Description: A fun collection of 25 Disney favorites arranged for 5-string banjo, including: The Ballad of Davy Crockett • The Bare Necessities • Be Our Guest • Bella Notte (This Is the Night) • Cruella De Vil • It's a Small World • Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious • Under the Sea • You've Got a Friend in Me • Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah • and more.
Description: Tenor and plectrum banjos are key ingredients of Dixieland jazz music. The bright percussive chord strums and flashy tremolo picking glissandos help define the genre. In the 1920s, when Dixieland jazz was at its zenith, the four-string banjo was the fretted instrument of choice because it could easily be heard above the simultaneous improv of the band's clarinet, cornet, saxophone, and trombone frontline. (Electric guitars were not invented until a decade later.) The chord voicings in these expertly crafted arrangements were selected so that the melody notes were always within reach to enable the user to play chord/melody style if desired. The lead sheets consist of lyrics and two sets of chord diagrams – tenor and plectrum – positioned throughout the arrangements. This collection of 45 songs includes: Ain't Misbehavin' • Alexander's Ragtime Band • Basin Street Blues • Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home • Honeysuckle Rose • I Got Rhythm • Lazy River • St. Louis Blues • Sweet Georgia Brown • 'Way down Yonder in New Orleans • and more.
Description: This collection features 18 essential songs ideal for “dueling” banjos, each playing the song in a different style. The songs are arranged in tablature with online audio for bluegrass, old-timey and folk styles using standard rolls and multiple tunings. Songs include: Cripple Creek • Cotton-Eyed Joe • Distant Thunder • Groundhog • Old Joe Clark • Skip to My Lou • Tom Dooley • Will the Circle Be Unbroken • and more.
Description: 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. It includes everything you need to know to start playing banjo, including: a history of the 5-string banjo, getting acquainted with the banjo, Scruggs tuners, how to read music, chords, how to read tablature, right-hand rolls and left-hand techniques, tuning the banjo, exercises in picking, over 40 song tablatures, how to build a banjo, making Scruggs tuners, autobiographical notes, and much more!
Description: 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. It includes everything you need to know to start playing banjo, including: a history of the 5-string banjo, getting acquainted with the banjo, Scruggs tuners, how to read music, chords, how to read tablature, right-hand rolls and left-hand techniques, banjo tunings, exercises in picking, over 40 songs, how to build a banjo, autobiographical notes, and much more! The book/audio version includes recordings of Earl Scruggs playing and explaining over 60 examples!
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.
Description: Pete Seeger took an interest in playing the 5-string banjo when he was 16 years old after he heard it played at the 1935 Asheville Folk Festival in North Carolina. It wasn't long after, when he was able to have a short lesson with banjoist Bascom Lamar Lunsford, known as the Minstrel of the Appalachians, where Seeger learned the basics of what would become his basic strum. From then on, Seeger made it a point to seek out, listen to, and learn from any banjo players that he met in his travels, learning a number of different playing styles which he experimented with in backing up his vocals.
This book looks at the techniques he was using when he was a member of the Almanac Singers in 1941, seven years before the publication of his first banjo method. Join Pete Seeger as he was evolving his early playing technique through the mid-1950s at the dawn of the folk music era!
Description: Play 5-string banjo arrangements of your favorite songs from the Beatles, Hank Williams, Flatt & Scruggs, Woody Guthrie, Merle Travis and more in the updated second edition of this handy supplement to any banjo method. 16 arrangements are presented in order of difficulty, beginning with basic rolls and chords and ending with 16th notes and fret-hand techniques. Songs include: Ashokan Farewell • Ballad of Jed Clampett • Hey, Good Lookin' • I'll Fly Away • Mountain Dew • Nine Pound Hammer • Rocky Top • This Land Is Your Land • Will the Circle Be Unbroken • and more.
Description: Play 5-string banjo arrangements of your favorite songs from the Beatles, Hank Williams, Flatt & Scruggs, Woody Guthrie, Merle Travis and more! The songs are presented in order of difficulty, beginning with basic rolls and chords and ending with 16th notes and fret-hand techniques. Songs include: Ashokan Farewell • Black Diamond • Hey, Good Lookin' • I'll Fly Away • Nine Pound Hammer • Rocky Top • This Land Is Your Land • Wagon Wheel • and more.
Description: Easy Rock Banjo features songs that are inherently simple, with just a few chords. All the tunes are arranged for banjo from the actual guitar parts, simplified just enough to keep them fun and musically satisfying. Plus, in many cases we've included banjo roll patterns to add to the fun. Titles: As Tears Go By (The Rolling Stones) • Big Yellow Taxi (Joni Mitchell) • Casey Jones (Grateful Dead) • Gimme Some Lovin' (The Spencer Davis Group) • Gloria (Them) • Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) (Green Day) • A Horse with No Name (America) • Margaritaville (Jimmy Buffett) • Moondance (Van Morrison) • Peaceful Easy Feeling (Eagles) • Take It Easy (Eagles) • Take Me Home, Country Roads (John Denver).
