Contents. The Parts of Your Banjo... 2 Choosing a Banjo... 2 How to Hold Your Banjo... 3 Setting Up Your Banjo... 4 How to Tune Your Banjo...

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1 ontents he Parts of Your anjo hoosing a anjo How to Hold Your anjo Setting Up Your anjo 4 How to une Your anjo 5 he Left Hand 6 he Right Hand 7 etting cquainted with ablature 8 Sound-Off: How to ount ime 9 Quarter Notes and Eighth Notes 9 ime Signatures 9 Right-Hand Picking Position of the Right Hand When Playing Different Ways to Pick the Strings with the Right Hand Open-String Exercise Open-String Sequence he D7 hord hanging hords hord Exercise ore hord Exercises rain on the sland 4 ntroducing the Pinch 5 Pinch Variations 6 hree-inger Pinch 7 om Dooley 8 Earl Scruggs and the Roll 9 he orward Roll 9 ntroducing the ccent Rhythm Right-Hand Position om Dooley (Version ) orward Roll Variations Other Songs he hord he Roving ambler 4 he ackward Roll 5 he Roving ambler (Version ) 5 he orward-ackward Roll (humb Leads) 6 ntroducing the Pickup 6 oin Down the Road eelin ad 7 oin Down the Road eelin ad (Version ) 8 oin Down the Road eelin ad (Version ) 9 he Hammer-On Hammer-Ons with the hord Hammer-Ons with the hord Hawthorne Hammers he apo 4 he and 7 hords 5 bout apo Notation 5 opyright XV by lfred usic ll rights reserved Printed in US lfred usic PO ox Van Nuys, 94- alfredcom Red River Valley 6 Red River Valley (Solo) 7 he Key of D 8 Hard, in t t Hard 8 Hard, in t t Hard (Version ) 9 he E inor hord 4 Red pple Juice 4 he E inor hord with a Hammer-On 4 Red pple Juice (Version ) 4 he D hord 4 eelin Lonesome 4 he lternate hord 4 Little aggie 4 Little aggie Solo Variations 44 hords and hords 46 ime 47 Pinch 47 Playing the Strings ndividually 48 Variations 48 ntroduction to Down in the Valley 48 Down in the Valley 49 Down in the Valley (Version ) 5 ackup Playing 5 lternate hords 5 ackup Patterns 5 ackup Pattern 5 ackup Pattern 5 Slides 54 ending the Strings 55 uning 56 areless Love 56 areless Love (Solo) 57 ppendix 58 hord Diagrams for anjo in uning 58 hord Diagrams for anjo in uning 59 etting cquainted with usic 6 he Staff 6 easures 6 lefs 6 Naming the Notes 6 Rhythm 6 lats b, Sharps #, and Naturals n 6 Key Signatures 6 dditional nformation on anjo Heads, Strings, ridges, and ingerpicks 6 hoice of anjo Heads 6 Strings, ridges, and ingerpicks 6 inal houghts 6 ertificate of Promotion 64 ook SN-: SN-: ook and D SN-: SN-: D SN-: SN-: No part of this book shall be reproduced, arranged, adapted, recorded, publicly performed, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without written permission from the publisher n order to comply with copyright laws, please apply for such written permission and/or license by contacting the publisher at alfredcom/permissions ront cover photos: anjo courtesy of ibson US Photo of Janet Robin by Kevin Estrada ack cover photo models: Sheyna ee (top), acebookcom/sheynageemusic ark urgess (middle left) Dick Weissman (bottom) ack cover photos: op: reg Pidfigurny iddle left: Larry Lytle D recorded by Dick Weissman

2 5 he ackward Roll rack 8 Start with the st string, and work backward across the strings he sequence is: iddle finger picks up on st string humb picks down on 5th string ndex finger picks up on nd string 4 iddle finger picks up on st string 5 humb picks down on 5th string 6 ndex finger picks up on nd string 7 iddle finger picks up on st string 8 humb picks down on 5th string he Roving ambler (Version ) elow is the for he Roving ambler using the backward roll elody (eacher) oderately 4 anjo anjo 4 m a rov - ing gamb - ler, etc gam - ble all a - round; When - ev - er meet with a deck of cards lay my mon - ey down 6

3 8 he Key of D 7 o play in the key of D, keep your capo at the nd fret You will be fingering in the key of, but with the capo at the nd fret, you ll actually sound in D Don t forget to tune your 5th string two frets higher to an o the right are the three chords you ll need: 4 Hard, in t t Hard rack apo 5 = 4 t s hard, and it s hard, ain t it hard o love one who nev - er will love you t s hard, and it s hard, ain t it hard, O Lawd, o love one who nev - er would be true dditional Lyrics here is a place in this old town, hat s where my true love lays around, He takes other women, right down on his knee, nd he tells them a little tale he won t tell me Don t go to drinking and a gamblin, Don t go there your sorrows to drown, hat hard liquor place is a lowdown disgrace, t s the meanest old place in this town

4 47 ime So far, everything you have played has been in either or time Let s learn a new time signature now: time ( threequarter time ), which is also referred to as waltz time n, there are three beats for each measure of music elow are some right-hand bluegrass strums for playing in time his new time signature is usually played very evenly, with a slight emphasis on the first beat of the measure Pinch Let s try a pinch in rack 4 time ollow these steps: Your right-hand index finger plays the rd or nd string Your right-hand middle finger plays the st string while the thumb plays the 5th string at the same time 4 elow is another way to play in time with the pinch: Your right-hand thumb plays the 4th or 5th string Your right-hand index finger plays the nd string while the middle finger plays the st string at the same time 4

5 5 ackup Patterns n time, backup patterns can be played on the nd and 4th beats of each measure hese beats are referred to as the backbeats, or afterbeats n these instances, you do not play the st and rd beats ackup Pattern n backup playing, the banjo will usually take a secondary role, playing the nd and 4th beats, while the fiddle, mandolin, or dobro take solos Here s an example of what the banjo would play: st beat: Rest nd beat: Play rd beat: Rest 4th beat: Play n notation, it looks like this: 4 * rack 44 D7 or these chords, it is common to use a three-finger pinch, with the right thumb, index, and middle fingers playing ackup Pattern Here s another way to play backup he rhythm for this pattern is two quarter notes, followed by four eighth notes, or long, long, short, short, short, short Here it is in notation: rack 44 4 * his accent () means to emphasize the chord and cut the sound off short