Bluegrass Banjo From All Sides Book/CD

Bluegrass Banjo from All Sides focuses on fifteen common jam session tunes, offering many different arrangements for each tune. The arrangements are presented in varying levels of difficulty. The reader will work through standard melody and harmony arrangements, playing backup in a bluegrass setting, playing backup behind fiddlers, and even two-banjo harmony. Further, the tunes offer a catalog of banjo techniques that can be applied to one's overall banjo approach and licks to be absorbed into one's vocabulary. Altogether this book demonstrates the stylistic versatility of three-finger banjo, as well as its identity and character. Includes CD.

• 1. HOW TO USE THIS BOOK
• 2. Arrangement Levels
• 3. Teachable Moments
• 4. Note Emphasis
• 5. Left hand Fingering
• 6. Practice Tips
• 7. Learning by Listening
• 8. Cripple Creek (A/B)
• 9. Teachable moment: 3 against 4
• 10. Oh, My Loving Brother (A/B)
• 11. Teachable Moment (Level A): Banjo Harmony
• 12. Teachable Moment (Level A): Long Rolls
• 13. "Teachable moment (Level A): The ""Sally Goodin"" G position"
• 14. Pig in a Pen (A/B)
• 15. Teachable Moment (Level A): Why play second string notes with the thumb?
• 16. Teachable Moment (Level A): Playing up the neck
• 17. Teachable moment (Level B): Phrasing like a Singer
• 18. Wabash Cannonball (A/B)
• 19. Teachable Moment: Using open strings to mask left hand movement
• 20. Teachable Moment: Playing the right break at the right time
• 21. Sunny Side of the Mountain (A/B)
• 22. Teachable moment (Level A): The most important Backup Lick ever
• 23. Teachable moment (Level B): Compound Rolls
• 24. Forked Deer (A/B/C)
• 25. Teachable Moment (Level A): Guide Fingers
• 26. Blackberry Blossom (A/C)
• 27. My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains
• 28. Teachable moment (Level B): Learn to play in D by playing up-the-neck in G
• 29. Red Wing (A/B)
• 30. June Apple (A/B)
• 31. America the Beautiful (A/B/C)
• 32. Oh! Susanna (A/C)
• 33. Little Liza Jane (A/B/C)
• 34. Old Joe Clark (A/B/C)
• 35. Down in the Willow Garden (A/B)
• 36. CONCLUSION
• 37. The Author