The Complete 5-String Banjo Method: Beginning Banjo
By Ned Luberecki Banjo Book, DVD & Online Video/Audio Level: Beginner Item: 00-44932Share
Description
Perfect for beginning banjoists as well as players who want to enhance their knowledge, Beginning Banjo teaches everything you need to know to get started---including chords, strumming, rolls, basic music theory, and reading tablature (TAB). Guitarists who want to expand their musical horizons will also find this to be the perfect introduction to banjo playing. The book features folk, bluegrass, and other classic songs. On the accompanying video, author and host Ned Luberecki's friendly, encouraging style makes learning easy and fun. Featuring practice tips and other essential topics for beginners, this is the most thorough method available for beginning banjo students.
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Contents
| Title | |
| About the Author | |
| Introduction | |
| Chapter 1: Getting Started---You and Your Banjo | |
| Lesson 1: Parts of the Banjo | |
| Lesson 2: Tuning | |
| Lesson 3: Holding the Banjo | |
| Lesson 4: The Picking Hand | |
| Lesson 5: The Fretting Hand | |
| Lesson 6: How to Read Tablature | |
| Lesson 7: Time | |
| Lesson 8: Pitch and the Notes on the Fretboard | |
| Lesson 9: Your First Tunes | |
| Yankee Doodle | |
| Mary Had a Little Lamb | |
| Ode to Joy | |
| Lesson 10: Fill-In Notes | |
| Skip to My Lou | |
| Go Tell Aunt Rhody (No 1) | |
| Grandfather's Clock | |
| Chapter 2: Chords | |
| Lesson 1: Your First Chords | |
| Lesson 2: Two-Chord Songs | |
| Tom Dooley | |
| Handsome Molly | |
| Lesson 3: The C Chord | |
| Lesson 4: Three-Chord Songs | |
| Good Ol' Mountain Dew (No 1) | |
| Worried Man Blues | |
| Chapter 3: Rolls | |
| Lesson 1: Basic Rolls | |
| Go Tell Aunt Rhody (No 2) | |
| Boil Them Cabbage Down (No 1) | |
| Worried Man Blues (No 1) | |
| Lesson 2: Combining Rolls | |
| Worried Man Blues (No 2) | |
| Lesson 3: Combining Rolls and Fill-Ins | |
| Camptown Races | |
| Red River Valley | |
| Chapter 4: Licks and Left-Hand Techniques | |
| Lesson 1: Slides | |
| Boil Them Cabbage Down (No 2) | |
| Lesson 2: Hammer-Ons | |
| Hammerville | |
| Cumberland Gap | |
| Lesson 3: Pull-Offs | |
| Pull-Off Towne | |
| Lesson 4: Combining Slides, Hammer-Ons, and Pull-Offs | |
| Lesson 5: Combining Licks to Play Songs | |
| Cripple Creek | |
| Waterbound | |
| Lesson 6: More Licks | |
| Train 45 | |
| Good Ol' Mountain Dew (No 2) | |
| Banks of the Ohio | |
| Will the Circle Be Unbroken? | |
| She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain | |
| Lesson 7: Intros and Endings | |
| Lonesome Road Blues (No 1) | |
| Long Journey Home | |
| Chapter 5: More Chords | |
| Lesson 1: Closed-Position Chords | |
| Lesson 2: Chords and the Major Scale | |
| Lesson 3: Chord Inversions | |
| Lesson 4: Chord Progressions | |
| Lesson 5: Chord Vamping | |
| Boil Them Cabbage Down (No 3) | |
| Lesson 6: Minor Chords | |
| Shady Grove (Arrangement) | |
| Shady Grove (Chord Changes) | |
| Lesson 7: 7th Chords | |
| Lonesome Road Blues (No 2) | |
| Vamping Lonesome Road Blues | |
| Chapter 6: Playing in Different Keys | |
| Lesson 1: What Key Is This and Why Change Now? | |
| Lesson 2: The Capo | |
| Lesson 3: Playing in the Key of C | |
| Red River Valley in G | |
| Red River Valley in C (No 1) | |
| Red River Valley in C (No 2) | |
| Red River Valley in C (Arrangement) | |
| Lesson 4: Drop C Tuning | |
| Soldier's Joy | |
| Lesson 5: Playing in the Key of D | |
| Angeline the Baker | |
| Red River Valley (Key of D) | |
| Lesson 6: D Tuning | |
| Reuben | |
| Home Sweet Home | |
| Chapter 7: Melodic Style | |
| Lesson 1: Introducing Melodic Style | |
| Lesson 2: Songs in Melodic Style | |
| Devil's Dream | |
| Cripple Creek (Melodic Style) | |
| The Eighth of January | |
| Red-Haired Boy | |
| Chapter 8: Playing in 3/4 Time | |
| Lesson 1: Introducing 3/4, or Waltz Time | |
| Lesson 2: 3/4 Rolls | |
| All the Good Times Are Past and Gone | |
| Amazing Grace | |
| Good Night Irene | |
| Chapter 9: Clawhammer and Old-Time Style | |
| Lesson 1: Introducing Clawhammer | |
| Lesson 2: The Bum-Ditty | |
| Lesson 3: The Bum-Ditty with Chords | |
| Boil Them Cabbage Down (Bum-Ditty) | |
| Go Tell Aunt Rhody (Bum-Ditty) | |
| Lesson 4: Clawhammer Licks and Left-Hand Techniques | |
| Lesson 5: Clawhammer Tunes | |
| Cripple Creek (Clawhammer Version) | |
| Cumberland Gap (Clawhammer Version) | |
| Chapter 10: Banjo Care and Maintenance | |
| Lesson 1: More About Banjos | |
| Lesson 2: Adjusting Your Banjo | |
| Lesson 3: Changing Strings | |
| Lesson 4: Keeping Your Banjo Clean | |
| Lesson 5: Banjo Straps | |
| Appendix | |
| Practice | |
| Listen, Listen, Listen! | |
| Conclusion | |
| Additional Resources |
Additional Information
| Series: | Complete Method |
| Author: | Ned Luberecki |
| Instrument: | Banjo |
| Format: | Book, DVD & Online Video/Audio |
| Page Count: | 96 |
| Item Number: | 00-44932 |
| ISBN 10: | 1-4706-3037-0 |
| ISBN 13: | 978-1-4706-3037-9 |
| UPC: | 038081509792 |
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