Banjo Picking: A Complete Method Book

Preface to the Second Edition     7
Introduction     9
The Beginner's Section
The G Tuning     13
Beginning Notation     14
Beginning to Play - Placing the Picking Hand     16
Beginning Exercises     18
A Look At the Major Scale     20
Exercise A     21
Beginning Tunes     23
Reveille I and Reveille II     24
Careless Love I     26
Careless Love II     27
Down in the Valley I     28
Down in the Valley II     30
John Hardy I     32
John Hardy II     34
The Intermediate Section
Positioning the Right (Picking) Hand     37
Common Bluegrass Rolls Example     39
More on Thumbpicks and Fingerpicks     40
The Basic Building Blocks of Rolls     41
Timing     42
320 True Rolls     45
More Examples Notes     51
By the Beautiful Sea     52
Minuet-J. S. Bach     54
Reveille III     56
The Hussler Minor Jig-Weston     57
Rhythms     58
Exercise B     59
The Advanced Section
Section Notes     61
Allegro-J. S. Bach     63
Cupid's Arrow-Eno     66
Beating Around the Bush-Keith     68
Blackberry Blossom     70
Permutation of All Rolls     72
The Extreme Section
Section Notes     81
Swipesy Cake Walk-Joplin/Marshall     82
Double-J. S. Bach     85
Dominant Cycle Study # 10-Pat Cloud     88
Exercises C and D     91
The Appendices
Appendix A
Reading Music     93
The Twelve Major Scales     96
The Circle of Fifths     97
Major Chords and Inversions     98
Note Values and Timing     99
More On the Banjo Notation     101
Oh, Susanna-Foster     103
Appendix B
Accompaniment and alternate notation notes     105
Bass-Minuet-J. S. Bach     106
Bass-Allegro-J. S. Bach     108
Alternate Notation: The Hussler Minor Jig-Weston     111
Piano-Cupid's Arrow-Eno     112
Another Look at Rolls     114
Projects for Each Section
Projects Notes     115
Song I     117
Song II     118
Song III     119
Song IV      120
Song V     121
Song VI     122