Banjo Workshop (eBook)
A Complete Guide to the 5-String Banjo
Banjo Workshop was written with four important areas of the 5-string banjo technical and artistic development in mind: picking technique, personal style, creativity, and awareness of the instrument's key and tuning potential. Picking technique-Studies in Section 1 will equip you to dissolve the inhibiting notion that some songs are unplayable on the 5-string banjo. Any song is playable if the necessary technique has been learned and developed to accommodate it. Personal style-In Section 2 you will first exp ...more
Product Number:
93930EB
Format:
eBook
Skill Level:
Beginning-Intermediate
Notation Type:
Standard Notation and Tab
Pages:
126
Binding:
eBook
ISBN:
1-5134-5542-7
ISBN13:
978-15134-5542-6
Publisher:
Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
Date Published:
7/28/2020
Banjo Workshop was written with four important areas of the 5-string banjo technical and artistic development in mind: picking technique, personal style, creativity, and awareness of the instrument's key and tuning potential. Picking technique-Studies in Section 1 will equip you to dissolve the inhibiting notion that some songs are unplayable on the 5-string banjo. Any song is playable if the necessary technique has been learned and developed to accommodate it. Personal style-In Section 2 you will first explore several popular 3-finger sub-styles, seeing how each evolved and how they are all often intermixed within a given performer's own personal style. Through subsequent examples you will be made aware of style potential and the artistic necessity of developing your own personal style. Creativity-Through style development and improvisational skills taught in Section 3 you will begin to think and perform less like a mechanical follower and more like an artistic ground breaker. You will learn to modify arrangements; further, you will learn to create your own arrangements. Exploration of Non-G Keys and Tunings-In Section 4 you will find that playing in keys and tunings other than G are no less fun and no more difficult than playing the familiar G (bluegrass) tuning. Six non-G tunings will be explored, involving ten solos, including major, minor and modal tunings. The overall effort is to make you aware that you don't have to be a technical whiz nor a speed king in order to be a musical artist. If you can add something new and different, something enjoyable to listen to, you are an artist even if you are not yet an "advanced-level" player.
Tuning the Banjo
Reading the Tablature
Inside Scales and Rolls
Dugan’s Reef
Applying the Thumb Crossover and Single String Approaches to Scruggs-Style
Snow Deer
Focusing on the Thumb Crossover
Peanut Rag
Strengthening Thumb Crossover Skills
Dragging the Thumb
Billy in the Lowground
Minuet in G
Arkansas Traveler
Inside String Triplet Tremelo Effects
The Approximate Evolution of Bluegrass Banjo Styles
Melodic Banjo Begins with Scales
Garyowen
Skipping O’er the Green
The C Scale: Patterns and Exercises
Mad Hatter’s Jig
Melodic Endings Lick
Scruggs-Melodic Mixing
John Hardy
The Integrated Scruggs-Melodic Arrangement
Eighth of January
The Transition from Scruggs Style to Reno Style
Follow the Leader
When You and I Were Young, Maggie
The Blues-Chromatic Style
Ukinpikda Banjo Blues
Free Form
Smoky Mountain Pine
Learning to Improvise
Simple Improvisation via Interchangeable Measures
Red River Valley
Faking It With Standard D Licks
Roll In My Sweet Baby’s Arms
Adding Spice With Triplets and Melodic Fill Licks
Cripple Creek
Jesse James
Improvising on Paper
Buffalo Gals
Worksheet for Buffalo Gals
Improvisational Patterns for Lead or Backup
Playing Imaginative Backup
Nine Pound Hammer
Fireball Mail
Creating a backup Arrangement by Modifying a Lead Break
Tragic Romance (lead break)
Tragic Romance (backup)
Applying Licks to the Harmonic Structure of a Given Song
Categorized Fill Licks
C, C Minor, and C “Modal” Tunings
Soldier’s Joy
Molly, O’Hara
Gaspe Reel
Lost London
D Tunings
The Wreck of Old Number Nine
Reuben
D Minor Tuning
Hey! Zhankoye
The Slender Mountain Ash
Meadowlands
G Minor Tuning
House of the Rising Sun
Appendices
 
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