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Contents:

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