Banjo Picking Styles

On these six CDs, banjo master Béla Fleck teaches bluegrass, Celtic, ragtime and fiddle tunes as well as his original “new grass” solo banjo pieces. He starts with bluegrass basics and then moves into single-string techniques, moving bass lines, counter melodies, chromatics and scales in a variety of keys and tunings. Twenty tunes are taught, including: East Virginia Blues, Snakes Alive, Reach, Christina's Jig, The Plain Brown Jug, Kitty's Wedding, Flexibility, Reverie, In the Pines, Wildwood Flower, White Freight Line, Eager and Anxious, Frosty Morning, Salty, Eighth of January, Blackberry Blossom, Lowdown, Flapperette and more.