Here’s a beginner arrangement to practice playing Amazing Grace (Up-The-Neck). This will help you practice adapting a melody to a closed position solo that you can play in any key!
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Here’s a classic Stephen Foster tune played in the bluegrass style. This is a great exercise in taking a single note melody and adapting it to 3-finger bluegrass banjo!
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Here’s a fiddle tune adapted to Scruggs style. This is a great tune for beginners looking for an instrumental tune to tackle or if you need some practice on the F chord.
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Here’s a beginner arrangement to this classic holiday tune. This tab will help you practice adding pinches to the melody and filling out the arrangement with rolls!
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Here’s a straight forward adaption of this great holiday melody. This song will help you practice transitioning around the neck and playing a slow tune on the banjo!
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Here’s a classic banjo kick-off and break to the jam standard Long Journey Home. This is a great song to work on your drive and your hammer ons and pull offs. I’ve included two times through the solo so you’ll have plenty of licks and stuff to work on!
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Here’s a kick-off or solo to the classic bluegrass song John Hardy. This is a great tune to work on playing a melody on the 1st and 2nd strings and will help you work on your speed! This song also starts on the “IV” chord each time which is great practice for backup!
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Here’s a great old song, originally written in 1876, adapted for the banjo. This is a great song to practice bringing out the melody and learning to use harmonics. This is one of those songs that sounds great played fast or slow so I’ve included four different speeds for practice.
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This intermediate version is perfect for the banjo picker who has learned a beginner version to this song and wants more! I’ve included two solos that stray a little further away from the melody and incorporate some bluesy banjo licks. Combine these solos with your beginner version and you’ll have dozens of ways to play
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The song made famous in the movie “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?” This song helped a resurgence in the popularity of bluegrass music and brought the banjo to a whole new generation of people. This is a must know tune for any bluegrass jammer so I’ve compiled a beginner version that will work as a
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