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I want to play either Banjo or Mandolin?

i love bluegrass music, and im just wondering which one would be good to play, rolling or picking, or clawhammer is just fine with me

They’re both fun to play. I play them both (badly) and enjoy them a great deal. If I had to pick one it’d be the mandolin but that’s just me.

Good luck.

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Long Steel Rail $3.26 …

Leaving Eden $10.26 Haunting harmonies and heartbreaking lyrics mark the North Carolina landscape of Polecat Creek’s Leaving Eden. The second album by the latter-day southern songwriting team of Kari Sickenberger and Laurelyn Dossett, Leaving Eden features the mountain tones of Riley Baugus (of the Cold Mountain soundtrack) on clawhammer banjo and fiddle. Produced by traditional music veteran Dirk Powell….

DVD-Clawhammer Banjo#1 $20.10 In Homespun’s Clawhammer Banjo 1, David Holt, who learned his craft directly from some of the traditional masters, provides an overview of the nuances (how to “shade” a tune) that will make your renditions accurate and true to the real old-time sound. You’ll learn important right hand techniques such as single- and double-thumbing, “continuous” picking, double-thumb rolls, and the all-important “c…

Clawhammer Banjo-Repertoire and Technique Vol 2 [VHS] $14.40 Delve into the shadings and special techniques that give the clawhammer style its drive, power and complexity. David tackles the more advanced picking Ñ„ double-thumb rolls, brush rolls and other right hand movesÑthat will enable you to hold your own, whether playing solo or in a country dance band. You’ll add eleven great songs and instrumentals to your clawhammer repertoire: Shady Grove, …

Old-Time Banjo: Clawhammer Style [VHS] $19.95 Frank Lee, of the sensational old-time band The Freight Hoppers, has one of the strongest banjo sounds around. His clawhammer frailing style locks in tight with David Bass’ fiddle, sometimes doubling the melody and other times providing an exciting counterpoint to it. Frank’s rhythm playing highlights the solid tempo established by Cary Fridley’s guitar and Jim O’Keefe’s bass, making The Freight H…

Clawhammer Banjo-Repertoire and Technique Vol 1 [VHS] $29.95 David Holt, who learned his craft directly from some of the traditional masters, provides an overview of the nuances (how to “shade” a tune) that will make your renditions accurate and true to the real old-time sound. You’ll learn important right hand techniques such as single- and double-thumbing, “continuous” picking, double-thumb rolls and the all-important “clicking” sound that comes from down…

Clawhammer Style Banjo: A Complete Guide For Beginning and Advanced Banjo Players, Vol. 1 & 2 $23.96 CLAWHAMMER STYLE BANJO – DVD Movie…

Singing With the Banjo-Songs and Accompaniment Clawhammer Style $19.49 Here’s a terrific lesson for banjo players who want to sing and accompany themselves in the old time clawhammer style. Grammy Award winner Cathy Fink covers the basics for beginners, then goes on to show the licks and tricks that will add style and excite…

Melodic Clawhammer Banjo – Songbook and CD Package – TAB $19.94 Ken Perlman, today’s foremost player of the style, brings you this comprehensive guide to the melodic clawhammer. Over 50 tunes in clear tablature. Learn to play authentic versions of Appalachian fiddle tunes, string band tunes, New England hornpipes, Irish jigs, Scottish reels, and more. Includes arrangements by many important contemporary players, and chapters on basic and advanced techniques. A…

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5-String Banjo, Series 2 $49.95 LEVEL 2 INCLUDES TAB Continuing the study of folk and country banjo styles for the beginner, these lessons teach old-time frailing (clawhammer) techniques. Celtic tunes and three-finger picking. 26 songs including: Little Sadie • Old Joe Clark • The Cuckoo • Pretty Polly • Temperance Reel and many others.

