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Bell Mountain
Music
Multiple Levels
MB93335BCD - Mel Bay Frailing the 5-String Banjo
Book & CD
- $21.95
This is a book for
genuine banjo lovers.
Full of beautiful
photos and hand-sketched tabs, this highly acclaimed text
presents a systematic method for playing the unique "frailing"
banjo style.
"Old-time
mountain banjo" is taught with clarity and expertise.
In tablature only.
The compact disc
is in split-track format, allowing the student to play along
with the old-time string band or the frailing banjo parts.
It also includes
Eric Muller's concise teaching.
Contents:
Preface
Chapter 1: Some Preliminary Notes
Chapter 2: The Basic Frailing Motion
Chapter 3: Adding the Thumb and 5th String to the Basic Frailing
Motion
Chapter 4: The Brush Stroke
Chapter 5: The Pull-Off
Chapter 6: Hammering
Chapter 7: Some Songs
Chapter 8: Drop-Thumb Frailing
Chapter 9: The Roll
Chapter 10: The Triplet
Chapter 11: Some More Songs
Chapter 12: Melodic Drop-Thumb Frailing
Appendices
Appendix A: Tuning the Banjo
Appendix B: Chord Diagrams
Appendix C: Discography
Alphabetical Index of Songs:
Angeline the
Baker, Arkansas Traveler, Caledonia, Callahan, Chicken Reel, Cluck Old Hen, Cripple Creek, Davy, Fause Knight Upon
the Road, Flop-Eared Mule, From Jerusalem to
Jericho, Georgia Railroad, Gwine Back to
Dixie Hound Dog Song, John Booker, John Hardy, Johnny Has Gone
for a Soldier, Johnson Boys, June Apple, King Kong Kitchie
Kitchie Ki-Me-O, Liberty, Little Birdie, Little Sadie, Mississippi
Sawyer, Morpeth Rant, Ms. McClouds Reel, Old Joe Clark, Old Jimmy Sutton, Old Log Cabin in
the Lane, Old Molly Hare, Over the
Waterfall, Paddy on the
Turnpike, Pretty Polly, Sabine’s Fancy, Shady Grove, Shortenin’ Bread, Simple Gifts, Skillet Good and
Greasy, Soldier’s Joy, Sugar in the
Gourd, Sugar Babe, Temperance Reel, Waterbound, Weevily Wheat, Willie Moore, Wind That Shakes
the Barley, Winkin’ Eye
Multiple Levels