SECTION 1: Getting Started Page Audio Track
Hints and Suggestions
A Few Hints on Practice
Parts of the Banjo
Reading Banjo Tablature
Tuning the Five-String Banjo
Left and Right Hand
Chords
First Picking Pattern: Single Note With Pinch
“Good Night Ladies”
“Boil Them Cabbage Down”
Slide With Pinch: “Boil Them Cabbage Down”
Hammer-on: “Boil Them Cabbage Down”
Four-Note Roll with Single Note and Pinch
with G C D7
“Boil Them Cabbage Down”
“Good Night Ladies”
“Cumberland Gap”
Alternating Roll
New “C” Position
“Boil Them Cabbage Down”
“Good Night Ladies”
“Cripple Creek”
Forward Roll
“Boil Them Cabbage Down”
“Good Night Ladies”
“Boil Them Cabbage Down” (Mixed Rolls)
Forward Backward Roll
“Cripple Creek”
The Pull-off
Train 45 Roll
Modified Forward Backward Roll, F chord
“Levelland Mountain Breakdown”
Guidelines for Determining Right-Hand Fingering
SECTION 2: Review of Rolls, New Rolls and
Combinations of Rolls with Examples
Four-Note Roll with Single Note and Pinch
Alternating Roll
Forward/Backward Roll
Variations of the Forward Roll
Train 45 Roll
Modified Forward Backward Roll
New Rolls
Reno Roll
Timing Fill-in Lick
Four-string Backward Roll
Combinations of Rolls
“(Insert Your Name Here)” Breakdown
SECTION 3: Roll Logic
Rolls for Melody on the First Strin
Rolls for Melody on the Second String
Rolls for Melody on the Third String
Rolls for Melody on the Fourth String
“Bury Me Beneath the Willow”-Variations
SECTION 4: Tools and Techniques
COMMONLY USED INTERVALS
Thirds on the First and Second Strings
Sixths on the First and Third Strings
Thirds on the Second and Third String
Sixths on the Second and Fourth Strings
Using Thirds and Sixths in “Grandfather’s Clock”
Scales and Arpeggios
SECTION 5: Creating Solos to Songs
Jesse James Melody
Phrases #1-#11
Jesse James all “A” Choices
Jesse James using mixed Choices
SECTION 6: Songs
“Ground Hog”
“Wildwood Flower #1”
“Wildwood Flower #2”
“Lost All My Money”
“Nine Pound Hammer”
“Worried Man Blues”
“Train 45”
“Old Country Church”
“Kneel at the Cross”
Acknowledgements