Alternate Tunings for Five-String Banjo Played Bluegrass Style

By Terry McGill. Alternate Tunings for Five-string Banjo is the first three-finger style banjo instruction book written specifically for the bluegrass banjoist wishing to explore alternate tunings. Written using standard tablature, the book takes the learner through the G modal, Standard C, Open C, Bb, D modal, Open D and E tunings. A companion CD is included with each book that includes examples of each tuning and song taught. The songs are played slowly and up to standard tempo on the CD.

The first three-finger style banjo instruction book written specifically for the bluegrass banjoist wishing to explore alternate tunings.

Written using standard tablature, the book takes the learner through the G modal, Standard C, Open C, Bb, D modal, Open D and E tunings.

Students will learn new arrangements for such traditional pieces as Cumberland Gap, Shady Grove, Kansas City Railroad Blues, Pretty Polly and seventeen others.

A companion CD is included with each book that includes examples of each tuning and song taught. The songs are played slowly and up to standard tempo.

Angelina Baker
Boil 'Em Cabbage Down
Bunker Hill
Bury Me Beneath the Willow
Country Blues
Cumberland Gap
Deep Elem Blues
I Ain't A-Gonna Work Tomorrow
Kansas City Railroad Blues
Little Liza Jane
Lonesome Road Blues

My Home's Across the Blueridge Mountains
Old Joe Clark
Pretty Polly
Rabbit in a Log
Reuben's Train
Shady Grove
Straight Drive
The Long Fork of Buckhorn
Way Down the Old Plank Road
Worried Man Blues

B-20762bcd Alternate Tunings for Five-String Banjo Played Bluegrass Style BOOK/CD
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