The finest tenor banjo method available, this text represents Mel Bay's own approach to fundamental musicianship on this versatile instrument. This book is the standard by which others are judged. Easy-to-understand and thorough in its approach, this method addresses both melody playing and chord strumming. Through numerous studies, folk songs and several duets, students are systematically introduced to the various notes and positions on the tenor banjo fretboard. Photos aid in learning proper hand and sitting positions. Once in two volumes, this method is now presented it its entirety in this single comprehensive edition, written in standard notation only.

As the tuning of the mandola is identical to that of the tenor banjo (CGDA), this method can serve as a note-reading approach for learning the mandola as well. Tenor banjo chord references can also serve for the mandola. As with the guitar, however, these instruments actually sound an octave lower than written in treble clef.

"Dark Eyes"       
 A Duet In G       Mazas 
 A Visit To The Relatives       
 Aloha-Oe       
 Aunt Rhody       
 Aura Lee       
 Austrian Hymn       
 Beautiful Dreamer       
 Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair       
 Careless Love       
 Carry Me Back To Old Virginia       
 Chanson Triste       Tschaikowsky 
 Cielito Lindo       
 Colonial Waltz       
 Country Gardens       
 Creole Memories       
 Double Trouble       
 Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes       
 Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes       
 Duet In B Major       
 Duet In D Minor       Mazas
 Folk Song       
 Follow The Leader       
 Greensleeves       
 Happy Frets       
 Hatik Voh       
 How Can I Leave Thee       
 Juanita       
 Lazy Evening        
 Long, Long Ago       
 Maria       
 Melody In F       Rubenstein 
 Minka       
 Minuet In D        
 On Wings Of Song       Felix Mendelssohn 
 Playtime       Pleyel 
 Prelude Opus 28 No. 20       Frederic Chopin 
 Rhumba        
 Romance       Mazas 
 Romance       Mazas 
 Serenade        
 She Wore A Yellow Ribbon       
 Shenandoah       
 Sparkling Stella       
 Sultana        
 Sweet Betsy From Pike       
 Tarantelle       
 The Banjo March       
 The Blue Tail Fly       
 The Old House        
 The Speedway       
 The Volga Boatman       
 The Wayfarin' Stranger       
 Third Avenue       
 Tie Waltz       
 Traumerei       Robert Schumann 
 Triplet Duet       
 Waltz From The Poet And Peasant Overture       
 Waltz In A-Flat       J. Brahms 
 Witchcraft        
 Yankee Doodle