Play more notes with fewer fingers, and get to grips with essential rock ’n’ roll, funk and soul shapes
Learn to make your banjo drive the band or play sweet melodies, with solos to well-known songs and tunes, backup techniques, and more. Try a Sample Lesson Blue Ridge Cabin Home In this lesson, you’ll start adding roll patterns to the melody of “Blue Ridge Cabin Home.” Every melody...
In 1962, at age 13, Trischka started getting serious about wanting to play. So he got ahold of Seeger’s seminal book How to Play the Five-String Banjo and decided to contact the man himself. “I wrote a letter to ‘Pete Seeger, Beacon, New York’—it was like writing to Santa...
This basic manual for banjo players includes melody line, lyrics and banjo accompaniment and solos notated in standard form and tablature. Chapters cover material such as: a basic strum, the fifth string,...doi:10.2307/893041Henry Cowell
4. Tune the 2nd string to B. 5. Finally, tune the 1st string to D. Reasons to tune a banjo and ways to do it? A banjo is typically tuned to an open G major chord, which consists of the notes G, B, and D. The fourth string (the highest-pitched string) is tuned to either ...
from the 3rd fret all the way up to the 9th or even 12th fret. Putting a capo on your guitar this high raises the pitch of all of your notes, but it also increases the tension and, therefore, the brightness of everything you play, making your guitar sound more "twangy" and banjo-...
holding your banjo in proper playing position) will be on the top. The highest number string (the one closest to you when you are holding your banjo in proper playing position) - 4 on a 4 string banjo, 5 on a 5 string banjo, 6 on a 6 string banjo, etc. - will be on the ...
You can also play sitting down with an electric guitar, but some guitarists prefer to play standing up. In this case, you need a guitar strap. Hold the guitar so that the thickest string (the low E string) is closest to you when looking down. The hand holding the guitar neck is know...
Learning to play barre chords and making them sound good can be quite a challenge and an uncomfortable experience. Unlike with many open chords where each string is held down with just one finger, with barre chords you have to hold down multiple strings with a single finger. The challenge ...
“top down” perspective of the ukulele, as if you were supporting it in your lap, ready to play. In this way, the bottom line of the figure represents the top string of the ukulele; likewise, the top line represents the bottom string of the ukulele. From the top to bottom string, ...