Ken Perlman: Clawhammer Style Banjo

Product Description

A complete guide for beginning and advanced banjo players! From Ken Perlman, here is a brilliant teaching guide that is destined to become the handbook on how to play the banjo. The style is easy to learn, and covers theinstruction itself, basic right and left-hand positions, simple chords, and fundamental clawhammer techniques: the brush, the 'bumm-titty' strum, pull-offs, and slides. For the advanced player, there is instruction on morecomplicated picking, double thumbing, quick slides, fretted pull-offs, harmonics, improvisation, and more. The book includes more than 40 fun-to-play banjo tunes.

Series: Banjo
Genre: Folk Music
Language: English
Pages: 210
Publisher: Centerstream Publications
First published: 1989
ISBN: 9780931759338

1) Salt Creek

2) Careless Love

3) Skip To My Lou

4) Turkey In The Straw

5) When The Saints Go Marching In

6) Arkansas Traveler

7) Liberty

8) Sally Ann

9) Bonaparte’s Retreat

10) The Yellow Rose Of Texas

11) Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down

12) The Irish Washerwoman

13) Cluck Old Hen

14) Cuckoo

15) Devil’s Dream

16) Soldier’s Joy

17) Georgie Buck

18) I Gave My Love A Cherry (The Riddle Song)

19) Will The Circle Be Unbroken

20) Jesse James

21) Meadowlands

22) Oh! Susanna

23) Red Wing

24) Sailors Hornpipe

25) Wild Wood Flower

26) Worried Man, A

27) John Hardy Was A Desperate Little Man

28) Angeline The Baker

29) Texas Gales

30) The Red Haired Boy

31) Bill Cheatham

32) Little Sadie

33) Flop-Eared Mule

34) Done Gone

35) Mississippi Sawyer

36) Garryowen

37) Billy In The Low Ground

38) Boatin’ Up Sandy

39) Brown’s Ferry Blues

40) Foxhunter’s Jig

41) Ducks In The Millpond

42) Hop Up, My Ladies

43) June Apple

44) Old Molly Hare

45) Sean Ryan’s Polka

46) On The Road To Boston

47) Needle Case

48) Last Cold Whiskey,The

49) Tomorrow Is Another Day

50) Pigtown Fling,The (Stony Point)

51) Waiting For Nancy

52) Little Rabbit

53) Dennis Murphy’s Polka

54) Say Darlin’ Say

55) Old Bunch Of Keys

56) Fiddler’s Reel

57) Goose Hill

58) John Brown’s March

59) Too Young To Marry

60) Kitty’s Wedding

61) Prince William

62) Bunch Of Rushes

63) Bosco Stomp,The

64) Peachbottom Creek

65) Kansas City Reel

66) Chinquapin Pie

67) Possum Up A Gum Stump

68) Tenpenny Bit,The

69) Wall Street Strut,The

70) Upton-On-Severn Stick Dance,The

71) Karis Pers Polska

72) Chorus Reel

73) Don Tremain’s Reel

74) Humours Of Castle Comer,The

75) Sugar In The Gourd