Bound to Ride $16.98 This disc collects 20 recordings made in the early ’70s by the legendary Ralph Stanley with his Clinch Mountain Boys, who included, at various times, Ricky Skaggs, Roy Lee Centers, and even the late John Duffey. The fierce, elemental purity of Stanley’s sound is captured beautifully on these sessions, many of which feature him playing clawhammer banjo in the style he learned from his mother. But though his banjo playing is very good, it’s Stanley’s singing that has always set him apart from the rest of the bluegrass pack: His piercing mountain tenor voice and his sanctified delivery almost sound like something from another world. When he sings “Pretty Polly,” “Riding the Midnight Train,” or especially, the hair-raising “Man of Constant Sorrow,” the effect is visceral and spiritual at the same time. Listening to him blow out the microphone with Duffey and Centers on “The Lonesome River” is almost literally a religious experience. This is mountain music at its finest. ~ Rick Anderson, Rovi

Clawhammer Banjo – Video Two $29.95 This 2 video set covers the fine art of CLAWHAMMER banjo. David Holt is considered one of the finest players and teachers of old-time clawhamm er banjo. Start with the fundamentals including right & left hand technique. Vol 2 covers advanced techniques including thumb rolls…. EXCELLENT!

Clawhammer Style Banjo: A Complete Guide For Beginning and Advanced Banjo Players, Vol. 1 & 2 [2 Di $39.95 Clawhammer Style Banjo: A Complete Guide For Beginning and Advanced Banjo Players, Vol. 1 & 2 [2 Di

Heartache Looking for a Home $18.98 Charlie Sizemore isn’t really a bluegrass singer, but he plays one in the studio. Listen to the song that opens this album, the Sonny Tacket composition “Down in the Quarter.” Sizemore and his band play it at a breakneck bluegrass pace, but there’s none of the reedy, high-lonesome tone that traditional bluegrass demands: this is a country song and Sizemore croons it like one, regardless of its headlong tempo. (A couple of other selections are written by Alan Jackson and Tom T. Hall, the latter being a particular obsession of Sizemore’s.) When Ralph Stanley (Sizemore’s former employer) joins him to sing tenor harmony on “Red Wicked Wine,” the sound gets quite a bit more bluegrassy, but much of the rest of the album feels much more like acoustic country music. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, of course; Sizemore makes “Feelin’ Like El Paso” sound like it was written for him, and his take on Alan Jackson’s “Walking the Floor Over Me” milks the cute but heartbroken wordplay just right. “Ashley Judd” is a great example of wry romantic longing, and the title track almost swings even as it weeps. Mandolinist Danny Barnes steps up to the mike with his clawhammer banjo and sings lead vocal on the traditional “Poor Rambler,” and anyone who might think that Sizemore and his boys are actually incapable of straight-up acidgrass will be put firmly in his place by the band’s barnburning take on “Going to Georgia.” But even on that bracingly traditional and straight-ahead tune, Sizemore’s vocal is relaxed, warm, and self-assured rather than intense and assertive. That would seem to make him something very rare: a truly unique bluegrass singer. ~ Rick Anderson, Rovi

Junkyard Speed Ball $16.98 Left Lane Cruiser — a two-piece band comprised of Frederick ? Joe? Evans IV on slide guitar and vocals and Bren Beck on drums — may be from Fort Wayne, IN but they sound like a couple of unhinged punk hillbillies raised on the North Mississippi hill country blues of R.L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough. They mine the same sort of modal blues territory but, with half-distorted vocals pushed through what sounds like a shorted-out karaoke mike, they also sound like a lo-fi swampy version of the Stooges, all full of rampaging impatience. Junkyard Speed Ball is the duo? s fourth album (and third for Alive Records), and it doesn? t deviate at all from the sound of their earlier releases — this isn? t a band much concerned with evolving its sound. That? s a good thing, because they make a hell of a lot of noise and pretty much mow through every song with real rock fervor. The opener, ? Lost My Mind,? is absolutely visceral, and it sets the tone for the whole album — track after track races forward with the accelerator down, and if it? s sometimes hard to tell what Evans is scorching his vocal cords to say, well, it? s still the blues and we all know what that means. But this isn? t woe-is-me blues. It? s pissed-off blues. Song after song here clangs away at the end of the junkyard chain, riding Evans’ searing, chiming modal guitar riffs and Beck’s loose-limbed pounding on the drums. ? Shine? gallops like a magnificent drunken plow horse, while ? Weed Vodka? finds Evans’ chiming electric guitar sounding like a clawhammer banjo run through an amp stack set on 11. Nothing is reined in here, and the accumulation of these blasts of hill country tweaks makes this a powerful album, one that replaces clarity with the sheer joy of impassioned noise — stomp it to death seems to be the motto. Recorded by Jim Diamond (who also plays bass here on ? Represent,? while John Wesley Myers of the Black Diamond Heavies adds organ and keyboard to four songs) at hi…

