BANJO

BLUEGRASS SONGBOOK. Peter Wernick. TABLATURE

Over 130 songs in several styles from old-time, traditional, and newgrass, top gospel, and novelty tunes. Includes Ballad Of Jed Clampett, Blue Ridge Mountain Blues, Daddy Sang Bass, Bury Me Beneath The Willow, and Knoxville Girl.

Bluegrass Songbook. (Melody/Lyrics/Chords). For voice and guitar (or banjo). Music Sales America. Bluegrass and Americana. Difficulty: easy-medium. Fake book (simplified 3 string guitar tablature). Vocal melody (simplified 3 string guitar tablature), lyrics, chord names, performance notes, introductory text and black & white photos. 128 pages. Oak Publications #OK63198. Published by Oak Publications (HL.14004665).
ISBN 0825601649. With vocal melody (simplified 3 string guitar tablature), lyrics, chord names, performance notes, introductory text and black & white photos. Bluegrass and Americana. 9x12 inches.
Over 130 songs in several styles--from old-time, traditional, and newgrass, top gospel, and novelty tunes. Includes Ballad Of Jed Clampett, Blue Ridge Mountain Blues, Daddy Sang Bass, Bury Me Beneath The Willow, and Knoxville Girl.

Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow
All The Good Times Are Past And Gone
Amazing Grace
Angel Band
Ballad Of Jed Clampett
Banks Of The Ohio
(A) Beautiful Life
Before I Met You
Big Ball In Boston
Blue Ridge Mountain Blues
(The) Bluebirds Are Singing For Me
Bluegrass Express
Bound To Ride
Brand New Shoes
Bringing Mary Home
Bury Me Beneath The Willow
(The Children Are Crying And) Calling Your Name
Close By
Columbus Stockade Blues
Daddy Sang Bass
Dark Hollow
Darling Corey
Detroit City
Don't Let Your Deal Go Down
Don't Put Her Down, You Helped Put Her There
Don't This Road Look Rough And Rocky
Down In The Willow Garden
Down The Road
Eating Out Of Your Hand
Face Lost In The Crowd
Fair And Tender Ladies
Foggy Mountain Top
Footprints In The Snow
Fox On The Run
Free Born Man
Freight Train
Give Me Your Hand
Handsome Molly
He Will Set Your Fields On Fire
Heaven
Hello City Limits
Highway Of Regret
Hot Corn, Cold Corn
How Mountain Girls Can Love
I'm A Pilgrim
I Know You're Married But I Love You Still
I'm Using My Bible For A Roadmap
If I Lose
In The Pines
(It's A Long Way) To The Top Of The World
It's In My Mind To Ramble
Jesse James
John Hardy
John Henry
Katy Daley
Knoxville Girl
(The) Last Song
Late Last Night (Way Downtown)
(The) Legend Of The Rebel Soldier
Life Is Like A Mountain Railroad
Listening To The Rain
Little Bessie
Little Birdie
(The) Little Girl And The Dreadful Snake
Little Glass Of Wine
Little Joe
Little Maggie
Little White Church
(The) Lonesome River
Lonesome Road Blues
Long Black Veil
Long Journey Home (Two Dollar Bill)
Lord, I'm Coming Home
Love, Please Come Home
Making Plans
Man Of Constant Sorrow
Maple On The Hill
Matterhorn
Memories Of Mother And Dad
(The) Memory Of Your Smile
Midnight On The Stormy Deep
Milwaukee Here I Come
Mr. Engineer
Mountain Dew
My Better Years
My Dying Bed
New Freedom Bell
New River Train
Nine Pound Hammer
(The) Old Old House
Ole Slew Foot
On The Jericho Road
Out On The Ocean
Pallet On Your Floor
Paradise
Poor Ellen Smith
Precious Memories
Pretty Polly
Rabbit In The Log (Feast Here Tonight)
Rank Stranger
Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms
Roll Muddy River
Roll On Buddy
Roving Gambler
Satisfied Mind
Short Life Of Trouble
Singing All Day And Dinner On The Ground
Sitting On Top Of The World
(She Left Me) Standing On The Mountain
Steppin' Stones
Stone Walls And Steel Bars
Sweet Little Miss Blue Eyes
Sweet Sunny South
Swing Low Sweet Chariot
Teardrops In My Eyes
Tennessee
Tennessee Stud
That's How I Can Count On You
Things In Life
Think Of What You've Done
This Is The Girl I Love
Tragic Romance
Two Little Boys
Victim To The Tomb
Wabash Cannonball
We Need A Whole Lot More Of Jesus
Wear A Red Rose
What Would You Give In Exchange For Your Soul
When The Golden Leaves Begin To Fall
Where The Soul Never Dies
White House Blues
Widow Maker
Wildwood Flower
Will The Circle Be Unbroken
With Care From Someone
Working On A Building
Worried Man Blues
Wreck Of The Old Ninety-seven
Y'all Come
You Go To Your Church (And I'll Go To Mine)

