NEW ITEMS!

This page updated 04/21/08

Getting Into Bluegrass Banjo by Alan Munde Go To:

Up the Neck Book/CD set and DVD by Janet Davis go to:

Easiest Banjo Tunes for Children by Larry McCabe. Go To:

Bluegrass Picker's Tune Book Go to:

 

Introduction to Bluegrass Banjo by Eddie Collins

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Parking Lot Picker's Songbook by Dix Bruce and Bill Evans

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Art of Tap Tuning by Roger Siminoff

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Banjo For Dummies

Bill Evans MUST AHVE book for any beginner, intermediate, or anybody even considerign playing the banjo! Go to

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Music Theory for Dummies

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Alan Munde-Solo Banjo Great arrangements by one of the most accomplished and versatile players and teachers in the world.Go to:

Power Pickin' Volume FOUR - Playing Backup in a Bluegras Band

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Perfect Touch Fingerpicks! Money back guarantee! Lifetime wear guarantee!
   
National NP-2 Stainles Steel fingerpicks!
National NP-2 GOLD plated fingerpicks!
Cobalt plated finger picks, NATIONAL NP-2, DUNLOP, BP brand:
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Basics of Bluegrass Banjo by Eddie Collins

Beyond the Basics of Bluegrass Banjo by Eddie Collins

Revised and Enhanced Earl Scruggs and the 5-String Banjo book!

Bela Fleck transcriptions from Drive and Tales From the Acoustic Planet

Banjo Picking - A Complete Method by Peter Pardee

Old Time Banjo Festival Tunes byDan Levenson

Ian Perry's Banjo From The Beginning - 10 years of Beginner's Corner columns from Banjo Newsletter. Go to:


2006 Smoky Mountain Banjo Academy T-Shirt with banjo tablature image on back! Go to

 

Smoky Mt. Banjo Academy 2005 - Smokin' banjos Concert featuring faculty

Jesse Garland, Tom Nechville, Leroy Troy, Jack Hatfield, Bill Evans, James McKinney, Herb Trotman, Larry McNeely, Bill Keith, and Butch Robins.

over two and a half hours of great banjo picking by some of the top artists and banjo educators.

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Smoky Mt. Banjo Academy 2004 - Scruggs Tunes Jam

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Larry McNeely, Doug Dillard, Bill Keith, Butch Robins

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DVD - Only recording available anywhere with these artists together! Larry McNeely's first recorded appearance in 20 years! Forty Minute Concert - onstage jam. Selections: Lonesome Road Blues, Earl's Breakdown,Cabin in Caroline, Home Sweet Home, Fireball Mail, Cumberland Gap, Ground Speed, Down the Road and Foggy Mt. Breakdown. Go to:


Banjo Air Freshener! Go to:

Korg AW-1 Clip- On Autotuner! Go to:
Intellitouch IMT-500 Clip on Tuner! Go to

Deering Tenbrooks Saratoga Star

Ecualypt White Heat
Stelling Crusader

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Bluegrass Banjo Method Book One: New fifth printing is SPIRAL BOUND again!

Tuner Techniques book now comes with CD!

 

Power Pickin' Vol. 3 DVD by Bill Evans - Expands on the first two volumes by Evans and John Lawless, teachnig backup in a bluegrass band situation. Includes tips on playing in different keys, tempos and styles.

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DVD now available for First Lessons Banjo!!! Book/CD/DVD set. go to:

CLAWHAMMER and BLUEGRASS BANJO for the Complete IGNORAMUS Wayne Erbson

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Jim MIlls DVD! Go to:

NEW! Tony Trischka's Classic Bluegrass Banjo Solos - Master player and teacher Tony Trischka teaches eleven popular solos which are considered to be "signature tunes" of the masters. Includes note-for-note transcriptions of: John Henry (Earl Scruggs), Sitting on Top Of the World (Allen Shelton), Gold Rush (Vic Jordan), Bye Bye Blues (Allen Shelton), Dixie Breakdown (Don Reno), Old Home Place (J.D. Crowe), Salt Creek (Bill Keith), Casey Jones (Bobby Thompson), Clinch Mt. Backstep (Ralph Stanley), Little Maggie (Bill Emerson), and Doug's Tune (Doug Dillard). Learnig tips and tablature are also included. $28.00 plus 2.00 P&H

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NEW H.M. ITEM! Get Started on Five String Banjo - David Holt, TV banjo legend and master musicologist, David teaches from the very beginning, from naming the parts of the banjo to tuning to first position chords, and shows a simple "guitar strum" technique for beginners. he finally works up to finally a basic Clawhammer strum..Songs include Tom Dooley, Old Dan Tucker, My Home's Across the Blueridge Mountains, and Oh, Suzanna.Happy Traum joins David on rhythm guitar. DVD only. $18.00 plus 2.00 P&H. TONY TRISCHKA'S Essential Practice Techniques for Bluegrass Banjo Finally, a video that tells you HOW to practice! Award winning innovater and world-renowned teacher shows you how to improve your timing, strengthen your hands. Learn what it takes to play with precision, power and rhythmic sophistication. Discover how to use a metronome. Helps you "straighten out" your time so it's consistent and even. Homespun. List: $29.95 HM price: $26.00 plus 2.00 P&H DVD
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NOW available on DVD: Licks, Ideas and Music vol. one and two- John Hartford. Ralph Stanley, Sonny Osborne, Bela Fleck Sammy Shelor DVDs. Get Rolling -Wernick. How to Play the 5-String Banjo -Pete Seeger


