The Art Of The Mountain Banjo

Author : ART ROSENBAUM
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 1619115395
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of the Mountain Banjo written by ART ROSENBAUM and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete survey of traditional banjo styles complete with tunings, playing tips, and the author's deft drawings. Progresses from easy tunes for the beginner to more difficult pieces. The styles include up-picking or Pete Seeger's basic strum; two-finger picking; three-finger picking; and what had variously been called frailing, clawhammer, knocking, rapping, overhand, fram-style, flayin' hand, andother Appalachian names, here called down-picking. Audio download available online

Author : Art Rosenbaum
Publisher : Centerstream Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780931759246
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art of the Mountain Banjo written by Art Rosenbaum and published by Centerstream Pub. This book was released on 1981-06-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete survey of traditional banjo styles complete with tunings, playing tips, and the author's deft drawings. Progresses from easy tunes for the beginner to more difficult pieces. The styles include up-picking or Pete Seeger's basic strum; two-finger picking; three-finger picking; and what had variously been called frailing, clawhammer, knocking, rapping, overhand, fram-style, flayin' hand, and other Appalachian names, here called down-picking.

Author : Art Rosenbaum
Publisher : Oak Publications
ISBN 13 : 1783234393
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Time Mountain Banjo written by Art Rosenbaum and published by Oak Publications. This book was released on 1968-06-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Instruction Method for playing the old-time five-string mountain banjo based on the styles of traditional banjo-pickers.

Author : Art Rosenbaum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art Rosenbaum's Old-time Banjo Book written by Art Rosenbaum and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art Rosenbaum is one of America's foremost performers and teachers of traditional five-string banjo playing. He has a long-time interest in the myriad old-time tunings that give breadth and richness to mountain and old-time banjo picking, and has learned first-hand from old-timers in the South and Midwest. Pete Seeger (whose pioneering book How to Play the Five-String Banjo gave Art his start in the 1950s) praised the inclusion of 23 tunings in Art's 1968 Oak Publications book Old-Time Mountain Banjo. This book and 2-DVD set doubles (plus one!) that number of tunings. Art groups the tunings into families and shows how they can be used, with various picking styles, in playing banjo tunes and string band music and in song accompaniment. Experienced players will broaden their knowledge of unusual and interesting tunings and styles, and novice players can get started with common tunings for easy pieces like Cripple Creek and Shout Lulu, the first tunes many old-timers learned.

Author : Wayne Erbsen
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 1609740475
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Southern Mountain Banjo written by Wayne Erbsen and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This friendly book is filled with clawhammer banjo instruction, tablature, lyrics, tune histories, chords, playing tips, vintage photos, and more. Includes such classid oldtime tunes as, Soldier's Joy; Cluck Old Hen; Arkansas Traveler; Leather Britches; Mississippi Sawyer; Chicken Reel; Shady Grove; Red Rocking Chair; John Henry; Uncle Joe; Little Rosewood Casket; the State of Arkansas; Hogeye; the Old Spinning Wheel; and When You and I Were Young Maggie. A companion recording, Southern Mountain Classics, is available on CD.

Author : Art Rosenbaum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780786686025
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art Rosenbaum's Old-Time Banjo Book written by Art Rosenbaum and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sarah Martin Busse
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0618336036
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Banjo Granny written by Sarah Martin Busse and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baby Owen's grandmother learns that he is wiggly, jiggly, and all-around giggly for bluegrass music, so with her banjo, she travels by curious means to visit and play for him.

Author : Cecelia Conway
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870498930
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Banjo Echoes in Appalachia written by Cecelia Conway and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the Upland South, the banjo has become an emblem of white mountain folk, who are generally credited with creating the short-thumb-string banjo, developing its downstroking playing styles and repertory, and spreading its influence to the national consciousness. In this groundbreaking study, however, Cecelia Conway demonstrates that these European Americans borrowed the banjo from African Americans and adapted it to their own musical culture. Like many aspects of the African-American tradition, the influence of black banjo music has been largely unrecorded and nearly forgotten--until now. Drawing in part on interviews with elderly African-American banjo players from the Piedmont--among the last American representatives of an African banjo-playing tradition that spans several centuries--Conway reaches beyond the written records to reveal the similarity of pre-blues black banjo lyric patterns, improvisational playing styles, and the accompanying singing and dance movements to traditional West African music performances. The author then shows how Africans had, by the mid-eighteenth century, transformed the lyrical music of the gourd banjo as they dealt with the experience of slavery in America. By the mid-nineteenth century, white southern musicians were learning the banjo playing styles of their African-American mentors and had soon created or popularized a five-string, wooden-rim banjo. Some of these white banjo players remained in the mountain hollows, but others dispersed banjo music to distant musicians and the American public through popular minstrel shows. By the turn of the century, traditional black and white musicians still shared banjo playing, and Conway shows that this exchange gave rise to a distinct and complex new genre--the banjo song. Soon, however, black banjo players put down their banjos, set their songs with increasingly assertive commentary to the guitar, and left the banjo and its story to white musicians. But the banjo still echoed at the crossroads between the West African griots, the traveling country guitar bluesmen, the banjo players of the old-time southern string bands, and eventually the bluegrass bands. The Author: Cecelia Conway is associate professor of English at Appalachian State University. She is a folklorist who teaches twentieth-century literature, including cultural perspectives, southern literature, and film.

Author : Steven Harvey
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820321974
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bound for Shady Grove written by Steven Harvey and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bound for Shady Grove, essayist Steven Harvey celebrates the spirit of the music of his adopted home in the southern Appalachian mountains. There, at the wellspring of mountain music, he took up his guitar and assumed the journey that culminated in this book. Harvey's essays measure out in words the four seasons of a life in music. Springtime pieces describe playing music in the log house of friends born and raised in the mountains or entering a banjo contest and losing with style. There are essays about fiddles and the devil, homemade instruments and homemade weapons, and a trip to England to trace mountain songs back to their elusive sources. As the book progresses into winter, the mood darkens, with pieces exploring the connection between music and resentment, loss, and death. Descriptions of music, hills, and people blend into a rich harmony as Harvey explores where music has taken him--where, in fact, music can take any of us.

Author : Bob Dylan
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1495061809
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bob Dylan for Clawhammer Banjo written by Bob Dylan and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2018-07-01 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Banjo). 14 Dylan classics arranged specifically for clawhammer banjo, including: All Along the Watchtower * Blowin' in the Wind * Don't Think Twice, It's All Right * Hurricane * It Ain't Me Babe * Knockin' on Heaven's Door * Lay Lady Lay * Like a Rolling Stone * Mr. Tambourine Man * Positively 4th Street * Shelter from the Storm * Tangled up in Blue * The Times They Are A-Changin' * You Ain't Goin' Nowhere.