Melodic Scales Banjo Tabs
Exercises
Melodic Scales Banjo Tablature: One Song, Many Styles
Recomended level: Intermediate
These exercises are designed to help banjo players gain fluency and confidence in navigating scales across the neck, enabling them to create captivating and expressive melodies. Whether for traditional bluegrass tunes or other musical styles, "Melodic Scales" exercises open up new creative possibilities and add depth to a banjo player's musical repertoire.
Learn how to play Melodic Scales on Banjo with this selection of tablatures:
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G Major Scale
- Difficulty
- Key G
- Tempo 25 bpm
- Tuning gDGBD
The banjo standard tuning for banjo is G major. The bulk of Bluegrass vocabulary is built around this tuning and in the key of G. The melodic style is no different. You need to get ...
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C Major Scale
- Difficulty
- Key C
- Tempo 60 bpm
- Tuning gDGBD
You'll notice that the C scales use very similar positions to the G scales. The main difference between G and C is one note. C scales include F natural, and G scales have F#. This ba...
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D Major Scale
- Difficulty
- Key D
- Tempo 25 bpm
- Tuning gDGBD
To play D major from the lowest note available on the banjo you have to play with the single string style until you reach the mid-range of the banjo. The actual "melodic style" pick...