As this book progresses, you willlearn how to connect up-the-neck and down-the-neck licks smoothly, how to switch a lick for a lick for single chords, how to create variations, incorporate the melody, etc. In fact, you should find it fairly easy to begin working out your own up-the-neck arrangements fairly early in the book. As you begin to work with these patterns in songs and learn how they are used, the fact that they are played in the up-the-neck area will begin to seem natura!. Many of the same patterns (fo11sand licks) can be used in many different songs for the same chord. Patterns are involved in playing up the neck, just as they are involved with playing on the deeper tones of the banjo. In this style ofplaying, the melody notes for a song are surrounded by background notes, which are determined by the chords to the song. The three-finger style of playing was popularized in the early 1940s primarily by Earl Scruggs and Don Reno, and has continued to be one of the foremost styles for playing the five-string banjo. I hope they will work well for you, also. I have used these techniques for many years with my banjo students, and they seem to have worked well. The more you play up the neck using these techniques, the easier it will be to develop your own arrangements using these techniques. However, the songs are also intended as playable arrangements. The songs presented in each section demonstrate the particular technique(s) discussed in that chapter. This book is divided into chapters, with each chapter building upon the information presented in the previous one. These will become familiar to you within a very short time, and will be easy to relate to the fingerboard. Because these are related to chord positions, it will help to concentrate on°the numbers involved with playing each chord, particularly the G, C, and D chords from which the left hand will work. However, just as it was difficult to read tablature for the first time, you will find that you will see the same numbers over and over, and you will begin to recognize the same patterns up the neck, just as you do when playing down the neck. People often find it difficult to read the double-digit numbers involved in playing up the neck. This book is intended to provide you with the basic principles and techniques for developing the ability to play any song in the three-finger style of playing in the up-the-neck area of the banjo. 'Up the neck' of the banjo involves playing between the 5th and the 22nd frets of the fingerboard.

Roll Patterns, chords, songs, licks, chord progressions, improvising, melodic style, chromatic style, and back-up are some of the exciting techniques included in this educational video. Janet Davis has created a superb instructional video for five-string banjo dealing with the 5th through the 22nd fret.

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