The Getting Into Bluegrass
Banjo book and CD by Alan Munde is the accumulation of successful
teaching concepts developed in his 40 plus years as a professional
bluegrass musician and teacher. Munde presents a straight-forward
and well-founded course of bluegrass banjo essentials. Designed for
those who have never played a stringed instrument to those taking up
bluegrass banjo as a second instrument.
- Getting Started - Covers the parts of the banjo, hand
positions, first picking patterns, pull-offs, hammer-ons,
slides, exercise songs, ending with the professional sounding
“Levelland Mountain Breakdown.”
- Review of Rolls, New rolls, and combinations of Rolls, with
Examples – Offers the most used rolls in bluegrass banjo playing
with often-played examples of each. The player learns many of
the licks used in the style with an example of how to combine
them to make a solo.
- Roll Logic – How to place a melody into the several
different roll patterns.
- Tools and Techniques – Helps develop left hand techniques
through the use of intervals of thirds and sixths.
- Creating Solos to Songs – At the heart of the book is this
revealing section with many examples of how to create many, many
solos to the song “Jesse James.”
- Songs – Put to use all you have learned on these great
standards “Ground Hog,” “Wildwood Flower” (two versions),“Nine
Pound Hammer,” “Worried Man Blues,” “Lost All My Money,” “Old
Country Church,” “Kneel at the Cross,” and “Train 45.”
$17.95
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