Complete Tenor Banjo Method

The finest tenor banjo method available, this text represents Mel Bay's own approach to fundamental musicianship on this versatile instrument. This book is the standard by which others are judged. Easy-to-understand and thorough in its approach, this method addresses both melody playing and chord strumming. Through numerous studies, folk songs and several duets, students are systematically introduced to the various notes and positions on the tenor banjo fretboard. Photos aid in learning proper hand and sitting positions. Once in two volumes, this method is now presented it its entirety in this single comprehensive edition, written in standard notation only. As the tuning of themandola is identical to that of the tenor banjo (CGDA), this method can serve as a note-reading approach for learning the mandola as well. Tenor banjo chord references can also serve for the mandola. As with the guitar, however, these instruments actually sound an octave lower than written in treble clef.

CONTENTS

• Dark Eyes
• A Duet In G Mazas
• A Visit To The Relatives
• Aloha-Oe
• Aunt Rhody
• Aura Lee
• Austrian Hymn
• Beautiful Dreamer
• Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair
• Careless Love
• Carry Me Back To Old Virginia
• Chanson Triste Tschaikowsky
• Cielito Lindo
• Colonial Waltz
• Country Gardens
• Creole Memories
• Double Trouble
• Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes
• Duet In B Major
• Duet In D Minor Mazas
• Folk Song
• Follow The Leader
• Greensleeves
• Happy Frets
• Hatik Voh
• How Can I Leave Thee
• Juanita
• Lazy Evening
• Long, Long Ago
• Maria
• Melody In F Rubenstein
• Minka
• Minuet In D
• On Wings Of Song Felix Mendelssohn
• Playtime Pleyel
• Prelude Opus 28 No. 20 Frederic Chopin
• Rhumba
• Romance Mazas
• Serenade
• She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
• Shenandoah
• Sparkling Stella
• Sultana
• Sweet Betsy From Pike
• Tarantelle
• The Banjo March
• The Blue Tail Fly
• The Old House
• The Speedway
• The Volga Boatman
• The Wayfarin' Stranger
• Third Avenue
• Tie Waltz
• Traumerei Robert Schumann
• Triplet Duet
• Waltz From The Poet And Peasant Overture
• Waltz In A-Flat J. Brahms
• Witchcraft
• Yankee Doodle