The book I teach my students with! The simplest and most fun bluegrass banjo book ever written. I teach out of this book and it makes it easy for the student to grasp right hand techniques. It can teach anyone to play, we promise! Includes instruction CD with 99 tracks. We guarantee this book will get you started playing bluegrass banjo. Here's the table of contents...... Parts of a Banjo(ist) From One Ignoramus to Another How to Use this Book How to Buy a Banjo How to Hold Your Banjo Tuning for Ignoramuses Fingering the Banjo How to Read Banjo Tablature Playing Rolls Your First Roll, the Pinch Melody Notes Drone Notes Yankee Doodle Bile 'Em Cabbage Down Down the Road Groundhog Lynchburg Town Poor Ellen Smith Palms of Victory Nine Pound Hammer Columbus Stockade Blues When I Lay My Burden Down Blue Ridge Mountain Blues Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms Wabash Cannonball Red River Valley Little Maggie Long Journey Home My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains Pass Me Not Pretty Polly Put My Little Shoes Away Shall We Gather at the River When the Saints Go Marching In Man of Constant Sorrow Beginning Rolls Forward Roll More Rolls Slides Banjo Chords Native Ground Music