This book, written for those with no prior musical experience, is the definitive text for learning C-tuning concert, or classic-style 5-string banjo. Written by the late Frank Bradbury, Banjo Method provides a thorough grounding in music theory and note reading, along with a complete presentation of Mr. Bradbury's unique 5-string concert banjo technique and outstanding solo and duet arrangements by various artists.

The technique described here is radically different from that found in other books about the 5-string banjo, and no tablature is used. No plastic or metal picks are used on the right-hand fingers, nor are the fingernails used, but rather the bare fingertips. The hand positions recommended by Mr. Bradbury are not unlike those of a classical guitarist. All in all, this is an uncommon, but valid approach to solo banjo technique

Author's Note
Component Parts of the Banjo
The Rudiments of Music
Position for Playing the Banjo
Tuning the Banjo (CGBDG)
Another Tuning Method - by Fret
The Stringing of the Banjo
The Time Signature
Ledger Lines
Dictionary of Musical Terms
Learning to Read and Pick the Open Strings
Learning the Natural Notes in the First Position
Notes on G or 3rd String
Notes on B or 2nd String
Exercise Using Notes on the G and B Strings
Notes on D or 1st String (1st Position)
Exercise Using the D and B Strings
First Position Only
The First Waltz
Pick-Up Notes
Positions
Notes on the C String 2nd Position
The Key of C Major and C Major Scale
Steps
The C Major Scale
Playing the C Major Scale on the Banjo
Three String Chords (C Major)
Accompaniment Style Chords (with Bass Notes)
The Merry Campers - Polka
Sixteenth Notes
Study Using 16th Notes
Pop-Corn
Abbreviations
Chromatic Signs
Accidentals
The Daily Double
The Tie
Shifting to the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Positions
Intervals
Intervals by Number
Exercise in Thirds
Continued Bar Position Work
Alternate Picking
The Key of A Minor
Minor Scales
Playing the A Minor Scale
The Chords in the Key of A Minor
Pajama Dance
Exercise in A Minor
Etude in A Minor
Triplets
Exercise
First and Second Endings
Mountain Polka
Dotted Quarter Notes
The Golden Slippers
Continued Right Hand Practice
The Cotton Club
The 7th Position
The Two Octave C Major Scale
The Key of G
The G Major Scale
Chords in G Major
Accompaniment Styles in G Major
Sidewalks of New York
The Key of E Minor
The Harmonic E Minor Scale
The Melodic E Minor Scale
The Chords in the Key of E Minor
Six-Eight Time
The Caissons Go Rolling Along
Continued Practice in E Minor
Banjo Jubilee
Arpeggios
Exercise in Arpeggios
Playing in the 10th and 12th
"Belle of the Ozarks"
Playing the Notes in Position
In Arpeggio Form
In G Major
Exercises in Sixths
Old Kentucky Home
Grace Note Study
Five String Variation (on The Blue-Tail Fly)
The Elevated Bass
Notes on the 4th or Bass String (Bass to D Tuning)
Susan's Waltz
The Spanish Fandango
The Technical Names of the Scale Steps
The Technical Names of the Chords
Specific or Different Kinds of Intervals
Triads
The Tonic Major Chord and Inversions
The Tonic Minor Chords and Inversions
Bar Position Scale Work
Broken 3rd's Taken on A Bar Position
Extended Chord Forms
Etude (Bar Positions) - Figurations
The Gauchos Galopade
The Key of D Major - Scale, Chords
Etude in D Major
The Key of B Minor Scales
Chords in B Minor
Home on the Range
Preparatory Exercises
Norwegian Folk Dance
The Sailors Refrain
The Key of F Major - Scale
The Tonic, Sub-dominant, and Dominant 7th Chords in the Key of F Major
The Key of E Major - Adapted to the Banjo
The Banjo Caprice
Alabama Moon
The Key of D Minor
The D Minor Scales on the Banjo
Playing the Harmonic Form
The D Minor Scale (Harmonic)
The Chords of D Minor
Etude in D Minor
A Table of Major Key Signatures
The Major and Relative Minor Keys
Tetrachords
Related Keys
The Cycle of Keys
A Banjo Mosaic (George L. Lansing, arr. Bradbury)
Syncopation
Examples of Syncopation
The Quick Slide or Glissando
The Slow Slide or Glissando
The Ascending Slur or Hammer Slur
Old Virginia
Another Style of Position Playing
Examples
Octaves
Tenths
Waltz Melody
Chromatic Scales
The Yankee Clipper (George Lansing, arr. Bradbury)
Kentucky Medley
Playing the E Minor Scale in the 4th and 6th Positions
The Vibrato
Greensleeves
The Key of Bb Major
After the Ball
The Key of G Minor
Dance Morisco (Bacon, arr. Bradbury)
Harmonics
Exercise in Left Hand Harmonics
Harmonic Waltz (L. H. Harmonics)
Right Hand Harmonics
Playing the G Major Scale in Right Hand Harmonics
Ascending and Descending Arpeggios
Continued Chromatic Scale Practice
The Key of A Major
The Key of F# Minor
The Marines Hymn
The Key of Eb Major
The Tonic, Subdominant and Dominant 7th Chords
Etude in Three-Four Time
The Key of C minor
Exercise
The Harmonic Form C Minor Scale and the Primary Chords of C Minor
Ballad in Eb (Hunter, arr. Bradbury)
Hilo - Hawaiian Quickstep)
Exercises for Stretching the Fingers
Melodic Running Arpeggios
Extended Position Exercise in G Major
Reviewing the Primary Chords
The Diminished Seventh Chord
Diminished 7th Chords
Examples of Three String Diminished Chords
California (Gregory)
The Major and Minor Triads
The Four String
Reviewing the Dominant 7th Chords and Inversions - The Three String Forms
The Four String Dominant 7th Chords Classified as to Root Pos., 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Inversions
Chart Showing Primary Chords of Relative Major and Minor Keys
Chart with Readings of the Chords
Dominant 7th Chords
Dominant 9th Chords
The Key of Ab Major
The Key of F Minor
The Happy Farmer (Schumann)
Catalog of Chords for Accompaniment (Happy Farmer)
In Old Vienna (Mozart theme)
Picking with the Third Right Hand Finger
Exercise
Example Showing Arpeggio with 3rd RH Finger Picking
Brahms Waltz (transcription by Frank Bradbury)