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Banjo tabs and banjo books for less at PlayBetterBluegrass.com. Every banjo tablature and instruction book is discount priced and most ship the same day. Most banjo books are written in tablature, which is a visual approach to playing the banjo that tells you which strings to play and which fret to hold down, rather than indicating actual note names. Tablature can be used for any tuning. Right hand finger usage can also be indicated as well as techniques like slides, pull-offs, etc.

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Easy Beginner Banjo Chords
Easy Beginner Banjo Chords
Teach yourself banjo chords plus an introduction to tablature.
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All Star Bluegrass Jam Along For Banjo
All Star Bluegrass Jam Along For Banjo
These fabulous collections for players of all levels feature 21 must-know bluegrass songs & instrumentals, created especially for learning players by the genre's leading artists. The artist plays a basic solo that states the melody of the tune, then a more adventurous improvisation, and each solo is transcribed in detail.
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Intermediate and Advanced Banjo Books
Alan Munde Solo Banjo
Alan Munde Solo Banjo
Alan Munde has long been a major artist in the 5-string banjo world. Here for the first time, is the book/cd combination of Alan's unaccompanied playing from his popular Solo Banjo project. The book contains entire as- played-by versions with many variations of 12 bluegrass standards and 3 Munde originals including the popular Peaches and Cream in harmony!
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Steve Kaufman's 4-Hour BG Banjo Workout
Steve Kaufman's 4-Hour BG Banjo Workout
Here is a foolproof system for banjo pickers that will help build stamina, power and confidence. 49 classic bluegrass tunes played slowly, then up to speed. Rhythm on one channel and the solo banjo on the other FOUR CDs · INCLUDES CHORDS TAB BOOK · LEVEL ALL
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Fretboard Roadmaps 5-String Banjo
Fretboard Roadmaps 5-String Banjo
This handy book/CD pack will get you playing all over the banjo fretboard in any key! You'll learn to: increase your chord, scale and lick vocabulary; play chord-based licks, moveable major and blues scales, melodic scales and first-position major scales; and much more! The book features easy-to-follow diagrams and instructions for beginning, intermediate and advanced players, and the CD includes 51 demonstrations of the exercises.
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Hot Licks For Bluegrass Banjo
Hot Licks For Bluegrass Banjo
Over 650 bluegrass, blues, and jazz licks in Scruggs, single-string, and melodic styles. Learn to use licks to create solos, play back-up, expand your musical knowledge and understanding of the fingerboard. 144 pages.
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Bluegrass Banjo Picking Styles
Bluegrass Banjo Picking Styles
On these six CDs, Béla Fleck teaches bluegrass, Celtic, ragtime and fiddle tunes and original new grass solo banjo pieces. He starts with bluegrass basics and then moves into single-string techniques, moving bass lines, counter melodies, chromatics and scales in a variety of keys and tunings. SIX CDs · INCLUDES TAB · LEVEL 4
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Splitting the Licks
Splitting the Licks
Leads the banjo player step-by-step through working out songs for the five-string banjo from basic melodies in both Scruggs/bluegrass style and melodic/chromatic style. Each section contains exercises and examples for improvising. Janet Davis' books are praised because they teach so well! This is one of her finest.
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Up The Neck
Up The Neck
A superb instructional text for five-string banjo dealing with the 5th through the 22nd fret Chapters on roll patterns, chords, songs, licks, chord progressions, arranging songs, improvising, melodic style, chromatic style, chromatic style, back-up, and much more!
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Back Up Banjo
Back Up Banjo
Book and CD package. With its wealth of information on how technique can be tastefully applied, Back-Up Banjo is the definitive book on the subject of banjo accompaniment. The various back-up techniques are separated into categories.
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Banjo Scales in Tab
Banjo Scales in Tab
This book covers all of the major scales in depth as applied to the 5-string banjo, answering potential questions concerning the use of major scales for any level of player, beginning through advanced. Tablature only.
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Banjo Handbook
Banjo Handbook
Designed to give a quick explanation of the proper or most common method for playing the banjo in various situations. Sections include Banjo Set Up, Playing Basics, Chords, 3-Finger Picking, Up the Neck, The Melodic Style, Back-Up, Song Endings, and Playing in Any Key.
