Banjo Primer Book for Beginners Deluxe Edition with DVD & 2 Jam CDs by Geoff Hohwald was written for the beginning student who wants to learn how to play Scruggs style 5 string bluegrass banjo technique. This course starts off with beginner basics like parts of the banjo, tuning, how to read tabs, and simple rolls. We'll then move on to learn some easy to play song arrangements along with up the neck breaks to classic bluegrass songs. These beginner lessons feature step by step instruction that can be used to teach individuals or groups. After learning basic techniques, the course functions as a bluegrass songbook. The included DVD provides video instruction on each exercise and let's you see and hear all songs at 3 speeds - very slow (for learning), medium tempo (for practicing), and

Teaches the plain, naked melody to 23 easy bluegrass favorites without the rolls already incorporated into the tune. Wayne shows simple ways to embellish each melody using easy rolls. With Wayne’s unique method, you’ll learn to think for yourself! Learn how to play a song in different ways, rather than memorizing ONE way. Includes an audio instructional CD with 99 tracks!

This book contains more than 120 of the best traditional Irish tunes arranged exclusively in tablature for the Irish Tenor Banjo. With chords, triplet ornamentation and audio samples as audio download. All tablatures also work for mandolin or bouzouki (tuned to GDAE). This book is a must for every session!Contains the following songs:Hornpipes:Alexander´s Hornpipe, Boy of Bluehill, Fairy Queen, Galway Hornpipe, Harvest Home, Off to CaliforniaJigs:Apples in Winter, Banish Misfortune, Black Frog, Black Rogue, Blackthorn Stick, Blarney Pilgrim, Cat´s Meow, Cliffs of Moher, Connaughtman´s Rambles, Donnybrook Fair, Eavesdropper, Garrett Barry´s Jig, Garryowen, Geese in the Bog, I Buried my Wife and Danced on her Grave, Irish Washerwoman, Jimmy Ward´s Jig, Kesh Jig, Killavil Jig, Lark

Learn How to Play the Ukulele in DAYS & Master 21 Songs!Ready to learn how to play the ukulele…today? With 21 Songs in 6 Days: Learn Ukulele the Easy Way, you can, even if you’ve never touched an instrument before!And that’s just the beginning…This ukulele primer is the simplest, easiest, and most efficient way for beginner musicians to learn ukulele chords and master a whole set-list worth of songs.Here’s why:Step-by-step instruction AND videos are provided free with your purchase of this music book.NEW in the print edition: 10 Bonus 2 chord songs!No matter your learning style, you can read, listen, or watch as you play along with your ukulele.Learn and master one easy essential element at a time. With this innovative way to learn ukulele you'll steadily improve without get

(Banjo). The best-selling banjo method in the world! Earl Scruggs's legendary method has helped thousands of banjo players get their start. The "Revised and Enhanced Edition" features more songs, updated lessons, and many other improvements. It includes everything you need to know to start playing banjo, including: a history of the 5-string banjo, getting acquainted with the banjo, Scruggs tuners, how to read music, chords, how to read tablature, right-hand rolls and left-hand techniques, banjo tunings, exercises in picking, over 40 songs, how to build a banjo, autobiographical notes, and much more! The book/audio version includes recordings of Earl Scruggs playing and explaining over 60 examples! Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or do

Wayne's friendly and FUN approach to learning to play has taught tens of thousands of total beginners to play bluegrass music. Join the club! In this, his 26th book, Wayne cuts through the clutter and confusion of learning to play with his SIMPLE approach to playing the melody. He then leads the beginner down the path of being able to IMPROVISE on the melody by adding several simple rhythms. With Wayne s help, you ll soon be jamming up a storm. Guaranteed. This book is guaranteed to help you learn to play bluegrass mandolin. (How many books come with a personal guarantee by the author?) You WILL learn to play and improvise on: Amazing Grace, Angel Band, Banks of the Ohio, Bury Me Beneath the Willow, Cripple Creek, Cryin Holy Unto the Lord, Dig a Hole in the Meadow, Don't This Road Loo

(Banjo). Play 20 of John Denver's best with this collection of easy banjo solos, including: Annie's Song * Leaving on a Jet Plane * Rocky Mountain High * Sunshine on My Shoulders * Take Me Home, Country Roads * Thank God I'm a Country Boy * and more.

(Banjo). A complete guide for beginning and advanced banjo players! From Ken Perlman, here is a brilliant teaching guide that is destined to become the handbook on how to play the banjo. The style is easy to learn, and covers the instruction itself, basic right and left-hand positions, simple chords, and fundamental clawhammer techniques; the brush, the 'bumm-titty' strum, pull-offs, and slides. For the advanced player, there is instruction on more complicated picking, double thumbing, quick slides, fretted pull-offs, harmonics, improvisation, and more. The book includes more than 40 fun-to-play banjo tunes.

Finally, clawhammer banjo instruction that is for 100% beginners! Originally written in 1973, this book has taught more people to play clawhammer banjo than any other book. This brand new 40th Anniversary Edition is newly updated and improved, complete with spiral binding. It contains the same friendly, clear and simple instruction as the original book, and it will teach you to play 31 old-time classics from the ground up. You will learn to play: Buffalo Gals, Cluck Old Hen, Cotton-Eyed Joe, Cripple Creek, The Cuckoo, Cumberland Mountain Deer Chase, Darlin' Cory, Down in the Willow Gardens, East Virginia, Groundhog, Handsome Molly, Little Birdie, Little Sadie, Lynchburg Town, Muley's Daughter, New River Train, Old Holly Hare, Old Blue, Old Joe Clark, Polly Put the Kettle On, Poor Wayf

Wayne Erbsen's 35 years of teaching experience shows on every page. He takes the reader through every step of adjusting, tuning, holding, and playing the fiddle. 37 tunes are written out in Wayne's own unique and easy-to-use tab system and standard notation. Fiddle instruction has never been any simpler, clearer, or more humorous. This book will teach absolutely anyone to play the fiddle. Instructional CD included. You WILL learn to play: Amazing Grace, Blackest Crow, Buffalo Gals, Charley He s a Good Old Man, Cluck Old Hen, Cotton-Eyed Joe, Cripple Creek, Cumberland Mountain Deer Chase, Darling Corey, Don t Let Your Deal Go Down, East Virginia, Groundhog, House of the Rising Sun, Ida Red, In the Pines, It Ain t Gonna Grain no Mo , Joy to the World, Little Birdie, Liza Poor Gal, Lync