UP THE NECK, BANJO, JANET DAVIS. 144 pagine. SHEET MUSIC BOOK & DVD - with BANJO TABLATURE.

LIBRO METODO PER BANJO CON DVD.

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Janet Davis has created a superb instructional video for five-string banjo dealing with the 5th through the 22nd fret. Roll Patterns, chords, songs, licks, chord progressions, improvising, melodic style, chromatic style, and back-up are some of the exciting techniques included in this educational video.

Product Number: 94820DVD
Format: DVD
ISBN: 0786671963
UPC: 796279096324
ISBN13: 9780786671960
Series: Non-Series
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
Date Published: 12/31/2003 

"Up the neck" of the banjo involves playing between the 5th and the 22nd frets of the fingerboard. This book is intended to provide you with the basic principles and techniques for developing the ability to play any song in the three-finger style of playing in the up-the-neck area of the banjo. People often find it difficult to read the double-digit numbers involved in playing up the neck. However, just as it was difficult to read tablature for the first time, you will find that you will see the same numbers over and over, and you will begin to recognize the same patterns up the neck, just as you do when playing down the neck. Because these are related to chord positions, it will help to concentrate on°the numbers involved with playing each chord, particularly the G, C, and D chords from which the left hand will work. These will become familiar to you within a very short time, and will be easy to relate to the fingerboard. This book is divided into chapters, with each chapter building upon the information presented in the previous one. The songs presented in each section demonstrate the particular technique(s) discussed in that chapter. However, the songs are also intended as playable arrangements. The more you play up the neck using these techniques, the easier it will be to develop your own arrangements using these techniques. I have used these techniques for many years with my banjo students, and they seem to have worked well. I hope they will work well for you, also. Happy Pickin'! Janet Davis

The three-finger style of playing was popularized in the early 1940s primarily by Earl Scruggs and Don Reno, and has continued to be one of the foremost styles for playing the five-string banjo. In this style ofplaying, the melody notes for a song are surrounded by background notes, which are determined by the chords to the song. Patterns are involved in playing up the neck, just as they are involved with playing on the deeper tones of the banjo. Many of the same patterns (fo11sand licks) can be used in many different songs for the same chord. As you begin to work with these patterns in songs and learn how they are used, the fact that they are played in the up-the-neck area will begin to seem natura!. In fact, you should find it fairly easy to begin working out your own up-the-neck arrangements fairly early in the book. As this book progresses, you willlearn how to connect up-the-neck and down-the-neck licks smoothly, how to switch a lick for a lick for single chords, how to create variations, incorporate the melody, etc. The final sections of this book involve techniques developed by Bill Keith, Bela Fleck, Scott Vestal, and other influential banjo players of the 1990s. It is important to realize that the techniques which are used in the advanced sections are developed from the techniques covered in the earlier sections of the book. Therefore, it is important to understand the basics, first.

UP-THE-NECK ARRANGEMENTS
It will help to realize that up-the-neck arrangements are often played as second variations and, therefore, there is more freedom to deviate from the basic melody. (The first arrangement usually establishes the melody in the mind of the listener, so that he or she can appreciate the various techniques employed as the basic tune is expanded upon in subsequent variations.)
Up-the-neck arrangements are frequently of two basic types:
1. An arrangement with a strong sense of melody. This type of arrangement is generally based upon the standard roll patterns, where one finger of the right hand is used to pick the melody notes, while the other two right-hand fingers play background notes based upon the chords to the song. Licks are often used as fill, rather than as the basis for this type of arrangement. Songs which have words often fall within this category.
2. An arrangement which. deviates from the basic melody. This type of arrangement is comprised primarily of licks (patterns or motifs). Arrangements which are comprised primarily of licks can be absolutely void of the tune for the song and still work, as long as the licks are played for the correct chords to the song. Generally, these songs will have a specific motif which will serve as the identifying factor for a listener, such as the intro to "Bugle Call Rag." Breakdowns usually fall within this category.
The following chapters of this book will take you through the development of arrangements which fall within Type I and Type II, as well as arrangements which use a combination of these techniques.

