Banjo Music & Song Books

Break out of the bluegrass mode and expand your horizons with this collection of 20 famous classical melodies arranged for three-finger style 5-string banjo. Each piece is written in banjo tab and includes rhythm notation, chord symbols and right hand fingerings. Works include: Air on the G String (Bach) · Ave Maria (Schubert) · Ave Maria (Gounod) · Canon in D (Pachelbel) · Für Elise (Beethoven) · In the Hall of the Mountain King (Grieg) · Ode to Joy (Beethoven) · Pomp and Circumstance (Elgar) · Spring (Vivaldi) · Theme from Swan Lake (Tchaikovsky) · and more!

The Banjo Play-Along Series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily with incredible backing tracks to help you sound like a bona fide pro! Just follow the banjo tab, listen to the demo track on the CD to hear how the banjo should sound, and then play along with the separate backing tracks. The CD is playable on any CD player and also is enhanced so Mac and PC users can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing the pitch! Each Banjo Play-Along pack features eight cream of the crop songs. This special volume also includes extensive performance notes for all the songs. The songs are arranged and recorded by renown clawhammer banjoist Michael Miles and up-picking banjoist Mike Kropp. Songs include: Blue Skies · Get up and Go · If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song) · Kisses Sweeter Than Wine · Mbube (Wimoweh) · Sailing Down My Golden River · Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season) · We Shall Overcome.