Bluegrass: Banjo: Instrumental Album

The Ultimate Banjo Songbook is packed with 26 classic Banjo songs arranged for 5-string Banjo. Includes standards from all genres including Bluegrass Jazz Ragtime Rock 'n' Roll Pop and Swing.Arranged by Janet Davis this book is designed for use by Banjo enthusiasts of all skill levels. By featuring multiple versions of each song the book provides valuable material for the beginner to advanced player. The package also includes 2 CDs that contain demos for listening and playing along.

Banjo Play-Along Volume 1-This volume of the Banjo Play-Along series features 8 traditional Bluegrass tunes all expertly arranged for Banjo in TAB notation.The Banjo Play-Along Series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily with incredible backing tracks to help you sound like a bona fide pro! Just follow the banjo tab listen to the demo track on the CD to hear how the banjo should sound and then play along with the separate backing tracks.The CD is playable on any CD player and also is enhanced so Mac and PC users can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing the pitch! Each Banjo Play-Along pack featureseight cream of the crop songs.

Easy to play five-string Banjo arrangements of twenty-four Children's favorites by Banjo master Ross Nickerson. Not only are these songs fun to play but from an instructional standpoint they are perfect for helping youdevelop the ability to bring out the melody in the bluegrass Banjo style.Accenting the melody within the steady rhythmic roll of Banjo playing is one of the biggest challenges facing Banjo students and these familiarmelodies are ideal for your development of that skill. Each song is arranged and performed using proper three-finger bluegrass technique. The arrangements are carefully designed to bring out the melody but easy enough for abeginner or intermediate player to learn quickly. 

If you are a banjo player whose enjoyment of music isn't limited to bluegrass and country you'll find this collection of tunes fun and sometimes challenging. Contains ragtime blues old-time jazz and bluegrass blues G tuning.Banjo tab. For five-string banjo.

O'Carolan's best-loved Harp tunes are notated in a contemporary style that makes them accessible to all instrumentalists. This ideal collection with accompanying audio lays bare 20 classic Irish compositions for melody andbacking players using standard notation and chords. For all 5-string Banjo players fretting and picking-hand fingerings are included in the transcriptions which match the play-along tracks.This is Hanway's fourthcollection demonstrating Celtic fingerstyle Banjo in G tuning. It is part of a Celtic 5-string series that includes Mel Bay's Easy Irish and Celtic Tunes for 5-String Banjo: Best-Loved Jigs and Reels (2012) and Mel Bay's EasyIrish and Celtic Melodies for 5-String Banjo: Best-Loved Airs and Session Tunes (2013).Tom Hanway's pioneering work Mel Bay's Complete Book of Irish and Celtic 5-String Banjo (1998) was acclaimed by BluegrassUnlimited magazine (1999) 'as 'the bible' for any 5-string player with an interest in this joyous music.' The current collection breathes life into the Gaelic classical melodies of Ireland. Access to online audio download.

3 Finger Pickin' Banjo Songbook. All of the arrangements in this book were especially prepared for the beginning bluegrass banjo student. Written in G tuning, melody and accompaniment tabs are shown for 51 banjo favorites! Lyrics are included with the melody tabs. Includes access to online audio for all the songs in the book in split-track format with banjo only track on right and the guitar only on the left.

20 Pieces Arranged for 5-String Banjo-Break out of the bluegrass mode and expand your horizons with this collection of 20 famous classical melodies arranged for three-finger style 5-string Banjo. Each piece is written in Banjo tab and includes rhythm notation chord symbols and right hand fingerings. Works include: Air on the G String (Bach) Ave Maria (Schubert) Ave Maria (Gounod) Canon in D (Pachelbel) Für Elise (Beethoven) In the Hall of the Mountain King (Grieg) Ode to Joy (Beethoven) Pomp and Circumstance (Elgar) Spring (Vivaldi) Theme from Swan Lake (Tchaikovsky) and more.

This fun and easy bluegrass banjo book and CD takes you from the very beginning. Beginning with an introduction to the instrument the book teaches you basic banjo technique such as three-finger rolls how to read banjo chordcharts playing back up and hand placement setting the foundation for the repertoire found in the book. Featuring classics such as 'Boil Them Cabbage Down' 'Cripple Creek' and 'Tom Dooley' this book will get you playing in notime! Music presented in tablature.