Simple Songs for Banjo: 40 Easy Songs to Play 5-String Banjo

This book provides beginning banjo players with easy streamlined arrangements of 40 popular songs. Learn the basics of clawhammer style, strum and sing along, or pick the melody lines. Arrangements are a combo of tab, standard notation, chord grids and lyrics selected and prepared by renowned banjo guru, Fred Sokolow.

Songs include: Ballad of Jed Clampett (Flatt & Scruggs) • Blue Moon of Kentucky (Bill Monroe) • Cold Rain and Snow (Grateful Dead)• Folsom Prison Blues (Johnny Cash) • Freight Train (Elizabeth Cotten) • Friend of the Devil (Grateful Dead) • Gentle on My Mind (Glen Campbell) • Ho Hey (The Lumineers) • I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow (Soggy Bottom Boys) • I Saw the Light (Traditional) • I Walk the Line (Johnny Cash) • Jambalaya (On the Bayou) (Hank Williams) • The Long Black Veil (Lefty Frizzell) • Mama Tried (Merle Haggard) • The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (The Band) • Puff the Magic Dragon (Peter Paul & Mary) • (Ghost) Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend) (Stan Jones) • Rocky Top (Osbourne Brothers) • Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms (Flatt & Scruggs) • Sweet Baby James (James Taylor) • Teach Your Children (Crosby Stills Nash & Young) • This Land Is Your Land (Woody Guthrie) • Tom Dooley (Kingston Trio) • The Weight (The Band) • Where Have All the Flowers Gone? (Pete Seeger) • Will the Circle Be Unbroken (The Carter Family) • You Are My Sunshine (Traditional) • and more. Simple Songs for Banjo Publisher: Hal Leonard Instrument: Banjo Format: Standard Notation & TAB Pages: 96