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Complete Bluegrass Banjo Method
One of the very best G-tuning five-string bluegrass banjo methods available. Contents include 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 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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Deluxe Gospel Banjo Songbook
Thirty-three gospel favorites written in tablature for G-tuning banjo. Each song has a melody tab and an accompaniment tab.
Product# 93891
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Dobro Christmas Songbook
Featuring 28 well-known Christmas songs arranged for squareneck resonator guitar with chord symbols for an accompaniment instrument. Book contains chord diagrams for accompaniment guitar as well as common strum patterns to use for rhythm backup. All songs are arranged in standard notation and tablature for Dobro®.
Product# 21508
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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
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 Chords
Teach yourself banjo chords plus an introduction to tablature.
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Easy Fiddle Solos
This book of original pieces is intended to give the beginning fiddler an immediate grasp of the fundamentals of fiddling in an instructive yet enjoyable way. Melodies are shown with chord symbols for guitar, banjo, or piano accompaniment. A companion CD is included-all at a great price!
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Famous Banjo Pickin Tunes
This 51/2'x 8' QWIKGUIDE book/CD set presents 30 favorite folk tunes in tablature for the Scruggs- or melodic-style 5-string banjo in G tuning with suggested accompaniment chords.
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Festival Favorites for Five String Banjo
Festival Favorites is packed with great bluegrass standards arranged by Alan Munde and is sure to be a treat at any festival. Step-by-step explanations and accompanying tablature will have you playing Alan's outstanding arrangements of these bluegrass classics in no time!
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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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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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Getting Into Country Guitar
In this comprehensive study, Joe Carr presents all the major country guitar styles in tablature and standard music notation. Beginning with basic chords and strum patterns, this book/CD combination covers flatpicking, fingerpicking and the major country lead styles including Rockabilly, Swing and modern electric.
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Gospel Songs for Bluegrass Banjo
Gospel Songs for Bluegrass Banjo is a collection of classic songs of inspiration. Most songs have been arranged in two keys and in an optional advanced "up the neck" version, providing a terrific insight into how to arrange melodies for bluegrass-style banjo. Fred Sokolow provides demonstrations on the enclosed recording and each song is notated in easy-to-read tablature and standard notation with chord frames.
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Hal Leonard Banjo Method Book 1
This innovative method teaches 5-string, bluegrass style. Carefully-paced and interest-keeping approach to the bluegrass style. Covers easy chord strums for the beginner; learning tablature; right-hand rolls characteristic of bluegrass; techniques such as hammer-on, slide and pull-off.
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How To Play 5 String Banjo
A classic by Pete Seeger, this book is a 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.
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How To Play The Banjo
[The easy to follow lessons taught here will help you learn your way around the banjo quickly. Beginners of all ages can use this tablature book and note reading is not required. Songs include: Hand Me Down My Walking Cane, Cripple Creek, Careless Love, Amazing Grace and many more.
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How To Read Tablature for 5 String Banjo
If you have tried without success to learn banjo music from tablature, this video is for you! Beginning banjo players will also profit from this discussion of the basics of tab reading, focusing on how to count the rhythms. Two simple bluegrass banjo arrangements of well known songs are presented on the tape and printed material is included.
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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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Key to Five-String Banjo
This insightful book is about sound perception and execution on the banjo. Its purpose is to shed light on simple aural connections unique to this instrument, including closed-position as well as open-string fingerings found throughout the entire fretboard. In notation and tablature
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Knee Deep in Banjo
This collection presents exact tablature transcriptions for all of the banjo solos and selected banjo backups from the 2001 IBMA Instrumental Album of the Year, Knee Deep in Bluegrass—eleven pieces in all. Also includes quotes from the various artists.
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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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Old and In The Way Banjo Book/CD
Easy-to-follow lead sheet style arrangements of all the songs from this groundbreaking, historic recording. Plus, Jerry Garcia's classic banjo breaks have been transcribed in note-for-note tablature.
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Old Time Festival Tunes For Clawhammer Banjo
This book and two CD set is intended to be a tune repertoire book. It includes over 100 Old-Time festival favorites. Some are cliche’, others unusual, some easy, some difficult. The book contains 2 lines of tablature (one basic and one advanced) as well as standard notation and suggested chords. The basic version should be playable by those with general clawhammer skills. The advanced version will require more time and finesse as it is more ornamental (often more than just melodic) and may include less than intuitive ways of playing some passages.
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Old Time Gospel Banjo Solos
This book presents 31 of the most loved old-time gospel songs arranged in three-finger style, complete with musical notation, banjo tablature, chords, and lyrics. First position and up-the-neck arrangements. The CD is a solo recording, a teaching recording, and a play-along recording all rolled into one.
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