Appendix B
About the CD
The CD that accompanies this book contains a whopping 94 tracks. Each of these tracks contains musical examples that you can listen to and practice as much as you need to in order to improve your banjo playing.
A fun way to use Banjo For Dummies is to scan the chapters for the On the CD icon. In every instance, the text flagged by this icon refers to a musical example that not only appears as written music, or tablature, but also is presented as an audio track on the book’s CD. When you see an example that seems interesting, skip to the corresponding track on the CD and give it a listen. Maybe you can even play along.
Relating the Text to the CD
Throughout the book, the text contains musical examples that you can play and practice over and over again. These musical examples most often come in the form of tablature. If a piece of tablature appears on the CD, the CD’s track number appears in the tab’s caption. Just use the track-skip buttons on your CD player to move to whatever track you want to listen to.
System Requirements
For many of you, all you’re going to do is pop the CD in your CD player and skip around to the tracks you want to hear and play along with. Others may want to load the CD onto a computer. This section helps you do both.
Audio CD players
The CD included with this book will work just fine in any standard CD player. Just pop it in and press play or use the track-skip buttons to jump to whatever tracks you want to explore.
Computer CD-ROM drives
If you have a computer, you can insert the CD into your CD drive to access the MP3 files of all the CD tracks. Make sure your computer meets the minimum system requirements shown here:
A computer running Microsoft Windows or Mac OS
Software capable of playing MP3s and CD audio (such as iTunes or Windows Media Player)
A sound card (almost all computers these days have the built-in ability to play sound)
A CD-ROM drive
Using the CD
To install the items from the CD to your computer’s hard drive, follow these steps:
1. Insert the CD into your computer’s CD-ROM drive. The license agreement appears.
Note to Windows users: The interface won’t launch if you have autorun disabled. In that case, click Start⇒Run (For Windows Vista, Start⇒ All Programs⇒Accessories⇒Run). In the dialog box that appears, type D:\Start.exe. (Replace D with the proper letter if your CD drive uses a different letter. If you don’t know the letter, see how your CD drive is listed under My Computer.) Click OK.
Note for Mac Users: The CD icon will appear on your desktop; double-click the icon to open the CD and double-click the Start icon.
2. Read through the license agreement, and then click the Accept button if you want to use the CD.
The CD interface appears. The interface allows you to install the MP3 files onto your hard drive with just a few clicks.
3. If you would like to install the MP3 files of the CD audio tracks onto your computer, click the MP3 button.
You can now copy the MP3 files from the CD to your hard drive.
The Tracks on the CD
The following table lists all 94 tracks on the CD along with the corresponding tablature numbers from the chapters in the book.
All the audio tracks have been stored on the CD in the MP3 format, which means that if you follow the steps in the preceding section, you can copy the MP3 files from the CD onto your computer. From there, you can listen to the MP3s with your audio software or even copy them onto your portable MP3 player.
| Track | Tab | Track Description |
|---|---|---|
| Number | Number | |
| 1 | – | G tuning reference notes (Chapter 2) |
| 2 | – | Strumming G, C, and D7 chords (Chapter 2) |
| 3 | 3-1 | “Red River Valley” singing & handclaps |
| 4 | 3-2 | “Red River Valley” singing & strumming |
| 5 | 3-3 | “Boil Them Cabbage Down” strumming |
| 6 | 3-8 | Tab rhythm exercise |
| 7 | 3-9 | Pinch patterns with G, C, and D7 chords |
| 8 | 3-10 | “Red River Valley” with pinch-pattern accompaniment |
| 9 | 3-11 | “Boil Them Cabbage Down” with pinch-pattern |
| accompaniment | ||
| 10 | 4-1 | Clawhammer melody-note exercise #1 |
| 11 | 4-2 | Clawhammer melody-note exercise #2 |
| 12 | 4-3 | Clawhammer brush exercise |
| 13 | 4-4 | Clawhammer brush and 5th-string exercise |
| 14 | 4-5 | Basic clawhammer technique exercise #1 |
| 15 | 4-6 | Basic clawhammer technique exercise #2 |
| 16 | 4-7 | Clawhammer technique with G, C, and D7 chords |
| 17 | 4-8 | “Red River Valley” singing with clawhammer accompaniment |
| 18 | 4-9 | “Boil Them Cabbage Down” singing with clawhammer |
| accompaniment | ||
| 19 | 4-10 | Bluegrass right-hand thumb note exercise |
| 20 | 4-11 | Bluegrass right-hand index and middle-finger exercise |
| 21 | 4-12 | Bluegrass alternating thumb roll with G, C, and D7 chords |
| 22 | 4-13 | Bluegrass forward-backward roll with G, C, and D7 chords |
