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Banjo Without Tears: Simple Banjo Tunes
The book comes with a CD with each tune recorded in a slow and moderate version. The book includes tab for 20 tunes with memorable melodies and easy to play arrangements. You will quickly be playing and building a foundation for playing from memory and by ear and further exploration of clawhammer banjo!

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Example Tab of Lonesome John

Example Recording of Lonesome John

Tunes include:

G Tunes: Miss McLeod's Reel, Lazy John, Red Rocking Chair, Georgia Buck, Gate to go Through, Chatanooga

A Tunes: Sugar in the Gourd, Brush Run, Candy Girl, Cotton-Eyed Joe, Old-Time Fire on the Mountain

A Modal Tunes: Boatin' Up Sandy, Cluck Old Hen, Lonesome John

D Tunes: Walking in the Parlor, Shout Lulu, Green Willis, Rocking in a Wearly Land, Walking Up Georgia Row, Black-Eyed Susie

C Tunes: Across the Sea, Kitty Clyde, Ain't no Bugs on Me

About Hilary

Hilary moved from Vermont to rural Appalachia more than thirty years ago to pursue the tunes that she has loved since she first heard them. Although she is attracted to all the stringed instruments, she finds the banjo most fascinating, because its non-European origins provide it with a unique versatility. Since moving to western North Carolina, Hilary has learned from and played with many gifted local fiddlers and banjo players including Luke Smathers, Carroll Best, Gordon Freeman, and Doug Philllips. She is one of the founders of the Old-Time Herald magazine and has been the director of the Blue Ridge Old-Time Music Week at Mars Hill College for nearly twenty years. Hilary has authored several banjo tab books and has taught banjo to groups and individual students for many years. Her interest in Himalayan music has taken her to Nepal several times in the past 15 years, and she teaches some of the tunes learned there to her banjo students.