Fishman Loudbox Performer Acoustic Instrument Amplifier

Fishman has developed the finest acoustic amplifiers for acoustic instruments The Performer is 130 watts, Speakers: (2) 6.4" woofers, 4" midrange, Miodymium Soft Drone tweeter. Tri-amped active crossover, Master volume. Input gain with "pad" and "clip" indicator. Shelving bass and treble. Resonant style Midrange. Effects level. Notch filter (feedback control). Phase switch (feedback control). Dedicated effects loop. 1/4" input. Stand for angled monitor use.

List: $999.95. HM price; $750.

NEW! Fishman Rare Earth humbucking acoustic guitar pickup - Great natural sound for Martins and other fine acoustic guitars. Active magnetic soundhole pickup, no cutting or drilling of guitar sound hole. "Active" pickup (battery powered) means no preamp necessary for most applications. Endpin jack for cable. "Bright" switch. List: $219.95 HM price: $175.00

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Raejusters Adjustable resonater thumbscrews - New invention by Jim Rae! Now you can adjust the depth of your resonater to tune the sound chamber, just like the pro setup men without using stacks of washers and removing the resonater several times by trial and error. Just tweak with an allen wrench to change resonater depth by as little as a hundredth of an inch! Go to:

NEW! Raejusters Deluxe! Sleeker look, easier to install.

BACK IN PRINT!!!!

MASTERS OF THE FIVE STRING BANJO by Tony Trischka and Pete Wernick. The most comprehensive book ever written on the great banjoists, in their own words. Interviews with Earl Scruggs and Bill Monroe give insights to the role of the banjo in bluegrass music. Find out how your favorite pro wears his picks, how he approaches practice, how he sets up his banjo, and dozens of other topics including picking techniques, biographies, antecdotes, accurate tab transcriptions. Overview of sixty-eight top playes and in depth interviews with the top twenty! Features setup comparison chart of top pros. At 413 pages and almost 200 photos, a great recource for years to come. DISCOUNTED price: $50.00 plus $5.00 P&H Go to: Books

NEW!! Favorite Gospel Tunes for Banjo by Alan Munde. Eighteen of the most loved gospel tunes and hymns: Amazing Grace, Lonesome Valley, Are You Washed in the Blood?, Crying Holy, In the Sweet Bye and Bye, Just a Closer Walk with Thee, Old Time Religion, Softly and Tenderly, Somebody Touched Me, Soul of Man (in F) Soul of Man, (in G), Study War No More, Swing Low, Sweet CVhariot, The Old Rugged Cross, Unclouded Day, Wayfaring Stranger, What a Friend We Have in Jesus, Nearer My God to Thee. Book/CD set: $14.00 plus $2.00 P&H Go to: Books

 

NEW!! Great Picking Tunes for Banjo by Alan Munde. Playable, melody- oriented arrangements from one of the modern day masters who is also one of the world's best teachers. Tunes presented in both Scruggs style (vocal tunes) and melodic style (fiddle tunes) Late Beginner to Late Intermediate level. A great value with twenty-eight tunes in four different keys, (no capo!). Several tunes in D out of G tuning, no capo. Demo CD. Includes: Angeline the Baker, Arkansas Traveler, Bile Them Cabbage, Blackberry Blossom, Black Mt. Rag, Boston Boy, Bury Me Beneath the Willow, Cumberland Gap, East Tennessee Blues, Down Yonder, Eighth of January, Flop-Eared Mule, Georgia Boys, Goodbye Liza Jane, Home Sweet Home, Mississippi Sawyer, Little Maggie, Turkey in the Straw, The Old Spinning Wheel, Put On Your Old Gray Bonnet, Seeing Nellie Home, Redwing, Saint Anne's Reel, Old Joe Clark, Whiskey Before Breakfast, Wreck of the Old '97, John Hardy, John Henry. Book/CD set: $14.00 plus $2.00 P&H Go to: Books

 

Banjo Encyclpopedia by Ross Nickerson Go to: Books

Bluegrass Banjo for the Complete Ignoramus by Wayne Erbson

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Backup Banjo by Janet Davis - now available on DVD! Go to: Books


NP-1, dull finish with bent tips

NP-2, 1930's replica, German Silver with rounded, straight tips

BLACK DIAMOND banjo strings are back!

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National Fingerpicks - National is now producing both the dull finish steel picks with the bend near the tip (NP-1) and the NEW "original design" German silver shinier picks, replicas of National picks from the 1930's with rounded tip and the original patent number (NP-2).

DUNLOP gauged finger picks now available in BRASS and in MINI picks ! Go To:

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NEW! CAPO CADDYTM invented by by Jack Hatfield! For easy access and one-hand installation of capo. Attaches to instrument, studio wall, music stand, anywhere! Just $8.00! go to:



Hatfield Music

325 Laurelwood Drive

Pigeon Forge, TN 37863

Orderline:1-800-426-8744

Fax/Phone: 1-865-428-8063