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 PICKIN' IN THE BLUERDIGE TABLATURE BOOK by Bob Flesher
with the companion CD. All the songs have been transcribed note for note from the CD with the same name into tablature for the purpose of learning and improving your banjo style. Each song has descriptions and techniques on how best to play them. Songs include: Meet Me Tonight In The Moonlight,
Blackberry Blossom,
The Good Sweet Ham,
Maple On The Hill,
Wake Up In The Morning,
Lamp Lighting Time,
Flying Down Squirrel Spur,
Whistling Rufus,
Late Last Night,
Sally Ann,
My Home's Across The Blue Ridge Mountains,
Needle Case,
Fifty Miles of Elbow Room,
You Ain't Talking To Me,
Sandy River Belle,
Once I Had A Fortune #406 Price $25.00
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| BANJO HEADS TABLATURE BOOK by Bob Flesher with the companion CD. All the songs have been transcribed, note for note, from the CD into banjo tablature for the purpose of learning and improving your banjo style. The songs are listed in order of difficulty and each song has descriptions and techniques on how best to approach it. Songs include: Nellie Bly, Jim Crow Jig, Don't Bet Money on the Shanghi, June Apple, Gwine Back To Dixie, Picknic On Groundhog Mountain, Buckhorn, Banjo Billy, Rosin the Beau, Buffalo Road, Ore' The Blueridge Mountains, Mississippi Sawyer, Traveling Back To Dixie, John Brown's Dream, Ham Beats All Meat, Hand Me Down My Walking Cane, Old Joe Kicking Up, Boatman's Dance, Home, Sweet Home. and others. #405 Price $25.00 |
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OLD-TIME CLAWHAMMER TABLATURE by Bob Flesher with the companion CD. All the songs, including the variations are tabbed out in easy to read tablature. If you can play banjo, you can learn these songs, note for note, as they are on the tape and CD with all the tricky little licks including thumb lead on "Snowdrop". Instructions for reading tablature are included. This book and tape or CD will help you advance your playing skills. No. 401T, Price $25.00 |
| Learning Minstrel Banjo by Bob Flesher is a book for learning the Minstrel Banjo Style for the person who has never played. It is taught with easy exercises which will have you playing the basic style in no time at all. From this book you can graduate the advanced book below. Also included is a brief history of the banjo and 25 old minstrel songs to learn with words. Songs include: Walk Along John, Buffalo Gals, Oh! Susanna, Rose of Alabama, Nicodemus Johnson, Jin Along Josie, Kitty Wells, Gumbo Chaff Jig, Hear Dem Toenails Jingle, Johnson Boys, Gwine On Down to Town, Gwine to Run All Night, Uncle Ned, Bluetail Fly, Who Dat Rabbit, Fine Old Colored Gemman, Whar Did You Come From? and others. #500 Price $15.00 |
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THE MINSTREL BANJO STROKE STYLE by Bob Flesher. This book and cassette tape or CD feature 60 songs written in easy to read tablature so you can learn to play the old minstrel stroke style with all of its fancy licks. The stroke style is a fancy form of clawhammer or frailing but it includes licks that have been forgotten over the years, like thumb lead, 6/8 rhythm, arpeggios, and triplets. The cassette tape follows along with each song being played slowly enough to hear the intricate licks, but fast enough to hear the melody. All of these songs have been taken from seven different banjo instructional tutors that were written in musical notation. These books include the 1855 Briggs, the 1859 Rice, the 1860 Buckley, 1863 Converse songster, the 1865 Converse, the 1868 Buckley, and the 1872 Converse. Included are instructions on tuning to the low minstrel pitch and how to read tablature.Available with CD - #501CD or cassette tape - 501T. Price $30.00 |
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Origin of Negro Minstrelsy is a collection of articles reprinted from the New York Clipper in the 1870s when the question arose, who was the first minstrel troupe, the Virginia Minstrels or Christys Minstrels? Dan Emmitt and his mates detail in the first person how it all started. Included is an article by Charles White who was in the third minstrel band formed and Billy Whitlock tells how he learned to play banjo from Joel Sweeney. Also included is the story of Ralph Keeler, a banjo player and dancer who ran away from home as a boy and performed in a minstrel band for three years on a Mississippi Riverboat. Original playbills and old banjo ads included. #513 - Price $8.00 |