Mark Johnson Teaches Clawgrass Banjo – From Clawhammer to Bluegrass $29.95 “Clawgrass” is a powerful banjo style that combines the percussive sounds of old-time clawhammer with the driving, complex rolls of bluegrass picking. Mark Johnson developed this exciting technique, and it’s transforming the way many players are approaching their instrument. Seven traditional and original instrumentals are taught. INCLUDES TAB • LEVEL 3 • 105 MIN.

Old-Time Banjo Styles $29.95 Old-Time Banjo Styles features respected banjo player Mike Seeger leading the viewer through a variety of tips that will help develop various playing techniques like up-picking, three-finger picking, and clawhammer. The video features appearances y such respected players as Doc Watson, Etta Baker, and Greg Hooven. The video features performances of such songs as “Tom Dooley,” “Old Corn Liquor,” and “John Brown’s Dream.” ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

Old-Time Pickin’: A Clawhammer Banjo Collection $9.99 Ralph Stanley is one of very few bluegrass banjo players who still occasionally takes off the steel fingerpicks and plays in the older, more traditional clawhammer (or “frailing”) style. It’s a more modal and percussive approach, one that carries with it the rough-hewn charm of old-time string band music rather than the flashier, more commercial appeal of bluegrass. This 18-track set (half the tracks are new to CD) is drawn from Stanley’s long run with Rebel Records and includes him playing the banjo in the clawhamer style he learned from his mother when he was 11 years old. The virtuoso speed and considered slickness of contemporary bluegrass are nowhere to be found here, but that doesn’t mean this is a radically different Ralph Stanley, it’s just Stanley working closer to his string band roots. The approach is still the same, and his singing is still full of mountain gospel as he searches for meaning and redemption in the old songs. ~ Steve Leggett, Rovi

Recapturing the Banjo $11.99 Thanks to films like Deliverance and the rise of bluegrass since the mid-’50s, the banjo has come to be associated with white Appalachia in most people’s minds, but the instrument actually has its origins in West Africa, arriving in the New World via the slave trade, and consequently became a dominant factor in early African-American song styles. A simple instrument with tremendous modal possibilities, the banjo, particularly in its five-string version, also has a much wider range of tones, approaches, and styles in its repertoire than most people only familiar with the slash-and-burn speed style of modern bluegrass are likely to realize. In this regard, the title of Otis Taylor’s ninth album, Recapturing the Banjo, is quite literally a mission statement. Taylor has always featured the banjo on his various recording projects, but here he brings the instrument front and center and enlists the help of several other contemporary black musicians, including Alvin Youngblood Hart, Guy Davis, Corey Harris, Don Vappie, and Keb’ Mo’, to present the banjo in a clearer historical light. This is no archival museum album, however, and while it does encompass and illustrate several banjo styles, from the clawhammer work of Davis on the traditional “Little Liza Jane” to the delicate picking style of Keb’ Mo’ on his own “The Way It Goes” and the jug band approach of Harris and Vappie on Gus Cannon’s “Walk Right In,” Recapturing the Banjo remains very much an Otis Taylor release, full of the kind of driving, modal trance tunes that he has always done so strikingly well. The opener, “Ran So Hard the Sun Went Down,” a Taylor original, is a case in point. With a massed banjo army of Hart, Harris, Vappie, and Taylor himself, and amended by Taylor’s daughter Cassie Taylor on bass and backup vocals, the song races in modal fashion with a steam-engine drive not unlike some of the North Mississippi trance blues of R.L. Burnside and company. It’s all pretty exhilarating. This isn’…

