Over 650 bluegrass, blues, and jazz licks in Scruggs, single-string, and melodic styles. Learn to use licks to create solos, play back-up, expand your musical knowledge and understanding of the fingerboard.
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A must for banjo players.,
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This review is from: Hot Licks for Bluegrass Banjo (Paperback)
This book is packed full of great licks. It changed my playing overnight. Tony's clear and insightful teaching style comes through as always. I learn something new from it all the time and it's at the top of my stack when I sit down to practice.
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Great book, not for beginners,
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I checked this book out of the library a few years ago when I was first learning bluegrass banjo (preceded by a couple of years playing Old Time banjo), and it didn't help at all. I needed more basic instruction and I needed to learn songs, which this book doesn't really have. It's all licks, and "hot" licks at that. I got frustrated and returned the book without learning a thing.
Flash forward to about 6-months ago: I bought the book and am working through it. It's improved my pickin' more than any other book. The licks are clearly presented, creative, useful, and fun. But it took a few years of practice to get to the point where the book was useful.
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I had this book when I first learned to play banjo, then somehow lost my copy. It's not a perfect book by any means, but it's full of good ideas and I thought it worthwhile to have again. The book is a huge collection of 1 and 2 measure excerpts done in tablature notation. You can learn bits and pieces as you see fit; pop around to nearly any spot in the book and learn a new trick. Piece together the licks to make your own thing from the various ideas. This is a good book for both beginner and experienced banjo player.
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Scruggs licks are largely based on a small number of building blocks which can be extended or combined in an almost infinite variety of ways. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
following licks, next lick, two licks, last lick, first lick Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Foggy Mountain Breakdown, Bill Keith, Little Maggie, Bela Fleck, Don Reno, Jimmy Martin, New York, Salty Dog, Lonesome Road Blues, Ralph Stanley, Sonny Osborne, Bluegrass Breakdown, Country Gazette, Lamar Grier, Peter Schwimmer, Salt Creek New!
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Scruggs licks are largely based on a small number of building blocks which can be extended or combined in an almost infinite variety of ways. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
following licks, next lick, two licks, last lick, first lick Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Foggy Mountain Breakdown, Bill Keith, Little Maggie, Bela Fleck, Don Reno, Jimmy Martin, New York, Salty Dog, Lonesome Road Blues, Ralph Stanley, Sonny Osborne, Bluegrass Breakdown, Country Gazette, Lamar Grier, Peter Schwimmer, Salt Creek New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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