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Now available with a helpful play-along CD, this great songbook for 5-string banjo pickers features 10 easy, 10 intermediate and 10 difficult arrangements of the most popular bluegrass banjo songs. This book/CD pack comes complete with a chord chart and includes tablature.

 

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The only chart showing the open and moveable chord positions. Explains the two main playing styles: bluegrass and clawhammer, and includes a fingerboard chart.

 

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Contents: Angels We Have Heard on High • Away in a Manger • The Cherry Tree Carol • Deck the Hall • The First Noel • Go, Tell It on the Mountain • God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen • Good King Wenceslas • Hark! the Herald Angels Sing • I Saw Three Ships • It Came upon the Midnight Clear • Jingle Bells • Jolly Old St. Nicholas • Joy to the World • O Christmas Tree • O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles) • O Little Town of Bethlehem • Silent Night • Up on the Housetop • We Three Kings of Orient Are • We Wish You a Merry Christmas • What Child Is This?

 

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On these six CDs, banjo master Béla Fleck teaches bluegrass, Celtic, ragtime and fiddle tunes as well as his 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. Twenty tunes are taught, including: East Virginia Blues • Snakes Alive • Reach • Christina's Jig • The Plain Brown Jug • Kitty's Wedding • Flexibility • Reverie • In the Pines • Wildwood Flower • White Freight Line • Eager and Anxious • Frosty Morning • Salty • Eighth of January • Blackberry Blossom • Lowdown • Flapperette • and more.

SIX CDs • INCLUDES TAB • LEVEL 4

Béla Fleck (Artist)
 

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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 such as: hand positions, chords, tunings, brush-thumb, single-string strokes, hammer-ons, pull-offs and slides. Songs include: Boatsman • Cripple Creek • Pretty Polly. Includes a transcription booklet. 60 min.

 

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25 songs, including: Blue Christmas • The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) • Feliz Navidad • Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer • and more.

Various Composers (Composer)
 

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Two dozen classics arranged especially for banjo in notes & tab: Away in a Manger • Carol of the Bells • Deck the Hall • Good King Wenceslas • Hark! The Herald Angels Sing • Jingle Bells • O Christmas Tree • O Holy Night • Silent Night • We Wish You a Merry Christmas • and more. Includes a banjo notation legend.

Various Composers (Composer)
 

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40 works from the Renaissance and Elizabethan period presented in chordal and a more linear manner. Includes an informative introduction about the origins of the music and playing style.

 

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A complete guide for beginning and advanced banjo players! From Ken Perlman, here is a brilliant teaching guide that is destined to become the handbook on how to play the banjo. The style is easy to learn, and 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. For the advanced player, there is instruction on more complicated picking, double thumbing, quick slides, fretted pull-offs, harmonics, improvisation, and more. The book includes more than 40 fun-to-play banjo tunes.

 

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These two 2-hour videos supplement Ken Perlman's Melodic Clawhammer Banjo, the handbook on how to play this purely American style. Leads you step-by-step to a thorough understanding of the banjo, teaching basic right-hand and left-hand positions, simple chords, and fundamental clawhammer techiniques, like the brush, the bumm-titty, strums, pull-offs, slides, and more. Progresses to more advanced techniques. 4 hours.

 

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This four-hour, two-DVD set is the companion to Perlman's bestselling book, which is the definitive guide to playing clawhammer banjo, the one purely American style on probably the one truly American instrument. Perlman leads you step by step to a thorough understanding of the style & instrument, basic hand positions, simple chords, and fundamental clawhammer techniques like the brush, bumm-titty strum, pull-offs, slides, and on to more advanced topics on DVD 2.

 

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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!

 

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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/CD version includes a CD with Earl Scruggs playing and explaining over 60 examples!

 

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A unique bluegrass/country supplement to the Hal Leonard Banjo Method Book 1 or any other beginning method. 16 songs, including: Before I Met You • Hey, Good Lookin' • I'll Fly Away • Rocky Top • This Land Is Your Land • Wabash Cannon Ball • and more.

Mac Robertson (Arranger)
Robbie Clement (Arranger)
 

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Features 15 spiritual favorites, each arranged in two different keys for banjo, with tablature. Includes: Amazing Grace • In the Sweet By and By • Just a Closer Walk with Thee • Old Time Religion • Swing Low, Sweet Chariot • Will the Circle Be Unbroken • and more!

 

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Authored by Mac Robertson, Robbie Clement & Will Schmid. This innovative method teaches 5-string, bluegrass style. The method consists of two instruction books and two cross-referenced supplement books that offer the beginner a 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. Includes a record for tuning and standard patterns.

