Phil Rice's 1858 Method for the Banjo

1. introduction
2. Exercises & Lessons
3. Juba, a Jig Dance
4. Where Did You Come From?
5. Do Mr. Boker Do
6. Hurrah for Hard Times
7. Green Corn
8. Rattlesnake Jig or Hoop De Dooden Doo
9. Jump into the Wagon
10. Oh, Come Along John
11. Buckley’s Banjo Jig
12. To the Other Side of Jordan
13. Hear Him, Johnny, Hear Him!
14. Oh, Sally Is the Gal for Me
15. Rob Ridley
16. Root Hog Or Die
17. Down in Alabama
18. Gettin’ Up Stairs
19. Picayune Butler’s Comin’ to Town
20. Bobbin’ Around
21. White Cat or Black Cat
22. Hannah, Hannah, Where You Going?
23. I’m Off for Nicaragua
24. Machine Poetry
25. United States, It Is the Place
26. Oh, the Law Gals
27. Oh, What’s the Matter Suse Ann?
28. Somebody’s In the House with Dinah
29. So Glad Dinah Left Me
30. Don’t Mind Steven
31. The Ole Grey Goose
32. Oh, Jenny Get Your Hoe Cake Done
33. Darling Nelly Gray
34. Oh, Ladies All!
35. That’s So and You’d Better Believe It
36. Sandy Boy
37. Hi! Ho! The Charleston Gals
38. Go Away, Jenny
39. Get Away, Gumbo, Sound Your Horn
40. Where’s That Man?
41. Sam Johnson’s Reel
42. Devil’s Dream
43. What’s Going On?
44. Phil Rice’s Excelsior Jig
45. Come Shine Out, Peggy
46. Whoop Jamboree
47. Oh John, Did You Ever See My Daughter Sally?
48. The Old Gander
49. Rise Old Napper
50. Mrs McCloud’s Reel
51. Set ‘Em Up John
52. Come Day, Go Day
53. Power of Music, as Executed by Tom
54. John Diamond Walk Around
55. Grape Vine Twist
56. Oh, Bring Along the Gal
57. Old Virginny Jig
58. Mr. Brown
59. Snap, Flip, Toodleum, Dee
60. The Lady’s Jig
61. Buckley’s Walk Round
62. Essence of Old Virginia Dance
63. Dick Sliter’s Reel
64. Buckley’s Best Reel
65. Unsworth’s New Jig
66. Walk Around
67. Alternate Solos in G Tuning:
68. To the Other Side of Jordan
69. Oh, Sally Is the Gal for Me
70. Bobbin’ Around
71. White Cat or Black Cat
72. Hannah, Hannah, Where You Going?
73. I’m Off for Nicaragua
74. United States, It Is the Place
75. Sandy Boy
76. Sam Johnson’s Reel
77. Come Shine Out Peggy
78. Whoop Jamboree
79. Oh John, Did You Ever See My Daughter Sally?
80. Oh, Bring Along the Gal
81. Essence of Old Virginia Dance
82. Unsworth’s New Jig

This book is considered the first in-depth method book ever published for learning to play the 5-string banjo. First appearing in 1858, Phil Rice’s 1858 Method for the Banjo was written in standard notation in the tuning (eAEG#B). Kyle Gray Young has meticulously transcribed 64 solos from the original keys and notation to clear, easy-to-read tablature in modern C tuning; 15 of these solos also appear in G tuning. Since the intervals between strings are the same in the C or A tunings, these tablature editions are also playable on replica banjos in the 19th-century tuning.In addition to its 64 solos, this Mel Bay edition features a complete transcription of the original step-by-step method on how to play stroke-style banjo as it was presented in 1858, but again—in modern tablature with online audio. Some of these wonderful melodies haven’t been heard since the Civil War era. It’s time to bring them back to life!