Here is a "NEW" , well the 1926 edition, of Frank Bradbury's Modern Method for Banjo.

Joel kindly sent me this PDF file and describes it as:

"It is a very good instruction book! -Joel."

I agree and thank you so much for sending it to me.  I have added it to the TUTOR BOOKS page and strongly recommend it to all learning to play Classic Banjo.

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Thanks Ian, this is a very intense book and the exercises teach good skills.

Steve may find the section on page 81 "Analysis of chords from piano parts" of use.

Another interesting part is on page 50 "Special uses of the 5th string in finger playing."

The original copy was sent to me from the collection of Marc Smith (trapdoor), thanks Marc!

Random tests to view other tutors are successful but when I try to view this one I get the following message

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /files/TUTORBOOKS/Bradbury_Modern_Method.pdf on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

 

Are these features absent from the current  version of the book?

Joel Hooks said:

Thanks Ian, this is a very intense book and the exercises teach good skills.

Steve may find the section on page 81 "Analysis of chords from piano parts" of use.

Another interesting part is on page 50 "Special uses of the 5th string in finger playing."

The original copy was sent to me from the collection of Marc Smith (trapdoor), thanks Marc!

Hi Jody,

It works fine here. I have checked the file "permissions" on the server so maybe there was something stopping you viewing the PDF.   Could you try again?

Ian

Thank you. Now it works.

thereallyniceman said:

Hi Jody,

It works fine here. I have checked the file "permissions" on the server so maybe there was something stopping you viewing the PDF.   Could you try again?

Ian

Hi Jody, I think you will really like this one.  There is no comparison to the current Mel Bay book.  Completely different book.

This book is really something!  As far as I am concerned the Mel Bay is good for leaning the basics of reading and chord accompaniment.  The only thing I have found in that one that I really like is his arrangement (all tricked up) of the ABF standard "California Dance."   The rest of the music is just sort of "meh."

This book (the '26) teaches all the bells and whistles of solo playing and lays out the bag of tricks he would use to dress up pieces.  I am still slowly going through it.  I read through the original but now that I have a expendable printed copy that I can stick arrows on and write notes in I will really dig in.

I feel that this could be to finger style banjo as Frank Converse's Analytical Banjo Method is to stroke style.

But, I could change my mind after I spend some time with it.

Right! Now that I can access the book I see that it is very different and yes the music is better. Not only is content better, but the whole feel is better. 

Joel Hooks said:

Hi Jody, I think you will really like this one.  There is no comparison to the current Mel Bay book.  Completely different book.

This book is really something!  As far as I am concerned the Mel Bay is good for leaning the basics of reading and chord accompaniment.  The only thing I have found in that one that I really like is his arrangement (all tricked up) of the ABF standard "California Dance."   The rest of the music is just sort of "meh."

This book (the '26) teaches all the bells and whistles of solo playing and lays out the bag of tricks he would use to dress up pieces.  I am still slowly going through it.  I read through the original but now that I have a expendable printed copy that I can stick arrows on and write notes in I will really dig in.

I feel that this could be to finger style banjo as Frank Converse's Analytical Banjo Method is to stroke style.

But, I could change my mind after I spend some time with it.

Cool! Glad Ian has posted it...I've been using it for years as a reference when I had "questions".

When I was first interested in Classic Banjo, I went looking for 'period' tutors and started buying as many variations of the Bradbury books as possible. I knew that the modern Mel-Bay version was once sold in two volumes, so I bought them. This one came in a large box I bought from the estate of Stella Ives (note the signature). She was a Boston area player and student of Lansing...her box of stuff formed the core of my collection. I wish her nephew would have sold me her banjo...but the family kept it.

What kind of banjo? WL?

He couldn't tell me...not a banjo person. It was round on one end...

Somebody (Eli or Madeline or...) found that she was an ABF member and was mentioned in one of the newsletters early on. I think she passed on in 1964. Her sheet music collection appears to be from the 1880's thru the 1930's. I need to look for her in Ancestry.com. Never married.

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