Expand your banjo knowledge with the Lesson Goldmine series! Featuring 100 individual modules covering a giant array of topics, each lesson in this volume includes detailed instruction with playing examples presented in banjo tablature. You'll also get extremely useful tips, chord and neck diagrams, photos and much more to reinforce your learning experience, plus access to over 500 audio tracks with performance demos of all the examples in the book! A huge variety of styles, techniques and concepts are covered, including: clawhammer style, Scruggs-style licks, playing backup, playing in different keys, tunings, using capos, constructing solos, creating harmony parts, achieving good tone, and much more.
Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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This complete guide to learning the tenor banjo was written by acclaimed author and musician Fred Sokolow. It features popular songs to teach you the basics of rhythm and lead playing in Dixieland, retro swing, and Irish music. It includes demonstration audio tracks for all the examples in the book. Songs include: Ain't She Sweet • Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home • Down by the Riverside • The Irish Washerwoman • Sweet Georgia Brown • When the Saints Go Marching In • Yes Sir, That's My Baby • and more.
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Traditional Appalachian banjo tunes in tablature based on the music of Wade Ward, Fred Cockerham, Henry Reed and others. With tunings and all basic right and left hand techniques: drop-thumbing, the Galax lick, pull-offs, slide & plucking.
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All it takes is the thumb and index finger! This book allows you to explore this traditional, often easier way of playing the banjo: the original two-finger style. It covers thumb lead, up-picking, frailing/clawhammer (stroke style), and drop-thumb variation techniques and is presented in various tunings with easy to read tablature plus accompanying chord symbols and diagrams with audio tracks online for download or streaming. Includes over 50 songs in the bluegrass, old-time, country, folk and gospel styles.
Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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Best-selling author Fred Sokolow teaches you how to play blues on the banjo with this instructional book and audio pack! You'll learn: how to play the blues in several banjo tunings; how to play in the styles of blues greats like Mississippi John Hurt, Lightnin' Hopkins, B.B. King, Skip James, and many more; licks, scales, chords, turnarounds and boogie backup; several approaches to soloing; how to ad lib blues licks and solos in any key; how to play the blues up and down the neck; and more. Includes these classic blues tunes: Ain't Nobody's Business • Careless Love • Frankie and Johnny • John Henry • The Midnight Special • Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out • See See Rider • St. James Infirmary Blues • St. Louis Blues • and more. Also includes chord grids, standard notation and tablature, audio tracks for all the songs, licks and exercises in the book, with banjo and vocals. The price of this book includes access to audio tracks online for download or streaming using the unique code inside the book!
Online audio is accessed at halleonard.com/mylibrary
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Newly updated and revised, this easy-to-use beginner's guide is a continuation of the banjo basics and techniques taught in Book 1. The material in Book 2 not only reinforces and strengthens Book 1 instruction, but also features many new songs, techniques and rolls to learn and play. Covers: right-hand rolls and patterns; playing back-up; melodic style banjo; fiddle tunes & reels; solos and licks; new hammers, pulls and slides; banjo chimes; scales & modes; using a capo; and more!
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With this comprehensive method, you get 25 songs in standard notation and tab, 77 recorded examples, and detailed info from banjo master Fred Sokolow on a host of other topics, including: the selection, care and feeding of your banjo; tuning; reading tablature; chords; three-finger rolls; backup licks; playing in any key; picking melody; special effects; different tunings; music theory; and many more. The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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A complete guide to the 3-finger bluegrass styles. Basic right-hand patterns through many advanced techniques are covered. Includes 45 tablature arrangements from elementary to advanced, plus information on how to buy a banjo, playing in groups, and an annotated discography. The Banjo Newsletter says this book is “highly recommended without reservation.” Songs include: Ballad of Jed Clampett • Banks of the Ohio • Devil's Dream • Little Maggie • Lonesome Road Blues • Rabbit in the Log • Six Mile Creek • Will the Circle Be Unbroken • Worried Man Blues • and many more.