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Complete Book of Irish & Celtic 5-String Banjo
Complete Book of Irish & Celtic 5-String Banjo
An important anthology of Irish and Celtic solos for the 5-string banjo featuring a history, techniques, and etiquette of playing the banjo in the Celtic tradition. Includes segments on tuning, pick preferences, and tablature reading followed by 101 jigs, slides, polkas, slip jigs, reels, hornpipes, strathspeys, etc.
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Melodic Banjo
Melodic Banjo
A complete instruction guide to "Keith style" banjo technique. Over thirty tunes and songs by Bill Keith, Eric Weissberg, Alan Munde, Bobby Thompson, Vic Jordan and others. With interviews and personal descriptions of their playing styles. Now with CD!
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Banjo Personality Books
The Classic Douglas Dillard Songbook
The Classic Douglas Dillard Songbook
Published by popular demand, this long-awaited songbook contains exact transcriptions in banjo tablature that capture the unique playing style of Douglas Dillard. Includes all of his best-loved tunes. A must-have for all banjo players!
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The Tony Trischka Collection
The Tony Trischka Collection
This fantastic collection contains 59 authentic transciptions by Tony Trischka. Includes the songs: Blown Down Wall · China Grove · Crossville Breakdown · Heartlands · Hill Country · Kentucky Bullfight · A Robot Plane Flies over Arkansas · more.
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Tony Trischka Teaches 20 Easy Banjo Solo
Tony Trischka Teaches 20 Easy Banjo Solo
Strengthen your skills while building a repertoire of great bluegrass banjo pieces! Tony Trischka has personally chosen twenty traditional banjo solos that will teach you new ideas and add to your arsenal of licks and techniques. On the CD, Tony performs each tune slowly, then up to speed.
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Masters of the Five String Banjo
Masters of the Five String Banjo
By Tony Trischka and Pete Wernick Back in print! This 400+ page book includes interviews, transcriptions and other useful information on 68 important banjo pickers (Earl Scruggs, Don Reno, Bill Keith, Sonny Osborne, Bela Fleck and many more). Originally published in 1988, it has been in and out of print since that time. This valuable banjo resource is now available once again from AcuTab. Every banjo picker and serious student of the instrument should have a copy in their library!
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The Banjo Music of Tony Ellis
The Banjo Music of Tony Ellis
One of Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys in the 1960s, Tony Ellis is among the most renowned banjo players around. This superb book assembles songs from four highly acclaimed CDs – capturing his unique two - and three-finger playing techniques in the bluegrass style in standard notation and tab.
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Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
Bela Fleck's innovative blending of bluegrass, jazz and classical styles creates a unique style that's all his own. The songbook features 25 lead sheets from compositions spanning his career, including: Blu-Bop · Flight of the Cosmic Hippo · Life Without Elvis · Magic Fingers · UFO-TOFU · and more.
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JD Crowe Banjo Solos Volume 1
JD Crowe Banjo Solos Volume 1
Greg Davis teaches J.D. Crowe's most famous solos. On the CD, each tune is played at full speed with rhythm guitar accompaniment, followed by a phrase-by-phrase lesson with helpful hints.
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JD Crowe Banjo Solos Volume 2
JD Crowe Banjo Solos Volume 2
Greg Davis teaches J.D. Crowe's most famous solos. On the CD, each tune is played at full speed with rhythm guitar accompaniment, followed by a phrase-by-phrase lesson with helpful hints.
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Joe Mullins AcuTab Transcriptions Vol 1
Joe Mullins AcuTab Transcriptions Vol 1
This book presents precise tablature transcriptions for all of Joe Mullins' banjo solos and 8 selected backups from the Traditional Grass' albums 10th Anniversary Collection and Songs of Love and Life. Includes a bio sketch of the artist, performance notes on each song.
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Pete Wernick AcuTab Transcriptions Vol
Pete Wernick AcuTab Transcriptions Vol
AcuTab's complete tablature transcriptions of the banjo solo on Pete's hit album On a Roll plus 10 pages of bonus tabs from Hot Rize. Includes the artist's comments and performance notes on the tunes. Lyrics are included where appropriate.
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Scott Vestal AcuTab Transcriptions Vol 1
Scott Vestal AcuTab Transcriptions Vol 1
Complete tablature for the solos and selected backups from David Parmley, Scott Vestal and Continental Divide's debut album, Continental Divide, plus selections from Scott's solo album, In Pursuit of Happiness. The book also includes performance notes, fingerings, and Scott's comments.
