UP THE NECK BANJO JANET DAVIS 2 CD TABLATURE BOOK SPARTITI METODO

UP THE NECK, BANJO, JANET DAVIS. 144 pagine. BOOK WITH 2CD & TABLATURE.

LIBRO METODO CON 2 CD,  

SPARTITI PER BANJO CON TABLATURE. 

A superb instructional text for five-string banjo dealing with the 5th through the 22nd fret. Included are chapters on roll patterns, chords, songs, licks, chord progressions, arranging songs, improvising, melodic style, chromatic style, chromatic style, back-up, and much more! Also included is an abundance of great Janet Davis solo tabs. Written in tablature.

The two CDs included in this package contain 144 tracks in stereo to accompany the book. Listen and play along with Janet Davis as she explains and plays each exercise.

Product Number: 94820BCD
Format: Book/2-CD Set
ISBN: 0786667338
UPC: 796279087728
ISBN13: 9780786667338
Series: Non-Series
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
Date Published: 7/18/2002 

"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