The First Noel
banjo intermediate
In this lesson
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- 🔒 Verse
- 🔒 Chorus
- 🔒 Slow
- 🔒 Rhythm & Chords
If I didn't know better, I might think this one was written for banjo. I hope you enjoy this Christmas classic, "The First Noel," in drop-C tuning.
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Junior Pace
Slowed the video to 50% and worked it a measure at a time. Two weeks in and it's coming. Patience is the lesson here as much as the notes.
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Deb Carrigan
Count it out loud. Everyone says it and everyone's right.
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Junior Pace
Metronome at 60 and no faster until it's clean twice through. Boring but it works.
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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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Tom Vasquez
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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Buddy Vann
Welcome aboard — you picked a good one to start on.
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Theresa Nickels
The pinky thing goes away, I promise. Took me about three months.
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