"How can I read sheet music and play tenor banjo melody chord solos?" Mel Bay's own step-by-step method for melody chord performance will show you precisely how it's done. Also suitable for tenor mandola. Written primarily in standard notation with tablature and fretboard diagrams given for chord patterns, this book might be considered a sequel to the Complete Tenor Banjo Method. After a few pages of elementary information, the author goes to the heart of the matter with challenging exercises and solos presented in order of difficulty in various keys. The book also includes a thorough education in chord construction from simple triads to thirteenth diminished ninth chords. Most importantly, the author offers a system for learning to apply tenor banjo chords in a creative manner.

Tuning the Banjo
Basic Musical Knowledge
Tablature
Major Chord Forms
Dominant 7th Chord Forms
Key of C Major
Non-chordal Tones in C Major
Key of A Minor
Minor Chord Forms
Harmonizing Non-chordal Tones in A Minor
Key of G 
Harmonizing Non-chordal Tones in G
Key of E Minor
Harmonizing  Non-chordalTones in E Minor
Key of F
Harmonizing Non-chordal Tones in Key of F
Key of D Minor
Harmonizing  Non-chordal Tones in D Minor
Diminished Chords
The Augmented Chord
Key of B Flat
Harmonizing Non-chordal Tones in B Flat 
Key of G Minor 
Key of D Major
Harmonizing  Non-chordal Tones in D Major
Key of B Minor 
Harmonizing  Non-chordal Tones in B Minor
Key of E Flat
Harmonizing  Non-chordal Tones in E Flat
Harmonizing  Non,chordal Tones in C Minor
Key of A Major 
Harmonizing Non-chordal Tones in Key of A Major 
Key of FSharp Minor
Key of A Flat
Non -chordal Tones in Key of A Flat
KeyofFMinor
Harmonizing Non -chordal  Tones in F Minor 
Key of E Major
Non-chordal Tones in Key of E
Key of C Sharp Minor
Harmonizing Non-chordal Tones in C Sharp Minor
Key of D Flat Major
Harmonizing Non-chordal Tones in D Flat
Key of B Flat Minor 
Key of B Major
Key of G Sharp Minor
FSharp/G Flat Major
E Flat/0 Sharp Minor 
Major 6th Chords
Minor 6th Chords
Major 7th Chords
Minor 7th Chords
7th Augmented 5th Chords
7th  Diminished 5th Chords
9th Chords
Altered 9th Chords
11th Chords
13th Chords