Descending Pentatonic Backup Licks!
banjo intermediate
In this lesson
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- 🔒 Pentatonic Theory
- 🔒 Backup Licks
- 🔒 Lick Exercise
- 🔒 Lick Exercise- Slow
- 🔒 Summary & Application
We've all heard these licks, now it's time to know what they are and make them our own!
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Tom Vasquez
Got about 80% of this one down but the third measure keeps tripping me. Anybody else find that part awkward at speed?
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MandoMary
Welcome aboard — you picked a good one to start on.
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flatpick_dad
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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Katie Clark Support
Answered over in the tab thread too, but short version: play what's comfortable, the tab is a map not a law.
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Deb Carrigan
That's the one that made me finally understand backup. Stick with it.
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FifthStringFred
There's a slower jam track under the resources tab on this lesson, worth grabbing.
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Junior Pace
Same here at first. What fixed it for me was practicing that measure by itself for a week, no B part at all.
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