Tenor Banjo Chord Encyclopedia
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.39 (968 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0871668777 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 64 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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Mel fronted his own trio (piano, bass, guitar) and played steadily for 25 years! He was equally adept on most fretted instruments and played mandolin, uke, Hawaiian guitar, tenor and plectrum banjo professionally. Mel used to sell D'Angelico guitars. While Mel was actively pursuing his playing career, he continued to teach as many as 100 students a week. He bought a Sears Roebuck guitar at the age of 13 and several months later played his first "gig." (He recalled playing until his fingers were raw!) Mel took up the tenor banjo shortly thereaf
In 1947 Mel formed his own publishing company and wrote his landmark initial book titled The Orchestral Chord System for Guitar. (This book is still in print under the title Rhythm Guitar Chord System and continues to be one the finest rhythm guitar chord texts available!) His Modern Guitar Method was penned shortl
The most thorough tenor banjo chord book available.. A very comprehensive collection of chord forms in every key for tenor banjo
"CGDA not GDAE" according to Alan. I'm just learning tenor banjo but I am a musician with many years of experience on other instruments. I am learning banjo to play Celtic music and from what I am now learning, the preferred tuning of the instrument for Irish music is G-D-A-E. This book assumes C-G-D-A. I'm not sure what kind of music you use the CGDA tuning, but given that it is fairly common knowledge that you can tune a banjo in different ways, it would have helped me if the description or the cover or somewhere discoverable prior to purchase it said "for . Couple minor format detractions Its nicely arranged into chord categories (and not chord scales), which I personally prefer. Each chord has four representations up the neck along with staff notation and chord symbols.However, one thing that bugs me (and it irritates me with all the Mel Bey chord books) is that it is staple bound (at least it is not glue bound like the Banjo Chord Finder) still, practical chord books should be spiral bound, Mel Bey!One other minor thing, useful to use post-it tabs to mark the chord sections. This would have been a stellar r. Thad W Beach said Good reference. Nothing fancy but there are enough different chord shapes and voicings for each chord to help your way around the neck. It has just about all the chords so it is a good encyclopedia for reference if you need to learn some unusual chords for dixieland, jazz, tin pan alley type songs!