One of the world's top players addresses nearly every aspect of the popular 5-string banjo style known as clawhammer or frailing. Chapter themes include fundamentals; advanced and experimental techniques; arranging and backup; how to play reels, hornpipes, jigs and other fiddle tunes; how to approach such genres as ragtime, bluegrass, klezmer, blues, calypso, and a wide variety of "national" and regional music; alternative tunings; setup and accessories; and historical background. Features 120 tunes along with numerous exercises and musical examples in crystal clear tablature; all tunes illustrated by author on two accompanying CDs

• Angeline the Baker (Octave Up)   
• Arkansas Traveller   
• Banjo Breakdown   
• Bay of Fundy, The (With Backups)   
• Beaumont Rag   
• Black Hoe, The   
• Black Mill, The   
• Black Velvet Waltz   
• Buffalo Gals   
• Chicken Polka   
• Chorus Jig   
• Christmas Day In The Morning   
• Cooley's Reel   
• Country Waltz   
• Crooked Stovepipe   
• Crossing the Minch   
• Darlin' Nelly Grey   
• Dashing White Sergeant, The   
• Dill Pickle Rag   
• Dinah   
• Dismissal, The   
• Don MacLean's Farewell To Oban   
• Dona Nobis Pacem   
• Ducks on the Pond   
• Dudanota (Hungarian Piping Tune)   
• Duke of Perth, The   
• Earl's Jig   
• Far From Home   
• Fiddlin' Phil   
• Fisher's Hornpipe (Minstrel Version)   
• Flowers of Edinburgh, The   
• Flying Cloud Cotillion   
• Foggy Clawhammer   
• Gemstone Reel   
• George V's Army   
• Grandfather's Clock   
• Green Meadow Reel   
• Harvest Home Hornpipe   
• Heather on the Hill   
• High Reel, The   
• Hogeye   
• Honeymoon Polka   
• Hull's Victory   
• Indian Nation   
• Indy's Favorite   
• Island Boy   
• Jamaica Farewell   
• Janet Beaton   
• Jay Bird   
• Jentland Tune   
• John Dan MacPherson Jig'   
• Judique Reel   
• Judy's Reel   
• Ladies On A Steamboat   
• Laird o'Drumblair, The   
• Lakes of Sligo   
• Larry O'Gaff Reel   
• Lass o' Gowrie   
• Last Chance   
• Leavin' Home   
• Leeds Hornpipe, The   
• Levantine's Barrel   
• Loons on the Pond   
• Lord MacDonald's Reel   
• Mackilmoyle   
• MacNab's Hornpipe   
• Maid Behind the Bar, The   
• Maple Leaf Rag, The   
• Maple Sugar   
• Mariner, The   
• Marquis of Huntley Strathspey, The   
• Merriweather   
• Miss Johnson of Pittworth   
• Miss Lyall   
• Miss Susan Cooper   
• Mrs. McCloud's Reel   
• Niel Gow's Lament for His Second Wife   
• Nine Points of Roguery   
• Old Jim River   
• Old Joe Clark   
• Over The Briny Ocean   
• Over the Moor to Maggie   
• Over The Waterfall   
• Paddy Ryan's Dream   
• Phiddlin' Phil   
• Pigeon on the Gatepost   
• Pipe Major Christie of Wick   
• Plaza Polka   
• President Garfield's Hornpipe   
• Puncheon Camps   
• Quindaro Hornpipe, The   
• Rasputin's Last Ride   
• Reel du Cordonnier   
• Reuben's Train   
• Richmond Cotillion   
• Rickett's Hornpipe   
• Road to California   
• Road to Mexico   
• Rollin & Tumblin' Blues   
• Romanian-Bulgarish   
• Sailor's Wife, The   
• Sally Gardens   
• Sally's in the Garden Siftin' Sand   
• Sandy Boys   
• Scartaglen Polka   
• Schottische 'a Eric Montbel   
• Sean Ryan's Polka   
• Seneca Square Dance   
• Sheehan's Reel   
• Shenandoah Falls   
• Sid Baglole's Tune   
• Spanish Fandango   
• Spoodis Skeery   
• Tea Gardens Jig   
• Tina's Schottische    
• Turkey in the Straw   
• Twin Sisters, The   
• Two Pathways   
• Two Rivers   
• Upper Denton Hornpipe   
• Waitin' for the Federals   
• Waynesboro   
• Westphalia Waltz   
• Whalen's Breakdown   
• White Cockade, The   
• Willafjord   
• Wolves Howling   
• Yew Pine Mountains