Here are a couple of ideas to get you started playing melodic style banjo. You can grab a free tab here: imgur.com/a/0Q... Patreon: / jimpankey Tabs: www.sellfy.com... I'm playing my @RecordingKingOfficial M5 banjo
Hey Jim. My wife got me a banjo for Christmas and other then the two weeks I’ve been away from home, I’ve been practicing, A LOT! I love this thing! My wife is now a huge fan of yours because of how I describe your lessons. I think she follows you. I’m trying to get foggy mountain breakdown up to 100bpm and doing ok on the low part but struggling a bit on the half way up the neck part. It’s coming. Anyway, thanks for doing a great job in helping us all out here on you tube. Thanks from Toronto, Ontario. Bob.
Epiphany! The G on the 5th fret (F-shape) allows the tones in your g-major scale to “ring over” one another. Because you’re alternating strings (as you go up the scale), the previous string is allowed “sustain” underneath the next tone. So cool!!
This is a good lesson for the do ray me and switching strings, a keeper. I may even put labels on the fretboard for a while. I'm just getting started with the banjo at 74 and having fun. Thanks.
Just got my first banjo here el central alabama. Trying to figure this out with a vintage kent. I am a cuban so this is definitely outside my regular list of expected hobbies 😅
Jim, your lessons are invaluable to me. I've been a guitar player for 50 years, and there is always something new to learn. You never learn it all. So I decided to buy myself a banjo and extend my musical versatility. Thanks so much for taking the time to do these videos, because I appreciate them. I'm having fun learning from you.
Well Jim, if someone had told me that I would spend $40 for a thumb pick, I would have called them crazy. But I just got my BCT-BRL from Blue Chip and I'm sold. Love the design and it plays really well. Just wanted to say thanks for for the heads up on that company. Real good people too. Hope you and yours have a Happy New Year, and I'm still grinding away on my Recording King.
Hi Jim thanks for your unselfish generous use of your time helping us beginners and more advanced players, who all benefit from your clear brilliant lessons. As for melodic banjo, Don Wayne Reno does some melodic runs across the strings which are also used by his pa Don Reno. I wonder if you know the sort of things I am describing.
Thanks Jim, I get it that Don did the single string stuff and he would incorporate the single string bits into a Scruggs style tune, ie such as Sockeye and it would fits in nicely. Problem is he does it so quick its hard to figure the notes. Its kinda like the B part in Beaumont Rag where everyone stops and whoever’s playing lead does a nice little sort of melodic lick. Its at that part of the tune where Reno would throw in a melodic type lick using the single string style. I have heard you do similar stuff in some tunes, I find using such variants makes the picking very interesting and attractive. I was trying to conquer picking a tune and trying over and over again when my wife said ‘Wonder what will come first, you getting that tune or the Covid Vaccine?’’ Keep with the great lessons Jim and y’all Stay Safe.
Can you please do a lesson of the battle of New Orleans it’s an old military country song that my grandfather used to play but he never wrote down the tab so I haven’t been able to learn it thank you for your time
Hi! I am a classical musician. I have a banjo and would like to learn to play it well. I always wished there was banjo music written on treble clef, kind of like for classical guitar. If I read tab, I don't know what notes I am playing which is really frustrating for a classical musician. I hadn't thought of just practicing scales (and arpeggios!). I'll do that, practicing several different scales until I know the fingerboard and where all the notes are inside, outside, upside down!
You can occasionally find tabs with notation included. I’m not a fan of either since I play folk styles and primarily by ear. You should give my beginner lessons a peep.
Hey Jim. I know that this request is a little strange but, is there any way that you could maybe do a lesson on the banjo part to Thirst Mutilator by billy strings? I have watched countless live recordings of the tune to try and get it down but I have no luck. I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you.
I wasn’t familiar with it until you mentioned it. I probably won’t learn it, but it’s pretty straight melodic stuff. Once you get to where you can sing the melody, then maybe start piecing together the melodic break for it.
Hi Jim i am really enjoying yr videos. just wondering what scale is the second lick ? It sounds really funky playing with G and F chords i thought might be minor /mixalodean,?
Ok Jim I promise to never ask this again but which model of Recording King is that banjo? I promise. And thanks for the great lesson on melodic banjo. Do you recommend memorizing all of the notes on the fretboard?
@@JimPankey Thanks Jim that what I've got. Just wish I could get a brighter sound out of mine. Sounds good on open strings but when I fret a string it sounds dead. Thanks again. I'm working through all of your beginner lessons. Love the way you taech.