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Banjo Waltz Backup- Vamp Variations

banjo intermediate

In this lesson

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  • 🔒 Part 1: Basic Vamp & Double Thumb
  • 🔒 Part 2: Double 3rd & Add Thumb
  • 🔒 Part 3: Inside Rolls & Combos
  • 🔒 Slow

When we learn to play waltz backup, we begin with a vamp. That's all fine and dandy...until you get flat tired of it! Let's spice it up!

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  1. picknGrin

    ♥ 4

    My fingers know it but my brain doesn't yet — I can't play it without the tab in front of me. How do you all commit these to memory?

  2. Buddy Vann

    ♥ 3

    The pinky thing goes away, I promise. Took me about three months.

  3. Roy Ellender

    ♥ 3

    Same here at first. What fixed it for me was practicing that measure by itself for a week, no B part at all.

  4. Katie Clark Support

    ♥ 17

    Try measure 3 on its own at half tempo, and keep your right hand rolling even when the left hand is behind. The right hand is the metronome.

  5. Sharon Kile

    ♥ 10

    Not just you. I still count this one out loud and I've been at it four years.

  6. Ray Dunphy

    ♥ 3

    Take the capo off and play it in open G a few times, then put it back. Helped me hear it.

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