Basic Open String Major Scales
Here’s a mini-lesson to help you work on the basic open string major scales.
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1st Finger Closed Position Major Scale
Here’s a mini-lesson to help you work on the 1st finger closed position major scale.
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Creating Variations On A Common Lick
I’ve taken a standard banjo Scruggs lick and created 35 variations (I got a little obsessed) that will help you turn a “lick” into an “idea” you can use anywhere, anytime. I’m always looking for easy ways to breathe some new life into my standard repertoire and this is an easy and fun way to
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Moveable Chord Licks (F Shape)
This lesson will give you some new ideas for playing licks out of your moveable F shape chord. We’re going to talk about some basic vamping and then how to add some bluegrass style licks to your backup!
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Roll Practice and Beginning To Improvise
This is a great exercise for anyone that wants to learn how to improvise but is struggling to come up with ideas. The reason this exercise works so well is because it restricts you to only 5 notes and really forces you to come up with an idea. Beginners (myself included at one point) often struggle
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Moveable Melodic Scale Pattern
Today I’m going to be talking about a moveable melodic scale pattern (sounds scarier than it is.) Basically, it’s a single pattern you can work on that will work in any key on the banjo. So if someone at your local jam calls a tune in F# (jam buster) you’ll be ready. Best of all,
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Create Your Own Bluesy Banjo Licks
This Mini Banjo Lesson is going to be talking about one of my favorite subjects….Blues Banjo! Maybe it’s the cold, but winter time has got me picking the blues so let me show you some easy ways to create your own blues banjo licks. I’m going to cover the keys G, C and D and what
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Playing In The Key of C (Without Retuning)
Here’s my latest blog post that will give you some new ideas for playing in the Key of C. We’re going to go over playing backup and the importance of using your right hand to spell out the chords. This is a great lesson for beginners that have some of the basic rolls down and
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Bending The Strings
Here’s another mini lesson to help you work on some common string bending techniques and licks. We’ll also go over the common lick from the Scruggs up-the-neck version of Foggy Mountain Breakdown!
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Create Your Own Banjo Kickoffs
Here’s my latest mini lesson that will give you some new ideas for creating your own banjo kickoffs. We’ll talk about the three things you need to remember when creating a banjo kickoff and I’ll give you some tips to get you started.
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