Author: Janet DavisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Mel Bay presents Splitting the licks
Author: Janet DavisMel Bay presents Splitting the licks
Author: Janet DavisSplitting the Licks
Author: Janet DavisPublisher: Mel Bay Publications
ISBN: 1610658728
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 109
Book Description
Leads the banjo player step-by-step through working out songs for the five-string banjo from basic melodies in both Scruggs/bluegrass style and melodic/chromatic style. Each section contains exercises and examples for improvising. Furthermore, this book teaches how to arrange music based on concepts of combining rolls and licks. Janet Davis' books are praised because they teach so well! This is one of her finest. In tablature. Includes a CD.
Splitting the Licks/Banjo - 5 String
Author: Janet DavisPublisher: Mel Bay Publications
ISBN: 9780871669131
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Frets
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stringed instruments
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
Deluxe Pedal Steel Guitar Method
Author: Dewitt ScottPublisher: Mel Bay Publications
ISBN: 1610654420
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
This is the standard-bearer for pedal steel instruction books. It is extremely comprehensive in scope. Written by DeWitt Scott, founder of the International Pedal Steel Guitar Convention and member of the Pedal Steel Guitar Hall of Fame, this course teaches E9 tuning, Nashville set-up pedal steel with three floor and three knee levers. If you want to learn pedal steel, this book will show you how. the accompanying CD is in split-track format, allowing the student to play with the rhythm accompaniment, the pedal-steel solo parts, or both.
Back-Up Banjo
Author: JANET DAVISPublisher: Mel Bay Publications
ISBN: 161065871X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
With its wealth of information on how technique can be tastefully applied, Back-Up Banjo is the definitive book on the subject of banjo accompaniment. Since a banjo player in a band plays accompaniment at least 75% of the time, it is extremely important to master playing in this style. Janet Davis offers specific suggestions for accompanying a vocalist or instrumentalist in a variety of styles- and then provides musical examples illustrating her points. Janet breaks her concepts down into their basic components, making them crystal clear in lay terms. the various back-up techniques are separated into categories determined by song tempo, by lead instrument being accompanied, and by the area of the fingerboard in which the chords are being played. In notation and tablature.This set includes a companion 2-CD set which demonstrates the examples in the book.
Complete Jethro Burns Mandolin
Author: Jethro BurnsPublisher: Mel Bay Publications
ISBN: 1610658752
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Learn from the master of bluegrass mandolin - Jethro Burns. More than 70 tunes and two dozen exercises are found in this bluegrass bonanza. The Complete Jethro Burns Mandolin Book and online audio is an incomparable resource of bluegrass mandolin repertoire - all in standard notation and tablature, just the way the maestro played them - with chord symbols for an accompaniment instrument. Presents some of Jethro's finest and most challenging solos, in addition to a special section on Jethro's mandolin techniques. Ample performance notes and performance notes and mandolin lore are provided, along with many photographs of Jethro in the latter half of a career lasting more than half a century. The recording presents 52 of the tunes in the book available online for download
You Can Teach Yourself Banjo
Author: Janet DavisPublisher: Mel Bay Publications
ISBN: 1609749065
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
This is the ideal beginner's book, presenting the basics of playing the 5-string banjo is a way that is both fun and produces quick results. Janet Davis takes you on an extensive tour of this instrument's fundamental techniques as well as some intermediate possibilities including rolls, chords, bluegrass banjo techniques, playing up the neck, licks, endings, and other basic information needed to play bluegrass and melodic-style banjo. Thorough performance notes are provided from beginning to end revealing the secrets of this versatile traditional instrument.
Appalachian Fiddle Tunes for Clawhammer Banjo
Author: Ken PerlmanPublisher: Mel Bay Publications
ISBN: 1513455087
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
This comprehensive collection features over 100 note-for-note skillfully-crafted clawhammer banjo arrangements of “old-time” Southern fiddle tunes, in clear tablature - with suggested guitar chords at a wide variety of skill levels. It contains most of the tunes played in concert or recorded by author Ken Perlman and renowned Appalachian-style fiddler Alan Jabbour, plus over 50 more classic tunes from Ed Haley, Edden Hammons, John Salyer and many other iconic roots fiddlers. Also included: • Instruction on basic and advanced techniques • Tips on improving your musicianship • How to play syncopated rhythms and melodies in clawhammer style • Frameworks for dealing with crooked tunes and modal tunes • Historical notes and picturesque backstories • Ken Perlman demonstrates all tunes and most musical illustrations on 124 online audio tracks *Online Audio Includes: 24 tracks featuring excerpts from recordings of the author performing with the virtuosic fiddler Alan Jabbour, to whom the book is dedicated.