CONTENTS. About the Author 4 Introduction 5 Chapter 1: Getting Started You and Your Banjo 6. Chapter 4: Licks and Left-Hand Techniques 31
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1 CONENS bout the uthor ntroduction Chapter : Getting Started You and Your anjo 6 Lesson : Parts of the anjo...6 Lesson : uning...7 Lesson : olding the anjo...8 Lesson : he Picking and...9 Lesson : he Fretting and... Lesson 6: ow to Read ablature... Lesson 7: ime... Lesson 8: Pitch and the Notes on the Fretboard... Lesson 9: Your First unes... Yankee Doodle... ary ad a Little Lamb... Ode to Joy... Lesson : Fill-n Notes... Skip to y Lou... Go ell unt Rhody (No. )... Grandfather s Clock...6 Chapter : Chords 7 Lesson : Your First Chords...7 Lesson : wo-chord Songs...9 om Dooley...9 andsome olly... Lesson : he C Chord... Lesson : hree-chord Songs... Good Ol ountain Dew (No. )... Worried an lues... Chapter : Rolls Lesson : asic Rolls... Go ell unt Rhody (No. )... oil hem Cabbage Down (No. )... Worried an lues (No. )...6 Lesson : Combining Rolls...7 Worried an lues (No. )...8 Lesson : Combining Rolls and Fill-ns...8 Camptown Races...9 Red River Valley... Chapter : Licks and Left-and echniques Lesson : Slides... oil hem Cabbage Down (No. )... Lesson : ammer-ons... ammerville... Cumberland Gap... Lesson : Pull-Offs... Pull-Off owne...6 Lesson : Combining Slides, ammer-ons, and Pull-Offs...7 Lesson : Combining Licks to Play Songs...8 Cripple Creek...8 Waterbound...9 Lesson 6: ore Licks...9 rain... Good Ol ountain Dew (No. )... anks of the Ohio... Will the Circle e Unbroken?... She ll e Coming Round the ountain... Lesson 7: ntros and Endings... Lonesome Road lues (No. )...6 Long Journey ome...7 eginning anjo
2 Chapter : ore Chords 8 Lesson : Closed-Position Chords...8 Lesson : Chords and the ajor Scale... Lesson : Chord nversions... Lesson : Chord Progressions... Lesson : Chord Vamping... oil hem Cabbage Down (No. )... Lesson 6: inor Chords... Shady Grove (rrangement)... Shady Grove (Chord Changes)... Lesson 7: 7th Chords...6 Lonesome Road lues (No. )...7 Vamping Lonesome Road lues...8 Chapter 6: Playing in Different Keys 9 Lesson : What Key s his and Why Change Now?...9 Lesson : he Capo...9 Lesson : Playing in the Key of C...6 Red River Valley in G...6 Red River Valley in C (No. )...6 Red River Valley in C (No. )...6 Red River Valley in C (rrangement)...6 Lesson : Drop C uning...6 Soldier s Joy...6 Lesson : Playing in the Key of D...6 ngeline the aker...6 Red River Valley (Key of D)...66 Lesson 6: D uning...67 Reuben...67 ome Sweet ome...68 Chapter 7: elodic Style 69 Lesson : ntroducing elodic Style...69 Lesson : Songs in elodic Style...7 Cripple Creek (elodic Style)...7 he Eighth of January...7 Red-aired oy...7 Chapter 8: Playing in ime 7 Lesson : ntroducing, or Waltz ime...7 Lesson : Rolls...7 ll the Good imes re Past and Gone...7 mazing Grace...7 Good Night rene...76 Chapter 9: Clawhammer and Old-ime Style 77 Lesson : ntroducing Clawhammer...77 Lesson : he um-ditty...79 Lesson : he um-ditty with Chords...8 oil hem Cabbage Down (um-ditty)...8 Go ell unt Rhody (um-ditty)...8 Lesson : Clawhammer Licks and Left-and echniques...8 Lesson : Clawhammer unes...8 Cripple Creek (Clawhammer Version)...8 Cumberland Gap (Clawhammer Version)...8 Chapter : anjo Care and aintenance 8 Lesson : ore bout anjos...8 Lesson : djusting Your anjo...8 Lesson : Changing Strings...89 Lesson : Keeping Your anjo Clean...9 Lesson : anjo Straps...9 ppendix 9 Practice...9 Listen, Listen, Listen!...9 Conclusion...9 dditional Resources...9 Devil s Dream...7 Contents
3 LESSON : E FRENG ND We change the pitch of a string by making its vibrating length shorter or longer, which is done by pressing it onto a fret (see Parts of the anjo, page 6); this is called fretting. o fret a note, hold down the string just behind (to the left of) the fret you wish to play. f you hold the string down directly on top of the fret, your finger will mute the note. f you place your finger too far behind the fret, you may not get enough pressure to make a clear note. lso, try to fret the strings with just the tips of your fingers, with your fingertip pointing straight down (as opposed to slightly sideways) in order to avoid