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101 Three-Chord Songs for Guitar, Banjo
101 Three-Chord Songs for Guitar, Banjo
You need only minimal playing skills and three chords--G, C, and D7--to accompany all the great songs in this innovative book. If you are just getting started, or if you are a 'casual' player on a chording instrument, this is the perfect book for you.
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A Banjo Christmas
A Banjo Christmas
Over 20 of your favorite Christmas songs written for the banjo. A supplement to the Hal Leonard Banjo Method.
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Absolute Beginners Banjo
Absolute Beginners Banjo
The Absolute Beginners approach has been designed to make learning the banjo easier than ever before! Step-by-step pictures take you from first day exercises to playing your first complete songs. By Bill Evans.
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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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Banjo According to John Hartford - 2 DVD Set
Banjo According to John Hartford - 2 DVD Set
The late John Hartford was the extraordinary fiddle and banjo man who danced, played and sang to delighted audiences at festivals and concerts around the nation and the world. A thoughtful and knowledgeable musician, John imparts a treasure-trove of ideas and techniques, and banjo arrangements to some of his most requested songs, including the classic hit "Gentle on My Mind."
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Banjo According to John Hartford DVD 1
Banjo According to John Hartford DVD 1
The late John Hartford was the extraordinary fiddle and banjo man who danced, played and sang to delighted audiences at festivals and concerts around the nation and the world. A thoughtful and knowledgeable musician, John imparts a treasure-trove of ideas and techniques, and banjo arrangements to some of his most requested songs, including the classic hit "Gentle on My Mind."
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Banjo According to John Hartford DVD 2
Banjo According to John Hartford DVD 2
The late John Hartford was the extraordinary fiddle and banjo man who danced, played and sang to delighted audiences at festivals and concerts around the nation and the world. A thoughtful and knowledgeable musician, John imparts a treasure-trove of ideas and techniques, and banjo arrangements to some of his most requested songs, including the classic hit "Gentle on My Mind."
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Banjo For Beginners
Banjo For Beginners
This book teaches everything you need to know to get started playing the banjo. Beginning with tablature reading and basic technique, you'll be guided all the way to reading music and playing great bluegrass classics like Bile That Cabbage Down, Old Joe Clark and Cluck Old Hen.
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Banjo For Dummies
Banjo For Dummies
Banjo For Dummies is the latest book in our line of successful Dummies music titles. It will cover the basics on playing, from picking and strumming techniques to various banjo playing styles (from classic banjo technique to jazz theory). It will include finger patterns, chord positions, chord scales, single string technique, claw hammer picking and strumming, fingerboard charts, and more.
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Banjo Jam Tracks
Banjo Jam Tracks
The Banjo Primer Jam CDs play rhythm to all of the songs in the Banjo Primer at 5 different speeds. This companion product to the Banjo Primer is the perfect way to increase your playing speed, improve your timing and make that critical leap between practice and actually jamming with friends.
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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 Songs For Beginners
Banjo Songs For Beginners
Banjo Songs for Beginners Book(PDF on CD)/DVD/CD set includes fourteen must know banjo classics demonstrated in split screen video at three speeds. The book has easy to read tablature with accent marks for melody notes and both right and left hand fingerings indications. Download now from PlayBetterBluegrass.com!
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Basic Dulcimer Solos
Basic Dulcimer Solos
This book introduces simplified techniques of chording and fingerpicking for both smaller and larger hands and presents dozens of songs in the Ionian, Aeolian, and Mixolydian modes. Directional arrows are shown for correct strumming, along with lyrics and chords for guitar or banjo accompaniment.
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Beginning Clawhammer Banjo DVD
Beginning Clawhammer Banjo DVD
Ken Perlman is one of the most celebrated clawhammer banjo stylists performing today. In this new DVD, he teaches how to play this exciting style, with ample close-ups and clear explanations of techniques.
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Best Of The Flatt and Scruggs TV Show Vol 2
Best Of The Flatt and Scruggs TV Show Vol 2
The Best of the Flatt and Scruggs TV Show series contains the best musical performances from a long lost TV showtaped in the 1950s and 1960s. Never available before, this footage features Flatt and Scruggs in their prime with their group the Foggy Mountain Boys playing many of their most famous songs as well as many other bluegrass classicsFlatt and Scruggs are one of the most popular bluegrass bands of all time.