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Terry Baucom AcuTab Transcriptions Vol
Terry Baucom AcuTab Transcriptions Vol
This special volume includes complete tablature for the banjo solos on the two hit recordings by Lou Reid, Terry Baucom and the bluegrass group, Carolina: 'Carolina Blue' and 'Carolina Moon.' Includes performance suggestions for each solo and Terry's comments and recollections about the songs.
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Clawhammer Banjo Books
Clawhammer Banjo
Clawhammer Banjo
Examines the clawhammer style banjo. Tunes are transcribed in tablature and based on the playing of Wade Ward, Fred Cockerham, Henry Reed, Frank George and others. Including tunings and all basic right and left techniques. Complete with an instructional CD.
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Celtic & New England Fiddle Tunes for Clawhammer Banjo
Celtic & New England Fiddle Tunes for Clawhammer Banjo
A compilation of favorite solos on Irish, Scottish and New England fiddle tunes arranged for banjo by one of America's foremost clawhammer banjoists, Ken Perlman. In notation and tablature.
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Melodic Clawhammer Banjo
Melodic Clawhammer Banjo
Ken Perlman, today's foremost player of the style, brings you this comprehensive guide to the melodic clawhammer. Over 50 tunes in clear tablature..
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Clawhammer Style Banjo
Clawhammer Style Banjo
A Complete Guide For Beginning And Advanced Banjo Players| Covers the instruction itself, basic right and left-hand positions, simple chords, and fundamental clawhammer techniques; the brush, the 'bumm-titty' strum, pull-offs, and slides & more.
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Buzzard Banjo - Clawhammer Style
Buzzard Banjo - Clawhammer Style
Provides the intermediate clawhammer (5-string) banjo player with a fresh repertoire of 21 traditional and 5 original tunes as played by the author with the Boiled Buzzards Old Time String Band. The book briefly addresses clawhammer basics with a few pages of exercises and scales before presenting the tunes.
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Frailing the 5 String Banjo
Frailing the 5 String Banjo
This highly acclaimed text presents a systematic method for playing the unique 'frailing' banjo style. 'Old-time mountain banjo' is taught with clarity and expertise. The compact disc is in split-track format, allowing the student to play along with the old-time string band or the frailing banjo parts.
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Grandpa Jones 5-String Banjo
Grandpa Jones 5-String Banjo
The text covers tunings, chord diagrams, and the right hand rhythm patterns that made Grandpa Jones famous. There are alternate tunings, drop thumb rhythm, and exercises for practicing your new skills.The preface and collection of personal photographs, makes this an excellent keepsake as well.
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Round Peak Style Clawhammer Banjo
Round Peak Style Clawhammer Banjo
This book presents more than 70 tunes in the unique highly developed clawhammer style known as 'Round Peak' -named after the Blue Ridge Mountain community where it originated. While not intended for the absolute beginner, this book will benefit players at various experience levels.
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Southern Mountain Banjo
Southern Mountain Banjo
This friendly book is filled with clawhammer banjo instruction, tablature, lyrics, tune histories, chords, playing tips, vintage photos, and more. Includes such classic old-time tunes as Soldier's Joy; Cluck Old Hen; Arkansas Traveler; Leather Britches; Mississippi Sawyer & many more.
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Southern Mountain Banjo (Book/CD)
Southern Mountain Banjo (Book/CD)
This friendly book and CD set is filled with clawhammer banjo instruction, tablature, lyrics, tune histories, chords, playing tips, vintage photos, and more. Includes such classic old-time tunes as Soldier's Joy; Cluck Old Hen; Arkansas Traveler; Leather Britches; Mississippi Sawyer & many more.
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The Art of the Mountain Banjo
The Art of the Mountain Banjo
A complete survey of traditional banjo styles complete with tunings, playing tips, and the author's deft drawings. Progresses from easy tunes for the beginner to more difficult pieces.
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Fishin' Creek Blues - 17 Clawhammer Banjo Tunes
Fishin' Creek Blues - 17 Clawhammer Banjo Tunes
This book presents clawhammer banjo tablatures from the recording Dick Kimmel - Fishin' Creek Blues . The tablatures have been transcribed by Dick directly from his playing on the recording. The book is intended for someone with experience playing clawhammer banjo from tablatures.
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