House Of The Rising Sun Beginner Banjo

[Mike]

This is the discussion topic for the lesson House Of The Rising Sun Beginner Banjo. Please leave your comments or any questions you might have about the lesson here!

[Tom G.]

How do you tune to em?

[Mike]

Tom,

This lesson is just in standard G tuning (gDGBD) so no re-tuning needed.

Let me know if you have any other questions.

– Mike

[Brian Coy]

How would you link part 2 Up the Neck back to Part 1? I am struggling with that.

[Alexander Georgiev]

What do the circled numbers mean on the TABS?

[Mike]

Those are my recommended left hand fingerings to use to make the song easier to play.

You’ll see a legend on the 2nd page of the tab.

– Mike

[John Schopp]

I find it hard to follow the suggested fingering for the rolls on Backup. (maybe to fast). A few measures of the rolls in tabs would clerify. Then to help learn the chords up the neck,tabs would help there too. I Like the arrangement.

[Mike]

You can click the “gear” icon in the bottom right hand corner of the video and adjust the speed if you want to slow the video down.

Or you can let me know timestamp the roll occurs at and I can help out.

In the up-the-neck backup section I’m mainly using the F shape moveable chord. The major and minor version.

You can check out this lesson that has a tab if you’re not familiar with that chord shape:

Chord Theory (Part One)

If you have any other questions let me know.

– Mike

[Dennis Schmedes]

hey, can you write down or explain your right hand ( roll ) in video3, 2:00-2:10 . i dont get it. totally confused after 20 times watching xD

[Avril Cormack]

Thanks for this great lesson – Im a beginner and this is the first song Ive learned from your course. Making good progress and just having one issue. I try to follow the finger placing guidance in the tab but cannot seem to use my second finger effectively for hammer-ons to the next fret where my first finger is already down (as recommended in the tab – for example from 2nd to 3rd fret hammer ons). It feels very awkward. So I use my first finger on the 2nd fret and hammer onto the 3rd with my third finger instead of my second one. My question is, does this matter? Am I starting a bad habit or is it ok to carry on doing what Im doing? Advice appreciated. Cheers 🙂

[mark phillips]

great lesson Mike.
I liked that you highlighted the melody notes in the first section, I was able to mark up my PDF to remember to emphasize those, just helps me somehow. However you kinda skipped the melody breakdown a little in the second section so wasnt quite able to highlight those notes for myself, any chance you could just list those melody notes? cheers!
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