Description
Newly updated and revised, this easy-to-use beginner’s guide is a continuation of the banjo basics and techniques taught in Book 1. The material in Book 2 not only reinforces and strengthens Book 1 instruction, but also features many new songs, techniques and rolls to learn and play. Covers: right-hand rolls and patterns; playing back-up; melodic style banjo; fiddle tunes & reels; solos and licks; new hammers, pull and slides; banjo chimes; scales & modes; using a capo; and more! The accompanying CD contains 63 tracks of full-band demos for every song in the book!
Song List
- This Old Man
- This Little Light Of Mine
- Worried Man Blues
- All The Good Times
- My Home’s Across The Blue Ridge Mountains
- Down In The Valley
- Wade In The Water
- (Go Tell Aunt Rhody) The Ole Grey Goose Is Dead
- Cripple Creek
- The Drunken Sailor
- Shady Grove
- Do Lord
- Boil Them Cabbage Down
- Sailing
- The Crawdad Song
- Give Me That Old Time Religion
- She’ll Be Comin’ ’round The Mountain
- He’s Got The Whole World In His Hands
- Hush, Little Baby
- (Oh, My Darling) Clementine
- Cuckoo
- Dog Named Blue
- Old Joe Clark
- Rock-A-My Soul
- Foggy Mountain Top
- Frere Jacques (Are You Sleeping?)
- Green Corn
- Hand Me Down My Walking Cane
- Hard, Ain’t It Hard
- Jesse James
- Little Birdie
- Little Lord Jesus
- Long Journey Home
- Oh! Susanna
- The Old Gray Mare
- Roll In My Sweet Baby’s Arms
- Rye Whiskey
- Sinner Man
- Streets Of Laredo (The Cowboy’s Lament)