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Taylor Made

Todd Taylor’s Most Requested Banjo Hits
by Todd Taylor
10 songs from the world’s fastest banjo player featuring Todd’s well-known and requested originals are included in this instrumental songbook: Back Home in Carolina - Banjo Blues - Six Guns - The Race is On - Waterfall - Cork Swamp Blues - and more. Online access to audio tracks of the songs in the book is provided.
00242594Book/Online Audio $22.99
 
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The Banjo Music of Tony Ellis


One of Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys in the 1960s, Tony Ellis is among the most renowned banjo players around. This superb book assembles songs from four highly acclaimed CDs Ð Dixie Banner, Farewell My Home, Quaker Girl and Sounds like Bluegrass to Me Ð capturing his unique two- and three-finger playing techniques in the bluegrass style in standard notation and tab.
00000326 $19.95
 
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The Classic Douglas Dillard Songbook of 5-String Banjo Tablatures


This long-awaited songbook contains exact transcriptions in banjo tablature that capture the unique playing style of Douglas Dillard. This fantastic collection includes all of his best-loved tunes, from "The Andy Griffith Show" to his solo banjo albums and his releases with The Doug Dillard Band. Features more than 20 tunes in G tuning, C tuning amd G modal tuning, including classics such as: Cripple Creek, Hickory Hollow, Jamboree, John Henry, Old Joe Clark, Buckin' Mule, and more. A must-have for all banjo players!
00000286 $19.95
 
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The Early Minstrel Banjo

by Joe Weidlich
Featuring more than 65 classic songs, this interesting book teaches how to play the minstrel banjo like players who were part of various popular troupes in 1865. The book includes: a short history of the banjo, including the origins of the minstrel show; info on the construction of minstrel banjos, chapters on each of the seven major banjo methods published through the end of the Civil War; songs from each method in banjo tablature, many available for the first time; info on how to arrange songs for the minstrel banjo; a reference list of contemporary gut and nylon string gauges approximating historical banjo string tensions in common usage during the antebellum period (for those Civil War re-enactors who wish to achieve that old-time "minstrel banjo" sound); an extensive cross-reference list of minstrel banjo song titles found in the major antebellum banjo methods; and more. (266 pages)
00000325 $29.95
 
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The Irish Tenor Banjo

by Dick Sheridan
Play 47 Irish selections on the tenor banjo with this collection of reels, jigs, slip jigs, hornpipes, polkas, & slides. The tunes are presented in multiple keys (both traditional and modal) and are presented in both standard notation and tablature with chord names and large diagrams. Songs include: Bag of Spuds - Cherish the Ladies - Drowsy Maggie - Farewell to Whiskey - Lark in the Morning - Rocky Road to Dublin - The Tempest - and more. Audio tracks are available for learning and listening with pitch and speed control for download or streaming online. Also features traditional Irish GDAE tuning with a chart of basic chords.
00370212Book/Online Audio $19.99
 
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