Griffin, Neil - Complete Bluegrass Banjo Method
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Griffin, Neil - Complete Bluegrass Banjo Method

Catalogue No: MLB93345M
Arrangement5-String Banjo
ComposerNeil Griffin
Product FormatSheet Music/Online Audio
£30.99
Typically dispatched in 2-3 working days
LanguageEnglish
Pages244
ISBN9780786689996 (0786689994)

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

  1. The Picks
  2. Part One
  3. The Quickest Way to Learn
  4. About Part One
  5. Music-Reading Section
  6. The Author
  7. The Rudiments of Music
  8. Left-Hand Position
  9. Other Musical Signs and Terms
  10. Right-Hand Position and Fingering
  11. Tuning the Banjo
  12. Reading Tablature
  13. Time Values of Notes and Rests
  14. The Time Signature
  15. Counting Time in Tablature
  16. Counting Time
  17. Playing Songs on the First, Second, and Fifth Strings
  18. Bile 'Dem Cabbage Down
  19. Merrily We Pick Along
  20. Shoo Fly
  21. Skip To My Lou
  22. Playing a Song on the Second and Third Strings
  23. French Song
  24. Cripple Creek
  25. Old MacDonald
  26. I Wish I Was Single Again
  27. Chord Background
  28. The Chord Symbol
  29. The Basic Chords
  30. Down and Up Strumming
  31. Pinching the Chords
  32. The Bugle-Call Pinch
  33. Melody and Pinch Chords Together
  34. Good-Night Ladies
  35. Bile 'Em Cabbage Down
  36. Chromatics
  37. Key Signatures
  38. Yankee Doodle
  39. Down in the Valley
  40. Clementine
  41. Counting Review
  42. 3-Finger Picking Section
  43. Counting Bluegrass Style
  44. The Basic Rolls
  45. Forward Rolls
  46. Backward Rolls
  47. Thumb-Alternating Rolls
  48. Combination Rolls
  49. Rolls on the D and D7 Chords
  50. Daily Practice Patterns
  51. Right-Hand Patterns
  52. County Lineÿ
  53. Frog Pond
  54. Haystack
  55. Fiesta
  56. Backingÿ Up
  57. Moving On
  58. Big Dipper
  59. The Basic Banjo Picking Effects
  60. Fills and Endings
  61. The Capo
  62. Solo Section
  63. Old Dan Tucker
  64. I've Got Peace Like a River
  65. Old TIme Religion
  66. Hand Me Down My Walking Cane
  67. Careless Love
  68. When the Saints Go Marcking In
  69. Lean on Jesus
  70. This Train
  71. Banks of the Ohio
  72. The Yellow Rose of Texas
  73. Pickin' On the Old Banjo
  74. Li'L Liza Jane
  75. The Lonesome Road
  76. Mama Don't 'Low
  77. She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain
  78. Worried Man Blues
  79. Red River Valley
  80. The Banjo and Its Parts
  81. Part Two
  82. Chart of Banjo Tunings
  83. Foreword
  84. Chord Studies
  85. Playing in the Higher Positions
  86. Mixing the Major Chord Forms
  87. The I, IV, and V Chords
  88. Little Brown Jug - Pinch Style
  89. The I, IV, V, I Progression
  90. Other Movable Chord Forms
  91. The Dominant Seventh Chord
  92. The Diminished Seventh Chord
  93. The Augmented Seventh Chord
  94. Right-Hand Chord Background patterns
  95. Blues & Boogie Back-Up Section
  96. Blues Rock Back-Up
  97. 5-String Boogie
  98. Melodic Thirds and Sixths
  99. Melodic Thirds and Sixths Mixed
  100. Blues-Rock Chorus
  101. """Melodic"" or ""Chromatic"" Picking"
  102. Advanced Solo Song Section
  103. Chord Diagrams for Solo Section
  104. Circled Tab Numbers
  105. The Choke
  106. Chimes
  107. Blue Mountain Train
  108. Chime Time
  109. Georgia Gallop
  110. Pickin' Around
  111. Wabash Cannonball
  112. Bury Me Beneath the Willow
  113. Wildwood Flower
  114. Will the Circle Be Unbroken
  115. Arkansas Traveler
  116. Wreck of the Old 97
  117. Nine Pound Hammer
  118. Carry Me Back to Old Virginia
  119. Banjo Blues
  120. Bluegrass Joe
  121. Mama Don't Low
  122. Stockade Blues
  123. Salty Dog
  124. Catfish Creek
  125. Grandfather's Clock
  126. Frankie and Johnny
  127. Bill Bailey
  128. Hard and It's Hard
  129. Old Time Religion
  130. Bully Of the Town
  131. Bicentennial Breakdown
  132. John Henry
  133. Lonedonberry Air
  134. Under the Double Eagle
  135. Nuegrass
  136. St. Anne's Reel
  137. Black Eyed Susie
  138. John Hardy
  139. Buffalo Gals
  140. Endings
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