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Beyond bluegrass banjo : etudes and ideas for the modern banjo player / by Dave Hollender and Matt Glaser ; edited by Jonathan Feist.

by Hollender, Dave.

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Berklee Press ; Distributed by Hal Leonard, c2011.

Banjo -- Studies and exercises.

Banjo -- Instruction and study

Bluegrass music -- Instruction and study.

9780876391181 (pbk.)

0876391188 (pbk.)

Alternate title:

Etudes and ideas for the modern banjo player

viii, 64 p. of music ; 31 cm. + 1 CD (digital ; 12 cm.)

Pieces for banjo, principally composed by Glaser, each with preceding discussion of technical issues and performance instructions.

In staff notation and tablature; with chord symbols.

Companion CD contains recordings of each piece in the book, one track performed by full band and one for play along.

"Banjo: Improvisation."--Front cover.

Includes pref. and biographical notes.

Lamb chops (Skeletal melody and the five levels of improvisation) -- The girl I left behind me (Reharmonization) -- The infinite blackberry blossom (Melodic cells and progressive rhythmic variation) -- The ark and the saw (Changing the mode) -- Act natural (Mutually exclusive triads) -- High windy (Developing motifs and upper-structure triads) -- IHOP (Mixolydian melody) -- Hot lick fiddle chick (Constantly flowing eighth notes) -- Gunshot wound in the E.R. (Dominant 7th chords around the cycle) -- Fishy hornpipe (Tetrachords) -- The girl I left behind me (Solo banjo with reharmonization).

Feist, Jonathan.

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