Clawhammer Banjo From Scratch Book/Ola

Clawhammer Banjo From Scratch Book and Online Audio 📚🖥️🎵

A Go To Resource For Mastering The Banjo With Step-By-Step Instruction For Beginners With Demonstration Audio 

"Clawhammer Banjo From Scratch" is your comprehensive guide to learning the clawhammer banjo style from scratch. Written by Southern Appalachian native Dan Levenson and published by Mel Bay Publications, this book provides step-by-step instructions for beginners, assuming no prior knowledge of playing the five-string banjo in the clawhammer style.

The book starts by offering a brief history of the 5-string banjo and covers essential topics such as banjo parts, proper banjo holding techniques, and correct hand positions for both the right and left hands. Dan Levenson then introduces the basic clawhammer strum, breaking it down into finger and thumb movements for clarity.

As you progress, you'll learn about chords, scales, and individual notes for 12 popular jam session tunes. The book also grants access to online audio resources, which include exercises, tunes played at varying tempos (slow and up to speed), and fiddle versions of each tune. With 128 pages of valuable content, "Clawhammer Banjo From Scratch" is your go-to resource for mastering this unique banjo playing style.

Contents: 

• Introduction - Clawhammer From Scratch: A Guide for the Claw-less
• Beginning at the Beginning
• Basic Structure of this Book
• Banjo Basics
• Knowing Your Banjo
• Tablature
• Holding your banjo
• Left Arm and Left Hand Position
• Right Hand and Arm Position
• Tuning I
• Fretting the Notes
• Tuning II - Other Tuning Methods
• The Tuning Fork; Pitch pipe
• Double Thumb
• The Metronome
• Chords
• Tab - Example 4 - Brush Thumb Exercise
• The Fiddle Tune and Old Time Banjo
• Your First Tune: Spotted Pony
• Tab - Example 5 - Brush Thumb Spotted Pony - chorded version
• Double - Thumb II - Finger to individual strings
• Tab - Example 6 - Double Thumb exercise - individual strings
• Tab - Example 7 - Double Thumb exercise - 1st to 4th
• Tab - Example 8 - Double Thumb exercise - 4th to 1st
• Tab - Example 9 - Double Thumb exercise - 4th to 1st to 4th, 1st to 4th to 1st
• Your First Scales
• Tab - Examples 10 & 11 - Basic and Extended double C scales
• Tab - Example 12 - Extended C Plus Scale
• Double Thumb Spotted Pony in C
• Tab - Example 13 - Double Thumb Spotted Pony in C
• Tuning III - Double D Tuning
• Capo
• Review in D
• Tabs - Examples 14 & 15 - Chords in D; Chorded Pony in D
• Tab - Example 16 - Double D scale
• Tab - Example 17 - Double Thumb Spotted Pony in D
• Rest of the Tunes - The Double Thumb Collection
• Angelina Baker (Angeline the Baker) - Double thumb version
• Arkansas Traveler - Double thumb version
• Forked Deer - Double thumb version
• Fortune - Double thumb version
• Mississippi Sawyer - Double thumb version
• Old Molly Hare - Double thumb version
• Over the Waterfall - Double thumb version
• Rock the Cradle Joe - Double thumb version
• Soldier's Joy - Double thumb version
• Spotted Pony - Double thumb version
• West Fork Gals - Double thumb version
• Year of Jubilo (Lincoln's Gunboats) - Double thumb version
• Drop Thumb
• Tab - Example 18 - Drop Thumb 1-2-1-5 Example
• Tab - Example 19 - Drop Thumb Exercise
• Tab - Example 20 - Brush Thumb, Drop Thumb Spotted Pony
• Tab - Example 21 - Drop Thumb D scale
• Drop Thumb Collection
• Angelina Baker (Angeline Baker) - Drop thumb version
• Arkansas Traveler - Drop thumb version
• Forked Deer - Drop thumb version
• Fortune - Drop thumb version
• Mississippi Sawyer - Drop thumb version
• Old Molly Hare - Drop thumb version
• Over the Waterfall - Drop thumb version
• Rock the Cradle Joe - Drop thumb version
• Soldier's Joy - Drop thumb version
• Spotted Pony - Drop thumb version
• West Fork Gals - Drop thumb version
• Year of Jubilo (Lincoln's Gunboats) - Drop thumb version
• Beyond Basics
• Single Thumb
• Tabs - Example 22 & 23 - Single thumb examples
• Tab - Example 24 - Single thumb exercise
• Tab - Example 25 - Single Thumb Brush Thumb Pony in D
• Rests and other holes in the music
• Tabs - Examples 26 & 27 - Rests
• Hammer-ons, Pull-offs and Slides
• Tabs - Examples 28 &29 - Hammer-on examples; hammer-on scale
• Tabs - Examples 30-32 - Triplet example; Pull-off examples; Pull-off scale
• Tabs - Examples 33 & 34 - Hammer-on, pull-off combinations; Slide example
• Tab - Example 35 - Hammer-on, pull-off and slide exercise
• The Kitchen Sink Collection
• Angelina Baker (Angeline Baker) - Kitchen sink version
• Arkansas Traveler - Kitchen sink version
• Forked Deer - Kitchen sink version
• Fortune - Kitchen sink version
• Mississippi Sawyer - Kitchen sink version
• Old Molly Hare - Kitchen sink version
• Over the Waterfall - Kitchen sink version
• Rock the Cradle Joe - Kitchen sink version
• Soldier's Joy - Kitchen sink version
• Spotted Pony - Kitchen sink version
• West Fork Gals - Kitchen sink version
• Year of Jubilo (Lincoln's Gunboats) - Kitchen sink version