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Usually ships in 1 business days | | Only 2 left in stock, order soon! | | | | | | Featuring more than 65 classic songs, this interesting book teaches how to play the minstrel banjo like players who were part of various popular troupes in 1865. The book includes: a short history of the banjo in the US in the antebellum period, including the origins of the minstrel show; info on the construction of minstrel banjos, evolution of the lower-pitched minstrel banjo tunings, and idiomatic techniques peculiar to the minstrel banjo; chapters on each of the seven major banjo methods published through the end of the Civil War; songs from each method in banjo tablature, many available first time; info on how to arrange songs for the minstrel banjo; a reference list of contemporary gut and nylon string gauges approximating historical banjo string tensions in common usage during the antebellum period (for those Civil War re-enactors who wish to achieve that old-time "minstrel banjo" sound); and an extensive cross-reference list of minstrel banjo song titles found in the major antebellum banjo methods. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Joe Weidlich | | Paperback: | 266 pages | | Publisher: | Centerstream Publications | | Publication Date: | August 01, 2004 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 1574241338 | | Product Length: | 11.9 inches | | Product Width: | 9.0 inches | | Product Height: | 0.7 inches | | Product Weight: | 1.98 pounds | | Package Length: | 11.8 inches | | Package Width: | 8.7 inches | | Package Height: | 0.8 inches | | Package Weight: | 1.9 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 6 reviews |
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| | Features | Includes banjo tab266 pagesSize: 12" x 9"Author: Joe WeidlichISBN: 1574241338
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7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
 A different take on Mr. Weidlick's book... Rebuttal to Mr. Thieblot Jan 27, 2006
By Charles A. Smith, III
"CJ,III"
As an amateur musician and musical history enthusiast, I must say that Mr. Weidlick's book is a fascinating, ADVANCED look at the banjo's musical past... I think the reviewer, Mr. Thiebolt, has some built-in assumptions of his own about the book which do not necessarily reflect the reality of what the book really is.
I do not see anywhere where the author claims that this work is an instruction book or primer for Banjo 101. It's seems pretty obvious that this is a detailed historical view of specific banjo work of the time, and clearly it is an ADVANCED LOOK at the strumming of the time. It's also painfully obvious that Mr. Thiebolt just doesn't get it- either musically or literarily, which in his own review he admits is beyond his comprehension.
For real banjo players who know music, this is an interesting in-depth piece of banjo history, and a good how-to on replicating some of the licks of that era... CJ,III
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Capsule Review by Old Time Herald, Fall 2005 Jan 27, 2006
By Joseph Weidlich
The author of this fascinating and useful book confronts the story of the minstrel banjo head on: its playing styles, development, and influence is exhaustively and informatively told. Weidlich mines all the methods [published from 1851 until the end of the Civil War] well for what they have to offer those learning minstrel style [banjo]. Attractively designed, and enriched with many period images, this book is an impressive fusion of historical scholarship, musical analysis and very useful instruction. It has much to offer anyone interested in old-time music or the five-string banjo's music and history.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 I loved Joe Weidlich's "Early Minstrel Banjo" book Jan 09, 2007
By Georg G. Gross
The book is a real treasure for the old-time banjo enthusiast, equally satisfying those looking for history, theory or practice. I learned much from the ample background information provided on the development of the banjo and the minstrel era music. Detailed explanation of the composers' various left and right hand playing techniques was very informative and helpful but, for my taste, finally became somewhat lenghty and "academic" (my reason for giving only four stars). Of course, I particularly loved the many, many minstrel music songs being presented in excellent tablature (arranging them must have been a lot of painful work!), plus the extra-bonus of adding the Briggs' songs also in standard notation. A warning: solid experience in clawhammer style is essential for getting immediate access to play these minstrel songs, but I think a mere bluegrass banjoist will hardly come across this book. In summary: a fine book written by an obvious expert of old-time banjo music.
The Minstrel Bible Nov 21, 2011
By Round Wound
This is a great book. There is one tune to a page, so it's nice and big and easy to see the tab. The tab isn't all messed up with ornaments. Occaisionally, there is a little dot over a note that tells you that that note is played with the index finger. If there's ever doubt about a 'thumb' note, an "X" signifies this. I have learned many tunes from this book. They come from different sources thru the years, some are easy, some are harder,, none are impossible. You use minstrel banjo tuning throughout. You'll be in the key of G or D. If you tune higher, you'll be in A or E. dGDF#A is the proper tuning. Many pages are devoted to the different authors who notated these tunes in the 1800's and what makes them unique. I skipped that at first, I jumped in learning the tunes, like I said, there aren't many embellishments to clutter up the pages. This author's other books contain some of the songs in this book, but this is the big daddy. If you have a minstrel banjo you need this book. If you have a minstrel banjo but don't read tab, you must teach yourself. You'll want to get all the notes right. The timing of the notes is pretty easy to understand, and the tab system is easy as 1 2 3 and sometimes 4. This is the Minstrel Bible.
 The Early Minstrel Banjo Sep 08, 2010
By John Wardrop
I bought this book and am totally lost. It clearly has huge potential but why are the tunings of each piece not mentioned? Every tab I have ever seen describes how the banjo is to be tuned for that particular piece such as, "gDGBD" being the most common. However these are not anywhere to be found in the book. How is one to know how play the tune? Have I missed something? It must be in the book but I can't find it. Page 19 gives a general account of certain tunings in the 19th century but that doesn't help you when you come to a tune say on page 200. I must be missing something because no one would write a book of TABs and not mention what tunings they are supposed to be in. That would be like asking someone to spell a word when they don't know the alphabet. Can anyone help me?
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