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Play the banjo with the Pickin Parlor's great selection of banjo books and banjo books wtih CDs.Learning to play the banjo used to be a study in frustration.  Banjo teachers were few and far between and you always had to work around their schedule.  Now you can learn to play banjo from some of the best players in the business and they come with a rewind button.  Whether you are a beginning banjo player or have been playing for years you can now find instructional materials to improve your playing and advance your skills.
 
Popular banjo books.
Bluegrass Banjo For The Complete Ignoramus, Mel Bay's Complete Banjo Method, Earl Scruggs And The Five String Banjo, The Banjo Encyclopedia, First Lessons Banjo, Basic Banjo Chord Chart, Banjo Handbook
 
 
 
 
New and Noteworthy Banjo Books 
 
Earl Scruggs And The 5-String Banjo
 
Earl Scruggs and the 5 String BanjoThe best-selling banjo method in the world! Earl Scruggs's legendary method has helped thousands of banjo players get their start. The “Revised and Enhanced Edition” features more songs, updated lessons, and many other improvements. It includes everything you need to know to start playing banjo, including: a history of the 5-string banjo, getting acquainted with the banjo, Scruggs tuners, how to read music, chords, how to read tablature, right-hand rolls and left-hand techniques, banjo tunings, exercises in picking, over 40 songs, how to build a banjo, autobiographical notes, and much more! The book/CD version includes a CD with Earl Scruggs playing and explaining over 60 examples!
 
 
 
 
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Earl Scruggs and the 5-String Banjo
Earl Scruggs and the 5-String Banjo
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Earl Scruggs's legendary method has helped thousands of banjo players get their start.
5 String Banjo Natural Style
5 String Banjo Natural Style
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This great songbook for 5-string banjo pickers features 10 easy, 10 intermediate and 10 difficult arrangements.
Complete Bluegrass Banjo Method
Complete Bluegrass Banjo Method
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Teaches how to pick out tunes single-string style (one note at a time), how to play chord accompaniment, and how to play solos in the full three-finger, bluegrass style.
Hal Leonard Banjo Method 1
Hal Leonard Banjo Method 1
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Offers the beginner a carefully-paced and interest-keeping approach to the bluegrass style banjo.
Hal Leonard Banjo Method 2
Hal Leonard Banjo Method 2
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Includes more solos and standard licks for melodic-style banjo; fiddle tunes; playing back-up; use of the capo; more music theory.
Gospel Banjo
Gospel Banjo
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Features 15 spiritual favorites, each arranged in two different keys for banjo, with tablature.
Gospel Banjo
Fretboard Roadmaps for 5-String banjo
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This handy book/CD pack will get you playing all over the banjo fretboard in any key!
Banjo Songbook
Banjo Songbook
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A thorough survey of the three-finger picking classics of the early 1900s, transitional styles of the 1930s and the Scruggs style of the 1940s and beyond.
Hot licks For Bluegrass Banjo
Hot licks For Bluegrass Banjo
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Over 650 bluegrass, blues, and jazz licks in Scruggs, single string and melodic style.
Complete Banjo Repair
Complete Banjo Repair
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The setup, maintainence, and restoration of the five-string banjo.
   
 
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