Beginning Bluegrass Banjo
$24.95
Best Seller! Two-hour video + tab. Months’ worth of learning, just $24.95. A step-by-step method based on 20 years teaching. Split-screen closeups, fast/slow repetitions make video learning best! You’ll learn basic left hand technique, standard right hand rolls, essential licks, elementary and intermediate arrangements , and more. Available as download/stream only.
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Bluegrass Banjo (Music Minus One)
Using a code to access online recordings, you can stream either of two full albums: The first album presents all 14 songs with just banjo in one stereo channel, and the rest of a 5-piece bluegrass band (with vocals) in the other. With your balance control, remove the banjo to play along – or raise its volume for closer study. On the second album the minus-banjo tracks are slowed down to moderate speed, mostly in the 102-120 beats/minute range, for easy playing along.
Performed by Country Cooking:
Pete Wernick, banjo
Russ Barenberg, guitar
Greg Root, mandolin
Kenny Kosek, fiddle
John Miller, bass
Joan (“Nondi”) Leonard (Wernick), vocals
The book you’ll be sent includes the code to stream the music, as well as the chords for all 14 standards (see list below) plus tab for solos. Great for practicing breaks, backup, timing! Solos are typical melody-based, standard content and licks. Typical choice of keys, including G, A, B, C, and E. Many applications for all players, beginning/advanced.
Songs Include:
Ballad of Jed Clampett
Foggy Mt. Breakdown
It’s In My Mind to Ramble
Salty Dog Blues
Dark Hollow
Late Last Night (Way Downtown)
Dueling Banjos
Mountain Dew
Lonesome Road Blues
Little Maggie
All the Good Times Are Past and Gone
Roll On Buddy
Sitting On Top of the World
Jesse James
Bluegrass Banjo
“A landmark!”
— Bluegrass Unlimited
“Highly recommended without reservation.”
— Banjo Newsletter
The “classic” from 1974 that started many professional players, with almost a quarter-million copies in print! A clear, complete course from the easiest chords, songs and beginning rolls to advanced licks and instrumentals. 143 pages with many photos, 43 tablatures. Includes access to online stereo recording with examples, standard licks, moderate-speed play-along songs with exact banjo parts as tabbed in the book, in easy, intermediate, and advanced versions.
Sections on:
- Creating solos
- Music theory
- Up-the-neck
- Playing with other people
- Melodic and single-string styles
- Double banjos
- Advanced rolls
- Learning from recordings
- Banjo construction and maintenance
- Most important recordings to study
- Slow playing
- Playing in different keys
- Non-G tunings
- Much more!
Bluegrass Banjo Backup
Two hours of the instruction you need to play backup! A step-by-step method based on 20 years teaching. Split-screen closeups, fast/slow repetitions make video learning best! “Packed with basic skills for students who crave to know what to play on on the banjo when not soloing.” Available as download/stream or DVD. Read More!