| 23 | 4-14 | Bluegrass forward roll with G, C, and D7 chords |
| 24 | 4-15 | “Red River Valley” singing and guitar with forward-roll |
| accompaniment | ||
| 25 | 4-16 | “Boil Them Cabbage Down” singing & guitar with mixed-roll |
| accompaniment | ||
| 26 | 5-1 to | (0:00) 3rd-string slides / (0:25) 4th-string slides / (0:44) |
| 5-3 | 1st-string slides | |
| 27 | 5-4 | Open-string hammer-ons |
| 28 | 5-5 | Fretted hammer-ons |
| 29 | 5-6 | Open-string pull-offs |
| 30 | 5-7 | Fretted pull-offs |
| 31 | 5-8 | Heavy metal lick |
| 32 | 5-9 | Choke / choke and release / pre-choke |
| 33 | 5-10 | Basic clawhammer technique with G, C, and D7 chords |
| 34 | 5-11 | Bluegrass roll review: alternating-thumb, forward- |
| backward, and forward rolls | ||
| 35 | 5-12 | Clawhammer 3rd-string slides |
| 36 | 5-13 | Clawhammer 1st-string slides |
| 37 | 5-14 | Clawhammer 4th-string slides |
| 38 | 5-15 | Clawhammer open-string hammer-ons |
| 39 | 5-16 | Clawhammer fretted hammer-ons |
| 40 | 5-17 | Clawhammer 4th-string pull-offs |
| 41 | 5-18 | Clawhammer 3rd-string pull-offs |
| 42 | 5-19 | Clawhammer 1st-string pull-offs |
| 43 | 5-20 | Clawhammer special pull-off |
| 44 | 5-21 | Clawhammer with tenth-fret chokes |
| 45 | 5-22 | Bluegrass alternating thumb rolls with slides |
| 46 | 5-23 | Bluegrass forward-backward rolls with slides |
| 47 | 5-24 | Bluegrass forward rolls with slides |
| 48 | 5-25 | Bluegrass alternating-thumb rolls with hammer-ons |
| 49 | 5-26 | Bluegrass forward-backward rolls with hammer-ons |
| 50 | 5-27 | Bluegrass forward rolls with hammer-ons |
| 51 | 5-28 | Bluegrass alternating-thumb rolls with pull-offs |
| 52 | 5-29 | Bluegrass forward-backward rolls with slides & pull-offs |
| 53 | 5-30 | Bluegrass forward rolls with hammer-ons & pull-offs |
| 54 | 5-31 | Bluegrass forward rolls with chokes |
| 55 | – | G-major scale (Chapter 6) |
| 56 | – | D-major scale (Chapter 6) |
| 57 | – | G-major scale, beginning on open 4th string (Chapter 6) |
| 58 | 6-1 | Frere Jacques |
| 59 | 6-2 | “Red River Valley” banjo melody notes with guitar |
| accompaniment | ||
| 60 | 6-3 | “Red River Valley” clawhammer melody with guitar |
| accompaniment | ||
| 61 | 6-4 | “Red River Valley” bluegrass melody with guitar |
| accompaniment | ||
| 62 | 6-5 | “Red River Valley” clawhammer melody using left-hand |
| techniques, with guitar accompaniment | ||
| 63 | 6-6 | “Red River Valley” bluegrass melody using left-hand tech |
| niques, with guitar accompaniment | ||
| 64 | 6-7 | “Boil Them Cabbage Down” clawhammer melody with |
| guitar accompaniment | ||
| 65 | 6-8 | “Boil Them Cabbage Down” bluegrass melody with guitar |
| accompaniment | ||
| 66 | 6-9 | “Cripple Creek” clawhammer melody with guitar |
| accompaniment | ||
| 67 | 6-10 | “Cripple Creek” bluegrass melody with guitar accompaniment |
| 68 | 6-11 | “Goodbye Liza Jane” clawhammer melody with guitar |
| accompaniment | ||
| 69 | 6-12 | “Goodbye Liza Jane” bluegrass melody with guitar |
| accompaniment | ||
| 70 | 6-13 | “Ground Hog” clawhammer melody with guitar |
| accompaniment | ||
| 71 | 6-14 | “Ground Hog” bluegrass melody with guitar accompaniment |
| 72 | 7-1 | “Pompey Ran Away” African banjo tune |
| 73 | 7-2 | “Juba” 19th-century minstrel banjo tune |
| 74 | 7-3 | “Hard Times” 19th-century minstrel banjo tune |
| 75 | 7-4 | “Colorado Buck Dance” early 20th-century classic banjo piece |
| 76 | 7-5 | “Banjoisticus” early 20th-century classic banjo piece |
| 77 | 8-1 | Bluegrass roll patterns: alternating thumb / forward- |
| backward / forward / forward-reverse / Foggy Mountain / | ||
| backward roll / middle leading roll / index leading roll | ||
| 78 | 8-2 | 8 G licks (a through h) |
| 79 | 8-3 | 4 C licks (a through d) |
| 80 | 8-4 | 4 D licks (a through d) |
| 81 | 8-5 | 4 G fill-in licks (a through d) |
| 82 | 8-6 | Creating a bluegrass solo using licks, G-C-D7 chord |
| progression | ||
| 83 | 8-7 | “Everyday Breakdown” bluegrass banjo with guitar and |
| mandolin accompaniment | ||
| 84 | 8-8 | “Shortening Bread” bluegrass banjo with guitar and man |
| dolin accompaniment | ||
| 85 | 8-12 | “Banjo Cascade” melodic banjo with guitar and mandolin |
| accompaniment | ||
| 86 | 8-13 | “Turkey in the Straw” melodic banjo with guitar and man |
| dolin accompaniment | ||
| 87 | 8-14 to | Single-string right-hand exercises (a through c) |
| 8-16 | ||
| 88 | 8-17 to | Single-string scale exercises (a through d) |
| 8-20 | ||
| 89 | 8-21 | D scale |
| 90 | 8-22 | “Arkansas Traveler” banjo with guitar accompaniment |
| 91 | 8-23 | “Reno’s Rag” banjo with guitar accompaniment |
| 92 | 8-24 | “Winston’s Jig” banjo with guitar accompaniment |
| 93 | 8-25 | “Meadows of Dan” banjo solo |
| 94 | 8-25 | “Meadows of Dan” full-band track |
Troubleshooting
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