Tunefox
The Clever Way to Learn & Practice Bluegrass Music
This is some interesting vamping for How Mountain Girls Can Love on Banjo. The cool part of this one: you'll switch chord inversions or types to follow the "melodic arc" of the song. That means when the singers voice goes up, so will you! Moving harmony with the melody helps to support and reinforce.
If you have problem with any of the shape or position shifting develop your own exercise or use the focus feature to practice that at a slow speed. For example if you have trouble with the switch in measure three you could play the 1st inversion shape once then go to the root shape. Do that repeatedly and you've created your own exercise. You could also just use the focus feature on that measure.
The lyrics are included to show how the lyrics, chords and timing all connect. There's a lot of licks that demonstrate new chord change options and more embellished vamping. Something that can help with the big position shifts: slide in and out of the first and last notes when a shift is needed. It's something Earl Scruggs did a lot. It adds style and character while helping make big shifts easier.
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