First 50 Bluegrass Songs You Should Play on Banjo

This one-of-a-kind collection features 50 must-know bluegrass songs that every banjo picker should have in their toolbox! Songs are appropriate for three-finger style 5-string banjo. Created especially for those who are just starting their 5-string banjo journeys, this book provides easy-to-read banjo tab, chord grids and lyrics to the most popular bluegrass songs and fiddle tunes. Banjo guru Fred Sokolow shares interesting historical information for each song, and provides the right-hand fingerings, left-hand chord shapes, and techniques to help you learn these classic songs. Many of the solos are accurate transcription of the playing of famous bluegrass banjo pickers.

Songs include: Ballad of Jed Clampett (Flatt & Scruggs) • Blue Moon of Kentucky (Bill Monroe) • Cripple Creek (trad.) • Foggy Mountain Breakdown (Flatt & Scruggs) • I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow (Stanley Brothers) • Midnight Moonlight (Pete Rowan) • Rawhide (Bill Monroe) • Rocky Top (Osbourne Brothers) • Wabash Cannonball (Carter Family) • Way Downtown (Doc Watson) • Will the Circle Be Unbroken (Carter Family) • Wreck of the Old 97 (trad.) • and more.

Complete list:

Ballad Of Jed Clampett

Bill Cheatham

Blackberry Blossom

Blue Moon Of Kentucky

Bury Me Beneath The Willow

Can't You Hear Me Callin'

Cash On The Barrelhead

Clinch Mountain Backstep

Cripple Creek

Dark Hollow

Down In The Willow Garden

Down The Road

Duelin' Banjos

Foggy Mountain Breakdown

Fox On The Run

High On A Mountain Top

How Mountain Girls Can Love

I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow

I Wish You Knew

I Wonder Where You Are Tonight

I'll Fly Away

I'm Goin' Back To Old Kentucky

If I Lose

In The Pines

Keep On The Sunny Side

Little Cabin Home On The Hill

Little Maggie

Love Please Come Home

Midnight Moonlight

Molly And Tenbrooks

Mountain Dew

My Rose Of Old Kentucky

Nine Pound Hammer

Rain And Snow

Rawhide

Rocky Top

Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms

Salt Creek

Salty Dog Blues

Soldier's Joy

Think Of What You've Done

Uncle Pen

Wabash Cannonball

Wagon Wheel

Way Downtown

Wayfaring Stranger

White Dove

Will The Circle Be Unbroken

Wreck Of The Old 97

You Don't Know My Mind

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