Skip to content
Banjo Ben Clark
Log in Join Now

Exploring Backup- Ballads in D

mandolin intermediate

In this lesson

  • Lesson Preview preview
  • ๐Ÿ”’ Theory & Overview
  • ๐Ÿ”’ Adding Rolls
  • ๐Ÿ”’ Using Scales
  • ๐Ÿ”’ Adding Licks
  • ๐Ÿ”’ Slow

Beautiful ballad backup is the bomb! We'll check out the key of D and show you how to play some purty stuff!

Discuss this lesson

4 replies Visit the forum โ†’
  1. Roy Ellender

    โ™ฅ 8

    Just want to say the multiple camera angles make all the difference. I could actually see what the right hand was doing.

  2. Theresa Nickels

    โ™ฅ 10

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

  3. Ben Clark Instructor

    โ™ฅ 24

    There's a slower track in the resources for this one. If you want it slower still, let me know and I'll cut one.

  4. Curtis Rhodes

    โ™ฅ 2

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

  5. Curtis Rhodes

    โ™ฅ 3

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

Join the conversation

Sign in to reply โ€” it takes an email address and nothing else.

Sign in to reply