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Bluegrass Banjo
Bluegrass Banjo
Thirty-five songs offering a complete exploration of bluegrass music. Including music theory, tips on performance, bluegrass ensemble playing, backup playing, and a wealth of banjo lore. For beginners and advanced players.
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Bluegrass Banjo Method
Bluegrass Banjo Method
This is a landmark instructional text on bluegrass banjo. Written by the legendary Sonny Osborne, it presents the basics needed to successfully play bluegrass banjo (G tuning). A special bonus is the inclusion of seven favorite songs for banjo solo. In notes and tab.
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Bluegrass Country Guitar Jamming
Bluegrass Country Guitar Jamming
New! Sit in and jam with a top notch bluegrass band. The definitive fun, practice and playing tool for all guitarists. Includes a full-length DVD, and two bonus CDs. The CDs include 13 songs, each recorded twice - once with a guitar solo, and once without (so that you can solo yourself over the backing tracks.) Notes on each song - including the key, to help center your improvisation - are included in the booklet.
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Bluegrass Guitar
Bluegrass Guitar
A collection of traditional and Southern mountain songs progressively arranged in flatpicking guitar style. Many tunes are shown as both lyric versions with guitar chords and as flatpicking guitar solos.
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Bluegrass Jam Session
Bluegrass Jam Session
Get in shape and ready for the next jam session or bluegrass festival with this new practice tape. Joe Carr and Alan Munde, along with the band, perform 15 songs for you to practice with and they explain each instrument's role in each song as well as provide tabulature for selected solos and backup parts as played on the banjo, mandolin, fiddle, guitar, and bass.
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Bluegrass Jam Session
Bluegrass Jam Session
Get in shape and ready for the next jam session or bluegrass festival with this new practice tape. Joe Carr and Alan Munde, along with the band, perform 15 songs for you to practice with and they explain each instrument's role in each song as well as provide tabulature for selected solos and backup parts as played on the banjo, mandolin, fiddle, guitar, and bass.
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Bluegrass Jamming DVD
Bluegrass Jamming DVD
Pete Wernick has the perfect solution for novice bluegrass players who want to start jamming, or for any picker wanting to build experience and confidence. He has created a video jam session so that players of any level can play along with some experienced musicians and get ready for the real thing.
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Bluegrass Practice Session
Bluegrass Practice Session
Here are solid back-ups to ten popular bluegrass instrumentals, recorded to provide practice for the lead fiddler, banjo picker, mandolinist or guitarist. Bill Keith, Happy Traum, Larry Campbell and Molly Mason play each tune several times through in both slowed-down and up-to-tempo versions.
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Branching Out on Bluegrass Banjo - 2 DVDs
Branching Out on Bluegrass Banjo - 2 DVDs
Complete two-DVD series. Hundreds of building blocks to create licks, back-ups and solos. Learn dozens of left-hand chord groups, versatile right-hand rolls, classic up-the-neck licks and variations, rhythm patterns and chord vamping for back-up, movable chord positions and other techniques. 2 DVD's. 200 MINUTES TOTAL! Download now from PlayBetterBluegrass.com !
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Branching Out On Bluegrass Banjo - DVD 2
Branching Out On Bluegrass Banjo - DVD 2
The 'big tree of licks,' chord progressions, ascending and descending runs, back-ups, modulations, , improvising ideas, favorite Scruggs and Reno-style runs and licks, breaks in C, D and F, picking out melodies, creating bluegrass solos and more! 90-MINUTE DVD INCLUDES TAB LEVEL 2/3/4. Download now from PlayBetterBluegrass.com !
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Christmas Songs for 5-String Banjo
Christmas Songs for 5-String Banjo
Well-known composer, performer, bluegrass and five-string banjo specialist Janet Davis has arranged this fantastic book of Christmas songs for five-string banjo. Selections include material for various levels of ability and offer wide cross- section of songs for the holiday season. In tablature.
