A fully revised and enhanced edition of the world-famous Earl Scruggs method - the best selling Banjo tutor in the world!

The Earl Scruggs method is proven to work time and again, and has helped thousands of beginners get to grips with the instrument over the years. This new edition boasts more songs, updated lessons and much more.

Everything you need to start playing the Banjo is presented right here, including:

• Scruggs tuners
• Reading music and Tab
• Chords
• Right hand rolls
• Left hand techniques
• Unusual Banjo tunings
• Picking exercises

Along with information on how to play, Scruggs' guide will teach you the history of the instrument, how to build a banjo and over 40 songs to master and enjoy.

The accompanying CD features Scruggs himself playing and explaining over 60 examples

• 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