Just for Fun -- Classic Rock Banjo


Book Description

Just for Fun: Classic Rock Banjo is designed for your total enjoyment. Each featured song is arranged for banjo based on the original guitar parts, simplified just enough to keep it fun and easy, yet musically very satisfying. Standard notation, TAB, chords, lyrics, and a chord dictionary are included. Plus, matching guitar, ukulele, and mandolin books are available---just for fun! Titles: 25 or 6 to 4 (Chicago) * Black Dog (Led Zeppelin) * Casey Jones (Grateful Dead) * Don't Stop Believin' (Journey) * Go Your Own Way (Fleetwood Mac) * Imagine (John Lennon) * Jumpin' Jack Flash (The Rolling Stones) * Light My Fire (The Doors) * Live and Let Die (Paul McCartney and Wings) * Paranoid (Black Sabbath) * Pinball Wizard (The Who) * She's Not There (The Zombies) * So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star (The Byrds) * A Whiter Shade of Pale (Procol Harum).




Classic Rock Banjo


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(Banjo). Classic Rock Banjo is designed for your total enjoyment. Each song uses the original guitar parts arranged for the banjo. Also, we've added some suggested roll and picking patterns to add to the fun. Titles: After Midnight (Eric Clapton) * Go Your Own Way (Fleetwood Mac) * Hotel California (Eagles) * It's All Over Now (The Rolling Stones) * Jump (Van Halen) * Long Train Runnin' (The Doobie Brothers) * Maggie May (Rod Stewart) * The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (The Band) * Paint It, Black (The Rolling Stones) * Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin) * Sunshine of Your Love (Cream) * Truckin' (Grateful Dead).




Listen to Classic Rock!


Book Description

Listen to Classic Rock! Exploring a Musical Genre provides an overview of this diverse and complex musical genre for scholars of classic rock and curious novices alike, with a focus on 50 must-hear musicians, songwriters, bands, and albums. Listen to Classic Rock! Exploring a Musical Genre explores in detail the genesis, evolution, and proliferation of classic rock. It begins with a background on the development of classic rock and its subgenres. Next, an A to Z listing of artists (musicians, songwriters, and bands), albums, important concerts, and songs; a chapter on classic rock's impact on popular culture; a chapter on classic rock's legacy; and a bibliography. This organization gives readers the choice of starting from the beginning to learn how classic rock and each of its subgenres emerged after rock and roll or skip ahead to a specific artist, recording, or song in the Must-Hear Music section. This volume stands out from other resources on classic rock for its listening-centered approach. Most books on classic rock focus on trivia, history, terminology, or criticism. It also explores the sound of the music of important artists and offers musical analyses that are accessible to upper-level high school and lower-level undergraduates while at the same time maintaining the interest of classic rock aficionados and scholars.




The Great American Banjo Songbook


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(Banjo). Explore the repertoire of the Great American Songbook with this 70-song colletion, masterfully arranged by Alan Munde and Beth Mead-Sullivan for 3-finger, Scruggs-style 5-string banjo. Rhythm tab, right hand fingerings and chord diagrams are included for each of these beloved melodies. Songs include: Ain't She Sweet * Blue Skies * Cheek to Cheek * Home on the Range * Honeysuckle Rose * It Had to Be You * Little Rock Getaway * Over the Rainbow * Sweet Georgia Brown * and more.




The Big Easy Banjo Tab Songbook


Book Description

This book contains 62 fantastic songs, all arranged for banjo. Songs range from classic rock and pop to jazz standards and Christmas music. In addition to the jazz and Christmas tunes, songs by these artists are included: America * The Band * The Beatles * The Bee Gees * Jackson Browne * Jimmy Buffett * Eric Clapton * Cream * John Denver * The Doobie Brothers * Fleetwood Mac * Grateful Dead * Green Day * Michael Jackson * Journey * Led Zeppelin * Joni Mitchell * Van Morrison * Nickelback * The Rolling Stones * Spencer Davis Group * Rod Stewart * Them * Van Halen.




