Clawhammer or frailing, as it is sometimes called, is the one purely American style of playing what is probably the one truly American instrument. Developed by southern blacks in the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century, clawhammer was already a staple of southern plantation music at the time of the American Revolution. By 1800 clawhammer style was featured prominently in minstrel shows. "Clawhammer-Style Banjo" is a just-about complete guide to clawhammer-banjo playing. It presents, in one unified format, an approach that combines elements of the old minstrel-show style, the surviving traditional southern solo style and the more contemporary "melodic" style. The book is divided into two parts. Part 1 "Getting Started" introduces you to the banjo, basic left and right-hand positions, simple chords, fundamental clawhammer techniques and contains nearly thirty payable tunes that help you assimilate techniques. Part 2 "Playin' the Banjo" introduces double-thumbing and covers such areas as quick slides, fretted pull-offs, alternate string pull-offs, triplets, syncopation, M-arpeggio and T-crossover. The techniques in part 2 are illustrated by over fifty tunes and pieces.

Clawhammer Style Banjo: A Complete Guide for Beginning and Advanced Banjo Players

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Fingerstyle Guitar

Centerstream Publications

Exercises and songs accompany instruction in reading tabulature and the various fingerpicking techniques for playing ragtime, folk, and blues guitar

Prentice Hall Direct

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The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island: Celtic and Acadian Tunes in Living Tradition

Mel Bay Pubns

Celtic and Acadian Tunes in Living Tradition

Over 425 reels, jigs, set-tunes, waltzes, marches, strathspeys, and airs transcribed from the playing of traditional fiddlers make this a "must have" title.

Over 425 reels, jigs, set-tunes, waltzes, marches, strathspeys, and airs transcribed from the playing of traditional fiddlers make this a must have title. Includes access to online audio.

Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island: Celtic and Acadian Tunes in Living Tradition

Mel Bay Publications,Inc.

One of the world's top players addresses nearly every aspect of the popular 5-string banjo style known as clawhammer or frailing. Chapter themes include fundamentals; advanced and experimental techniques; arranging and backup; how to play reels, hornpipes, jigs and other fiddle tunes; how to approach such genres as ragtime, bluegrass, klezmer, blues, calypso, and a wide variety of "national" and regional music; alternative tunings; setup and accessories; and historical background. Features 120 tunes along with numerous exercises and musical examples in crystal clear tablature; all tunes illustrated by author on the extended play online audio download.

Everything You Wanted to Know About Clawhammer Banjo

A compilation of favorite solos on Irish, Scottish and New England fiddle tunes arranged for banjo by one of America’s foremost clawhammer banjoists, Ken Perlman. Formerly published under the name Basic Clawhammer Banjo. In notation and tablature. Includes access to online audio.

Celtic and New England Fiddle Tunes for Clawhammer Banjo

Ken Perlman, today's foremost player of the style, brings you this comprehensive guide to the melodic clawhammer. Over 50 tunes in clear tablature. Learn to play authentic versions of Appalachian fiddle tunes, string band tunes, New England hornpipes, Irish jigs, Scottish reels, and more. Includes arrangements by many important contemporary players, and chapters on basic and advanced techniques. Also features over 70 musical illustrations, plus historical notes, and period photos.

Melodic Clawhammer Banjo

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Books by Perlman, Ken

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Clawhammer Style Banjo: A Complete Guide for Beginning and Advanced Banjo Players

Fingerstyle Guitar

Fingerstyle Guitar

The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island: Celtic and Acadian Tunes in Living Tradition

Celtic and Acadian Tunes in Living Tradition

The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island: Celtic and Acadian Tunes in Living Tradition

Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island: Celtic and Acadian Tunes in Living Tradition

Everything You Wanted to Know About Clawhammer Banjo

Celtic and New England Fiddle Tunes for Clawhammer Banjo

Melodic Clawhammer Banjo