Format: Book/2-CD Set

Contents:

Foreword
Introduction
Up-the-Neck Arrangements
The Y Position
Bluegrass Roll Patterns
The Standard Roll Patterns
"Bile 'Em Cabbage Down"
"Salty Dog Blues"
Summary: Roll Patterns
Chords: Introduction
Chords
The Standard Chord Patterns
"Cumberland Gap"
"Train 45"
"John Hardy"
"Little Maggie"
"Don't Let the Deal Go Down"
"Wildwood Flower"
"House of the Rising Sun"
Summary: Chords
Licks: Introduction
Basic Up-the-Neck Licks
"Train 45"
"Little Maggie"
"John Hardy"
"Mama Don't Allow"
"Crying Holy Unto the Lord"
The "Identity Factor"
Chord Progression #1
Chord Progression #2
Chord Progression #3
"Lonesome Road Blues"
"Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms"
Additional Licks: Interchangeable Licks by Chord
Pick-Up Notes
G Licks
C Licks
D Licks
A Licks
F Licks
E Licks
B Licks
B-flat Licks
F-sharp Licks
Am Licks
Bm Licks
Cm Licks
Em Licks
Dm Licks
Chord Progression #1
Chord Progression #2
Chord Progression #3
"Lonesome Road Blues"
"Little Maggie"
"Salty Dog Blues"
"Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms"
"Jesse James"
Summary: Licks
Incorporating the Melody
Harmony Notes
Accentuating the Melody
"Worried Man Blues"
"Red River Valley"
"Hand Me Down My Walking Cane"
"Wreck of the Old 97"
Improvising: Advanced Section
Advanced Expression: The X or the Y Position?
Connecting Links: Up and Down the Neck
"Lost Indian"
"Sitting on Top of the World"
Altered Roll Patterns
"Blackberry Blossom"
"Wildwood Flower"
"Sally Goodin"
Second Variations
"Sally Ann"
"Don't Let the Deal Go Down"
"Look Down, Look Down"
Melodic Licks
"Dixie"
"Cuckoo's Nest"
"Crazy Creek"
"Limerock"
"Gray Eagle"
Using Chromatic Licks
"Hamilton County Breakdown"
"Cumberland Gap"
"Lonesome Road Blues"
"Working on a Building"
"Salt River"
Single-String Licks
Moveable Licks: Fingerboard Patterns
"She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain"
"Dill Pickle Rag"
"Black and White Rag"
"Salty Dog Blues"
"Salt River"
Using Back-Up Licks for Up-the-Neck Lead Arrangements
"12-Bar Blues"
"Hear Jerusalem Moan"
"I Don't Love Nobody"
Summary: Improvising
Ending a Song
Chord Charts

Disc 1
Tuning
Bluegrass Roll Patterns
The Forward Roll Pattern
The Mixed Roll Pattern
The Forward-Reverse Pattern
The Backward Roll
"Bile 'Em Cabbage Down"
Forward Roll
Backward Roll
Forward-Reverse Roll
"Salty Dog Blues"
Backward/Alt. Forward Roll
The Standard Chord Patterns
F-Position Pattern
D-Position Pattern
Barre-Position Pattern
E-Minor Chord Pattern
"Cumberland Gap"
Alternate Part B
"Train 45"
"John Hardy"
Alternate Forward Roll
Variation
"Little Maggie"
Up-the-neck Arrangement
1st Arrangement
2nd Arrangement
3rd Arrangement
"Don't Let the Deal Go Down"
Variation #2
Variation #3
"Wildwood Flower"
"House of the Rising Sun"
Basic Up-the-Neck Licks
Lick #3, #4, #5, & #6
"Train 45"
"Little Maggie"
"John Hardy"
"Mama Don't Allow"
"Crying Holy Unto the Lord"
The "Identity Factor"
Chord Progression #1
Chord Progression #2
Chord Progression #3
"Lonesome Road Blues"
Substitute Licks
"Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms"
Variation #2
Pick-Up Notes
G Licks
C Licks
D Licks - 1st-4th lines
D Licks - 5th-8th lines
A Licks
F Licks
E Licks
B Licks
B-flat Licks
F-sharp Licks
Am Licks
Bm Licks
Cm Licks
Em Licks
Dm Licks

