Getting Into Bluegrass Banjo
About this ebook
Getting Started - Covers the parts of the banjo, hand positions, first picking patterns, pull-offs, hammer-ons, slides, exercise songs, ending with the professional sounding 'Levelland Mountain Breakdown.'
Review of Rolls, New rolls, and combinations of Rolls, with Examples - Offers the most used rolls in bluegrass banjo playing with often-played examples of each. The player learns many of the licks used in the style with an example of how to combine them to make a solo.
Roll Logic - How to place a melody into the several different roll patterns.
Tools and Techniques - Helps develop left hand techniques through the use of intervals of thirds and sixths.
Creating Solos to Songs - At the heart of the book is this revealing section with many examples of how to create many, many solos to the song 'Jesse James.'
Songs - Put to use all you have learned on these great standards 'Ground Hog,' 'Wildwood Flower' (two versions),'Nine Pound Hammer,' 'Worried Man Blues,' 'Lost All My Money,' 'Old Country Church,' 'Kneel at the Cross,' and 'Train 45.'
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About the author
Alan Munde needs no introduction to long-time Bluegrass fans. From his early creative work with Sam
Bush in Poor Richard’s Almanac to his traditional bluegrass apprenticeship with Jimmy Martin and the Sunny
Mountain Boys to his 21-year stint anchoring the landmark Country Gazette, Alan has blazed a trail as one of the
most innovative and influential banjo players of all time. Along the way, Alan also recorded and contributed to
numerous instrumental recordings, including the 2001 IBMA Instrumental Album of the Year – “Knee Deep in
Bluegrass.” Alan has supplemented his recorded work with several instructional publications for the banjo, and,
from 1986-2007, Alan taught bluegrass and country music at South Plains College at Levelland, Texas, a program
which has produced many professional musicians nationwide. In recent years, Alan has performed and recorded
as a duo with his South Plains Faculty colleague (and former Gazette-mate) Joe Carr. Alan’s extensive body of
recorded work, his instructional materials, and his work at South Plains (including the annual “Camp Bluegrass”)
has solidified his status as one of the true “gurus” of the 5-string. Alan leads his own group, The Alan Munde
Gazette.
