A complete guide for beginning and advanced banjo players! From Ken Perlman, here is a brilliant teaching guide that is destined to become the handbook on how to play the banjo. The style is easy to learn, and covers theinstruction itself, basic right and left-hand positions, simple chords, and fundamental clawhammer techniques: the brush, the 'bumm-titty' strum, pull-offs, and slides. For the advanced player, there is instruction on morecomplicated picking, double thumbing, quick slides, fretted pull-offs, harmonics, improvisation, and more. The book includes more than 40 fun-to-play banjo tunes.