5-String Banjo: Applied in Rock Music

Subject: RE: Banjo for Rock
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 12:15:40 -0500

Greetings Silvester,

It's cool that you'd like to take the banjo into new realms...

I owe my inspiration to Luther Wright and Hayseed Dixie.

unfortunately, sheet music for rock pieces on banjo is almost unheard of...

That bites!

I used to perform acoustically, with banjo, and arrange many popular rock songs for banjo...this was in the '80s...
and, yes, we did tunes by Led Zeppelin, the Ventures, Moody Blues, and so on...it was great fun and the audience was receptive...

Very kool!

my suggestion to you would be to purchase standard notation and adapt it to the banjo yourself...or, try playing these pieces by ear...

Mickey

Subject: Re: Fwd: banjo lessons
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 14:50:22 -0700

Greetings Sylvester,

Thanks so much for taking an interest in our lessons to want a pdf file...however, I'm not sure if I'll have the time to do this any time soon...I will put it on the agenda though...and, just maybe I can offer something like this in the future...

Thanks again for your participation...Mickey

OK.

Then do you know of any place I can get sheet music for some classic rock songs (Black Sabath, Van Halen, Zed Zepplin, etc...) on banjo tabs?

I'm just starting out, but I have high aspirations.

Silvester

Greetings Silvester,

It's cool that you'd like to take the banjo into new realms...unfortunately, sheet music for rock pieces on banjo is almost unheard of...I used to perform acoustically, with banjo, and arrange many popular rock songs for banjo...this was in the '80s...and, yes, we did tunes by Led Zeppelin, the Ventures, Moody Blues, and so on...it was great fun and the audience was receptive...my suggestion to you would be to purchase standard notation and adapt it to the banjo yourself...or, try playing these pieces by ear...

Mickey