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Traditional 5-String Banjo Book
Peter Flanagan
If you want to learn traditional music on the 5-string, this book by Peter Flanagan is for you. There's no extraneous confusing detail and the straight forward approach using tablature means you're playing something recognisable within minutes. Soundtrack available.
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£7.95 |
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Traditional 5-String Banjo CD
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Banjo Picking: A Complete Method CD Edition
Pete Pardee
Banjo Picking is the ultimate banjo method to develop tone, timing and rock solid rhythm for the picking hand, thorough in scope from the beginning level to the challenges of "extreme banjo". With lots of exercises, tunes, photos and helpful text, tools for learning bluegrass, classical, jazz, folk, urban classic fingerstyle or other music, no finger picking banjoist should be without it. The CD can equip banjoists with all they need to develop skills, repertoire and confidence.
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Mel Bay's Bluegrass Banjo
Sonny Osborne edited by Neil Griffin
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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£4.95 |
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Complete Bluegrass Banjo Method
Neil Griffin
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.
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Complete Bluegrass Banjo Method CD Edition
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£21.95 |
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First Lessons Banjo CD/DVD Edition
Jack Hatfield
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. The book features very detailed descriptions of even the most basic aspects such as wearing the picks properly, the correct picking motion, and noting the strings properly.
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£10.95 |
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You Can Teach Yourself Banjo
Janet Davis
This is the ideal beginner's book, presenting the basics of playing the 5-string banjo is a way that is both fun and produces quick results. Janet Davis takes you on an extensive tour of this instrument's fundamental techniques as well as some intermediate possibilities including rolls, chords, bluegrass banjo techniques, playing up the neck, licks, endings, and other basic information needed to play bluegrass and melodic-style banjo. Thorough performance notes are provided from beginning to end revealing the secrets of this versatile traditional instrument.
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£6.95 |
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You Can Teach Yourself Banjo CD/DVD Edition
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Clawhammer Banjo from Scratch CD Edition
Dan Levenson
This book teaches clawhammer banjo the way we play, not the way others say. It really begins as though you really have NO knowledge of how to play the five string banjo clawhammer style. Based on Dan's innovative Meet the Banjo™ program (where Dan brings 15 banjos and teaches players who may have never held a banjo), this book assumes no prior experience.
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£19.95 |
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Frailing the 5-String Banjo CD Edition
Eric Muller and Barbara Koehler
This is a book for genuine banjo lovers. Full of beautiful photos and hand-sketched tabs, 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. In tablature only. 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. It also includes Eric Muller's concise teaching.
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£16.95 |
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Grandpa Jones 5-String Banjo
Mark Jones
The instructions are helpful for the beginner, with tips on caring for your banjo to keep it sounding its best. The text covers tunings, chord diagrams, and the right hand rhythm patterns that made Grandpa Jones famous with the 5-string banjo. For the intermediate musician, there are alternate tunings, drop thumb rhythm, and exercises for practicing your new skills.
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£6.95 |
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American Banjo: Three-Finger and Scruggs Style
Steve Garner
A massive collection of transcriptions representing the history of three-finger style five-string banjo playing up to the style’s culmination with Earl Scruggs coming on the scene. This is a one-of-a-kind resource containing 49 transcriptions beginning with some of the style’s earliest forms up through those that approach the fully developed Scruggs style.
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Introduction to Bluegrass Banjo CD Edition
Eddie Collins
This book is designed to aid the novice attempting to learn the 5-string banjo using 3-Finger Style, where the strings are picked by three fingers (thumb, index and middle) of the right hand. Upon completing this volume, you will have learned how to combine left-hand notes with right-hand patterns so as to perform bluegrass style solos and back-up.
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£16.95 |
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Parking Lot Picker's Songbook - Banjo CD Edition
Dix Bruce and Bill Evans
A collection of over 225 great bluegrass, old time, country and gospel standards. Melodies are presented with standard notation and tablature along with lyrics and chords. Also included: step-by-step instruction on how to transpose any song to any key! The two CDs include recordings of every song in the book with Bill Evans on banjo and vocals, Dix Bruce on guitar, mandolin, and vocals.
