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Banjo Lessons: 1 Fundamentals

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Learn how to play banjo with an award-winning banjo player and teacher. Part 1 covers fundamentals like holding and tuning a banjo, reading music, and basic finger picking.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
1. Getting Started
  • Holding the banjo
  • Tuning
  • Fun with tuning
2. Hand Position and First Songs
  • Intro to chords G, C, and D7
  • "This Little Light of Mine"
  • Right-hand position: Part 1
  • Right-hand position: Part 2
  • Left-hand position
  • Reading tablature
  • "Ode to Joy": Part 1
  • "Ode to Joy": Part 2
3. Picking Techniques
  • Finger picks
  • Alternating thumb roll exercises
  • Forward rolls: "Boil Them Cabbage Down"
  • Mixed rolls: "Boil Them Cabbage Down," part 1
  • Mixed rolls: "Boil Them Cabbage Down," part 2
  • The slide: "Boil Them Cabbage Down"
4. Rolls and Practice
  • How to practice
  • Osborne roll: "Boil Them Cabbage Down," the F chord
  • Osborne roll: “Boil Them Cabbage Down, ” variation on the 5th fret
  • Osborne roll: Fingering
  • Osborne roll: "Sourwood Mountain"
  • Rolling backup
  • D chord
  • Note emphasis
5. Basic Bluegrass Tunes
  • "Michael, Row the Boat Ashore"
  • "Penny's Farm"
  • “Wildwood Flower”: Key of C
  • Osborne roll: “Old Joe Clark,” part 1
  • Osborne roll: “Old Joe Clark,” part 2
  • Osborne roll: “Cluck Old Hen,” part 1
  • Osborne roll: “Cluck Old Hen,” part 2
Conclusion
  • ArtistWorks and Next Steps

Taught by

Tony Trischka

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