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Jens Kruger’s Banjo Method for Beginners

The Murphy Method – Learn Scruggs Style Banjo By Ear – Beginners’ Banjo Video Volume 2 Taught By Murphy Henry …

Beginning Banjo Volume 1 $20.73 If you’ve never played banjo before, this is the place to start! We teach you all the basics of Scruggs-style three-finger bluegrass banjo picking. We use no tablature because each tune is explained note-by-note. Develop your ear as you learn to play. It’s easy the Murphy Method way! No Tab. Tunes include Banjo In The Hollow, Cripple Creek, Cumberland Gap, Foggy Mountain Breakdown, and John Hardy….

Jens Kruger’s Banjo Method For Beginners-An Easy and Joyful Way to Start Picking $16.54 BANJO METHOD FOR BEGINNERS – DVD Movie…

Beginning Banjo Volume 2 $17.45 Build on what you learned in Volume 1. More advanced tunes teach the harder basic licks. We move up the neck to play several tunes. No Tab. Includes Foggy Mountain Breakdown (high break), Lonesome Road Blues, Old Joe Clark, Salt Creek, and Fireball Mail….

Banjo Picking A Complete Method Book and CD $21.25 …

Banjo For Dummies $13.62 A complete guide to the world of the five-string banjo written for both beginners and more experienced players.Packed with over 120 how-to photos and 130 musical examples.94 track CD included – hear and play along with every exercise and song.The only book to offer instruction in clawhammer, bluegrass, melodic, single-string, minstrel and classic styles.From Earl Scruggs’ driving bluegrass pi…

Earl Scruggs and the 5-String Banjo: Revised and Enhanced Edition – Book with CD $19.50 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 r…

Bluegrass Banjo for the Complete Ignoramus (Book & CD set) $13.36 The simplest bluegrass banjo book ever written. It can teach anyone to play, we promise! Includes instruction CD with 99 tracks. We guarantee this book will get you started playing bluegrass banjo….

Wildwood Flower and Other Banjo Classics $19.62 Are you finding the key of G too limiting? What do you do if someone calls for a song in C, or D, or E, or F? Learn to play out of C position and expand your horizons on the banjo. No Tab. Featuring Wildwood Flower. Also Uncloudy Day, Arkansas Traveler, Worried Man, more….

How To Play The 5-String Banjo $17.10 HOW TO PLAY THE 5 STRING BANJO – DVD Movie…

EarMaster School (Educational Edition) 5 User Lab Pack $439.99 5 User lab pack of EarMaster School. Music is really all about hearing. When you play or hear music, your ear recognizes melodies, but can also be trained to identify notes, intervals, chords, modes and all other important music elements. If you want your students to sing, improvise or jam with confidence, they need to recognize all of these elements. Ear training can make this possible. EarMaster is the perfect ear training solution for musicians and music students at all skill levels, whether instrumentalists or singers. EarMaster includes 651 ear training lessons for recognizing and transcribing intervals, chords, scales, rhythms and melodies. Your students can interact with EarMaster using the staff or the onscreen instruments: piano, guitar, bass, violin, cello, banjo and others. It provides detailed statistics on your progress and even allows you to create your own customized exercises. Learn to play, improvise and compose by ear. EarMaster School includes all of the features and exercises found in EarMaster Pro and more. It allows you to create custom class lessons using the tutor editor and supports progress tracking with mulitple users across a network.

