Product Number:
30494M
Format:
Book + Online Video
Skill Level:
Multiple Levels
Notation Type:
Tab
Pages:
112
Binding:
Squareback Saddle Stitched
Size:
8.75 x 11.75
ISBN:
0-7866-8919-6
ISBN13:
978-07866-8919-4
Publisher:
Grossman's Guitar Workshop
Date Published:
12/13/2023
Art Rosenbaum is one of America's foremost performers and teachers of traditional five-string banjo playing. He has a long-time interest in the myriad old-time tunings that give breadth and richness to mountain and old-time banjo picking and has learned first-hand from old-timers in the South and Midwest. Pete Seeger (whose pioneering book How to Play the Five-String Banjo gave Art his start in the 1950s) praised the inclusion of 23 tunings in Art's 1968 Oak Publications book Old-Time Mountain Banjo. The present book and online video doubles (plus one!) that number of tunings. Art groups the tunings into "families" and shows how they can be used, with various picking styles, in playing banjo tunes and string band music and in song accompaniment. Experienced players will broaden their knowledge of unusual and interesting tunings and styles, and novice players can get started with "common" tunings for easy pieces like "Cripple Creek" and "Shout Lulu"-the first tunes many old-timers learned. Includes access to online video.
Once I Had an Old Banjo
G TUNINGS (with A variations)
Open G tuning
Sourwood Mountain
Bile Them Cabbage Down
Little Maggie
Cripple Creek
Chilly Winds
Old Joe Clark
Open A tuning
June Apple
Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down (back in open G)
Low Bass G tuning
Bury Me Beneath the Willow
Cannonball Blues
Low Bass A tuning
John Browns Dream
Willie Moore tuning
Willie Moore
Hiram Hubbard tuning
Hiram Hubbard
Lady Gay tuning
Lady Gay
Old Banjo tuning
On Top of Old Smokey
The Rambling Boy
Train on the Island tuning
Train on the Island
Brighter Day tuning
Happy Land
Got a Little Home to Go To
E MINOR TUNING
Red Rocking Chair tuning
Red Rocking Chair
MINOR TUNINGS
G minor or Katy Cruel tuning
Katy Cruel
John Hardy (
G minor variant tuning
John Hardy
Open E minor Satan tuning
Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down
SAWMILL OR MOUNTAIN MINOR/DORIAN MODE TUNINGS
Sawmill tuning
Shady Grove
The Cuckoo
Walking Boss
Twin Sisters tuning
Twin Sisters
Shady Grove tuning
Shady Grove (Sugar Betty Ann)
Shady Grove
Old White Hat tuning
Hand Me Down My Old White Hat (White Oak Mountain)
F TUNINGS (AND G VARIANTS)
F tuning
Frankie Was a Good Girl (I)
Rambling Hobo
F tuning variant
Bowling Green
Katy Hill tuning (F tuning raised to play in G)
Katy Hill
Buckin’ Mule
F for G variant
Bile Them Cabbage Down (II)
C TUNINGS AND (VARIANTS FOR G and D)
Standard C, or Greenback tuning
Minstrel tuning (for G)
Little Boy, Who Made Your Britches
Skip to My Lou
Greenback
Jordan is a Hard Road to Travel
Arkansas Traveler
Which Side Are You On?
Double C Shout Lulu tuning
Shout, Lulu
I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground
D tuning (variant of Double C)
Five Miles Outside of Town on an Old Grey Mare
Soldiers Joy
Over the Waterfall
Half Shaved tuning
Sally Ann
Heavy-Loaded Freight Train tuning
Heavy-Loaded Freight Train
Open C tuning
Way Down the Old Plank Road
Spanish Fandango (I)
Darlin Corey tuning
Darlin Corey
Little Birdie tuning
Variant Little Birdie tuning
Little Birdie
Guitar tuning
Whoa, Mule
Railroad Bill
The Tom Watson Tune
D TUNINGS
Open D tuning
Graveyard
Old Ruben
Coal Creek March
Lonesome Road Blues
Variant Open D tuning
Long Steel Rail (In the Pines)
Low Bass Open D tuning
On Top of Old Smokey
If I Lose My Money, Let Me Lose
Boats Up the River tuning
Boats Up the River
Little Black Train tuning
Little Black Train
Pretty Polly
Hustling Gamblers (Country Blues) tuning
Hustling Gamblers (Country Blues)
DEAD tuning
Frankie Was a Good Girl (II)
The Rolling Mill is Burning Down
Cumberland Gap tuning
Cumberland Gap
Liza Jane
Alternate D Little Birdie tuning
Little Birdie (II)
Muskrat
FOUR MORE TUNINGS
Sandy River Belle tuning
Mulberry Gap
Sandy River Belle
Sandy River Belle tuning in G
Last Chance tuning
Last Chance
Cuba tuning
Want to Go to Cuba But I Cant Go Now
Long Steel Rail tuning
Nine Hundred Miles from My Home
CONCLUSION
Spanish Fandango (II)
Smokey Mountain Cass Moore’s Tune
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