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You’ll have to experiment with the angle of your left hand.
It’s hard to say without seeing/hearing you play but my guess is your wrist is too close to the neck so your left hand fingering don’t have the correct angle so they’re muting the strings.
If you want to record a short video clip and send it to me I can give you more precise suggestions.
– Mike
You can play the 2nd fret as a quarter note on beat 4 if you prefer that. That would make the melody more in line with how you’re describing it.
If you need me to tab that measure out let me know.
– 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
A lot of their songs are copyrighted unfortunately but let me see what other public domain tunes they did and I’ll add them to my list.
– Mike
Yes, Key of E but playing out of D chord shapes.
No, the 5th string is tuned to A in this arrangement. I mentioned that you could tune the 5th string up to B if you wanted but that’s not how I wrote it. Sorry if that was confusing.
Keep picking.
– Mike
The tab that I played at the beginning of the video is measures 1-16 of the tab on the lesson page.
I just double checked and it looks correct to me.
Which part sounds different to you?
– Mike
Are you playing the quarter note at the beginning of the measure, followed by two forward rolls (TIM)?
That’s how I played it at the beginning of the video.
Is your banjo tuned correctly? If so, playing strings 5, 2, 1 (TIM) for the forward roll will be the same notes I played.
Otherwise, can you send me a video of you playing it and I can hear what’s going on?
– Mike
I’m not familiar with the C part. Which recording are you listening to? I’m curious to hear that.
– Mike
Sure no problem. Here’s a link to a tab with some bass walks for each chord.
If you have any other questions let me know.
Best,
MikeNo, it’s the 16th fret on the 5th string. You’re correct. That’s what it also says on the tab. Standard G tuning.
If I said 14th fret on the 5th string then I must have misspoke. Thanks for the question.
– Mike
Hmm, not sure. It could be an issue with your banjo or it could be that the tuning wasn’t correct. It’s hard to say without hearing/seeing you play it.
Are you spiking your 5th string at the 9th fret to make it a B?
Can you record a short clip of you playing the part and send it to me?
Thanks.
– Mike
You could try sliding to 4 instead of 3 which would make it a little less bluesy sounding.
But otherwise, no, lick #3 (either first half or second part) should work fine in Will The Circle Be Unbroken or Roll In My Sweet Baby’s Arms.
My guess is it’s a timing issue which is causing the lick to not sound correct in the song.
Can you record yourself playing the lick and post it in the other section of the forum and I can take a look?
– Mike
Daryl,
Good question. A capo can sometimes make it easier to play in other keys, but no, it’s not necessary to use a capo to play in other keys.
In the other two keys (C and D) we can also use open chords (C, F, G, D, A, etc)… so it’s still pretty easy to play in these keys without a capo.
Start working through version two and if you run into any other issues let me know.
– Mike