EarMaster School 5 $129 Music is really all about hearing. When you play or hear music, your ear recognizes melodies, but can also be trained to identify notes, intervals, chords, modes and all other important music elements. If you want your students to sing, improvise or jam with confidence, they need to recognize all of these elements. Ear training can make this possible. EarMaster is the perfect ear training solution for musicians and music students at all skill levels, whether instrumentalists or singers. EarMaster includes 651 ear training lessons for recognizing and transcribing intervals, chords, scales, rhythms and melodies. Your students can interact with EarMaster using the staff or the onscreen instruments: piano, guitar, bass, violin, cello, banjo and others. It provides detailed statistics on your progress and even allows you to create your own customized exercises. Learn to play, improvise and compose by ear. EarMaster School includes all of the features and exercises found in EarMaster Pro and more. It allows you to create custom class lessons using the tutor editor and supports progress tracking with mulitple users across a network.

The Complete 5-String Banjo Player – The Definitive Guide to Bluegrass Banjo $29.95 The only bluegrass banjo method you will ever need! This program sets the standard for DVD bluegrass banjo instruction. A renowned recording artist and banjo teacher, Tony Trischka covers everything from holding the banjo correctly to melodic banjo style and the standard bluegrass repertoire. This definitive guide to learning authentic bluegrass banjo technique includes music examples, techniques, and songs. Over one hour of detailed banjo instruction plus extra live footage! The DVD includes bonus live concert footage of Tony Trischka’s “The History of the Banjo” show.

The Early Minstrel Banjo – Technique and Repertoire $29.95 Featuring more than 65 classic songs, this interesting book teaches how to play the minstrel banjo like players who were part of various popular troupes in 1865. The book includes: a short history of the banjo in the US in the antebellum period, including the origins of the minstrel show; info on the construction of minstrel banjos, evolution of the lower-pitched minstrel banjo tunings, and idiomatic techniques peculiar to the minstrel banjo; chapters on each of the seven major banjo methods published through the end of the Civil War; songs from each method in banjo tablature, many available first time; info on how to arrange songs for the minstrel banjo; a reference list of contemporary gut and nylon string gauges approximating historical banjo string tensions in common usage during the antebellum period (for those Civil War re-enactors who wish to achieve that old-time “minstrel banjo” sound); and an extensive cross-reference list of minstrel banjo song titles found in the major antebellum banjo methods.

The Visitor $15.98 Given the sheer experimentalism of his past recordings, whether in pop or experimental music, Jim O? Rourke is an enigmatic guitarist, producer, engineer, and composer, but he? s not one who can be placed into a box. Throughout his own career as a solo artist — even across his previous four albums on Drag City that go back a decade — he? s never repeated himself, nor has he sold his ambition short. The Visitor is a single 38-minute piece of instrumental music recorded with conventional instruments — acoustic, electric, and pedal steel guitars; piano; clarinet; banjo; organ; cello; harmonica; drums; etc. By O’Rourke? s count, it took over 200 recorded parts to create it. He exhorts listeners to ? listen on speakers, loud.? There? s a reason for this. Its meticulous sound design and sense of space and sonic placement are paramount. It? s very physical music, and therefore a physical space is required — not the inner one of headphones where more focus would be placed on some of the effects used than the instrumentation and composition — to capture the many subtleties present in the music itself. There are seemingly endless melodies, themes, variations, and vamps in “The Visitor”: instruments are played solo at times or combined in ever new ways; tempos shift; major keys change and morph; elements of folk, country, jazz, and even polished ’70s-style rock guitar pyrotechnics are melded into this seamless whole that travels vast distances without ever going anywhere. None of O’Rourke’s motifs or themes is resolved; none points logically to whatever comes next or comes back again. The entire piece of music is as lovely, elegant, and beautiful as any “pop” or contemporary instrumental recording you? ve heard in decades (or maybe ever), but without the effect of closure as if the work is ever finished. Some listeners may be frustrated by this method of creation and dub The Visitor an overly long, easy listening exercise — albeit one of excess — but th…

