Complete Bluegrass Banjo Method
Catalogue No: MLB93345M
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