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DVDs by Janet Davis
DVDs for Banjo: The Ultimate Banjo Songbook, YOU CAN TEACH YOURSELF BANJO, SPLITTING THE LICKS, UP-THE-NECK, BACK-UP BANJO and Set-Up Maintenance. DVDs for Dobro: YOU CAN TEACH YOURSELF DOBRO.
Click to see Janet's new Book/2CDs, The Ultimate Banjo Songbook (not available on DVD.)

Book

YOU CAN TEACH YOURSELF BANJO by Janet Davis, A Mel Bay Publication

For the beginner-Intermediate level player and for the Banjo Teacher! This straight forward, easy to understand method teaches rolls, chords, bluegrass banjo techniques, playing up the neck, licks, endings, and other basic information needed to play bluegrass and melodic-style banjo. In lesson format, this method has been developed and used by Janet Davis for many years and has been successful in helping many people to become excellent banjo players.

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DVD-95227 DVD Price: $14.95

D-95227bd Book/DVD Price: $19.95

C-95227set BOOK, CD and DVD: $24.95

B-95227cd CD: $14.98

B-95227b Book: $10.95

B-95227bcd Book/CD: $17.95

CS-95227cs Cassette Tape (90 min.): FREE ON REQUEST

Play Back-up on the 5-String Banjo Vol 1 and 2 DVD from Janet Davis Music - The Banjo Store

Play Back-up On the 5-String Banjo
Vol 1 and Vol 2 - 2 DVD Set
A complete course for playing back-up on the 5-String Banjo--WITH TABLATURE!
Add purpose & direction to your back-up! Step by step instruction! Tablature included.
DVD 2hrs each.

Please Note: These have been transferred from Video to DVD at the request of many people, because they contain a wealth of information. These were self-published in 1995.
DVD 1 has been enhanced for DVD, including a menu with chapters.
DVD 2 is still in the original format...no menu.
DVD-J-PB12 Play Back-up On the 5-String Banjo - Both DVDs SPECIAL $29.95

DVD #1: Two hours with tab: In step by step lesson format! Beginning - Advanced! Concentrates on Scruggs-style. Covers
how to develop and improve your accompaniment technique! Provides direction & purpose to your back-up. Includes
chops, licks, connecting links, passing tones, fill in licks and how to use them. Play along: each lesson is demonstrated with a
guitar player. The pace is slow in the beginning and speeds up as the video progresses.
DVD-J-PBU1 Play Back-up On the 5-String Banjo DVD1 $19.95

DVD #2: Two hours with tab: Builds upon techniques cover in DVD #1. Covers Passing Chords, Substitute Chords,
Syncopation & rhythmic variation, harmonic rhythm, scales, etc. Play great back-up in any key for songs of all types.
Demonstrated with other musicians so you can practice.
DVD-J-PBU2 Play Back-up On the 5-String Banjo DVD2 $12.95

Please Note: These videos are a complete course on Back-Up. These are not companions to the books/tapes by Janet Davis, which we also highly recommend.

SPLITTING THE LICKS By Janet Davis A Mel Bay Publication
How to improvise and arrange songs for the 5-String banjo in Scruggs, melodic and chromatic styles. Each song is demonstrated step by step from basic tune to completed arrangements. One hundred and eight pages with over 40 songs. For beginners through advanced players. Licks/chords charts included. "Highly Recommended for all level players!" 2 CDs.

Song List: Worried Man Blues, Bury Me Beneath the Willow, Red River Valley, Roll In My Sweet Baby’s Arms, Goin’ Down That Road—Feelin’ Bad, Walking Cane, Wildwood Flower, Cripple Creek, Cumberland Gap, Jesse James, Grandfather’s Clock, The Eighth of January, Banjo Joe, Bill Cheatham, Devil’s Dream, Blackberry Blossom, Sailor’s Hornpipe, Red Haired Boy, Turkey In The Straw, Fire On The Mountain, Cripple Creek, John Hardy, Old Joe Clark, Worried Man Blues, Roll In My Sweet Baby’s Arms, Goin’ Down That Road – Feelin’ Bad, Whoa Mule, Wabash Cannonball, Nine Pound Hammer, Train 45, Salt River, Hamilton County Breakddown, Under the Double Eagle.

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B-93998bcd Book/2 CD set: $24.95

C-93998dbc Book/2 CD/DVD combo $44.90

DVD-93998 DVD $19.95

UP-THE-NECK of the 5-String Banjo by Janet Davis A Mel Bay Publication

Book with 2 CDs and DVD

This is an excellent & highly popular course for learning to play up the neck on the banjo.

