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"Learning To Play 'Old-Style' or 'Clawhammer' Banjo"

This book is for beginners. It takes the student through reading tablature, learning the basic "licks" of old style banjo picking, and then progresses through 22 banjo tunes. Two tunings are taught, the standard G tuning and also the Open C tuning.

Included tunes are:

I Come Down The New Cut Road
Hand Me Down My Walking Cane
Katy Kline
Jesse James
Bile Them Cabbage Down
Cripple Creek
The Uncloudy Day
I'll Fly Away
Old Joe Clark
Golden Slippers
Say Darlin' Say
Goodbye Liza Jane
The Battle of New Orleans
Sweet Marie
Liza Jane
Hop High Ladies
Speed Of The Plow
Whitesburg
Crooked Stovepipe
LaFayette
Whiskey Before Breakfast
Rachel

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Dave Dougherty
3336 Polls Creek Road
Smilax, KY 41764

"Twenty Tunes For Old Time Banjo"

This book contains twenty clawhammer banjo tunes as arranged and played by Uncle Dave. All tunes are written in the "Open C" banjo tuning, a neglected tuning for 5 string banjo. Most of the melodies are old time fiddle tunes played as close to "note for note" as is possible. This book includes a CD with audio samples of each tune.
Included tunes are:

Angelina Baker
Arkansas Traveler
Bonaparte Crossing The Rhine
Briar Picker Brown
Cousin Sally Brown
Dixie
Forked Deer
Hangman's Reel
Jaybird
Liberty
Needle Case
Over The Waterfall
Rabbit In The Pea Patch
Soldier's Joy
St. Anne's Reel
Susanna Miranda
The Belle of Lexington
The Year of Jubilo
Watermelon Smiling On The Vine
Yellow Barber

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To purchase this book send $20.00 plus $3.95 for shipping to:

Dave Dougherty
3336 Polls Creek Road
Smilax, KY 41764