The Ultimate Banjo Songbook - Davis

Description

The "Ultimate" Tunes every banjo player should know! For Beginning through Advanced Levels - includes Scruggs style, Melodic Style, Swing & Jazz, Triplet Style, Chromatics, single string and More! For everyone who plays the banjo!

Contains multiple lead arrangements for each tune. . . so that players at every level can enjoy these tunes. PLUS many "Optional Licks" are included with each arrangement so that you can work out even more ways to play these tunes. A brief history of the origin for each tune is also included.

Learn the song as it is written, learn the arrangement of your choice, or learn all of the arrangements presented for each tune. PLUS this course teaches you the art of Lick Substitution for each song.

Songs drawn from bluegrass, to swing, from rock and roll to jazz, from breakdowns to waltzes.

Features

Includes:

Bluegrass tunes: Dueling Banjos: 3 variations, Foggy Mountain Breakdown (8 variations), Bugle Call Rag (7 arrangements) Rock and Roll tunes: Bye Bye Love and Great Balls of Fire Swing and jazz tunes: (i.e. Limehouse Blues and Bela Fleck's UFO TOFU;

From You Are My Sunshine, Tennessee Waltz, and How Great Thou Art, to Ghost Riders and Lady of Spain!

Each tune was carefully selected to justify the title of The Ultimate Banjo Songbook.

The 2 CDs play ALL of the arrangements in the book. Multiple arrangements in tablature for each song in the book and on the CDs.
Specifications

Song List:

Alabama Jubilee
Blue Moon Of Kentucky
Bugle Call Rag
Bye Bye Love
Duelin' Banjos
Faded Love
Farewell Blues
Fireball Mail
Foggy Mountain Breakdown
Gold Rush
Great Balls Of Fire
How Great Thou Art
Lady Of Spain

Limehouse Blues
Orange Blossom Special
Red Wing
(Ghost) Riders In The Sky (A Cowboy Legend)
Roanoke
Rocky Top
San Antonio Rose
Tennessee Waltz
The Entertainer
UFO-TOFU
Wheel Hoss
Yesterday
You Are My Sunshine