Author: Janet Davi
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporatio
Keywords: banjo, string, arranged, songbook, ultimate, favorites
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 2005-07-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0634056050
ISBN-13: 9780634056055
A great collection of banjo classics, including: Alabama Jubilee * Bye Bye Love * Duelin’ Banjos * The Entertainer * Foggy Mountain Breakdown * Great Balls of Fire * Lady of Spain * Rawhide * (Ghost) Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend) * Rocky Top * San Antonio Rose * Tennessee Waltz * UFO-TOFU * You Are My Sunshine * and more.
Author: Ross Nickerson
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
Keywords: banjo, bluegrass, encyclopedia, mel
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 2003-09-24
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0786670746
ISBN-13: 9780786670741
The Banjo Encyclopedia is a comprehensive, in-depth banjo instructional tool that covers the many intricacies of bluegrass banjo playing, including numerous topics that may have been overlooked in banjo instruction to date. The Banjo Encyclopedia can take a student from the beginning, to intermediate, and right through to more advanced styles of banjo playing. Ross Nickerson uses his many years of experience helping hundreds of aspiring banjo pickers by offering the banjo student an opportunity to learn in a practical, straightforward manner. This wide-ranging banjo instructional book will foc
Author: Bill Triggs
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
Keywords: tenor, banjo, solos, virtuoso, legend, harry, reser
Number of Pages: 136
Published: 2006-12-18
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0786660503
ISBN-13: 9780786660506
Harry Reser was on of the greatest tenor banjo virtuosos of all time. This book features over twenty tunes from Harry’s career, many of them are Reser originals. The tunes are notated in standard notation and tablature. Each song has a set of notes that offer background on the tune and helpful playing tips.
Author: Mel Bay
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
Keywords: banjo, tenor, fun, mel
Number of Pages: 40
Published: 1985-01-05
List price: $5.95
ISBN-10: 0871664607
ISBN-13: 9780871664600
A good beginner’s text showing tuning, basic chords, and songs to sing and strum. Companion play-along CD is available. Standard banjo tuning.
Author: Mel Bay
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
Keywords: banjo, tenor, fun, mel
Number of Pages: 40
Published: 2004-06
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 078667220X
ISBN-13: 9780786672202
This beginner’s text for the four-string tenor banjo shows tuning, basic chords, and songs to sing and strum. Written in standard tenor banjo tuning (CGDA) in standard notation only with chord symbols and lyrics. Includes DVD to go along with the book. Tuned for Mandola.
Author: Beatle
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporatio
Keywords: banjo, beatles
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2009-01-01
List price: $10.99
ISBN-10: 142345653X
ISBN-13: 9781423456537
18 of the Fab Four’s finest for five string banjo! Includes: Across the Universe * Blackbird * A Hard Day’s Night * Here Comes the Sun * Hey Jude * Let It Be * She Loves You * Strawberry Fields Forever * Ticket to Ride * Yesterday * and more.
Author: Leo G. Mazow
Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
Keywords: banjo, picturing
Number of Pages: 179
Published: 2005-12-30
List price: $48.95
ISBN-10: 027102710X
ISBN-13: 9780271027104
The history of the banjo is as haunting as its music. Made popular in minstrel shows of the nineteenth century, the "banjar" derives from the stringed gourd instrument African slaves brought with them to plantations in the Caribbean and American South. From minstrelsy to the folk music revival of the twentieth century, the banjo has continued to attract audiences and acquire meaning. Picturing the Banjo gives this long history an entirely new dimension by tracing the instrumentÂ’s representation in American visual culture from the eighteenth century to the present. Published in conjunction
