Alan Munde: Getting Into Bluegrass Banjo: Banjo: Instrumental Tutor

The Getting Into Bluegrass Banjo book and audio by Alan Munde is the accumulation of successful teaching concepts developed in his 40 plus years as a professional bluegrass musician and teacher.Munde presents a straight-forward and well-founded course of bluegrass Banjo essentials. Designed for those who have never played a stringed instrument to those taking up bluegrass Banjo as a second instrument. Access toonline audio available provided. Getting Started - Covers the parts of the Banjo hand positions first picking patterns pull-offs hammer-ons slides exercise songs ending with the professional sounding'Levelland Mountain Breakdown.' Review of Rolls New rolls and combinations of Rolls with Examples - Offers the most used rolls in bluegrass Banjo playing with often-played examples of each. The player learns many ofthe licks used in the style with an example of how to combine them to make a solo. Roll Logic - How to place a melody into the several different roll patterns. Tools and Techniques - Helps develop left handtechniques through the use of intervals of thirds and sixths. Creating Solos to Songs - At the heart of the book is this revealing section with many examples of how to create many many solos to the song 'JesseJames.' Songs - Put to use all you have learned on these great standards 'Ground Hog ' 'Wildwood Flower' (two versions) 'Nine Pound Hammer ' 'Worried Man Blues ' 'Lost All MyMoney ' 'Old Country Church ' 'Kneel at the Cross ' and 'Train 45.'