Taught By Bill Keith.
Level 2
Four CDs plus tab book

Bill Keith''s concise and easy-to-follow method combines traditional bluegrass style with the unique and exciting "melodic" picking that has won him accolades from banjo players all over the world. Starting off with some standards of the bluegrass repertoire, you will quickly progress to playing fiddle tunes for banjo, including runs, licks and variations. Songs: Cripple Creek, Cumberland Gap, B''ile Them Cabbage Down, Devil''s Dream, Blackberry Blossom, Dill Pickle Rag, Salty Dog Blues, Arkansas Traveler, Turkey In The Straw, Old Joe Clark, Reuben''s Train, Little Sadie, Black Mountain Rag, Out Of Joint, Soldier''s Joy, Pig In A Pen.

Bill Keith is one of the living masters of bluegrass banjo and the inventor of the melodic picking technique widely referred to as "Keith Style." He has toured and recorded with top bluegrass bands (including Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys), as well as with artists such as Jonathan Edwards, Ian & Sylvia, Judy Collins, The Kweskin Jug Band, Muleskinner, David Grisman and Richard Greene and The Grass is Greener. Bill has written several banjo tuition books, has recorded instructional tapes (for Homespun), and co- authored the Earl Scruggs instruction book and record. In addition, Bill owns and operates the Beacon Banjo Company in Woodstock, NY.