The picking-hand sequences known as roll patterns are what gives bluegrass banjo its unique and incredible sound. It’s important for these patterns to become completely second nature, because you use them in all aspects of bluegrass banjo playing.Melodic and single-string banjo techniques offer alternative ways to play based around scales.

Knowing how to interpret chord diagrams and being able to read banjo tablature, the written form of music for the banjo, will pave the way for a much smoother road ahead on all of your banjo adventures. Becoming familiar with the most important chords and essential right-hand techniques will put you in the fast lane for having more fun playing music with others.

Functions in Excel 2013 perform complex math operations on cell content. Here is how you can insert a function in a cell, and a list of some common, useful functions. Inserting a function in a cell Typing a function and its arguments directly into a cell works fine if you happen to know the function you want and its arguments.

In Excel 2013 you can move and copy text and numbers between cells, but when it comes to copying formulas, beware of a few gotchas. The following sections explain relative and absolute referencing in formulas and how you can use them to get the results you want when you copy. Copy formulas with relative referencing When you move or copy a formula, Excel automatically changes the cell references to work with the new location.

Excel 2013 is very much like Word and other Office applications. Excel has a File tab that opens a Backstage view, a Ribbon with multiple tabs that contain commands you can click to execute, a Quick Access toolbar, a status bar, scroll bars, and a Zoom slider. This figure provides a quick overview. These instructions walk you through the Excel interface and show you how to move around.

You can edit the content of a cell in an Excel 2013 worksheet either in the cell itself or in the Formula bar. If you need to edit the content in a cell, you can Click the cell to select it, and then click the cell again to move the insertion point into it. Edit just as you would in any text program. Click the cell to select it and then type a new entry to replace the old one.

To type in a cell in Excel 2013, you must first make it active by moving the cell cursor there. As shown earlier in the figure, the cell cursor is a thick green outline. You can move the cell cursor by pressing the arrow keys on the keyboard, by clicking the desired cell, or by using one of the Excel keyboard shortcuts.

Range names in Excel 2013 are written with the upper-left cell address, a colon, and the lower-right cell address, as in the example A1:F3. Here A1:F3 means the range that begins in the upper-left corner with A1 and ends in the lower-right corner with F3. When a range contains noncontiguous cells, the pieces are separated by commas, like this: B8:C14,D8:G14.

Excel 2013 makes it easy to insert and delete rows and columns to deal with many kinds of changes. Even if you’re a careful planner, you’ll likely decide that you want to change your worksheet’s structure. Maybe you want data in a different column, or certain rows turn out to be unnecessary.When you insert a new row or column, the existing ones move to make room for it.