This encyclopedia of licks you need to know to play 5-string bluegrass banjo includes accompaniment (backup) licks, soloing licks, as well as basic music theory, the Numbers system, listening suggestions, and many complete solos, plus 119 audio tracks available online for download or streaming to help you learn how and when to play the licks. 14 bluegrass standards are used as examples showing how to apply the licks: Amazing Grace; Bury Me Beneath the Willow; John Henry; Little Birdie; Nine Pound Hammer; Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms; This Train; Wabash Cannonball; When the Saints Go Marching In; Will the Circle Be Unbroken; and more.