In this book I will
teach you how to play music with a Tuner, but it
should be pointed out that practice is a totally
different realm than playing. Remember that
practice is thinking. Playing is not so much
thinking. I’ve heard it described as a kind
of relaxed, detached maintenance in which you are
the listener as well as the player.
The music transcends
your nagging self-awareness. Everything learned in
practice has to be under your fingers, COLD.
Practicing with others develops the other realm of
playing. In playing you make mistakes, but still
know where you are in real time to pick up from
where you erred. You go on and allow yourself
mistakes. You make note of them and go back later
to correct them in solitary practice. It’s a
cyclical process. You begin to learn how to hear.
Book Contents
Tablature
Tuning Your Banjo
Tuner Settings
Tuner Button Placement.
Tuner Notation
Tuner Substitution
Two Tuner Songs
Cripple Creek
Wildwood Flower
Rose Conlee
You Are My Sunshine
Salty Dog
Home Sweet Home
Red River Valley
Amazing Grace
Grandfather’S Clock
Jet Lag
Snow Train
Soldier’S Joy
Three Tuner Songs
Auld Lang Syne
East Street Getaway
Four Tuner Songs
Oh Susannah
Bury Me Beneath The Willow
Under The Double Eagle
Bottoms Up
Juggernaut
Nickolai