Disc 2
Chord Progression #1
Alternate Licks
Chord Progression #2
Chord Progression #3
"Lonesome Road Blues"
Substitute (Alt.) Lick
Variation #2
"Little Maggie"
Substitute Licks
"Salty Dog Blues"
Variation #2
"Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms"
Alternate Licks
"Jesse James"
Harmony Notes
"Worried Man Blues"
Forward Roll Pattern
Chord Positions
Other Roll Patterns
Substitute Licks
"Red River Valley"
Variation #1
Variation #2
"Hand Me Down My Walking Cane"
Forward Roll Pattern
Substitute Licks
"Wreck of the Old 97"
Alternate Forward Roll
Variation #2
Variation #3
The Ending
Connecting Links: Up and Down the Neck
"Lost Indian"
"Sitting on Top of the World"
Variation #2
Altered Roll Patterns & "Blackberry Blossom"
"Wildwood Flower"
Variation #2
"Sally Goodin"
Variation #2
Variation #3
"Sally Ann"
Variation #2
"Don't Let the Deal Go Down"
Variation #2
Variation #3
"Look Down, Look Down"
Variation #2
Melodic Licks
"Dixie"
"Cuckoo's Nest"
"Crazy Creek"
"Limerock"
"Gray Eagle"
Using Chromatic Licks
"Hamilton County Breakdown"
Variation #2
Variation #3
"Cumberland Gap"
Variation #2
"Lonesome Road Blues"
"Working on a Building"
Variation #2
"Salt River"
Moveable Licks
F-Position Licks
F-Position Licks Continued
Barre-Position Licks
"She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain"
"Dill Pickle Rag"
"Black and White Rag"
"Salty Dog Blues"
"Salt River"
Part B
Using Back-Up Licks for Up-the-Neck Lead Arrangements
"12-Bar Blues"
"Hear Jerusalem Moan"
"I Don't Love Nobody"
Endings-Group 1
Endings Continued
Group II

SPLITTING THE LICKS, Davis. 2CD TABLATURE

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Splitting the Licks Book/2-CD Set
Improvising and Arranging Songs on the 5-String Banjo
by Janet Davis   

Product Description:
Leads the banjo player step-by-step through working out songs for the five-string banjo from basic melodies in both Scruggs/bluegrass style and melodic/chromatic style. Each section contains exercises and examples for improvising. Furthermore, this book teaches how to arrange music based on concepts of combining rolls and licks. Janet Davis' books are praised because they teach so well! This is one of her finest. In tablature. Includes a CD.

Song Title: Composer/Source:
Banjo Joe
Bill Cheatham
Blackberry Blossom
Bury Me Beneath The Willow
Cripple Creek
Cumberland Gap
Devil's Dream
Fire On The Mountain
Goin' Down That Road Fellin' Bad (Aka Lonesome Roa
Grandfather's Clock
Hamilton County Breakdown
Jesse James
John Hardy
Nine Pound Hammer
Old Joe Clark
Red Haired Boy
Red River Valley
Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms
Sailor's Hornpipe
Salt River
The Eighth Of January
Train 45
Turkey In The Straw
Under The Double Eagle
Wabash Cannonball
Walking Cane
Whoa Mule
Wildwood Flower
Worried Man Blues

Mel Bay Presents

Improvising and Arranging Songs on the 5-String Banjo
by Janet Davis

Cover photo is a picture of a handcrafted Liberty Banjo. Use of the photo is courtesy of The Liberty Banjo Company,
CD Contents

Disk 1

Introduction
Accent Patterns
Rhythm Patterns
Roll Patterns
Begnning Licks
Fill-in Licks-G Chord
G Chord Licks
C Chord Licks
D Chord Licks
A Chord Licks
F, B, & Em Chord Licks

Worried Man Blues
Forward Roll
other Rolls
Fill-In Rolls
Left-Hand Tech.
with Backup

Bury Me Beneath the Willow
Forward Roll
other Rolls
Fill-In Rolls
left-Hand Tech
with Backup

Red River Valley
Forward Roll
other Rolls
Fill-In Rolls
left-Hand Tech
with Backup

Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms
Forward Roll
other Rolls
Fill-In Rolls
left-Hand Tech
with Backup

Goin' Down That Road Feelin'
Forward Roll
other Rolls
Fill-In Rolls
left-Hand Tech
with Backup

Walking Cane
Forward Roll
other Rolls
Fill-In Rolls
left-Hand Tech
with Backup

Wildwood Flower
Forward Roll
other Rolls
Fill-In Rolls
left-Hand Tech
with Backup

Cripple Creek
Forward Roll
other Rolls
Fill-In Rolls
left-Hand Tech
with Backup

Cumberland Gap
Forward Roll
other Rolls
Fill-In Rolls
left-Hand Tech
with Backup

Jesse James
Forward Roll
other Rolls
Fill-In Rolls
left-Hand Tech
with Backup

Grandfather's Clock
Forward Roll
other Rolls
Fill-In Rolls
left-Hand Tech
with Backup

Disk 2
Circular Scale
G Major Scale
C Major Scale
D Major Scale
A, F,& E Minor Scale
G Chord Licks
C Chord Licks
D Chord Licks
A Chord Licks
F Chord& E Minor Licks
Ending Licks- G-D-
Ending Licks- D-
Ending Licks- A-D-F, C-D-G

The Eighth of January
-with Backup

Banjo Joe
-with Backup

Bill Cheatham
-with Backup

Devil's Dream
-with Backup

Blackberry Blossom
-with Backup

Sailor's Hornpipe
-with Backup

Red Haired Boy
-with Backup

Turkey in the Straw
-with Backup

Fire on the Mountain
-with Backup

Cripple Creek
-2nd Variation
-with Backup

John Hardy
-Melodic Variation
-with Backup

Old Joe Clark
-with Backup
-Melodic Variation
-with Backup
Exercise
Advanced G Chord Licks
2 Measure Licks in G
Advanced C Chord Licks
2 Measure Licks in C
Advanced D Chord Licks
2 Measure Licks in 0
Ending Licks- G-D-G

Worried Man Blues
-with Backup
-2nd Variation
-with Backup
-3rd Variation
-with Backup

Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms (2nd)
--with Backup
-3rd Variation
--with Backup
-4th Variation
--with Backup

Goin' Down That Road Feelin' Bad
-with Backup
-3rd Variation
-with Backup
-4th Variation
-with Backup

Whoa Mule (2nd)
-w.h Backup
-3rd Variation
-with Backup
-4th Variation
-with Backup

Wabash Cannonball (2nd)
-with Backup
-Advanced Licks
-with Backup

Nine Pound Hammer (2nd)
-with Backup
-3rd Variation
-with Backup

Train 45 (2nd)
-with Backup
-3rd Variation
--with Backup
-4th Variation
-with Backup
-5th Variation
-with Backup

Salt River (2nd)
-with Backup
-3rd Variation
-with Backup

Hamilton County Breakdown
-with Backup
-3rd Variation

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION.
EXPLANATION OF TABLATURE & RHYTHM.
RHYTHM EXERCISES.
BLUEGRASS-STYLE-Discussion Of .
Standard Roll Patterns .
Fill-in Licks.
Arranging Songs-Steps To Follow.
Songs- Exercises on Improvising:
WORRIED MAN BLUES.
BURY ME BENEATH THE WILLOW .
RED RIVER VALLEY.
ROLL IN MY SWEET BABYS ARMS.
GOIN' DOWN THAT ROAD
FEELIN' BAD
WALKING CANE
WILDWOOD FLOWER. .
CRIPPLE CREEK . .
CUMBERLAND GAP. .
JESSE JAMES
GRANDFATHER'S CLOCK. .
MELODIC STYLE-Discussion Of. .
Scale Patterns. .
Fill-In Licks . .
Arranging Songs-Steps To Follow.

Songs- Exercises on Improvising:
THE EIGHTH OF JANUARY. .
BANJO JOE. .
BILL CHEATHAM. .
DEVIL'S DREAM. .
BLACKBERRY BLOSSOM
SAILOR'S HORNPIPE. RED HAIRED BOY.
TURKEY IN THE STRAW. .
FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN . .
CRIPPLE CREEK .
COMPARISON OF SCRUGGS-STYLE & MELODIC-STYLE.

