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Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms - Create Your Own: Rolling Backup

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  • Create Your Own: Rolling Backup
  • Key   G
  • Tempo   75 bpm
  • Tuning   gDGBD

Learn to create your own rolling backup! For each measure you are rolling with 16th notes. That means you could use two 8 note rolls per measure. The forward backward roll is a great start here. There is an example in the licks for several measures. To match the chord changes, you need only change your chord shape while maintaining 2 rolls per measure.


After getting a hang of rolling through the changes you can try out a few of the more advanced Scruggs licks. These work as great fills. These literally "fill" the space left between vocal phrases when a singer is not typically singing.