Blues Music: Reflecting the Atrocities

Blues music has its inclination to African-American community of the USA. It is a kind of vocal or instrumental music which is generally based on blues notes. The concept aroused from the spirituality, chants, work songs and ballads. The African influence is greatly felled in the notes and call-and-response patterns of music and lyrics. The American and Western music is more inclined to this music genre. It became the foundation stone for the different music forms namely jazz, rhythm and blues, heavy metal, bluegrass and hip-hop. The blues mainly reflect the mood of the singer i.e. depression, down hearted feeling or sadness. The Blues word was used for the first time in George Colman’s farce’s ‘Blue Devils’. It was in the 1912 that Hart Wand’s ‘Dallas Blues’ came and it was the first Blues Music to describe the depressing mood. There is common distinctiveness in the music genre. Showing the individual peculiar habits, the music elements were earlier call-and-response shouts. They were just individual’s performance with no harmony or formal music structure. These pre-blues were simply a solo song with emotional touch. They were often heard in shouts and hollers.

The present day music form has harmonic base and call-and-response format of African and European communities which gave new structure to the Blues. The voice and guitar were incorporated in the songs. The elements reflected the songs of Africa. The most common instruments, Diddley bow and Banjo were used in the early music. The Diddley bow belonged to South America whereas the Banjo was mostly used in Africa to increase the instrumental vocabulary. With each passing days it adopted Ethiopian airs, Negro spirituality and minstrel shows together with instruments and rhythmic supplements. The blues are rewarded for preserving the melodic patterns of African music. The Songs From this genre have distinct musical structure. The songs recorded by Lead Belly’s and Henry Thomas reflected twelve- and sixteen-bar structure with tonic, sub-dominant and dominant chords. The modern form has 12-bar structure with influence of Sheet Music.

The lyrics of the blues were based on repetition. Each line was repeated four times. Currently, the lines are repeated once with a standard single line conclusion. They are sung in the form of rhythmic talk than a melody. The Blues music has given great artists like Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, John Lee Hooker and Bessie Smith. The credit can be given to the hollers and calls without which this genre would not have evolved. It is based on the changing lives of the post slavery era of African-Americans. The music is quite popular amongst blacks and generally reflects on the atrocities faced by the community.

More popularly considered as secular songs, the Blues lyrics highlighted singer’s inner shelf. Thus it was not an innovative approach but simply a presentation of oneself. It describes the condition of African Americans communities. It has descriptions related to slaves’ freedom, Booker T. Washington’s teachings, and the famous Horatio Alger model, who once said that man is the creator of his/her destiny. Lawrence Levine stresses on the fact that national ideologies affect the individual’s behaviour and the blues music reflect this relationship. Blacks were badly treated during the slavery era and were socially and economically exploited. The secular songs reflect this psychological oppression.

The music was earlier treated as folk blues and was sung during leisurely periods. These songs were mostly sung in shows and carnivals. Due to close contact with country singers, the blacks learned to sing professional Blues which are often called classic blues. In the 20th century, African Americans migrated and played the songs in Texas, Chicago, Louisiana, New York, Arkansas and Detroit. Later the classic blues singers introduced this genre to clubs, vaudeville halls, and theaters with the help of New Orleans and Fast Western musicians. It was in 1895 when George W. Johnson recorded the first blues song called “Laughing Song”. The genre gained popularity in 1920 with Mamie Smith’s evergreen songs namely “Crazy Blues” and “It’s Right Here for You”. Online music shop have varied array of latest blues music for the fans.

