JIM RILEY

411 MONTEMAR AVENUE, BALTIMORE MD 21228, USA

For shipment OUTSIDE the U.S. -- Please send cash, or check payable through U.S. bank. Add $6.00 for postage, per order.

For shipments within the U.S., items are ppd, as indicated below.

Make checks payable to JAMES GREGORY

RILEY'S ROUTINES FOR BETTER BANJO -- Book

Designed for tenor and plectrum players who want to overcome learning problems. Some of the areas covered are: developing a training program, practice tips, rhythm techniques, keeping time, single-note technique, strokes, playing by ear, and improvising. $20.00 ppd.

JIM RILEY'S BANJO STROKES -- audio cassette

A step-by-step instruction tape that uses mnemonics to explain each stroke and to re-inforce learning. For tenor and plectrum banjoists who want to improve their right hand skills and acquire gradual mastery of simple to complex strokes. -- $15.00 ppd.

JIM RILEY'S SINGLE-STRING TECHNIQUE -- 3 audio cassettes, with notation

A three-cassette basic-level program that will help the tenor banjoist develop speed and single-note dexterity. Music-reading ability is helpful, but not required, as the audio instruction explains where to place fingers, stroking, and how the run should sound.

NL3-1 -- Scales, use of breaks, octaves, broken C chord, moveable shapes, slides, adding the 6th, chromatic runs.

NL3-2 -- "Mapping" the fingerboard for single-note studies, open string drills, inter-rupted short chromatic runs, adding the 9th, moveable 7th shapes, blue notes.

NL3-3 -- Minor chords, diminished and augmented chords, more broken chords, arranged versus improvised playing.

Each cassette -- $14.00 ppd.

TENOR BANJO SINGLE-NOTE TECHNIQUE -- Book and practice audio cassette

A study of single-note patterns, hot breaks, improvised runs and licks. Music reading ability required. A play-along audio tape allows student to practice insertion of various single-note patterns. $22.00 ppd.

TENOR BANJO INTRO'S -- audio cassette, with notation

Music reading ability is not required. By illustrating how each intro is played and should sound, the instruction examines introductory passages, tags, and turnarounds, as well as how to use stock lead-in's, vamps, novelty , and modern chord intro's. $14.00 ppd.

JIM RILEY and JAY WACHTER PLAY BANJO FAVORITES -- CD Recording

Tenor banjoists Riley and Wachter play the good old songs identified with the four-string banjo. Reviewed in The Mississippi Rag, this recording was descibed as "beautifully blended," and the Riley and Wachter performance was praised as "engaging, tuneful, upbeat, deft, and foot-tapping." $17.00 ppd.

Please add $6.00 per order for shipment outside the U.S.