touching strings other than the one you are playing. he fingers of your left hand are numbered as shown. Left-hand finger numbers. oo far from fret. oo close to fret. Correct. When fretting a note, your left thumb should be behind the neck (not wrapped around the top) and your wrist should be slightly bent so that the palm of your hand is not touching. Correct thumb position. ncorrect thumb position. he anjo Neck s Not a andle he first time you sat down with your banjo in your lap you probably noticed that, since the body of the banjo is round, the neck started to drift down toward the floor. he natural thing to do is hold the neck up with your left hand, right? Don t do it! ry to get used to holding the banjo in your lap by using your right arm on the armrest and your two right-hand fingers planted on the banjo head. strap can also be helpful to keep the banjo in playing position. olding the neck up with your left hand not only limits the mobility and agility of your left hand, it s also a tough habit to break later. eginning anjo
4 LESSON : FLL-N NOES Fill-in notes are notes used to fill the spaces between the melody notes. You probably noticed that the songs we ve played so far don t sound much like real banjo playing. Fill-in notes will help create that signature sound. E S FLL-N s the name implies, the th st fill-in is done by playing the th string and then the st string as eighth notes, creating a syncopation. Syncopation is a shift of the emphasis to an unexpected place, such as from the first beat to the second, or from the first eighth note in a beat to the second. nserting a th st fill-in in eighth notes is one way to accomplish this. nstead of the straight rhythm of quarter notes, the th st fill-in will give it a rhythm of. ry to count that rhythm aloud when you play the next example. Count: E PNC pinch is a technique where you play two strings together, one with the thumb and the other with or. he most common pinch is one that we use as a fill-in, also on the th and st strings. n it looks like this: Let s try alternating pinches with th st fill-ins. Note that while most banjo music is usually written in time with eighth notes, implying four beats with eight eighth notes per measure, we re typically feeling only two beats per measure with four eighth notes in each beat when we get it worked up to speed. ost of the music in this method can be felt this way. eginning anjo
5 Waterbound uses several of the techniques we ve learned so far. Pay attention to the note on the nd fret right after the slide in measure as it may be tricky. lso keep an eye on the slides in measures and 6. hese slides are the same but their rolls differ. WEROUND P Wa - ter bound and can't go home, wa - ter bound and can't go home. P Wa - ter bound and can t go home, back to North Car - o - lin - a. LESSON 6: ORE LCKS ere are a few more essential licks to add to your banjo vocabulary E FOGGY OUNN LCK y adding a hammer-on to the nd string, you can play one of the most useful and recognizable licks in the banjo repertoire. his next lick is often played as an intro (see page for more on intros) to banjo tunes and is usually repeated two or three times in a row. Remember to use your thumb on the nd string where indicated. his pull-off lick often follows the Foggy ountain lick. t s a forward roll starting on the th string. Play it slowly and when you get to the rd string, rd fret, pick that note and then play the pull-off and st-string note at the same time. P he next pull-off lick uses the same forward roll as the last four notes of the Foggy ountain roll. Just move your st finger to the rd string and play the pull-off instead of the open string. P Chapter : Licks and Left-and echniques 9
