Overview
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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
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Holding the banjo
- Tuning
- Fun with tuning
- 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
- 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"
- 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
- "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
- ArtistWorks and Next Steps