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Banjo For Dummies $13.62 A complete guide to the world of the five-string banjo written for both beginners and more experienced players.Packed with over 120 how-to photos and 130 musical examples.94 track CD included – hear and play along with every exercise and song.The only book to offer instruction in clawhammer, bluegrass, melodic, single-string, minstrel and classic styles.From Earl Scruggs’ driving bluegrass pi…

Earl Scruggs and the 5-String Banjo: Revised and Enhanced Edition – Book with CD $19.50 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 r…

The How and the Tao of Old Time Banjo $24.95 In 2003 Patrick Costello set out to write down some tips on playing the five-string banjo for an after school banjo club. A few weeks later the original collection of notes had grown into a book. A few years later that book was, and still is, inspiring people all over the world to start making music with the five-string banjo. The How and the Tao of Old Time Banjo has a lifetime of inform…

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Bluegrass Banjo – Don Reno Style $29.95 The banjo style created by the legendary Don Reno melds traditional bluegrass breakdowns with chord-based solos, percussive techniques and flamboyant single-string runs. Don Wayne Reno passes on his dad’s groundbreaking techniques and great advice as he analyzes eight classic Reno tunes. Intermediate level. 60 minutes.

Bluegrass Banjo Backup – Basic Level $29.95 Here’s the ultimate beginners’ “how-to” course for playing back-up in a band, from the simplest basic strum to the chord vamping, rolls, up-the-neck positions and fill-in licks that banjo players use to spark the bluegrass sound. Extra! Includes actual jamming footage to illustrate Pete’s expert instruction. INCLUDES TAB • LEVEL 2 • 120 MIN.

Classic Bluegrass Banjo Solos – DVD $0 Tony Trischka teaches eleven classic pieces, prime examples of banjo playing at its best. You’ll learn them, note-for-note, just as they were played by some of the greatest players in the history of the instrument. By learning these tunes you’ll not only expand your repertoire, but in the process will also become more flexible in your ability to mix up various rolls, play in several keys without a capo, and move more freely around the neck. Songs include: John Henry • Sitting on Top of the World • Gold Rush • Bye Bye Blues • Dixie Breakdown • and more.60-MIN. DVD OR VIDEO • LEVEL 3

Classic Bluegrass Banjo Solos – Video $29.95 Tony Trischka teaches eleven classic pieces, prime examples of banjo playing at its best. You’ll learn them, note-for-note, just as they were played by some of the greatest players in the history of the instrument. By learning these tunes you’ll not only expand your repertoire, but in the process will also become more flexible in your ability to mix up various rolls, play in several keys without a capo, and move more freely around the neck. Songs include: John Henry • Sitting on Top of the World • Gold Rush • Bye Bye Blues • Dixie Breakdown • and more.60-MIN. DVD OR VIDEO • LEVEL 3

John 5 – The Devil Knows My Name – Instructional Guitar DVD $34.95 This DVD has been called the most shocking guitar instruction and performance DVD of all time! In this first-ever DVD from John 5 you will not only take a journey into his twisted mind, but you will also learn some of the techniques that have set him apart from guitar players everywhere. Included here are full live performances of four songs as well as exclusive lessons and instruction on techniques such as: banjo rolls, behind the nut bends, tapping, arpeggios, double stops, country bends, chicken pickin’, pedal steel bends, and more. This DVD is not for the faint of heart and is unlike anything you have seen before! PARENTAL ADVISORY: EXPLICIT CONTENT

Live and Well [DVD] $19.98 For a performer as naturally relaxed on stage as Dolly Parton, it’s rather surprising that it took so long for her to release this, her debut DVD. Recorded on Dec. 12 and 13, 2002 at Dollywood (where else?) in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee while on a short and rare tour supporting her Halos and Horns album, the entirely acoustic performance not only returns the country/bluegrass diva to her musical roots, but to her hometown ones as well. The show, also released as a double album, is far more successful with the visuals, since Parton is noticeably having a great time. Also, the patter that interrupts the flow of the audio-only version works to the advantage of the DVD as watching Dolly naturally interact with the crowd is so integral to her persona. Everything about the singer, from her makeup to her hair and curvy body is exaggerated, but with the songs conversely stripped down to their basics, the effect is impressive. Her voice is clear and strong so she doesn’t need costume changes, fancy light shows or backdrops, which would distract from her talent. Visually, the overlit stage detracts only slightly from the act, as do the incessant photo flashes popping throughout the performance. Dolly plays intermittent guitar, harmonica, pennywhistle and dulcimer, but it is her voice and vibrant yet never pretentious stage presence that makes watching her so enjoyable. The band, which is not introduced, is fabulous. They augment these songs with classy, energetic and immaculately played fiddle, stand-up bass, keyboards, drums, guitars and banjo that straddles bluegrass and old-time country. The subtle but effective 5.1 surround effect helps highlight every nuance of the music. Since the tour supports a trilogy of unplugged albums released from 1999-2002, the set list is heavy on those tracks, but enough career hits are inserted to keep everyone satisfied. Except for what seems to be a pre-recorded chorus on her cover of “Stairway to Heaven,” the set appears to be free of po…

