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Alfred's Teach Yourself to Play Banjo (Book & Online Media)

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Contents 

Getting Started
A Short History of the Banjo
The Five-String Banjo
The Hands
Picks
Tightening the Head
Holding the Banjo
Tuning Your Banjo
Tuning to a Piano or Other Keyboard
Tuning to a Pitch Pipe
Tuning to a Tuning Fork
Tuning by Ear
Using an Electronic Tuner
Caring for your Banjo
Buying a Used Banjo
Starting to Play Chords
Playing the G Chord
Playing the D7 Chord
Getting Acquainted with Music
Mini Music Lesson: Ties
Down in the Valley
Mini Music Lesson: Eighth Notes & Rests
Go Tell Aunt Rhody
Mini Music Lesson: Pickup Measure, Dotted Quarter Note
Cockles and Mussels
Clementine
Strum No. 1
Mini Music Lesson: D.C. al Fine
Tom Dooley
Strum No. 2
Old Paint
The C Major Chord
When the Saints Go Marching In
On Top of Old Smokey
Oh! Susanna
Strum No. 3
Strum No. 4
Worried Man Blues
The G7 Chord
Jesse James
She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain
Red River Valley
Strum No. 5
Skip to My Lou
Strum No. 5 (continued)
Hand Me Down My Walkin' Cane
This Land Is Your Land
Mini Music Lesson: The Arpeggio
Strum No. 6
The A7 Chord
Aura Lea
Strum No. 7
The Cowboy's Dream
Strum No. 8
New River Train
Strum No. 9
Daisy Bell (A Bicycle Built for Two)
Melody Playing
Goodnight Ladies
My Home's Across the Smoky Mountains
Lolly Too Dum
Mini Music Lesson: Hammering-On
Come and Go with Me
Mini Music Lesson: Pulling-Off
Cotton Eyed Joe
Strum No. 8b
The Old Gray Mare
Bluegrass
Bluegrass Roll No. 1
Black Eyed Susie
Bluegrass Roll No. 1a
Old Joe Clark
Bluegrass Roll No. 2
Little Maggie
Mini Music Lesson: C Tuning
The Wabash Cannonball
Home on the Range
Strum No. 10
Mini Music Lesson: Transposition
The Capo
What to Do About the 5th String
Chords in G Tuning
Chords in C Tuning
Fingering Charts