Songs-One Arrangement in Each Style:
JOHN HARDY. .
OLD JOE CLARK. (See also "Cripple Creek", p. 35 & 67.)
COMBINING STYLES OF PLAYING.
Advanced Fill-In Licks. .
Arranging Songs-Steps To Follow. .

Songs Using Advanced Licks:
WORRIED MAN BLUES. .
ROLL IN MY SWEET BABYS ARMS. .
GOIN' DOWN THAT ROAD FEELIN' BAD. (also LONESOME ROAD BLUES).
WHOA MULE.
WABASH CANNONBALL
NINE POUND HAMMER
TRAIN 45.
SALT RIVER. .
HAMILTON COUNTY BREAKDOWN
UNDER THE DOUBLE EAGLE. . .
BUILDING ENDINGS FOR SONGS. .
Tag Endings. .
Two Measure Endings
CHORDS-Discussion Of.

Chord Charts:
Moveable Chord Chart for Major Chords
Major Chords
Minor Chords
Locating Chord Positions Without A Chart

FOREWORD
This book takes you through step hy st('p instructions on working out song for the 5-string banjo ii'om basic melodies in Bluegrass-style and in Melodic/Chromatic tyle. Each section also contains exercises and examples for improvising.
The first section and the second section deal with working out the basic arrangement of
a song. The exercises involve replacing the x's around the melody with notes. The last section
in the book deals with refining the arrangement of a song using advanced technique. This
section includes examples of songs showing how entire measures or licks can be replaced
with licks fi'om a sheet of suggested alternate, advanced licks.
All of the steps to arranging a song for the banjo discussed in this book, are based on the
fact that banjo arrangements are actually combinations of specific patterns, (rolls, or licks),
which moe played according to the chords in the song. This method of arranging songs has
worked well with my banjo students, and Ihope it will work for you also. Happy Pickin'
Janet Davis

P.S. 1983: SPLITTING THE LICKS has now been
expanded to include over twice as much material as was
contained in the-first edition, which was published in
1977. This edition could easily serve as a supplement to
the earlier edition, for those who have that edition. The
following pages include many new licks and many
additional songs which demonstrate the process of
building an arrangement of a song to be played on the
banjo. Also, the instructional material has been expanded
to include answers to questions from people who
studied the first edition of the book.

ITRODUCTION
To playa song on the 5-string banjo, you actually play combinations of finger pattern (also
referred to as rolls or licks). To improviseo or arrange a song on the banjo, you must work the
melody into these finger patterns, according to the chords of the song.
Before attempting to arrange a song on your own, you should be able to play several
arrangements (from tablature) of songs in the style you will use, in order to familiarize yourself
with the rhythm, the finger patterns, and the overall feeling of playing in this style.
This book will deal with two very popular styles of picking the banjo with three fingers:
1.) Bluegrass-Style-where the melody is surrounded by background notes.
2.) Melodic-Style (Chromatic)-where each note picked is essentially a melody note.
These styles can be combined within one song, or one song can be played entirely in one of
these styles.
One noticeable difference between each style of playing is the rhythm ... where the accent
(melody) or stress falls.

Comparison of Accent of the Two Styles

BLUEGRASS-STYLE
1st 4th 7th

MELODIC/CHROMATIC
1st 3rd 5th 7th

Note: stress the notes indicated with arrows. Generally your melody notes are these notes.
In learning these styles, it is best to learn them one at a time, so that you will become
familiar with the finger patterns particular to that style.

To improvise generally implies arranging on the spur of the moment. One musical dictionary
defines "improvise" as - to arrange, however. For the purposes of this book, the terms
"improvise" and "arrange" will refer to the same things.

TABLATURE -- The tablature format used in this book is fairly standard:
t, i, m, r, p= Left hand fingering: t=thumb; i=index; m=middle; r=ring; p=pinky.
It means to repeat (play again) what has just been played. (Return
to the previous 1/: if there is one. Otherwise, return to the beginning
and repeat the section.)

The five lines represent the five strings; the top line is the first string, and
the bottom line is the 5th string, (the short string).
The number tells you which fret to push down with your left hand. (0 means
open- -don't push the string down with the left hand when picking it with the
right hand).

The rhythm used in this book is based upon standard notation. If you already
understand rhythmic notation, all of the music in this book can be counted in
4/4 time, with each eighth note ( ) receiving 1/2 count. Each X equals an eighth
rest, and also receives 1/2 count. (Each measure contains eight 1/2 counts.)

