Bluegrass Banjo For The Complete Ignoramus

The simplest bluegrass banjo book ever written. 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.

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
• ÿÿÿÿÿYankee Doodle
• ÿÿÿÿÿBile 'Em Cabbage Down
• ÿÿÿÿÿDown the Road
• ÿÿÿÿÿGroundhog
• ÿÿÿÿÿLynchburg Town
• ÿÿÿÿÿPoor Ellen Smith
• ÿÿÿÿÿPalms of Victory
• ÿÿÿÿÿNine Pound Hammer
• ÿÿÿÿÿColumbus Stockade Blues
• ÿÿÿÿÿWhen I Lay My Burden Down
• ÿÿÿÿÿBlue Ridge Mountain Blues
• ÿÿÿÿÿRoll in My Sweet Baby's Arms
• ÿÿÿÿÿWabash Cannonball
• ÿÿÿÿÿRed River Valley
• ÿÿÿÿÿLittle Maggie
• ÿÿÿÿÿLong Journey Home
• ÿÿÿÿÿMy Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains
• ÿÿÿÿÿPass Me Not
• ÿÿÿÿÿPretty Polly
• ÿÿÿÿÿPut My Little Shoes Away
• ÿÿÿÿÿShall We Gather at the River
• ÿÿÿÿÿWhen the Saints Go Marching In
• ÿÿÿÿÿMan of Constant Sorrow
• Beginning Rolls
• Forward Roll
• More Rolls
• Slides
• Banjo Chords
• Native Ground Music