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Advanced Earl Bluegrass Banjo taught by Murphy Henry Earl Scruggs is considered THE MASTER of the five-string banjo. Murphy has studied Earl's picking closely for over twenty years. She not only can play the Scruggs style herself, SHE CAN TEACH IT! Here are four of Earl's greatest tunes, carefully explained note-by-note as only Murphy can do it. Sally More Info And Book Contents Click Here...... $29.95	Alternate Tunings for Five-String Banjo Played Bluegrass Style by Terry McGill Alternate Tunings for Five-string Banjo is the first three-finger style banjo instruction book written specifically for the bluegrass banjoist wishing to explore alternate tunings. Written using standard tablature, the book takes the learner through the G modal, Standard C, Open C, Bb, D modal, Open D and E tunings. A companion CD is included with each book that More Info And Book Contents Click Here...... $19.95
Amazing Grace: Gospel Favorites for Banjo by Murphy Henry Gospel tunes for banjo! Murphy teaches hard-driving Scruggs-style breaks to 5 favorite gospel tunes. Includes a fancy up-the-neck break to Amazing Grace, in ¾ time. Many familiar licks, lots of new licks, all easy to learn the Murphy Method way. Each tune explained note-by-note. More Info And Book Contents Click Here...... $29.95	Easy Banjo Solos by Dick Weissman This book presents a selection of original 5-string banjo tunes that can be played by the beginning student familiar with basic chords in G tuning. The author introduces a variety of styles and banjo techniques including hammer-ons, pull-offs, string bending and slides - all in standard notation and banjo tab. Banjo chords are shown in diagram More Info And Book Contents Click Here...... $12.95
Favorite Gospel Tunes for Banjo by Alan Munde Alan Munde, one of the most respected contemporary banjo players, couples his deep understanding of the banjo with 17 of America’s best loved gospel songs. Ranging from the driving sound of bluegrass banjo to the rich chordal harmonies unique to his playing, these arrangements bring out the fullness and sparkle of these great old songs. Every banjo player needs a wide variety of tunes in the repertoire to cover all the performance occasions. More Info And Book Contents Click Here...... $14.95	First Lessons Banjo by Jack Hatfield First Lessons on Banjo is an ultra-easy instruction manual for beginning five-string banjo played in the three finger style in G tuning. It can be used by those with no previous experience with the banjo or music of any sort. It is so basic it can be used even by small children. The book features very detailed descriptions of even the most basic aspects such as wearing the picks properly, the correct picking motion, and noting the strings properly. More Info And Book Contents Click Here...... $14.95
Getting Into Bluegrass Banjo by Alan Munde The Getting Into Bluegrass Banjo book and CD by Alan Munde is the accumulation of successful teaching concepts developed in his 40 plus years as a professional bluegrass musician and teacher. Munde presents a straight-forward and well-founded course of bluegrass banjo essentials. Designed for those who have never played a stringed instrument to those taking up bluegrass banjo as a second instrument. More Info And Book Contents Click Here...... $17.95	Modern 5-String Banjo Method Grade 1 by Alan Munde This method is designed for learning the finger style five-string banjo in a larger musical context than previous single style based methods. The Modern 5-String Banjo Method builds the theoretical and technical foundations needed to play in many styles. Beginning with a thorough grounding in the scales and chords coupled with well thought out fingerings in the keys of C, Am, and G More Info And Book Contents Click Here...... $14.95

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Clawhammer Banjo For The Complete Ignoramus! 30th Anniversary Edition by Wayne Erbsen On the 30th anniversary of the publication of the original book, Banjo for the Complete Ignoramus, Wayne Erbsen has completely rewritten this banjo classic, and now it’s even better! Clear and humorous instruction. Includes: "Cluck Old Hen," "Poor Wayfaring Stranger, "Sugar Hill," "Shady Grove," "Little Birdie," "Darlin’ Corey," "Will Bill Jones," "Rain & Snow More Info And Book Contents Click Here...... $17.95	Clawhammer Banjo from Scratch A Guide for the Claw-less! by Dan Levenson Southern Appalachian native Dan Levenson and Mel Bay Publications present Clawhammer Banjo from Scratch - A Guide for the Claw-less! This book teaches clawhammer banjo the way we play, not the way others say. It really begins as though you really have NO knowledge of how to play the five string banjo clawhammer style. Based on Dan's innovative Meet the Banjo™ program More Info And Book Contents Click Here...... $26.95
Southern Mountain Banjo by Wayne Erbsen This friendly book is filled with clawhammer banjo instruction, tablature, lyrics, tune histories, chords, playing tips, vintage photos, and more. Includes such classid oldtime tunes as, Soldier's Joy; Cluck Old Hen; Arkansas Traveler; Leather Britches; Mississippi Sawyer; Chicken Reel; Shady Grove; Red Rocking Chair; John Henry; Uncle Joe; Little Rosewood More Info And Book Contents Click Here...... $15.95	Old-Time Festival Tunes for Clawhammer by Dan Levenson This book and two CD set is intended to be a tune repertoire book. It includes over 100 Old-Time festival favorites. Some are cliche’, others unusual, some easy, some difficult. The book contains 2 lines of tablature (one basic and one advanced) as well as standard notation and suggested chords. More Info And Book Contents Click Here...... $29.95
Buzzard Banjo - Clawhammer Style by Dan Levenson Provides the intermediate clawhammer (5-string) banjo player with a fresh repertoire of 21 traditional and 5 original tunes as played by the author with the Boiled Buzzards Old Time String Band. The book briefly addresses clawhammer basics with a few pages of exercises and scales before presenting the tunes. The banjo tunings in this book are: double C tuning More Info And Book Contents Click Here...... $17.95	Carolina Clawhammer, Lesson One The Piedmont & Western Mountains taught by Bob Carlin North Carolina is rightly known as producing some of the finest banjo players in southern traditional music. Within this DVD, Bob Carlin, one of the state's most accomplished pickers, teaches some of Old Time Music's best-loved tunes. Many of these pieces Bob learned first-hand, sitting at the feet of master musicians no longer with us. Others have taken Carlin years to decipher from old recordings. More Info And Book Contents Click Here...... $29.95
Carolina Clawhammer, Lesson Two Round Peak taught by Bob Carlin North Carolina is rightly known as producing some of the finest banjo players in southern traditional music. Within this DVD, Bob Carlin, one of the state's most accomplished pickers, teaches some of Old Time Music's best-loved tunes. Many of these pieces Bob learned first-hand, sitting at the feet of master musicians no longer with us. Others have taken Carlin years to decipher from old recordings. More Info And Book Contents Click Here...... $29.95	Clawhammer Banjo from Scratch, a two-DVD set (Volume 1 and 2 combined set) by Dan Levenson An instructional video that starts from the beginning! Clawhammer From Scratch begins as though you really have NO knowledge of how to play the five string banjo clawhammer style. Beginning at the beginning, Dan presents a brief history of the 5-string banjo then goes over the parts of the banjo, holding the banjo, right and left hand styles and his basic clawhammer strum. More Info And Book Contents Click Here...... $29.95
Everything You Wanted to Know About Clawhammer Banjo A Complete Tutor for the Intermediate and Advanced Player by Ken Perlman One of the world's top players addresses nearly every aspect of the popular 5-string banjo style known as clawhammer or frailing. Chapter themes include fundamentals; advanced and experimental techniques; arranging and backup; how to play reels, hornpipes, jigs and other fiddle tunes; how to approach such genres as ragtime, bluegrass, klezmer, blues, calypso,