Author : Rob MacKillop
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 1619112965
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (191 download)
Book Synopsis 20 Pieces from Briggs Banjo Instructor by : Rob MacKillop
Download or read book 20 Pieces from Briggs Banjo Instructor written by Rob MacKillop and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2011-12-29 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn fashionable and evocative tunes from 19th-century America! Originally collected for the fretless minstrel banjo, many of these tunes were taught to Tom Briggs in Southern plantations, and are the sound of a new, vibrant America. Mixing early Black banjo music, with European dances, a new popular music was born, which, in the following decades, would to mature into ragtime and jazz.Rob MacKillop arranged these pieces for fingerstyle ukulele. They sound great on either a standard uke or on a banjo ukulele. the CD recording contains performances of all 20 pieces by Rob MacKillop on a banjo ukulele.