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£21.95 |
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Hot Licks for Bluegrass Banjo
Tony Trischka
Over 650 bluegrass, blues and jazz licks in Scruggs, single string and melodic style. Learn to use licks to create solos, play back up and expand your musical understanding and knowledge of the fingerboard.
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£14.95 |
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The Complete Bluegrass Banjo Player with CD
D. Wayne Goforth
If you ever wanted to play real bluegrass, the way the professionals play it, this is the program for you. You need no knowledge of music to start. Even if you have never picked a note on a banjo, this enjoyable program will turn you into a first class bluegrass banjo player. Easy to follow text and realistic demonstration photographs.
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£19.95 |
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Instant 5 String Banjo
Fred Sokolov
Fred Sokolow takes you from the beginning and shows you, basic strums, useful chords, how to finger correctly, how to read tablature and much more. Also features various styles of banjo playing. Clear diagrams and superb photographs back up the easy to follow explanations. Twenty eight famous folk songs are also included for your enjoyment and a useful discography.
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Teach Yourself Bluegrass Banjo with CD
Tony Trischka
Teach youself authentic bluegrass. Clear instruction from a professional; basics, right and left hand techniques, solos, backup, personal advice on performance and much more. Plus a complete selection of the best bluegrass tunes and songs to learn from. Soundtrack included.
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£13.95 |
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Banjo Case Chord Book
Larry Sandberg
This book is organised so that all the information your likely to need at any one time is setout in front of you. This is because the chord diagrams are set out in families. Plus there are additional pages of odd and unusual chord shapes and extra pages on playing your banjo in a key other than which it is tuned. Finally a lengthy section on using a capo and adiusting the fifth string.
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How to Play the 5 String Banjo
Pete Seeger
A nice book which has been around a long time but still a good valid tutor. It contains just what I like to see in tuition books, lots of instruction. There's plenty music as well along with photographs and explanatory drawings. This outstanding book from Pete Seeger is an excellent read and is highly recommended.
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£12.95 |
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Melodic Banjo CD Edition
Tony Trischka
A complete instruction guide to "Keith Style" banjo technique. Over thirty tunes and songs by Bill Keith, Eric Weissberg, Alan Munde, Bobby Thompson and others. With interviews and personal descriptions of their playing styles.
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Banjo Method with CD
Mac Robertson Robbie Clement and Will Schmid
This Banjo Method teaches the 5 string bluegrass style using conventional music notation and banjo tablature. This threefinger style popularised by Earl Scruggs has recently brought the 150 year old American banjo to new prominence. A nicely presented book with familiar tunes and songs. Soundtrack included.
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Banjo Song Book
Tony Trischka
A collection of over seventy five bluegrass, old time fiddle and classical tunes in tablature for the 5 string banjo. Includes sections on Scruggs, Reno and melodic styles, interviews, tips on playing and more for the beginning to advanced player.
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Banjo Pickers Fakebook
David Brody
Contains over 230 jigs, reels, rags, hornpipes and breakdowns from all the major traditional instrumental styles. Special introductory material on regional styles, interpretation, and clawhammer and bluegrass techniques. Includes an extensive discography. Tunes are arranged specifically for the banjo and transcibed in tablature.
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Banjo Players Songbook
Tim Jumper
Over 200 songs from every style of music. The easy to play banjo tablature arrangements are perfect for beginners as well as for advanced players who want to create their own arrangements. The wide variety of selections makes this the perfect collection to take to any sing along, party, camp or church gathering, school assembly or festival.
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Clawhammer Banjo
Miles Krassen
Traditional Appalation banjo tunes transcribed in tablature and based on the playing of Wade Ward, Fred Cockerham, Henry Reed, Frank George and others. With tunings and all basic right and left hand techniques: drop thumbing, the "Galax Lick", pull-offs, slides and plucking.
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101 Three-Chord Songs for Guitar, Banjo, and Uke
Larry McCabe
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. The book is absolutely bursting with a great variety of music: Old-time, bluegrass, gospel, Christmas, children's tunes, Stephen Foster, British and Celtic, cowboy, blues, and more.
