Getting Into Bluegrass Banjo
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Getting Into Bluegrass Banjo

Catalogue No: MLB20803M
£18.99
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The Getting Into Bluegrass Banjo book and audio by Alan Munde is the accumulation of successful teaching concepts developed in his 40 plus years as a professional bluegrass musician and teacher. Munde presents a straight-forward and well-founded course of bluegrass banjo essentials. Designed for those who have never played a stringed instrument to those taking up bluegrass banjo as a second instrument. Includes access to online audio. Getting Started - Covers the parts of the banjo, hand positions, first picking patterns, pull-offs, hammer-ons, slides, exercise songs, ending with the professional sounding 'Levelland Mountain Breakdown.' Review of Rolls, New rolls, andcombinations of Rolls, with Examples - Offers the most used rolls in bluegrass banjo playing with often-played examples of each. The player learns many of the licks used in the style with an example of how to combine them to make a solo. Roll Logic - How to place a melody into the several different roll patterns. Tools and Techniques - Helps develop left hand techniques through the use of intervals of thirds and sixths.Creating Solos to Songs - At the heart of the book is this revealing section with many examples of how to create many, many solos to the song 'Jesse James.'Songs - Put to use all you have learned on these great standards 'Ground Hog,' 'Wildwood Flower' (two versions),'Nine Pound Hammer,' 'Worried Man Blues,' 'Lost All My Money,' 'Old Country Church,' 'Kneel at the Cross,' and 'Train 45.'


CONTENTS

  • Boil Them Cabbage Down
  • Bury Me Beneath The Willow
  • Cripple Creek
  • Cumberland Gap
  • Good Night Ladies
  • Grandfather's Clock
  • Ground Hog
  • Kneel At The Cross
  • Levelland Mountain Breakdown
  • Lost All My Money
  • Nine Pound Hammer
  • Old Country Church
  • Train 45
  • Wildwood Flower #1
  • Wildwood Flower #2
  • Worried Man Blues
MLB20803M

Specifications

Arrangement
5-String Banjo
Series
Getting Into (Mel Bay)
Product Format
Sheet Music/Online Audio
ISBN
9780786690916 (0786690917)
Language
English
Grade Of Difficulty
2
Pages
96