Learn Backup Banjo
Learn how to backup with this comprehensive pack of banjo backup lessons and tablatures. Master essential techniques, including rolling patterns, vamping, chord transitions, and backup licks. These banjo lessons provide a step-by-step guide to creating dynamic and supportive banjo backup, helping you become an indispensable part of any musical ensemble.
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Learning Path
This learning path will give you all of the tools you need to play backup behind someone who is taking a solo. You'll learn the esse...
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Song
This tablature set focuses on common banjo chord shapes used in Vamping backup, specifically in G tuning. It includes the three esse...
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This lesson will walk you through rolling backup in the style of J.D. Crowe. J.D. has some really great roll patterns and licks. Onc...
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Check out some diatonic chord scales in the key of G major.
This banjo exercise provides 3 different fingerings for a G major cho...
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This banjo lesson path teaches you how to incorporate common Scruggs-style backup licks up the neck, teardrop-style backup, and incl...
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This is a series that will introduce you to a lot of standard Bluegrass Banjo Backup vocabulary by using the lick switcher with a c...
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Developed based on the innovative style of Earl Scruggs, these tablatures showcase a variety of classic backup licks used in traditi...
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Tablature
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Difficulty
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Key
G
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Tuning
gDGBD
Here is some very simple backup to get you started. If you want to upgrade your backup, try out the lick switcher on a measure or tw...
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Tablature
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Difficulty
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Key
G
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Tuning
gDGBD
This is a low register arrangement of Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms that demonstrates how you could potentially play behind a singer ...
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Tablature
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Difficulty
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Key
G
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Tuning
gDGBD
Backup. Shelor Style. Extra Lonesome.
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Tablature
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Difficulty
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Key
G
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Tuning
gDGBD
Time to jump into some classic vamping on this tune! This one features some repeated backup patterns styled after Earl's playin...
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Tablature
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Difficulty
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Key
D
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Tuning
fDGBD
This classic Flatt and Scruggs tune has some tricky timing. There's a couple measures of 2/4. Look out for those. Learn the words. S...
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Tablature
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Difficulty
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Key
G
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Tuning
gDGBD
This is a transcription of J.D. Crowe's backup playing with the Bluegrass album band. It has all those fancy vamping and "Foggy Moun...
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Tablature
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Difficulty
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Key
G
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Tuning
gDGBD
This arrangement features some simple roll patterns that stay out of the way of the melody. There's a moment of vamping in the middl...
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