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Classic Bluegrass Banjo Solos
Classic Bluegrass Banjo Solos
Tony Trischka teaches bluegrass banjo solos in the styles of some of the world's greatest players: Earl Scruggs, Don Reno, Ralph Stanley, Bill Emerson, Bill Keith, Doug Dillard and others. Tony performs each piece and then breaks down the essentials. 60-MIN. DVD OR VHS · INTERMEDIATE LEVEL.
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Complete 5 String Banjo Player
Complete 5 String Banjo Player
Tony Trischka's Complete 5-String Banjo Player sets the standard for DVD bluegrass banjo instruction. A renowned recording artist and banjo teacher, Tony Trischka covers everything from holding the banjo correctly to melodic banjo style and the standard bluegrass repertoire. This definitive guide to learning authentic bluegrass banjo technique includes music examples, techniques, and songs
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Complete Bluegrass Banjo Method
Complete Bluegrass Banjo Method
One of the very best five-string bluegrass banjo methods available. Includes note reading, tablature, chord background styles, three finger picking, rolls, licks, runs, fills, and endings, use of the capo, easy solos, and advanced up-the-neck solos in three-finger style! CD is a stereo play-along recording.
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Complete Bluegrass Banjo Method
Complete Bluegrass Banjo Method
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, performed at a tempo that the student should be able to maintain in short order. Includes access to online audio.

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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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Designing Guitar Solos For Bluegrass Songs
Designing Guitar Solos For Bluegrass Songs
It shows you how to mold a simple Bluegrass melody into a fancy, tasteful, driving guitar solo, a solo that sounds like the true melody of the song while being hot at the same time. Chris Jones analyzes & teaches 10 songs on these 2 one-hour CDs.
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Earl Scruggs and the Five String Banjo
Earl Scruggs and the Five String Banjo
The best-selling banjo method in the world! Earl Scruggs's legendary method has helped thousands of banjo players get their start. The Revised and Enhanced Edition features more songs, updated lessons, and many other improvements.
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Easiest Banjo Book
Easiest Banjo Book
A lively collection of songs for strumming and easy solos for 5-string banjo. Solos are in tablature with both melody and solo parts and feature three-finger picking technique. Slide, hammer, and pull-off techniques are taught. A basic chart of banjo chords is also included.
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Easy Beginner Banjo Instruction DVD
Easy Beginner Banjo Instruction DVD
This 30 minute introduction to the banjo is loaded with easy to understand basics needed by every beginning banjo student of any age. This easy beginner banjo DVD is just the tool you need to be playing songs soon!
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Favorite Gospel Tunes for Banjo
Favorite Gospel Tunes for Banjo
Alan Munde, one of the most respected contemporary banjo players, couples his deep understanding of the banjo with 17 of America's best loved gospel songs. Ranging from the driving sound of bluegrass banjo to the rich chordal harmonies unique to his playing, these arrangements bring out the fullness and sparkle of these great old songs.
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First Lessons Banjo
First Lessons Banjo
First Lessons on Banjo is an ultra-easy instruction manual for beginning five-string banjo played in the three finger style in G tuning. It can be used by those with no previous experience with the banjo or music of any sort. It is so basic it can be used even by small children.
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Five String Banjo For Beginners
Five String Banjo For Beginners
Clear, easy, hands-on lessons. Happy teaches a wide variety of country and folk tunes in traditional banjo style. Learn right-hand picking patterns, hammer-ons, slides and pull-offs, and more. 90-MIN. DVD � INCLUDES MUSIC TAB � LEVEL 1 Download now from PlayBetterBluegrass.com!
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Flatpicking Banjo Tunes
Flatpicking Banjo Tunes
Master instructor and flatpicking great Steve Kaufman breaks down fifteen of the most-played banjo-driven songs, showing step-by-step how to build a powerful flatpick solo. 100-MIN DVD - INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB - EARLY INTERMEDIATE LEVEL AVAILABLE ONLY THROUGH DIGITAL DOWNLOADS Download now from PlayBetterBluegrass.com!
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Fun with the Banjo
Fun with the Banjo
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