Complete Bluegrass Banjo Method
5-String Banjo - Sheet Music

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Banjo - Beginning; Intermediate; Advanced

SKU: MB.93345M

Composed by Neil Griffin. Banjo: 5-String, Bluegrass, Wire bound, Method, Perfect binding. Complete. Style. Book and online audio. 244 pages. Mel Bay Publications, Inc #93345M. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc (MB.93345M).

ISBN 9780786689996. 8.75 x 11.75 inches.

One of the very best G tuning five-string bluegrass banjo methods available. The book teaches how to pick out tunes single-string style one note at a time , how to play chord accompaniment, and how to play solos in the full three-finger, bluegrass style. Topics include note and tab reading, chord background styles, traditional bluegrass techniques, fills and endings, use of the capo, rolls, slides, hammers, pull-offs, choking, harmonics, and up-the-neck playing. In notation and tablature. The audio includes acoustic bass, acoustic guitar, and a rhythm track as well as the 5-string banjo. All songs and most exercises are included in this teaching recording, performed at a tempo that the student should be able to maintain in short order. Includes access to online audio.

  • Part One
  • About Part One
  • The Author
  • Left-Hand Position
  • Right-Hand Position and Fingering
  • The Picks
  • The Quickest Way to Learn
  • Music-Reading Section
  • The Rudiments of Music
  • Other Musical Signs and Terms
  • Tuning the Banjo
  • Reading Tablature
  • Time Values of Notes and Rests
  • Counting Time in Tablature
  • Counting Time
  • Playing Songs on the First, Second, and Fifth Strings
  • Playing a Song on the Second and Third Strings
  • Chord Background
  • The Chord Symbol
  • The Basic Chords
  • Down and Up Strumming
  • Pinching the Chords
  • Melody and Pinch Chords Together
  • Chromatics
  • Key Signatures
  • Counting Review
  • 3-Finger Picking Section
  • Counting Bluegrass Style
  • The Basic Rolls
  • Forward Rolls
  • Backward Rolls
  • Thumb-Alternating Rolls
  • Rolls on the D and D7 Chords
  • Combination Rolls
  • Daily Practice Patterns
  • Right-Hand Patterns
  • The Basic Banjo Picking Effects
  • Fills and Endings
  • The Capo
  • Solo Section
  • The Banjo and Its Parts
  • Part Two
  • Foreword
  • Chord Studies
  • Mixing the Major Chord Forms
  • The I, IV, and V Chords
  • The I, IV, V, I Progression
  • Other Movable Chord Forms
  • The Dominant Seventh Chord
  • The Diminished Seventh Chord
  • The Augmented Seventh Chord
  • Right-Hand Chord Background Patterns
  • Blues & Boogie Back-Up Section
  • Blues Rock Back-Up
  • 5-String Boogie
  • Melodic Thirds and Sixths
  • Melodic Thirds and Sixths Mixed
  • Blues-Rock Chorus
  • Melodic or "Chromatic" Picking
  • Advanced Solo Song Section
  • Chord Diagrams for Solo Section
  • Circled Tab Numbers
  • The Choke
  • Chimes
  • ENDINGS