From one of the great teachers of Irish tenor banjo comes this essential new book Enda Scahill’s Irish Banjo Tutor, Volume II. All music written in both notation and tablature formats. 2 accompanying CDs featuring 2 hours of techniques, demonstrations and tunes recorded slowly and at speed. Having established the complete foundation method for Irish banjo playing in his first book, Enda now takes us on a wonderful musical journey uncovering the intricacies of the instrument. He explores in simple yet expansive detail how to create and develop variations, how, through the use of ornamentation, to bring subtle rhythm and phrasing to your playing, how and when to use chords and harmony to add interest to your music and perhaps most importantly, how to bring total relaxation to your playing. This new book is a treasure trove of pull-offs, hammer-ons, slides, triplets, trebles, crab-walk triplets, double string trebles, the list goes on. Enda takes a tune, plays it in its simplest form and then, one step at a time, demonstrates an abundance of new techniques to help you make the tune your own – to begin to develop your own unique style. There is something for everyone at all stages of ability in this new book. All the ideas and techniques are simple in their make up yet add wonderful variety and charm to the music. There are also plenty of new challenging techniques for the more advanced players and a chapter on playing Old-Time American banjo on your Irish tenor! The accompanying CD has all the exercises, examples and tunes played slowly and at pace. The book is written in stave notation and in tablature, making it of great use to mandolin players also. List of Tunes in Volume II The New Post Office The Champion Jig Geoghan’s Reel Connacht Man’s Rambles Ships are Sailing The Galway Hornpipe The Sailor on the Rock Last Night’s Fun The Boys of the Town Kimmel’s Jig The Monaghon Twig The Liverpool Hornpipe Jerry Beaver’s Hat The Rambler John McNeil’s Reel The Bunch of Green Rushes The Daisy Field The Soporific Hornpipe The Cameronian The Wind that Shakes the Barley Banish Misfortune The Home Ruler Hornpipe Poor Old Liza Jane Liam Farrell’s Frank Keane’s The Ten Penny Piece The Fog in the Bog The Drunken Landlady.
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