An instructional course dealing with the 5th through the 22nd frets. Included are chapters on roll patterns, up-the-neck licks for common chords, right hand positions, chords, songs, chord progressions, arranging songs, up-the-neck licks melodic style, chromatic style, single-string, back-up and much more! Also inlcuded are an abundance of solos in tab for beginning through advanced players.

Song List: Bile 'em Cabbage Down, Salty Dog Blues, Cumberland Gap, Train 45, John Hardy, Little Maggie, Don’t Let the Deal Go Down, Wildwood Flower, House of the Rising Sun, Mama Don’t Allow, Crying Holy Unto the Lord, Lonesome Road Blues, Roll in My Sweet Baby’s Arms, Little Maggie, Jesse James, Worried Man Blues, Red River Valley, Hand Me Down My Walking Cane, Wreck of the Old 97, Lost Indian, Sitting on Top of the World, Blackberry Blossom, Wildwood Flower, Sally Goodin, Sally Ann, Don’t Let the Deal Go Down, Look Down, Look Down, Dixie, Cuckoo’s Nest, Crazy Creek, Limerock, Gray Eagle, Hamilton County Breakdown, Cumberland Gap, Lonesome Road Blues, Working on a Building, Salt River, She’ll Be Coming Around the Mountain, Dill Pickle Rag, Black and White Rag, Salty Dog Blues, Salt River, 12-Bar Blues, Hear Jerusalem Moan, I Don’t Love Nobody.
143pages. Traditional & Progressive.
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B-94820bcd Book/2CDs: $24.95

SPECIAL: C-94820dbc Book/2CDs/DVD combo $44.90

DVD-94820 DVD $19.95

BACK-UP BANJO by Janet Davis
A Complete Encyclopedia for the 5-String Banjo
238 pages on how to play back up--beginning through advanced. Learn to play back-up, up-the-neck and down-the-neck. Over 250 back up patterns which can be used to accompany any song. 30 plus songs, each with lead arrangements and several back up arrangements. Covers playing in any key, playing with a band, waltz time, substitute chords, and much more. Heavy concentration on SCRUGGS-STYLE; chord charts included. Optional CD includes all licks plus several songs from each section with band and banjo on separate channels so you can play along. Video and DVD include all sections of the book and is presented with split screen close-ups--easy to follow.

Song List: Wabash Cannonball, John Hardy, Cripple Creek, Cumberland Gap, Salt River, East Virginia, New River Train, Long Journey Home, Wreck of the Old 97, Little Maggie, Jesse James, Red River Valley, Bury Me Beneath the Willow, Battle Hymn of the Republic, Banks of the Ohio, John Henry, She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain, May I Sleep In Your Barn Tonight, Mister?, When the Saints Go Marching In, Soldiers Joy, Reuben, Sally Goodin', Gray Eagle, Blackberry Blossom, Cotton Patch Rag, Stones Rag, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, Tom Dooley, All the Good Times Are Past, Down in the Valley.

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DVD covers every section of the book -- split screen and in stereo so you can play along.
NEW DVD
C-93771dbc Book/CD/DVD combo $49.90

DVD-93771 DVD $19.95

B-93771bcd Book and CD set: $29.95

Set-Up & Maintenance for Banjo DVD
A workshop with Jim & Janet Davis - 80 minute video - how to set up and maintain your banjo. Click to read customer comments.

Banjo Set-Up & Maintenance DVD
Completely disassemble & reassemble a Gibson 5-String Banjo. Covers in detail: setting the bridge, changing strings, tightening the head, changing the head, adjusting the tailpiece, raising & lowering the playing action, replacing the tone ring & more! All techniques demonstrated close-up!

DVD-J-SM Set-Up & Maintenance for Banjo DVD List is $39.95. Special $24.95

YOU CAN TEACH YOURSELF DOBRO by Janet Davis - A Mel Bay Publication
An easy to understand course written in tablature, in lesson format for the beginning through intermediate levels. Each lesson builds on the previous lesson. Starts with the basics. Covers barring techniques, licks, picking patterns, chords, natural and artificial harmonics, scales, waltzes, fiddle tunes an much more. It is highly recommended that the BOOK be purchased with the DVD.

DVD-95227 DVD Price: $14.95

D-95227 Book/DVD Price: $19.95

C-95227set BOOK, CD and DVD: $24.95

C-95227bvcd BOOK, CD and VIDEO: $47.50

B-95227b Book: $10.95

B-95227bcd Book/CD: $19.95

V-95227bv Video/Book: $38.95

V-95227v Video: $29.95

CS-95227 Cassette Tape (90 min.): FREE ON REQUEST

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