Earl Scruggs and the 5-string banjo

by Scruggs, Earl.

Language: No linguistic content
Format: Music Score 2005
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CLP - Main Library Second Floor - Music - Open Stacks q MT568.S28 2005x
Location  CLP - Main Library
 
Collection  Second Floor - Music - Open Stacks
 
Call Number  q MT568.S28 2005x
 
 
Summary
(Banjo). The best-selling banjo method in the world! Earl Scruggs's legendary method has helped thousands of banjo players get their start. The "Revised and Enhanced Edition" features more songs, updated lessons, and many other improvements. It includes everything you need to know to start playing banjo, including: a history of the 5-string banjo, getting acquainted with the banjo, Scruggs tuners, how to read music, chords, how to read tablature, right-hand rolls and left-hand techniques, banjo tunings, exercises in picking, over 40 songs, how to build a banjo, autobiographical notes, and much more! The book/audio version includes recordings of Earl Scruggs playing and explaining over 60 examples! Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
Contents
Song section. American made, world played
Ballad of Jed Clampett
Bleeker Street rag
Blue Ridge cabin home
Broad river
Careless love
Carolina boogie
Carolina traveler
Cripple Creek
Cumberland Gap
Dear old Dixie
Earl's breakdown
Flint Hill special
Foggy mountain breakdown
Foggy mountain chimes
Good times are past and gone
Ground hog
Ground speed
Home sweet home
Hot corn, cold corn
Instrumental in D minor
John Henry
Little darling pal of mine
Lonesome road blues
Loraderojost III breakdown
My cabin in Caroline
Nashville blues
Old folks
Pedal to the metal
Pick along
Pretty Polly
Randy Lynn rag
Reuben
Roller coaster
Sally Ann
Sally Goodwin
Shuckin' the corn
Silver eagle
Station break
String bender
Train Number Forty-five
You bake right with Martha White
Yonder stands little Maggie
Your love is like a flower.

Additional Information
Subjects Banjo -- Methods -- Self-instruction.
Banjo.
Banjo music.
Publisher Milwaukee, WI :Hal Leonard,2005
Edition Rev. and enhanced ed.
Other Titles Earl Scruggs and the five-string banjo
Language No linguistic content
Notes In tablature notation with chord symbols.
Autobiographical notes: p. 158-173.
"How to build a banjo": p. 180-195.
CD features Earl Scruggs playing and narrating over 60 examples.
Includes index.
Description 199 pages of music : illustrations, portraits ; 31 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
ISBN 9780634060427
0634060422
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