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Content
- About the Author
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Getting Started---You and Your Banjo
- Lesson 1: Parts of the Banjo
- Lesson 2: Tuning
- Lesson 3: Holding the Banjo
- Lesson 4: The Picking Hand
- Lesson 5: The Fretting Hand
- Lesson 6: How to Read Tablature
- Lesson 7: Time
- Lesson 8: Pitch and the Notes on the Fretboard
- Lesson 9: Your First Tunes
- Yankee Doodle
- Mary Had a Little Lamb
- Ode to Joy
- Lesson 10: Fill-In Notes
- Skip to My Lou
- Go Tell Aunt Rhody (No 1)
- Grandfather's Clock
- Chapter 2: Chords
- Lesson 1: Your First Chords
- Lesson 2: Two-Chord Songs
- Tom Dooley
- Handsome Molly
- Lesson 3: The C Chord
- Lesson 4: Three-Chord Songs
- Good Ol' Mountain Dew (No 1)
- Worried Man Blues
- Chapter 3: Rolls
- Lesson 1: Basic Rolls
- Go Tell Aunt Rhody (No 2)
- Boil Them Cabbage Down (No 1)
- Worried Man Blues (No 1)
- Lesson 2: Combining Rolls
- Worried Man Blues (No 2)
- Lesson 3: Combining Rolls and Fill-Ins
- Camptown Races
- Red River Valley
- Chapter 4: Licks and Left-Hand Techniques
- Lesson 1: Slides
- Boil Them Cabbage Down (No 2)
- Lesson 2: Hammer-Ons
- Hammerville
- Cumberland Gap
- Lesson 3: Pull-Offs
- Pull-Off Towne
- Lesson 4: Combining Slides, Hammer-Ons, and Pull-Offs
- Lesson 5: Combining Licks to Play Songs
- Cripple Creek
- Waterbound
- Lesson 6: More Licks
- Train 45
- Good Ol' Mountain Dew (No 2)
- Banks of the Ohio
- Will the Circle Be Unbroken?
- She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain
- Lesson 7: Intros and Endings
- Lonesome Road Blues (No 1)
- Long Journey Home
- Chapter 5: More Chords
- Lesson 1: Closed-Position Chords
- Lesson 2: Chords and the Major Scale
- Lesson 3: Chord Inversions
- Lesson 4: Chord Progressions
- Lesson 5: Chord Vamping
- Boil Them Cabbage Down (No 3)
- Lesson 6: Minor Chords
- Shady Grove (Arrangement)
- Shady Grove (Chord Changes)
- Lesson 7: 7th Chords
- Lonesome Road Blues (No 2)
- Vamping Lonesome Road Blues
- Chapter 6: Playing in Different Keys
- Lesson 1: What Key Is This and Why Change Now?
- Lesson 2: The Capo
- Lesson 3: Playing in the Key of C
- Red River Valley in G
- Red River Valley in C (No 1)
- Red River Valley in C (No 2)
- Red River Valley in C (Arrangement)
- Lesson 4: Drop C Tuning
- Soldier's Joy
- Lesson 5: Playing in the Key of D
- Angeline the Baker
- Red River Valley (Key of D)
- Lesson 6: D Tuning
- Reuben
- Home Sweet Home
- Chapter 7: Melodic Style
- Lesson 1: Introducing Melodic Style
- Lesson 2: Songs in Melodic Style
- Devil's Dream
- Cripple Creek (Melodic Style)
- The Eighth of January
- Red-Haired Boy
- Chapter 8: Playing in 3/4 Time
- Lesson 1: Introducing 3/4, or Waltz Time
- Lesson 2: 3/4 Rolls
- All the Good Times Are Past and Gone
- Amazing Grace
- Good Night Irene
- Chapter 9: Clawhammer and Old-Time Style
- Lesson 1: Introducing Clawhammer
- Lesson 2: The Bum-Ditty
- Lesson 3: The Bum-Ditty with Chords
- Boil Them Cabbage Down (Bum-Ditty)
- Go Tell Aunt Rhody (Bum-Ditty)
- Lesson 4: Clawhammer Licks and Left-Hand Techniques
- Lesson 5: Clawhammer Tunes
- Cripple Creek (Clawhammer Version)
- Cumberland Gap (Clawhammer Version)
- Chapter 10: Banjo Care and Maintenance
- Lesson 1: More About Banjos
- Lesson 2: Adjusting Your Banjo
- Lesson 3: Changing Strings
- Lesson 4: Keeping Your Banjo Clean
- Lesson 5: Banjo Straps
- Appendix
- Practice
- Listen, Listen, Listen!
- Conclusion
- Additional Resources
