • Old Time Religion
  • Bully Of the Town
  • Bicentennial Breakdown
  • John Henry
  • Lonedonberry Air
  • Under the Double Eagle
  • Nuegrass
  • St. Anne's Reel
  • Black Eyed Susie
  • John Hardy
  • Buffalo Gals
  • Endings
MLB93345M

Specifications

Composer
Neil Griffin
Arrangement
5-String Banjo
Product Format
Sheet Music/Online Audio
Genre
Method
ISBN
9780786689996 (0786689994)
Language
English
Pages
244