Description

The "Ultimate" Tunes every banjo player should know! For Beginning through Advanced Levels - includes Scruggs style, Melodic Style, Swing & Jazz, Triplet Style, Chromatics, single string and More! For everyone who plays the banjo!

Contains multiple lead arrangements for each tune. . . so that players at every level can enjoy these tunes. PLUS many "Optional Licks" are included with each arrangement so that you can work out even more ways to play these tunes. A brief history of the origin for each tune is also included.

Learn the song as it is written, learn the arrangement of your choice, or learn all of the arrangements presented for each tune. PLUS this course teaches you the art of Lick Substitution for each song.

Songs drawn from bluegrass, to swing, from rock and roll to jazz, from breakdowns to waltzes.

Features

Includes:
Bluegrass tunes: Dueling Banjos: 3 variations, Foggy Mountain Breakdown (8 variations), Bugle Call Rag (7 arrangements) Rock and Roll tunes: Bye Bye Love and Great Balls of Fire Swing and jazz tunes: (i.e. Limehouse Blues and Bela Fleck's UFO TOFU;

From You Are My Sunshine, Tennessee Waltz, and How Great Thou Art, to Ghost Riders and Lady of Spain!

Each tune was carefully selected to justify the title of The Ultimate Banjo Songbook.

The 2 CDs play ALL of the arrangements in the book. Multiple arrangements in tablature for each song in the book and on the CDs.

Specifications

Song List:

1. Alabama Jubilee
2. Blue Moon Of Kentucky
3. Bugle Call Rag
4. Bye Bye Love
5. Duelin' Banjos
6. Faded Love
7. Farewell Blues
8. Fireball Mail
9. Foggy Mountain Breakdown
10. Gold Rush
11. Great Balls Of Fire
12. How Great Thou Art
13. Lady Of Spain

14. Limehouse Blues
15. Orange Blossom Special
16. Red Wing
17. (Ghost) Riders In The Sky (A Cowboy Legend)
18. Roanoke
19. Rocky Top
20. San Antonio Rose
21. Tennessee Waltz
22. The Entertainer
23. UFO-TOFU
24. Wheel Hoss
25. Yesterday
26. You Are My Sunshine

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I've been playing the banjo off and on since about 1961 when I was 14 years old, though not regularly enough to really get good. In the 70s I subscribed to the Banjo Newsletter for a year or so, but only learned one song from the Newsletter, and that was your wonderful tablature transcription of Autumn Leaves from July 1979. So within the past week I was delighted to find at Music Villa ("my" local music store) The Ultimate Banjo Songbook, which I promptly purchased. I see that you brought it out in 2005, but it is new to me. I'm extremely impressed with the terrific versions of songs and alternate licks that you have included on the CDs that accompany the book. Anyway, I'm just dropping you a note to say "thank you" for the education that your work is providing me! My first efforts will be to learn verson 1 of How Great Thou Art, which I think sounds terrific the way you play it, and I'm looking forward to working on a number of the other songs you have included. Please accept my heartfelt praise for your work! I'll check your website to look for CDs that you may have recorded, though if you would care to recommend one to start with, I'd value your suggestion(s). Frank

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