Mel Bay Publications
Level: Beginning-Intermediate

Discover the birth of the American fingerstyle banjo in this collection of 28 of the finest tunes culled from banjo publications between 1860 and 1887. Learn amazing banjo music by some of the early leading players, James Buckley, Albert Baur, and the great Frank B. Converse, the greatest virtuoso of his day. From folk-style dances to parlor dances such as the Polka, Mazurka and Schottische, to advanced Romantic-period classical-style solos. Can be played on modern banjos or period-style instruments.
The CD recording by Rob MacKillop features a gut-strung banjo, and is played with the flesh of the fingertips, in the old American tuning. TAB and a Standard Notation.

Songs:

• “Too Utterly Too” Clog Dance
• Blue Bell of Scotland
• Boquet Mazurka
• Electric Light Reel
• Jig from French Quadrilles
• Jumping Jacks Reel
• Leaning on the Garden Gate
• Lively Twins Reel
• Minstrel Stage Reel
• Nobody Knows Reel
• The Dell Schottische
• The Dream Mazurka
• The Picnic Reel
• Waltz with Variations

and more.

Early American Classics for Banjo
Bach's Cello Suites I-III Arranged for Tenor Banjo
Bach for the Banjo