Hal Leonard

The best-selling banjo method in the world! Earl Scruggs's legendary method has helped thousands of banjo players get their start. The “Revised and Enhanced Edition” features more songs, updated lessons, and many other improvements. It includes everything you need to know to start playing banjo, including: a history of the 5-string banjo, getting acquainted with the banjo, Scruggs tuners, how to read music, chords, how to read tablature, right-hand rolls and left-hand techniques, banjo tunings, exercises in picking, over 40 songs, how to build a banjo, autobiographical notes, and much more! The book/CD version includes a CD with Earl Scruggs playing and explaining over 60 examples!

Songlist:
American Made-World Played
Ballad Of Jed Clampett
Bleeker Street Rag
Blue Ridge Cabin Home
Broad River
Careless Love
Carolina Boogie
Carolina Traveler
Cripple Creek
Cumberland Gap
Dear Old Dixie
Earl's Breakdown
Flint Hill Special
Foggy Mountain Breakdown
Foggy Mountain Chimes
Good Times Are Past And Gone
Ground Hog
Ground Speed
Home Sweet Home
Hot Corn, Cold Corn
Instrumental In D Minor
John Henry
Little Darling Pal Of Mine
Lonesome Road Blues
Loraderojost 111 Breakdown
My Cabin In Caroline
Nashville Blues
Old Folks
Pedal To The Medal
Pick Along
Pretty Polly
Randy Lynn Rag
Reuben
Roller Coaster
Sally Ann
Sally Goodwin
Shuckin' The Corn
Silver Eagle
Station Break
String Bender
Train Number Forty-Five
When I Left East Virginia
Yonder Stands Little Maggie
You Bake Right With Martha White
Your Love Is Like A Flower