With this volume, the reader is pleasantly surprised with two books in one- Section One by Alec Slater, and Section Two by Lisa Schmitz. Alec's portion is intended as a guide for the clawhammer or frailing banjo player with some previous experience in this style. He stresses the fact that this style of music can be fully learned only from within the oral tradition in which it grew. The instruction included here is meant to provide a review, and not to take the place of qualified teacher. Alec recommends that "...anyone wanting to get this playing right, should find someone in your area who plays and have him/her teach you. Listen to it, watch it, and make it your own." In Section Two, Lisa Schmitz presents an extensive collection of 163 jigs, reels, polkas, hornpipes, strathspeys, waltzes, and songs from Ireland, Scotland, the Shetland Islands, Cape Breton, New England and Southern Appalachia for banjo solo. The national origin of each tune is indicated. Lisa offers personal, authoritative settings of a great variety of tunes at an intermediate level. Written in tablature only.

42-Pound Check      
A Polka      
Alabama Jubilee      
Banjo Shuffle      
Behind The Bush In The Garden      
Billy Malley Schottishe      
Blackberry Blossom      
Bonaparte Crossing The Rhine      
Christmas Day Ida Moarnin'      
Cliffs Of Moher      
Cold Blow And The Rainy Night      
Coleman's Cross      
Colored Aristocracy      
Come Dance And Sing      
Come Life, Shaker Life      
Consolation      
County Down Waltz      
Creel Of Turf      
Dennis Murphy's Polka      
Dermot O'dowd      
Devil's Dream      
Donald Blue      
Double File      
Dr. O'neil's      
Drowsy Maggy      
East Virginia      
Ebenezer      
Fairy Dance      
Farewell To Whiskey      
Flop Eared Mule      
Forked Deer      
Frieze Breetches      
Frost And Snow      
Give The Fiddler A Dram      
Give The Fiddler A Dram      
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen      
Golden Slippers      
Got A Little Home To Go To      
Green Mountain Petronella      
Heather On The Moor      
Hull's Victory      
Ice On The Pond      
Jack Broke Da Prison Door      
Jenny Picking Cockles      
Jessica's Polka      
Jimmy Allen      
John Ryan's Polka      
Johnny Todd      
Kesh Jig      
Kiowa Special      
Knole Park      
Lady Montgomery      
Lady Of The Lake      
Lamplighter's Reel      
Lincoln Street Blues      
Little Stack Of Wheat      
Liza Jane      
Lord Inchiquin      
Louie's First Tune      
Maggie Brown's Favorite      
Market Town      
May Terri's Polka I      
May Terri's Polka Ii      
Miss Gordon Of Park      
Miss Wedderburn's Reel      
Morgan Magan      
Morpeth's Horn Pipe (Aka Morpeth's Rant)      
Nancy      
Nine Hundred Miles      
Noel, Merrily On High      
Off She Goes      
Off To California      
Oh, Come Ye To Zion      
Old Bill Cheathum      
Out On The Ocean      
Over The Waterfall      
P Stands For Paddy      
Paddy Clancy's      
Paddy On The Railroad      
Paddy's Return      
Patsy Geary's      
Petronella      
Pipe On The Hob      
Planxty George Brabazon      
Planxty George Brabizon      
Planxty Madame Maxwell      
Pretty Peg      
Pretty Polly      
Prince William      
Rakish Paddy      
Reconciliation      
Red Haired Boy      
Red River Valley      
Red Wing      
Return From Fingal      
Ride A Mile      
Road To Boston      
Road To Lisdonvarna      
Rolling Waves      
Sailor's Hornpipe      
Sally In The Garden      
Santa Ana's Retreat      
Santa Claus Come And Gone      
Scotland The Brave      
Scotsman Over The Border      
Shady Grove      
She's Like The Swallow      
Sheebag Sheemore      
Siege Of Ennis      
Simple Gifts      
Slater's Hornpipe      
Sleep Sounda Ida Mourin'      
Sometimes I Drink Whiskey      
Sonny's Mazurka      
Southwind      
Speed The Plow      
St. Kilda Wedding      
St. Martinmas Time      
Star Of The County Down      
Staten Island Hornpipe      
Swaggering Jig      
Swanee River      
Tar Road To Sligo      
Tater Patch      
Temperance Reel      
The Ashgrove      
The Atholl Highlanders I      
The Bethel Street Reel      
The Blarney Pilgrim      
The Braes Of Mar      
The Burnt Old Man      
The First Of May      
The Flowers Of Edinburgh      
The Frost Is All Over      
The Girl I Left Behind Me      
The Green Meadows Reel      
The Hare In The Corn      
The Hewlett      
The Highway To Limerick      
The Maid Behind The Bar      
The Mill      
The Morning Star      
The Munster Buttermilk      
The Musical Priest      
The Rakes Of Kildare      
The Top Of Cork Road      
The White Cockade      
Tiki Tiki La      
Tom Billey's Jig      
Touch Stone      
Turkey In The Straw      
Waltzing Over The Waterfall      
Wassail, Waissail      
Weiser Tune      
West Virginia Gals      
Where The Aubeg Flows      
Wildwood Flower      
Willie Moore      
Yellow Rose Of Texas