Strategies for Mastering the Art of Old Time Banjo
Banjo Lessons: A Book Of Five Strings
A Book of Five Strings
By Patrick Costello
Contents
- Introduction
- About Your Banjo
- Practice, Perspective & Speed
- Tuning
- The Frailing Strum
- Scales, Chords & Chord Progressions
- Jamming
- Timing And Phrasing
- Quarter Note Patterns
- Eighth Note Patterns
- Slides
- Double Thumb
- Phantom Effects
- Arranging Tunes
- Finding The Melody
- Open Position Scales
- Closed Position Scales
- Chord Patterns
- Other Scale Patterns And Modes
- Chording The Scale
- Putting It All Together
- 3/4 and 6/8 Time
- 3/4 Time
- 6/8 Time
- Drop Thumb
- Bluegrass & Blues
- Bluegrass
- The Blues
- Delta Blues
- Gus Cannon
- Walking The Walk, Talking The Talk
- Teaching
- Improvising
- Stage Presence
- Moving On To The Next Level
- Dealing With The Fifth String
- Alternate Tunings
- Learning Tunes In Three Easy Steps
- Why I Play The Banjo