Phil Rice's 1858 Method for the Banjo (eBook + Online Audio)
Transcribed in Tablature for the Modern Banjoist
This book is considered the first in-depth method book ever published for learning to play the 5-string banjo. First appearing in 1858, Phil Rice’s 1858 Method for the Banjo was written in standard notation in the tuning (eAEG#B). Kyle Gray Young has meticulously transcribed 64 solos from the original keys and notation to clear, easy-to-read tablature in modern C tuning; 15 of these solos also appear in G tuning. Since the intervals between strings are the same in ...more
Product Number:
31038MEB
Format:
eBook + Online Audio
Skill Level:
Beginning
Notation Type:
Tab
Pages:
108
Binding:
eBook
ISBN:
1-5134-7395-6
ISBN13:
978-15134-7395-6
Publisher:
Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
Date Published:
4/18/2024
This book is considered the first in-depth method book ever published for learning to play the 5-string banjo. First appearing in 1858, Phil Rice’s 1858 Method for the Banjo was written in standard notation in the tuning (eAEG#B). Kyle Gray Young has meticulously transcribed 64 solos from the original keys and notation to clear, easy-to-read tablature in modern C tuning; 15 of these solos also appear in G tuning. Since the intervals between strings are the same in the C or A tunings, these tablature editions are also playable on replica banjos in the 19th-century tuning.

In addition to its 64 solos, this Mel Bay edition features a complete transcription of the original step-by-step method on how to play stroke-style banjo as it was presented in 1858, but again—in modern tablature with online audio. 

Some of these wonderful melodies haven’t been heard since the Civil War era. It’s time to bring them back to life!

Introduction

Exercises & Lessons.

Juba, a Jig Dance

Where Did You Come From?

Do Mr. Boker Do

Hurrah for Hard Times

Green Corn

Rattlesnake Jig or Hoop De Dooden Doo

Jump into the Wagon

Oh, Come Along John

Buckley’s Banjo Jig

To the Other Side of Jordan

Hear Him, Johnny, Hear Him!

Oh, Sally Is the Gal for Me

Rob Ridley

Root Hog or Die

Down in Alabama

Gettin’ Up Stairs

Picayune Butler’s Comin’ to Town

Bobbin’ Around

White Cat or Black Cat

Hannah, Hannah, Where You Going?

I’m Off for Nicaragua

Machine Poetry

United States, It Is the Place

Oh, the Law Gals

Oh, What’s the Matter Suse Ann?

Somebody’s In the House with Dinah

So Glad Dinah Left Me

Don’t Mind Steven

The Ole Grey Goose

Oh, Jenny Get Your Hoe Cake Done

Darling Nelly Gray

Oh, Ladies All!

That’s So and You’d Better Believe It

Sandy Boy

Hi! Ho! The Charleston Gals

Go Away, Jenny

Get Away, Gumbo, Sound Your Horn

Where’s That Man?

Sam Johnson’s Reel

Devil’s Dream

What’s Going On?

Phil Rice’s Excelsior Jig

Come Shine Out, Peggy

Whoop Jamboree

Oh John, Did You Ever See My Daughter Sally?

The Old Gander

Rise Old Napper

Mrs McCloud’s Reel

Set ‘Em Up John

Come Day, Go Day

Power of Music, as Executed by Tom Briggs

John Diamond Walk Around

Grape Vine Twist

Oh, Bring Along the Gal

Old Virginny Jig

Mr. Brown

Snap, Flip, Toodleum, Dee

The Lady’s Jig

Buckley’s Walk Round

Essence of Old Virginia Dance

Dick Sliter’s Reel

Buckley’s Best Reel

Unsworth’s New Jig

Walk Around

Alternate Solos in G Tuning:

To the Other Side of Jordan

Oh, Sally Is the Gal for Me

Bobbin’ Around

White Cat or Black Cat

Hannah, Hannah, Where You Going?

I’m Off for Nicaragua

United States, It Is the Place

Sandy Boy

Sam Johnson’s Reel

Come Shine Out Peggy

Whoop Jamboree

Oh John, Did You Ever See My Daughter Sally?

Oh, Bring Along the Gal

Essence of Old Virginia Dance

Unsworth’s New Jig

 
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