The book I teach my students with! 

The simplest  and most fun bluegrass banjo book ever written. I teach out of this book and it makes it easy for the student to grasp right hand techniques.  It can teach anyone to play, we promise! Includes instruction CD with 99 tracks. We guarantee this book will get you started playing bluegrass banjo. Here's the table of contents......

Parts of a Banjo(ist)
From One Ignoramus to Another
How to Use this Book
How to Buy a Banjo
How to Hold Your Banjo
Tuning for Ignoramuses
Fingering the Banjo
How to Read Banjo Tablature
Playing Rolls
Your First Roll, the Pinch
Melody Notes
Drone Notes
     Yankee Doodle
     Bile 'Em Cabbage Down
     Down the Road
     Groundhog
     Lynchburg Town
     Poor Ellen Smith
     Palms of Victory
     Nine Pound Hammer
     Columbus Stockade Blues
     When I Lay My Burden Down
     Blue Ridge Mountain Blues
     Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms
     Wabash Cannonball
     Red River Valley
     Little Maggie
     Long Journey Home
     My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains
     Pass Me Not
     Pretty Polly
     Put My Little Shoes Away
     Shall We Gather at the River
     When the Saints Go Marching In
     Man of Constant Sorrow
Beginning Rolls
Forward Roll
More Rolls
Slides
Banjo Chords
Native Ground Music