Old Rugged Cross
banjo intermediate
In this lesson
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- 🔒 Verse
- 🔒 Chorus
- 🔒 Slow
Let's do this one in the key of C, which is a decent key to sing it in as well! This isn't too hard of an arrangement, but it does take practice to make it sound smooth. Don't forget, I have a guitar & mandolin arrangement that matches this one!
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Deb Carrigan
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?
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Owen Brady
There's a slower jam track under the resources tab on this lesson, worth grabbing.
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Sharon Kile
Try it without the pick for a few passes. Sounds silly but it told me my right hand was doing too much.
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Junior Pace
Recording yourself is humbling but it's the fastest fix I've found.
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Katie Clark Support
Memorization comes from playing it at a tempo you can think at. If you need the tab, you're playing it faster than you know it.
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Ray Dunphy
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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