MUSIC OF THE

BRITISH ISLES

FOR BANJO

Banjo TAB Book with CD

A treasure trove of Anglo-Celtic music adapted to the 5-string banjo. Music of the British Isles for Banjo provides material for banjo players to expand beyond the confines of the key of G major – playing in different keys while retaining G major tuning. There is a section where each tune is arranged in more than one key – either in two or three different keys.

It teaches the student not to rely on the 5th string while providing fresh insight into the uses of the 5th string capo. Also exposes the player to ancient modal scales as well as the more modern Major/Minor scales. All tunes are presented in the perpetual motion so they may be viewed as limbering-up exercises for the fingers. On the accompanying CD the tunes are played much slower than normal in order for the student to better grasp the material. In tablature only

• 8th of January   
• Backstep Cindy   
• Balley Desmond Polka   
• Barlow Knife   
• Betsy Likens   
• Bill Cheatam   
• Billy in the Lowground   
• Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine (1)   
• Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine (2)   
• Bonaparte's Retreat   
• Caledonia   
• Chinkapion Pie   
• Cold Frosty Morning   
• Cotton Eyed Joe   
• Cumberland Gap   
• Dance All Night   
• Devilish Mary   
• Ducks on the Mill Pond   
• Ducks on the Pond   
• Ebenezer   
• Faust Knight   
• Fiddler's Dram   
• Fischer's Hornpipe   
• Forked Deer   
• Fort Smith   
• Fortune   
• Frost and Snow   
• Frypan Hornpipe   
• Green Willis   
• Hawks and Eagles   
• Highway to Limerick   
• Ida Red   
• Jay Bird   
• Jenny Picking Cockles   
• Jimmy Sutton/Old Jim Sutton   
• John Lover's Gone   
• Johnson's Boys   
• Katy Hill   
• Kitchen Girl   
• Lady Montgomery   
• Last of the Callahan   
• Lazy Farmer   
• Leather Britches   
• Liberty   
• Little Widow   
• Loch Lomand Hornpipe   
• Miller's Reel   
• Miss McLeod's Reel   
• Money Musk   
• Morpath's Rant   
• Mountain Goat Hornpipe   
• Nancy Ann   
• Nancy Rowland   
• Old Jawbone   
• Old Molly Hare   
• Paddy on the Turnpike   
• Pocono Hornpipe   
• Pretty Little Pink   
• Quincy Dillon's High C   
• Rambler's Hornpipe   
• Red Fox   
• Red Rocking Chair   
• Red Winged Blackbird   
• Sail Away Ladies   
• Salt Creek   
• Shaving a Dead Reaujaques   
• Shooting Creek   
• Soldier's Joy   
• Spirits of the Morning   
• St. Anne's Reel   
• Staten Island Hornpipe   
• Stife's Hornpipe   
• Tater Patch   
• Taylor's Twist   
• Temperance Reel   
• The Linnett   
• The Staghorn   
• Tying a Knot in the Devil's Tail   
• Untitled Hornpipe   
• Waterloo Hornpipe   
• West Folk Girls   
• Wild Horse at Stoney Point   
• Wind that Shakes the Barley