Product Number:
95759M
Format:
Book + Online Audio
Skill Level:
Intermediate
Notation Type:
Tab
Pages:
184
Binding:
Perfect Binding
Size:
8.75 x 11.75
ISBN:
0-7866-8833-5
ISBN13:
978-07866-8833-3
Publisher:
Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
Date Published:
9/30/2015
An important anthology of Irish and Celtic solos for the 5-string banjo featuring a comprehensive, scholarly treatise on the history, techniques, and etiquette of playing the banjo in the Celtic tradition. Includes segments on tuning, pick preferences, and tablature reading followed by 101 jigs, slides, polkas, slip jigs, reels, hornpipes, strathspeys, O'Carolan tunes, plus a special section of North American Celtic tunes. A generous collection of photos of Irish folk musicians, street scenes, and archaeological sites further enhances this fabulous book. All of the solos included here are written in 5-string banjo tablature only with a few tunes set in unusual banjo tunings. The appendices provide a sizable glossary and a wealth of information regarding soloists and groups playing Celtic music, Irish festivals, music publications, on-line computer resources, cultural organizations, and more.
If you are serious about playing Celtic music on the 5-string banjo, or if you don't play the banjo but simply want to expand your knowledge of the Celtic music tradition-you owe yourself this book.
The first-ever audio collection of Irish and Celtic music for 5-string banjo provides 68 lovely melodies and demonstrates revolutionary techniques for playing highly ornamented tunes and rolling back-up. Recorded in stereo with virtuosos Gabriel Donohue (steel- and nylon-string guitar and piano) and Robbie Walsh (bodhran- frame drum played with a stick), the five-string banjo is "out front" and plays through each melody in real-life tempo with authentic Celtic chordal and rhythmic backing.
The recording features the music of all Six Celtic Nations and includes jigs, reels, hornpipes, slides, polkas, marches, country dances, larides, andros, slip jigs, strathspeys, airs and O'Carolan tunes. 35 songs in the book are not on the audio recording. Includes access to online audio.
6 Beat Laridenn
8 Beat Laridenn
Alexander's Hornpipe
An Dro: Crios Bride Ceremony Tunes Arr. By: Alexei Kondratiev
Andrew Duffy's Jig Jerome O'sullivan
Anthony Payne Of Stratton
Arkansas Traveler
Ballydesmond Polka
Banish Misfortune
Blackberry Blossom
Brian Boru's March
Bridget Battle's Hornpipe Linda Hickman
Carolan's Draught Turlough O'carolan
Cronin's Hornpipe
Cum Y Chenn Oanrey Cheh
Denis Murphy's
Devil's Dream (The De'il Amang The Tailors)
Drowsy Maggie
Eunyssagh Vona
Far From Home
Fisher's Hornpipe
Garry Owen
Garry Owen
Gavotte De Skrignag
Hanging Out To Dry L.E. Mccullough
Harvest Home
Highlander's Jig
Hughie Rory Mackinnon
Joe Cooley's Reel
June Apple
Kathleen's Homecoming
Kesh Jig
Kid On The Mountain
Kitty's Wedding
Leather Britches (Related To "Lord Macdonald's Reel)
Liverpool Hornpipe
Miss Johnson Of Pittworth
Miss Mcleod's Reel
Morgaine's Hornpipe
Morrison's Jig
Munster Buttermilk
Nyth Y Gog (The Cuckoo's Nest)
Nyth Y Gwcw (The Cuckoo's Nest)
O'carolan's Concerto Turlough O'carolan
O'keefe's Slide
Off To California
Onen Hag Oll
Out On The Ocean
Padraic O'keefe's Slide (Denis Murphy's Slide)
Pen-Rhaw
Pigeon On The Gate
Planxty George Brabazon Turlough O'carolan
Planxty Irwin
Red Haired Boy (The Little Beggarman)
Rickett's Hornpipe
Saint Anne's Reel
Sally Gardens
Sean Ryan's Polka
Ships Are Sailing
Si Bheag Agus Si Mhor Turlough O'carolan
Soldier's Joy
Sporting Paddy
Teetotaler's Fancy (Temperance Reel)
The Belfast Hornpipe (The Sweeps)
The Boys Of Ballysadare
The Boys Of Bluehill
The Braes Of Mar
The Cameronian
The Cliffs Of Moher
The Connaughtman's Rambles
The Cuckoo's Nest
The Cuckoo's Nest
The First Night In America
The Flowers Of Edinburgh
The Foxhunter's Jig
The High Level Hornpipe James Hill
The Humours Of Ballyloughlin
The Irish Washerwoman
The Longford Collector
The Mason's Apron
The Men Of Wrexham's Hornpipe
The Merry Blacksmith
The Mountain Road
The Musical Priest
The Rights Of Man
The Road To Lisdoonvarna
The Road To Lisdoonvarna
The Sailor's Bonnet
The Salamanca
The Scholar
The Silver Spear
The Star Of Munster
The Swansea Horpipe
The Tarbolton
The Wind That Shakes The Barley
The Witches
Traditional Strathspey #7
Trip To The Cottage
Turkey In The Straw
Up Sligo
Whiskey Before Breakfast
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