The Boomer's Book of Classic Rock Guitar - '70s - '80s


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(Easy Guitar). As the baby boom generation changed the world, they also changed and evolved. This book is the soundtrack of that change. This book contains easy guitar tab arrangements of 56 songs by the greatest artists of the '70s and '80s, including Pink Floyd, the Doobie Brothers, the Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac, Jimmy Buffett, Eric Clapton, James Taylor, Led Zeppelin, Joe Cocker, Journey, Santana, the Sex Pistols, The Eagles, Van Morrison, Loggins & Messina, John Denver, Gordon Lightfoot, the Allman Brothers Band, Bad Company, the Bee Gees, Bruce Springsteen, and many more!




Early American Classics for Banjo


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Here is the Forgotten Heritage: Great Banjo Music! Discover the birth of the American fingerstyle banjo in this collection of 28 of the finest tunes culled from banjo publications between 1860 and 1887. Learn amazing banjo music by some of the early leading players, James Buckley, Albert Baur, and the great Frank B. Converse, the greatest virtuoso of his day. from folk-style dances to parlor dances such as the Polka, Mazurka and Schottische, to advanced Romantic-period classical-style solos. Can be played on modern banjos or period-style instruments. the CD recording by Rob MacKillop features a gut-strung banjo, and is played with the flesh of the fingertips, in the old American tuning. for modern instrument players, Rob has provided TAB and a Standard Notation stave at modern banjo pitch. Clawhammer players will find many of the pieces in the book suitable for their technique, and bluegrass/fingerstyle players will be able to play all the pieces. Rob MacKillop provides a fascinating introductory essay, placing the music in its historical context, while his CD of performances can be viewed as a stand-alone recording by a leading player in the revival of this great American banjo heritage.




The Beatles Banjo Tab


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(Banjo). Banjo transcriptions of 22 favorites from the fab four, including: All My Loving * Can't Buy Me Love * Come Together * Day Tripper * Eleanor Rigby * Here, There and Everywhere * I Want to Hold Your Hand * Let It Be * Michelle * Paperback Writer * Penny Lane * Something * While My Guitar Gently Weeps * Yellow Submarine * Yesterday * and more.




Bluegrass Banjo for the Complete Ignoramus!


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Beginning banjo lessons have never been more fun! Written for the absolute beginner, this FUN book is guaranteed to help you learn to play bluegrass banjo (How many books come with a personal guarantee by the author?). · Teaches the plain, naked melody to 23 easy bluegrass favorites without the rolls already incorporated into the tune. · Wayne shows simple ways to embellish each melody using easy rolls. · With Wayne’s unique method, you’ll learn to think for yourself! · Learn how to play a song in different ways, rather than memorizing ONE way. · Includes a link to download 99 instructional audio tracks off our website! You WILL learn to play: Bile ‘Em Cabbage Down, Blue Ridge Mountain Blues, Columbus Stockade Blues, Down the Road, Groundhog, Little Maggie, Long Journey Home, Lynchburg Town, Man of Constant Sorrow, My Home’s Across the Blue Ridge Mountains, Nine Pound Hammer, Palms of Victory, Pass Me Not, Poor Ellen Smith, Pretty Polly, Put My Little Shoes Away, Red River Valley, Roll in My Sweet Baby’s Arms, Shall We Gather at the River, Wabash Cannonball, When I Lay My Burden Down, When the Saints Go Marching In.




Banjo Picking


Book Description

Banjo Picking is the ultimate banjo method to develop tone, timing and rock solid rhythm for the picking hand, thorough in scope from the beginning level to the challenges of extreme banjo. with lots of exercises, tunes, photos and helpful text, tools for learning bluegrass, classical, jazz, folk, urban classic fingerstyle or other music, no finger picking banjoist should be without it. the CD can equip banjoists with all they need to develop skills, repertoire and confidence.