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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


You can purchase any of Stephen's books by contacting him at:

Stephen Bland P.O. Box 1335 Main Post Office
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T5J 2N2
e-mail: info@playjazzbanjo.com

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