Old Time String Band Banjo Styles book

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From hobogal on 1/20/2014 1:00:54 PM

Just got my mitts on a new book by Joseph Weidlich: Old-time String Band Banjo styles.http://elderly.com/books/items/49-123693.htm

It's a useful resource for players interested in pre-Scruggs picking. It basically features excerpts of banjo back-up for different banjo styles. There's no play along cd but the idea is that you locate the original tunes yourself to hear how they should sound - unfortunately, it doesn't have a proper discography but I have discovered that many of the tunes featured are on the 1928 Ernest Stoneman cd and the Old Hat Records compilations: In the Pines/Music from the Lost Provinces.

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	gailg64 says: 1/20/2014 1:15:27 PM Sounds promising...will take a look. I have his book on 1920s stringband guitar & though it's a bit thin on detail, it's a good resource, esp. if combined with John Schwab's book. There is really nothing out there specifically devoted to up-picking stringband banjo. This might be a good companion to Mike Seeger's DVDs.
	Brooklynbanjoboy says: 1/20/2014 2:16:28 PM Great tip. Thanks. I, too, have his guitar book in a small stack of guitar stuff I had hopped to try out in the next few weeks or so. Just to branch out. Slightly, without straying too far from the banjo (mandatory banjo content requirement thus met). V/R, Lew
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