6 LESSON : PLYNG N E KEY OF C n the previous lesson, we learned that by placing a capo at frets,,, and, the keys of, b,, and C, respectively, were easily accessible but what about the other keys? Placing your capo at the th fret allows you to play in the key of C using the same techniques and licks that you would use for the key of G, but playing in the key of C without a capo is also fairly easy. nd once you know how to play in the key of C, you would then be able to play in the keys of D, Eb, E, and F by using the capo at frets,,, and. he keys of G and C are closely related keys, because they share many of the same notes. n the key of G, the,, and chords are G, C, and D. n the key of C, they are C, F, and G. he two keys have two chords in common. What this means to a banjo player is that you can still make good use of the open strings in the key of C. Remember, to transpose a piece of music means to change its key, or pitch. Let s transpose the melody of Red River Valley from the key of G to the key of C. We ll take a look at the theory involved, as well as a few practical ways of doing this on the banjo. First, let s look at the melody of Red River Valley in the key of G. he example below begins with a half rest, which is silence for the duration of a half note. n measure, the second note (open rd string) uses a new note value called a dotted half note. Dotted notes are notes with a small dot after them. he dot increases the duration of the note it s attached to by half of its value. So, a dotted half note equals a half note (two beats) plus half of its value (one beat) to total three beats. RED RVER VLLEY N G.. From this val - ley they say you are go - ing. We will miss your bright eyes and sweet smile. o transpose this song to the key of C, we will need to raise the pitch of each note by the same amount, as if we were using a capo at the th fret. One way to do this is to play every note five frets higher, like this: RED RVER VLLEY N C (NO. ) 7 7. From this val - ley they say you are go - ing. 6 7 We will miss your bright eyes and sweet smile. Chapter 6: Playing in Different Keys 6
7 LESSON : DJUSNG YOUR NJO ajor repairs to any instrument should be taken to a qualified repair shop, but there are a few basic maintenance issues that you can easily take care of yourself. Check your banjo periodically to ensure that it stays in tune and is at its peak playability. RDGE PLCEEN he bridge on your banjo is not glued in place (at least, it shouldn t be). t is held in place by the tension of the strings and can move if accidentally bumped. he placement of the bridge is critical to being in tune. Following are a couple of ways to check its placement:. easurement. he th fret should be exactly halfway between the nut and the bridge. Carefully measure the distance from the nut to the th fret (measure to the fret wire itself), and then measure the distance from the th fret to the bridge. he two distances should be equal. f you need to move the bridge, hold the banjo in your lap and grip the bridge between the thumb and index fingers of both hands. hen, gently slide the bridge toward or away from the neck until the measurement from the th fret to the bridge is the same as from the th fret to the nut. his method will get you very close, but for more accuracy, it s best to set the bridge using harmonics. easuring the bridge placement. oving the bridge.. armonics. armonics are pure, clear tones produced by picking the string while gently touching it at a specific division of the string length, usually the th fret. With harmonics, you don t fret the string in the traditional way. Rather, you barely touch the string just over the fret wire, pick the string, and then immediately let go after picking. You should hear a bell-like chime, which is a harmonic. Once you re able to play the harmonic, compare the note that you hear with the fretted note at the same fret. f the fretted note is sharp (slightly higher than the harmonic), then you ll need to move the bridge back toward the tailpiece. f the fretted note is flat (lower than the harmonic), then you ll need to move the bridge forward (toward the neck). You probably won t have to move it very far. ove the bridge in the manner described above. Finger touching the string at the th fret to produce a harmonic. Finger depressing the string at the th fret to test the tuning and bridge placement. he bridge usually only moves if it s been bumped or deliberately moved, but it s a good idea to check the intonation as described above if the tuning on the banjo has changed significantly (often a sign that it s been bumped). Chapter : anjo Care and aintenance 8
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