John provides words of advice for everything from using a metronome and a tape recorder for your practice sessions to detailed instruction on dancing while playing the banjo (complete with his "footlature" notation system.

Among other topics he covers are licks based on diminished and augmented chords, banjo back up licks, pushing the beat, how to create "accidental counterpoint," and how John writes his original breakdowns for banjo.

Some of the other instrumentals John and Chris demonstrate include:

Leather Britches (backup)
Goin Back to Dixie
Cackling Hen
Annual Waltz
Your Tax Dollars at Work
Lorena
Boogie
Foggy Mountain Landscape