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Banjo tablatures for Foggy Mountain Breakdown

Earl Scruggs

Recomended level: Intermediate

Tags: #banjo tune, #up-tempo

This song has inspired countless people to play and learn Scruggs style banjo. Obviously the Foggy Mountain Roll is prerequisite to play this one. Make sure you have that down. If you need extra help check out our Foggy Mountain Breakdown Roll Mini-Lesson. Incorporating the slurs with the roll can be quite a challenge. Take it a note at a time, and use the focus feature to loop and really nail down tough measures.

  • Banjo Foggy Mountain Breakdown Rolling Backup

    Rolling Backup

    Here is some basic rolling backup for Foggy Mountain Breakdown. Being able to do a simple rolling backup and vamping rhythm for each song you play is an essential skill if you plan ...

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  • Banjo Foggy Mountain Breakdown Vamping

    Vamping

    This is some simple vamping for Foggy Mountain Breakdown. Instead of using all root shape chords, we'll utilize some inversions so we can play all the vamping around 3rd and 4th pos...

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  • Banjo Foggy Mountain Breakdown Scruggs Style - Beginner

    Scruggs Style - Beginner

    This is a simplified version of Foggy Mountain Breakdown. It removes the complex fretting hand embellishments and allows us to focus on developing the picking hand first. This is al...

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  • Banjo Foggy Mountain Breakdown Scruggs Style

    Scruggs Style

    The ultimate Scruggs tune! Foggy Mountain Breakdown is an essential bluegrass banjo song, and it's great for working on slurs and right hand drop thumb. This arrangement is closely b...

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  • Banjo Foggy Mountain Breakdown Earl Scruggs

    Earl Scruggs

    This break is a transcription of Earl's playing from the "Town and Country" album by Flatt and Scruggs in 1965. Take a close look. It's different than the Scruggs style arrangement w...

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  • Banjo Foggy Mountain Breakdown Ending Lick

    Ending Lick

    This ending lick is iconic. Measure one is what Earl is playing over the D chord. Nothing too crazy going on here. Make sure to slide up the neck after playing that second fret note...

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  • Banjo Foggy Mountain Breakdown Up the Neck

    Up the Neck

    Here's the classic high break for Foggy Mountain Breakdown. At the beginning of this arrangement you'll hear Earl's iconic chokes on the 10th fret.

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  • Banjo Foggy Mountain Breakdown Backup

    Backup

    This is a standard way to backup Foggy Mountain Breakdown. Imagine you're backing up a fiddle or mandolin player. Try to be as groovy as possible. When playing with others make sure ...

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  • Banjo Foggy Mountain Breakdown Melodic Style

    Melodic Style

    This melodic version of Foggy Mountain Breakdown will challenge you at fast tempos. It's got a lot of tasteful melodic playing along with some fancy chromatic work To get some practi...

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