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Anyone Can Play Bluegrass Banjo DVD
Paul Hayman
This DVD is designed to teach the basics of bluegrass banjo playing to the beginning student who has no previous music experience. It includes a broad discussion of Scruggs-style banjo playing with a brief introduction to melodic-style playing. Bluegrass standards such as Cripple Creek, Lonesome Road Blues, Little Maggie, Bury Me Beneath the Willow, and many others are taught in the lessons.
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Essential Practice Techniques for Bluegrass Banjo DVD
Tony Trischka
Here's a lesson that's a must-have for bluegrass banjo players at all levels. This nuts-and-bolts practice session is designed to help players improve their timing, strengthen their hands and play with precision, power and rhythmic sophistication. It is filled with exercises, etudes and workouts covering many of the building blocks of bluegrass banjo.
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Bluegrass Banjo Tunes and Techniques DVD
Tony Trischka
A high-octane course in Scruggs-style banjo that will take your playing up to the next level with a host of terrific tunes and invaluable instruction. Learn some of the traditional instrumentals that form the essential repertoire for every aspiring picker. Discover the inner workings of each tune, and how to employ rolls, chokes, slides and inversions to achieve an authentic Bluegrass sound. You'll learn how to back up a soloist, use syncopation, improvise and overcome problems with speed and timing.
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Classic Bluegrass Banjo Solos DVD
Tony Trischka
Tony Trischka teaches 11 classic pieces, prime examples of banjo playing at its best. You'll learn them, note-for-note, just as they were played by some of the greatest players in the history of the instrument. By learning these tunes you'll not only expand your repertoire, but in the process will also become more flexible in your ability to mix up various rolls, play in several keys without a capo & move more freely around the neck.
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Beginning Bluegrass Banjo DVD
Pete Wernick
You may never have touched a banjo before, but Pete will have you picking right from the opening minutes of this user-friendly DVD. This is the perfect course for those who want to play three-finger style bluegrass banjo from scratch.
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Five-String Banjo for Beginners DVD
Happy Traum
With this clear, easy, hands-on lesson you'll be picking and singing along with Happy Traum within minutes. He starts with the basics -- the parts of the banjo, how to hold and tune it -- and quickly moves on to teach two-chord melodies to country and folk tunes in traditional banjo style. You'll learn right-hand picking patterns, hammer-ons, slides, pull-offs and other essential skills to use in hundreds of songs.
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Dressing Up Old Time Banjo Tunes CDR Video
Brooke Parkhurst
Brooke Parkhurst shares the skills needed to add flair and expression to your old time banjo solos in this video workshop for intermediate to advanced old time banjo players. From working with the rhythm of a tune to adding melodic accents Brooke offers solid instruction and friendly advice that will add flair and excitement you your old time banjo playing.
Songs Covered: Old Joe Clark, Cold Frosty Morning, Needle Case, Sugar Hill and more!
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Basic Bluegrass Banjo CDR Video
Ira Gitlin
Learn to play bluegrass banjo on your home computer with this amazing video workshop. Professional banjoist Ira Gitlin covers tuning, chords and a lot more in a series of easy to follow lessons. By the end of the project Ira will walk your though a jam session and help you create an arraignment of a popular tune. This is a great workshop for anyone who wants to get started on the five string banjo!
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Bluegrass Banjo CDR Video
Billy Lee Cox
At last! A video workshop that lays out the basics of three-finger style banjo in a clear and easy to understand system that gives you the freedom to find your own voice. From putting on your fingerpicks for the first time to finding every chord and note on the fretboard former National Banjo Champion Billy Lee Cox presents the five string banjo in a way that drives home the basics, the possibilities and the sheer joy of this wonderful instrument. This a great video for anyone who wants to get started on the five string banjo!
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Old Time Jam Session CDR Video
Hobo Pie
Join an old time string band in this exciting video workshop as Pennsylvania based old time string band Hobo Pie invites you to play along with them as they roll through more than twenty tunes. To keep things simple the session is broken into two parts. The first set of tunes is in the key of G. The second set is in the key of D. This makes it easy to get into the groove. The video is filled with great music, from the heart advice and lots of laughs. This is a wonderful introduction to old time jamming for any musician.
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