 

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Authored by Mac Robertson, Robbie Clement & Will Schmid, this innovative method teaches 5-string, bluegrass style. The method consists of two instruction books and two cross-referenced supplement books that offer the beginner a carefully-paced and interest-keeping approach to the bluegrass style. Now available with CD! 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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Includes more solos and standard licks for melodic-style banjo; fiddle tunes; playing back-up; use of the capo; more music theory.

Mac Robertson (Arranger)
Robbie Clement (Arranger)
 

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Picking up where Beginning Clawhammer Banjo leaves off, this DVD begins with a review of brush thumbing and the single-string stroke, then moves into specialized techniques such as: drop- and double-thumbing, single-string brush thumb, chords in double “C” tuning, and more. Tunes include: Country Waltz • Green Willis • Little Billie Wilson • Magpie • The Meeting of the Waters • Old Joe Clark • and more! Includes a transcription booklet. 60 min.

 

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All your favorite Christmas songs arranged in Bluegrass style by Bob Cox and Ron Middlebrook. Each song is arranged for both easy and intermediate levels. Includes an explanation of tablature, first position chord chart, original songs, and much more.

Bob Cox (Arranger)
Ron Middlebrook (Arranger)
Various Composers (Composer)
 

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Ken Perlman, today's foremost player of the style, brings you this comprehensive guide to the melodic clawhammer. Over 50 tunes in clear tablature. Learn to play authentic versions of Appalachian fiddle tunes, string band tunes, New England hornpipes, Irish jigs, Scottish reels, and more. Includes arrangements by many important contemporary players, and chapters on basic and advanced techniques. Also features over 70 musical illustrations, plus historical notes, and period photos.

 

Joseph Weidlich (Artist)
 

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A bluegrass/country supplement to the Hal Leonard Banjo Method Book 2. 16 songs, including: Abilene • I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry • Jambalaya (On The Bayou) • and more.

Mac Robertson (Arranger)
Robbie Clement (Arranger)
 

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This is the second book in a 3-part series of intabulations of music for the minstrel (Civil War-era) banjo. This particular book of banjo music comes from Frank Converse's Banjo Instructor, Without a Master from 1865. It includes a choice collection of banjo solos, jigs, songs, reels, walk arounds, etc. in tab, progressively arranged and plainly explained, enabling the learner to become a proficient banjoist without the aid of a teacher.

 

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This stellar collection contains banjo tab arrangements of 12 bluegrass/folk songs from this Grammy-winning Album of the Year. Includes: Angel Band • The Big Rock Candy Mountain • Didn't Leave Nobody but the Baby • Down to the River to Pray • I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow • I Am Weary (Let Me Rest) • I'll Fly Away • In the Highways (I'll Be Somewhere Working for My Lord) • In the Jailhouse Now • Keep on the Sunny Side • and You Are My Sunshine, plus lyrics and a banjo notation legend.

Various Composers (Composer)
 

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This history of the banjo is a second edition of a publication originally published to coincide with a groundbreaking exhibition of the same name at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Museum. Includes information on the instrument's enduring popularity, the banjo makers of Boston, instruments from the exhibition, a glossary and bibliography of the banjo, and more.

 

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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 – Dixie Banner, Farewell My Home, Quaker Girl and Sounds like Bluegrass to Me – capturing his unique two- and three-finger playing techniques in the bluegrass style in standard notation and tab.

Tony Ellis (Artist)
 

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Published by popular demand, this long-awaited songbook contains exact transcriptions in banjo tablature that capture the unique playing style of Douglas Dillard. This fantastic collection includes all of his best-loved tunes, from the Andy Griffith Show, from his many great years of recording as the original Dillards, and from his solo banjo albums and his releases with The Doug Dillard Band. Features more than 20 tunes in G tuning, C tuning amd G modal tuning, including classics such as: Cripple Creek • Hickory Hollow • Jamboree • John Henry • Old Joe Clark • Buckin' Mule • and more. A must-have for all banjo players!

 

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With this comprehensive method, you get 25 songs in standard notation and tab, a CD with 77 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.

 

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Featuring more than 65 classic songs, this interesting book teaches how to play the minstrel banjo like players who were part of various popular troupes in 1865. The book includes: a short history of the banjo in the US in the antebellum period, including the origins of the minstrel show; info on the construction of minstrel banjos, evolution of the lower-pitched minstrel banjo tunings, and idiomatic techniques peculiar to the minstrel banjo; chapters on each of the seven major banjo methods published through the end of the Civil War; songs from each method in banjo tablature, many available first time; info on how to arrange songs for the minstrel banjo; a reference list of contemporary gut and nylon string gauges approximating historical banjo string tensions in common usage during the antebellum period (for those Civil War re-enactors who wish to achieve that old-time “minstrel banjo” sound); and an extensive cross-reference list of minstrel banjo song titles found in the major antebellum banjo methods.