Splitting the Licks - Improvising and Arranging Songs on the 5-String Banjo Book 2-CD Set

Product Number: 93998BCD 
ISBN: 0786665297 
Publisher: Mel Bay Pub., Inc. 
Difficulty Level: Intermediate 
Format: Book/2-CD Set

Leads the banjo player step-by-step through working out songs for the five-string banjo from basic melodies in both Scruggs/bluegrass style and melodic/chromatic style. Each section contains exercises and examples for improvising. Furthermore, this book teaches how to arrange music based on concepts of combining rolls and licks. Janet Davis' books are praised because they teach so well! This is one of her finest. In tablature. Includes a CD.

CONTENTS

Song Title:

Banjo Joe  
Bill Cheatham  
Blackberry Blossom  
Bury Me Beneath The Willow  
Cripple Creek  
Cumberland Gap  
Devil's Dream  
Fire On The Mountain  
Goin' Down That Road Fellin' Bad (Aka Lonesome Roa  
Grandfather's Clock  
Hamilton County Breakdown  
Jesse James  
John Hardy  
Nine Pound Hammer  
Old Joe Clark  
Red Haired Boy  
Red River Valley  
Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms  
Sailor's Hornpipe  
Salt River  
The Eighth Of January  
Train 45  
Turkey In The Straw  
Under The Double Eagle  
Wabash Cannonball  
Walking Cane  
Whoa Mule  
Wildwood Flower  
Worried Man Blues