Livin’ Right Now $19.98 Keith Urban’s DVD Livin’ Right Now chronicles his tour-closing two-night stand at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles, December 14-15, 2004. It’s a good time for a live video from Urban, who topped the country charts and went platinum with Be Here, the album the tour was promoting, after several years of increasing success. At this point, he was able to perform a 100-minute set peppered with major country hits (“Days Go By,” “Raining on Sunday,” “You’re My Better Half,” “Where the Blacktop Ends,” “But for the Grace of God,” “You’ll Think of Me,” “Somebody Like You,” “Who Wouldn’t Wanna Be Me”). But the chief musical appeal remained his accomplished lead guitar work. Urban, an expatriate New Zealander, is anything but a Nashville purist; in fact, his music is only nominally definable as country, due to the frequent inclusion of a Dobro, banjo, or mandolin in his arrangements and the slight country twang in his singing voice, acquired from years of listening to country music as a child. Otherwise, this is really pop/rock, occasionally working up a sweat, but mostly in an agreeable adult contemporary vein. At the Wiltern, Urban turns up in old jeans and a T-shirt, his shoulder-length hair parted in the middle and falling in sheets over his narrow face, which is decorated with fashionable stubble; he’s a country Bryan Adams. The enthusiastic audience consists almost entirely of women, which is no surprise when you listen to the lyrics to his songs. Over and over, he pledges undying love and devotion, declaring, “You Won” and celebrating “Making Memories of Us.” When love doesn’t work out, he is heartbroken, confessing, “Tonight I Wanna Cry.” The concert begins with a series of rock-oriented songs, gives way to a mini-set of acoustic numbers, and then revs back into an energetic finish that includes a cover of Tom Petty’s “Free Fallin’,” an appropriate inclusion with its many L.A. references. Urban is really more of a traditionalist than any sor…

Make Up Your Own Banjo Solos – What to Play When It’s Your Turn to Take It! $29.95 In this follow-up DVD, Pete Wernick makes it easy to create convincing solos in common keys that normally challenge learning players: D, C, F and G – without a capo. Pete explores nine bluegrass standards, taking each song’s melody and showing how to weave it into a full arrangement. Songs: Down in the Valley to Pray • Angeline the Baker • New River Train • and more. LEVEL 3 • INCLUDES TAB .PDF ON DISC • 1 HR., 55 MIN.

Make Up Your Own Banjo Solos – What to Play When It’s Your Turn to Take It! $29.95 Sooner or later every player must learn how to create his or her own solos in a jam session. These can be carefully built or improvised on the spot. Pete Wernick teaches how to get the most credible bluegrass banjo sound, from the simplest “placeholder” vamps to solos combining melody notes and licks with full rolls. Tab included on DVD • LEVEL 2 • 2 HOURS

Mark Johnson Teaches Clawgrass Banjo – From Clawhammer to Bluegrass $29.95 “Clawgrass” is a powerful banjo style that combines the percussive sounds of old-time clawhammer with the driving, complex rolls of bluegrass picking. Mark Johnson developed this exciting technique, and it’s transforming the way many players are approaching their instrument. Seven traditional and original instrumentals are taught. INCLUDES TAB • LEVEL 3 • 105 MIN.