Everything You Wanted to Know About Clawhammer Banjo (book/2 CD)

Mel Bay Publications
Level : Intermediate-Advanced
With notes and TAB

"One of the world's top players addresses nearly every aspect of the popular 5-string banjo style known as clawhammer or frailing.

Chapter themes include:
 • fundamentals
 • advanced and experimental techniques
 • arranging and backup
 • how to play reels, hornpipes, jigs and other fiddle tunes
 • how to approach such genres as ragtime, bluegrass, klezmer, blues, calypso, and a wide variety of "national" and regional music
 • alternative tunings; setup and accessories
 • historical background

Features 120 tunes along with numerous exercises and musical examples in crystal clear tablature; all tunes illustrated by author on two accompanying CDs."

Tunes:

• Angeline the Baker (Octave Up)      
• Arkansas Traveller      
• Banjo Breakdown      
• Bay of Fundy, The (With Backups)      
• Beaumont Rag      
• Black Hoe, The      
• Black Mill, The      
• Black Velvet Waltz      
• Buffalo Gals      
• Chicken Polka      
• Chorus Jig      
• Christmas Day In The Morning      
• Cooley's Reel      
• Country Waltz      
• Crooked Stovepipe      
• Crossing the Minch      
• Darlin' Nelly Grey      
• Dashing White Sergeant, The      
• Dill Pickle Rag      
• Dinah      
• Dismissal, The      
• Don MacLean's Farewell To Oban      
• Dona Nobis Pacem      
• Ducks on the Pond      
• Dudanota (Hungarian Piping Tune)      
• Duke of Perth, The      
• Earl's Jig      
• Far From Home      
• Fiddlin' Phil      
• Fisher's Hornpipe (Minstrel Version)      
• Flowers of Edinburgh, The      
• Flying Cloud Cotillion      
• Foggy Clawhammer      
• Gemstone Reel      
• George V's Army      
• Grandfather's Clock      
• Green Meadow Reel      
• Harvest Home Hornpipe      
• Heather on the Hill      
• High Reel, The      
• Hogeye      
• Honeymoon Polka      
• Hull's Victory      
• Indian Nation      
• Indy's Favorite      
• Island Boy      
• Jamaica Farewell      
• Janet Beaton      
• Jay Bird      
• Jentland Tune      
• John Dan MacPherson Jig'      
• Judique Reel      
• Judy's Reel      
• Ladies On A Steamboat      

and many more