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East Tennessee Blues- Melodic

banjo intermediate

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Fiddle tunes with fast-moving melodies can be a challenge on banjo, & the melodic approach helps us reach more notes than we might with Scruggs style. Let's get east bound and down with melodic banjo!

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  1. Owen Brady

    ♥ 5

    I keep losing the timing when I add the backup. Does anyone count this out loud or is that just me?

  2. Dale Hutchins

    ♥ 11

    Metronome at 60 and no faster until it's clean twice through. Boring but it works.

  3. Theresa Nickels

    ♥ 4

    Try it without the pick for a few passes. Sounds silly but it told me my right hand was doing too much.

  4. Sharon Kile

    ♥ 2

    There's a slower jam track under the resources tab on this lesson, worth grabbing.

  5. FifthStringFred

    ♥ 8

    Welcome aboard — you picked a good one to start on.

  6. Ben Clark Instructor

    ♥ 25

    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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