Introduction to Bluegrass Banjo

Introduction to Bluegrass Banjo

Author: Eddie Collins

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2016-02-18

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13: 1610658647

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This book is designed to aid the novice attempting to learn the 5-string banjo using 3-Finger Style, where the strings are picked by three fingers (thumb,indexand middle) of the right hand. Upon completing this volume, you will have learned how to combine left-hand notes with right-hand patterns so as to perform bluegrass style solos and back-up. You will also have the foundation needed to explore other styles of music, such as blues and jazz. No prior knowledge of music or any musical instrument is needed to learn from this method. Enough detail is given to allow the beginner to fully grasp each concept. In addition,exercises are designed to facilitate a gradual increase in the student's understanding and dexterity. When a new concept is presented for the righthand, the left hand performs previously learned tasks. Likewise, a new left-hand technique is demonstrated with familiar right-hand patterns. This instructionaltechnique is used throughout the text. Includes access to online audio


Bluegrass Banjo Basics

Bluegrass Banjo Basics

Author: Dennis Caplinger

Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 9780769285443

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Beginning with basic left- and right-hand techniques, Dennis Caplinger guides you through developing great backup parts and playing all over the neck. You'll learn the classic Scruggs style of picking along with the melodic style." Plus you'll study over 20 classic bluegrass standards, and you'll learn how to play them in several different styles. All books in the Ultimate Beginner Bluegrass Basics series are fully correlated to work together. This is the ideal method for the family that wants to play music together!"


How to Play the Five-String Banjo

How to Play the Five-String Banjo

Author: Pete Seeger

Publisher: Omnibus Press

Published: 1997-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780825600241

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This is the basic manual for banjo players at any level. Covers all the fundamentals of strumming, hammering-on, and pulling-off. Includes folk and traditional songs all with melody line, lyrics, and banjo accompaniment, and solos in standard notation and tablature.


Getting Into Bluegrass Banjo

Getting Into Bluegrass Banjo

Author: Alan Munde

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2016-01-28

Total Pages: 97

ISBN-13: 1610652304

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The Getting Into Bluegrass Banjo book and CD 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.


Bluegrass Banjo For Dummies

Bluegrass Banjo For Dummies

Author: Bill Evans

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2015-04-20

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1119004306

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Start picking the five-string banjo like a pro with this definitive guide to bluegrass banjo! Whether you’re an absolute beginner or an experienced player, Bluegrass Banjo For Dummies gets you started off the right way and is your road map for mastering today’s most popular traditional and contemporary banjo picking styles. Online audio and video clips combine with the book’s clear step-by-step instructions to provide the most complete – and fun - banjo instruction experience available anywhere! Bluegrass banjo has never been more popular and is heard today not only in country and folk music, but in jazz, rock and country styles. Bluegrass Banjo For Dummies provides everything you need to know to play just about any kind of music on the five-string banjo by getting you started with the roll patterns essential to Scruggs style picking. You’ll then add left-hand techniques such as slides, hammer-ons and pull-offs, play great sounding licks and perform classic tunes like “Cripple Creek” and “Old Joe Clark.” You’ll navigate up the neck on the instrument as well as learn the essential skills you need to play with others in jam sessions and in bands. You’ll even tackle contemporary banjo styles using melodic and single-string scales and picking techniques. Choose a banjo and accessories that are just right for you and your budget. Put on your fingerpicks, find your optimal hand position and start playing with the help of online audio and video. Explore the fingerboard using melodic and single-string playing styles. Accompany others in different keys with roll patterns and chord vamping techniques. Keep your banjo sounding its best with practical and easy set up tips. Bill Evans is one of the world’s most popular banjo players and teachers, with over forty years of professional experience. In Bluegrass Banjo For Dummies, he shares the tips, secrets and shortcuts that have helped thousands of musicians, including many of today’s top young professionals, to become great banjo players.


Progressive Banjo

Progressive Banjo

Author: Muzician.com

Publisher: LearnToPlayMusic.com

Published: 2023-03-24

Total Pages: 58

ISBN-13: 982532872X

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For beginner banjo players. Contains melody and chord playing, rolls, picking and strumming techniques as well as an introduction to more complex bluegrass playing.


Complete Bluegrass Banjo Player

Complete Bluegrass Banjo Player

Author: D.Wayne Goforth

Publisher: Oak Publications

Published: 1990-06-01

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 178323539X

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A complete banjo tuition programme which takes you from the beginning to advanced level. Easy to follow text and realistic demonstration photographs. Devised by one of America's foremost teachers of authentic 5 string bluegrass banjo.


Bluegrass Banjo for the Complete Ignoramus!

Bluegrass Banjo for the Complete Ignoramus!

Author: Wayne Erbsen

Publisher: Native Ground Books & Music

Published: 2014-05-26

Total Pages: 131

ISBN-13: 1883206677

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Beginning banjo lessons have never been more fun! Written for the absolute beginner, this FUN book is guaranteed to help you learn to play bluegrass banjo (How many books come with a personal guarantee by the author?). · Teaches the plain, naked melody to 23 easy bluegrass favorites without the rolls already incorporated into the tune. · Wayne shows simple ways to embellish each melody using easy rolls. · With Wayne’s unique method, you’ll learn to think for yourself! · Learn how to play a song in different ways, rather than memorizing ONE way. · Includes a link to download 99 instructional audio tracks off our website! You WILL learn to play: Bile ‘Em Cabbage Down, Blue Ridge Mountain Blues, Columbus Stockade Blues, Down the Road, Groundhog, Little Maggie, Long Journey Home, Lynchburg Town, Man of Constant Sorrow, My Home’s Across the Blue Ridge Mountains, Nine Pound Hammer, Palms of Victory, Pass Me Not, Poor Ellen Smith, Pretty Polly, Put My Little Shoes Away, Red River Valley, Roll in My Sweet Baby’s Arms, Shall We Gather at the River, Wabash Cannonball, When I Lay My Burden Down, When the Saints Go Marching In.


Banjo for the Young Beginner

Banjo for the Young Beginner

Author: ALAN MUNDE

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2011-01-04

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 1610653084

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Alan Munde is one of bluegrass music's most renowned banjo performers and educators. In addition to his awarding winning achievements as a professional recording and touring bluegrass musician, Mr. Munde spent twenty-one years as a member of the bluegrass faculty in the Commercial Music Program at South Plains College, Levelland, Texas. He draws on all his performing and teaching experience to present the most direct and understandable approach to the learning of the bluegrass banjo style.A step-by-step method brings the Young Beginner from a simple strum approach through easily doable picking techniques up to playing beautiful melodies like Wildwood Flower, Grandfather's Clock, and Worried Man Blues in the intricate bluegrass banjo three-finger roll style.