The following explanation is for those who do not already know how to play the
rhythm of the notes. (For the sake of simplicity, it is explained in ~ time,
with each eighth note equaling 1 count.)
Each measure consists of 8 counts.
The measures are divided by bar lines.

H, P, Sl, Ch = are left hand techniques used for sounding the strings with the left hand; (the
right hand picks the note preceding them). -- ---
H means to hammer the fret indicated, by pushing down the string with the
left finger, hard enough to sound the tone.
-Emeans to pull off of the string from the fret before the one to be sounded by
the pull off, therefore sounding the tone indicated above the P.
SL means to sound the tone by sliding to the fret number above the Sl with the
-left finger(s) from the number before it.
Ch means to bend the string with the left finger, (do not pick the string with
the right hand, just bend it). (Ch=choke)

The STEMS under the notes (or numbers) tell you how long to let each note
ring:

= 1 count. Each eighth note receives one count. Eighth notes are written alone,

= 2 counts. Hold the tone played for the duration of two tones.
= ½ count. Play two sixteenth notes in the same amount of time you play one
eighth note:

= 1 count. (An eighth) rest indicates silence for the indicated duration.
(Pause for one count.)
Repeat sign.

OR- means to stress or accent this tone ... play it louder.

x = pause, do not play, for that count. (An x is a rest.)

NOTE: For more complete explanations of the above indications, refer to a beginning
banjo book.

T, I, M = are fingering indications for the right hand. M means pick the string with the
middle finger;-l means index finger; T meansthumb.

EXPLANATION OF TABLATURE AND RHYTHM
 

FRAILING BANJO, AN INSTRUCTION MANUAL, Eric Muller & Barbara Koehler. 5-String banjo. SHEET MUSIC BOOK with CD & BANJO TABLATURE.

LIBRO

METODO

Product Description:
This is a book for genuine banjo lovers. Full of beautiful photos and hand-sketched tabs, this highly acclaimed text presents a systematic method for playing the unique "frailing" banjo style. "Old-time mountain banjo" is taught with clarity and expertise. In tablature only. The compact disc is in split-track format, allowing the student to play along with the old-time string band or the frailing banjo parts. It also includes Eric Muller's concise teaching. 

Product Number:93335M
Format:Book + Online Audio
Skill Level:Multiple Levels
Notation Type:Tab
Pages:96
Binding:Squareback Saddle Stitched
Size:8.75 x 11.75
ISBN:0-7866-8773-8
ISBN13:978-07866-8773-2
Publisher:Mel Bay Public

TITLES : 

Angelina the Baker
Arkansas Traveler
Caledonia
Callahan
Chicken Reel
Cluck Old Hen
Cripple Creek
Davy
Fause Knight Upon the Road
Flop-Eared Mule
From Jerusalem to Jericho
Georgia Railroad
Gwine Back to Dixie
Hound Dog Song, The
John Booker
John Hardy
Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier
Johnson Boys
June Apple
King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O
Liberty
Little Birdie
Little Sadie
Mississippi Sawyer
Morpeth Rant
Ms. McClouds Reel
Old Joe Clark
Old Jimmy Sutton
Old Log Cabin in the Lane
Old Molly Hare
Over the Waterfall
Paddy on the Turnpike
Pretty Polly
Sabine's Fancy
Shady Grove
Shortenin' Bread
Simple Gifts
Skillet Good and Greasy
Soldier's Joy
Sugar in the Gourd
Sugar Babe
Temperance Reel
Waterbound
Weevily Wheat
Willie Moore
Wind That Shakes the Barley
Winkin' Eye

HOT LICKS FOR BLUEGRASS BANJO, Trischka. TABLATURE

LIBRO METODO DI MUSICA BLUEGRASS, BLUES, JAZZ. 

SPARTITI PER BANJO CON: 

ACCORDI, TABLATURE

About Hot Licks For Bluegrass Banjo
By Tony Trischka. For Banjo Tab, with chord symbols. Blues, Jazz, Bluegrass. Sheet Music. 142 pages. OK63909
Tony Trischka. Over 650 bluegrass, blues and jazz licks in Scruggs, single-string and melodic style. Use licks to create solos and play back up and expand your musical understanding and knowledge of the fingerboard.