54460 Folk 1011-1042: 11/26/07 5:04 PM Page 1011 FOLK 1012 BANJO 1028 DULCIMER 1015 FIDDLE 1017 FOLK HARP 1019 HARMONICA 1022 HARMONICA PLAY-ALONG 1032 HOMESPUN AUDIO PACKS 1029 HOMESPUN LISTEN & LEARN SERIES 1023 MANDOLIN 1028 OUD 1028 PEDAL STEEL GUITAR 1028 PENNYWHISTLE 1025 UKULELE 1016 VIOLIN PLAY-ALONG FOLK 54460 Folk 1011-1042: 11/26/07 5:04 PM Page 1012 1012 BANJO HAL LEONARD BANJO METHOD BANJO SCALE CLAWHAMMER BANJO FINDER FROM BASIC FRAILING TO Authored by Mac Robertson, Robbie Clement and EASY-TO-USE GUIDE TO OVER MELODIC STYLE Will Schmid, this innovative method teaches 1,300 BANJO SCALES 5-string, bluegrass-style banjo. The method consists taught by Ken Perlman of two instruction books, two cross-referenced sup- by Chad Johnson Homespun plement books, and supplementary resources that Learn to play scales on the Please see the Homespun section for a complete offer the beginner a carefully-paced and interest- banjo with this comprehen- des cription. keeping approach to the bluegrass style. sive yet easy-to-use book. The ______00641570 Booklet/6-CDs.................$59.95 Banjo Scale Finder contains METHOD more than 1,300 scale dia - CLAWHAMMER BOOK 1 grams for the most often-used scales and modes, includ- STYLE ing multiple patterns for each scale. Also includes a les- BANJO Covers easy chord strums son on scale construction and a fingerboard chart of the A COMPLETE GUIDE FOR for the beginner; learning banjo neck. BEGINNING AND ADVANCED tablature; right-hand rolls ______00695780 9" x 12" Edition.................$6.95 BANJO PLAYERS characteristic of bluegrass; ______00695783 6" x 9" Edition...................$5.95 techniques such as ham- by Ken Perlman mer-ons, slides and pull- Centerstream offs. BANJO INSTRUCTION Publications EARL Here is a brilliant teaching ______00699500 Book .................................$6.95 SCRUGGS guide that is destined to become the definitive hand book ______00695101 Book/CD Pack.................$16.95 AND THE 5-STRING on how to play the banjo. The style is easy to learn and METHOD BOOK 2 BANJO covers the instruction itself, basic right and left-hand positions, simple chords, and fundamental clawhammer Includes more solos and standard licks REVISED AND techniques; the brush, the “bumm-titty” strum, pull-offs, for melodic-style banjo; fiddle tunes; playing back-up; ENHANCED EDITION and slides. For the advanced player, there is instruction use of the capo; more music theory. Earl Scruggs’s legendary on more com plicated picking, double thumbing, quick ______00699502............................................$6.95 meth od has helped thou - slides, fretted pull-offs, harmonics, improvisation, and sands of banjo players get EASY BANJO SOLOS more. Includes more than 40 fun-to-play banjo tunes. their start. The “Revised and ______00000118..........................................$19.95 A unique bluegrass/country Enhanced Edition” features more songs, updated supplement to the Hal lessons, and many other im prove ments. It includes THE Leonard Banjo Method everything you need to know to start playing banjo, Book 1 or any other begin- COMPLETE including: a history of the 5-string banjo, getting BLUEGRASS ning method. 16 songs, acquainted with the banjo, Scruggs tuners, how to read FOLK including: Before I Met You music, chords, how to read tablature, the anatomy of BANJO • Hey, Good Lookin’ • I’ll Scruggs-style picking, tuning the banjo, exercises in METHOD Fly Away • Rocky Top • This picking, more than 40 songs, how to build a banjo, by Fred Sokolow Land Is Your Land • Wabash making Scruggs tuners, biographical notes, and more! 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Explains the two Centerstream Publications tions from their popular CD, and present it here for play - main playing styles: bluegrass Ken Perlman, today’s fore most ers who want to dig in for a and clawhammer, and in - player of the style, brings you real challenge. Songs include: Ruben’s Wah Wah • cludes a fingerboard chart. this comprehensive guide to the melodic clawhammer. 2fourteen • Liberec • Free Improvisation #2 • Assunta ______00000074............................................$2.95 Over 50 tunes in clear tablature. Learn to play authentic • Old Joe Clark/June Apple • Beaumont Rag • versions of Appalachian fiddle tunes, string band tunes, Kingfisher’s Wing • Fort Monroe/Danville Days • Yaha BÉLA FLECK – New England hornpipes, Irish jigs, Scottish reels, and Yaha • Rings of Saturn • Green Willis/Whiskey Before BANJO more. Includes arrangements by many important Breakfast • Oma and Opa • Solaris • Flapperette/Red PICKING contemporary players, and chapters on basic and Pepper – Spicy Rag • Triplet Fever • Bach Violin Partita advanced techniques. Also features over 70 musical STYLES in D Minor • Did You Ever Meet Gary Owen, Uncle Joe? illustrations plus historical notes and period photos. taught by Béla Fleck • Middle Eastern Medley • Twisted Teen • Au Lait. ______00000412 Book/CD Pack.................$19.95 Homespun ______00641584..........................................$16.95 Please see the Homespun section for a complete des - MINSTREL TONY TRISCHKA cription. BANJO – TEACHES 20 ______00641515 Booklet/6-CDs.................$59.95 BRIGGS’ BANJO EASY BANJO SOLOS INSTRUCTOR Homespun Listen & Learn Series FRETBOARD by Joseph Weidlich Please see the Homespun Listen & Learn feature Centerstream Publications ROADMAPS – for a complete description. The Banjo Instructor by Tom 5-STRING BANJO ______00699056 Book/CD Pack.................$19.95 ESSENTIAL PATTERNS Briggs, published in 1855, was the first complete method THAT ALL THE PROS TUNE-UPS KNOW AND USE for banjo. It contained “many choice plantation melodies,” “a rare collection of FOR BANJO by Fred Sokolow FOLK quaint old dances,” and the “elementary principles of This booklet/audio pack This handy book/CD pack music.” This edition is a reprinting of the original allows begin ners as well as will get you playing all over Briggs’ Banjo Instructor, made up to date with modern veteran play ers to tune their the fretboard in any key! explanations, tablature, and performance notes. It instru ments quickly, easily, You’ll learn to: increase your chord, scale, and lick teaches how to hold the banjo, movements, chords, and accur ately. The audio ex - vocabulary; play chord-based licks, moveable major slurs and more, and includes 68 banjo solo songs that plains the tuning process in and blues scales, melodic scales, and first-position Briggs presumably learned directly from slaves. easy-to-understand terms, major scales; and more! The book includes easy-to- ______00000221..........................................$12.95 then provides a step-by-step follow diagrams and instructions for beginning, method for tuning each string. intermediate, and advanced players and the CD MORE MINSTREL ______00695485 Book/CD Pack...................$4.95 includes 51 demonstrations of the exercises. BANJO ______00695358 Book/CD Pack.................$14.95