Family Tradition ― Toneway Music Method & Song Reference: Mountain Music for Everyone!

Note: This book is actually two books in one: The ToneWay Music Method + Family Tradition Songbook, each costs $12.95.It Includes 350 traditional songs and the ToneWay Music Method that teaches you how to play string instruments the easier way… the playing by ear way. Begin right now!... Grab a ukulele, guitar, banjo, bass, Dobro, mandolin or fiddle and take our Free 2 hour “Get Started” Workshop Series at ToneWay.com. Listen to hundreds of minute-long Song Clips at ToneWay.com. These teach melody and other qualities that give each song its ‘soul’.This book is a comprehensive resource for folks who play a string instrument already, even if minimally, and wish to learn how to play it by ear. For those already playing by ear, the ToneWay Method deepens understanding—the “what, how, and why” of it all.Briefly, the ToneWay Method demystifies music by showing how all the string instruments, and singing, share fundamental principles. Our ToneWay Picking Patterns and ToneWay Notation help to tie it all together and launch you into a more intuitive ‘playing by ear’ approach to music. This knowledge allows one to easily and quickly pick up and play any of the other string instruments as well. The ToneWay Method reveals, in a practical way, how musicians intuitively play music.Finally, the book offers a lifetime supply (350) of commonly-played traditional songs. Each song is annotated with key-independent chord changes, ‘jammability’, and tonal information useful for playing by ear and for singing lead and harmony.For more information, go to ToneWay.com