Demonstration audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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Tony Trischka presents his groundbreaking guide to the melodic (chromatic) banjo style, made famous by the great Bill Keith. The technique allows the banjo player to create complex note-for-note renditions of bluegrass fiddle tunes, as well as ornamenting solos with melodic fragments and motives. Along with a full step-by-step guide to developing the skills of the melodic style, this book also features Bill Keith's personal explanation of how he developed his formidable technique, in his own words and music. It also includes 37 tunes in tablature, with a section of fiddle tunes. Interviews with the stars of the melodic style including Bobby Thompson, Eric Weissberg, Ben Eldridge and Alan Munde are also presented. The accompanying audio is accessed through Hal Leonard's popular MyLibrary system using the provided code. The audio can be streamed or downloaded and includes PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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Learn at your own pace and open the door to the world of banjo music with this beginner's book/online audio/DVD instruction pack! Play Today! is the ULTIMATE self-teaching method, designed to offer quality instruction and terrific songs. All you have to do is follow along with the tips, lessons and music provided as you listen to the audio or watch the DVD. The book features over 90 great songs with professional quality recordings. The DVD features on-screen banjo tablature so you can play all the music examples. This complete guide to the basics covers: songs, chords, and melodies • pinching, rolling, and picking • playing tips and techniques • music notation • and much more.
Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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Don't trust strangers on the internet with your musical dreams! The Do-It-Yourself series from Hal Leonard helps adults (and young adults) achieve their music-making dreams with carefully-curated instruction by trusted experts. Complete with audio demos and video instruction, these books provide you with easy-to-learn lessons to give you a solid foundation to start making music as soon as you'd like! Written with the use of well-known songs, you'll be making music while still learning to play!
Do-It-Yourself Banjo is a fun way to get started playing the banjo. Using well-known bluegrass tunes, you will be given step-by-step instructions on what you need to know to get started and sounding like a pro in no time. Includes audio tracks for demonstration and play-along, plus video instruction by banjo teacher Mike Schmidt.
Includes: banjo fundamentals; reading banjo tablature; right-hand rolls; left-hand techniques; chords & playing backup; melodic banjo; using a capo; tag licks and endings; banjo maintenance; demonstration and play-along audio tracks; video instruction and demonstration; and more.
The price of this book includes access to audio and video online, for download or streaming, using the unique code found inside. Includes PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right–available exclusively from Hal Leonard.
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Over 650 bluegrass, blues and jazz licks in Scruggs, single-string and melodic style. Use licks to create solos and play back up and expand your musical understanding and knowledge of the fingerboard. The licks of J.D. Crowe, Bela Fleck, Bill Keith, Alan Munde, Don Reno and Peter Wernick are featured.
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The Round Peak area of Surry County, North Carolina consists of a number of small communities which border Mt. Airy, NC. The Round Peak musical style is synonymous with the old time music pairing of the fiddle with the African-derived banjo and was considered to be the defining ensemble sound for community dance music as played by the holy trinity of the Round Peak banjo masters: Kyle Creed, Fred Cockerham, and Tommy Jarrell. As most of the Round Peak repertoire is played in the traditional fiddle keys of D Major and A Major, they are the keys that are used in the arrangements of some of the traditional Appalachian fiddle tunes that form its living tradition.
Includes a lengthy instructional introduction. Songs are presented in banjo tab.
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Learn to play scales on the banjo with this comprehensive yet easy-to-use book. The Banjo Scale Finder contains more than 1,300 scale diagrams for the most often-used scales and modes, including multiple patterns for each scale. Also includes a lesson on scale construction and a fingerboard chart of the banjo neck.
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Steve Martin's latest CD, Rare Bird Alert, has received raves from critics, fans and players alike. His 13 songs and sparkling banjo solos, in both clawhammer and three-finger picking styles, are whimsical and fun-filled, always beautifully crafted and superbly played. This new book features tablature and lyrics, and Steve has added brief instructions for playing each tune. Songs: Rare Bird Alert • Yellow-Backed Fly • Best Love • Northern Island • Go Away, Stop, Turn Around, Come Back • Jubilation Day • More Bad Weather on the Way • You • The Great Remember (For Nancy) • Women Like to Slow Dance • Hide Behind a Rock • Atheists Don't Have No Songs • King Tut.
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