The Art of the Mountain Banjo (Book + Online Audio)
A complete survey of traditional banjo styles complete with tunings, playing tips, and the author's deft drawings. Progresses from easy tunes for the beginner to more difficult pieces. The styles include up-picking or Pete Seeger's basic strum; two-finger picking; three-finger picking; and what had variously been called frailing, clawhammer, knocking, rapping, overhand, fram-style, flayin' hand, and other Appalachian names, here called down-picking. Includes access to online audio.
Product Number:
96711M
Format:
Book + Online Audio
Skill Level:
Beginning-Intermediate
Pages:
96
Binding:
Squareback Saddle Stitched
Size:
8.75 x 11.75
ISBN:
0-7866-8900-5
ISBN13:
978-07866-8900-2
Publisher:
Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
Date Published:
5/29/2015
A complete survey of traditional banjo styles complete with tunings, playing tips, and the author's deft drawings. Progresses from easy tunes for the beginner to more difficult pieces. The styles include up-picking or Pete Seeger's basic strum; two-finger picking; three-finger picking; and what had variously been called frailing, clawhammer, knocking, rapping, overhand, fram-style, flayin' hand, and other Appalachian names, here called down-picking. Includes access to online audio.

Black-Eyed Susie 
Buck Creek Girls {Medley} (On Audio)        
Charming Molly Brannigan {G Medley} (Not On Audio)        
Cottage In The Grove
Country Blues                    Dock Boggs
Don't Let Your Deal Go Down (Medley) (On Audio)       Arr. By: Oren Jenkins
Dry And Dusty (Not On Audio)        
Goin' 'Cross The Sea (Not On Audio)        
Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad        
Got A Little Home To Go To (Not On Audio)        
Grey Eagle (Not On Audio)               Pete Steele
Grub Springs (Not On Audio)        
Had A Little Fight In Mexico (Not On Audio)       Arr. By: Jean Ritchie
Harlan County Farewell Tune {Medley} (On Audio)        
Hell On The Wabash {G Medley} (On Audio)        
In The Pines
John Brown's Dream
John Henry (Not On Audio)        
Kicking Mule
Liberty (Not On Audio)        
Little Birdie
Make Me A Pallet (Not On Audio)        
Mississippi Sawyer {D Medley} (On Audio)        
Muskrat (Not On Audio)        
Old Joe Clark
Old Molly Hare {D Medley} (On Audio)        
Old Ruben (Not On Audio)        
Rise When The Rooster Crows
Rocky Island
Sally Goodin (Not On Audio)        
Sandy River                         Oscar Wright
Seneca Square Dance {G Medley} (On Audio)        
Smoky Mountain Cass Moore's Tune (Not On Audio)       J.T. Adams
Soldier's Joy {D Medley} (On Audio)        
Spanish Fandango (Medley) (On Audio)       Arr. By: Oren Jenkins
Stony Point {Medley} (On Audio)        
Sweet Nora Lee                 J.T. Adams
Teetotaler's Fancy {G Medley} (Not On Audio)        
Tennessee Line Hard Times
Texas Rangers (Not On Audio)        
The Arkansas Traveler
The Green Beds     
Turkey In The Straw (Not On Audio)        
Waterbound (Not On Audio)      

 
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