Parts of a banjo(ist); From one ignoramus to another; How to use this book; How to buy a banjo; How to hold your banjo; Tuning for ignoramuses; Fingering the banjo; How to read banjo tablature; Playing rolls; Your first roll, the pinch; Melody notes; Drone notes; Yankee doodle; Bile 'em cabbage down; Down the road; Groundhog; Lynchburg town; Poor Ellen Smith; Palms of victory; Nine pound hammer; Columbus stockade blues; When I law my burden down; Blue ridge mountain blues; Roll in my sweet baby's arms; Wabash cannonball; Redi river valley; Little Maggie; Long journey home; My home's across the blue ridge mountains; Pass me not; Pretty polly; Put my little shoes away; Shall we gather at the river; When the saints go marching in; Man of constant sorrow; Beginning rolls; Forward roll; More rolls; Slides; Banjo chords; Native gorund music.