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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.

  • Banjo Vamping and Closed Position Chords on Banjo

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    Vamping and Closed Position Chords on Banjo

    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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  • Banjo Common Banjo Chord Shapes

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    Common Banjo Chord Shapes

    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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  • Banjo How to Play Sally Goodin Backup

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    How to Play Sally Goodin Backup

    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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  • Banjo G Major Chord Scales

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    G Major Chord Scales

    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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  • Banjo Up the Neck Banjo Backup

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    Up the Neck Banjo Backup

    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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  • Banjo Big Bucket of Backup Banjo Licks

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    Big Bucket of Backup Banjo Licks

    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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  • Banjo Scruggs Backup Licks

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    Scruggs Backup Licks

    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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  • Banjo  Backup

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    Blueridge Mountain Blues
    Backup

    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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  • Banjo  Backup

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    Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms
    Backup

    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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  • Banjo  Backup

    Tablature

    Down in the Willow Garden
    Backup

    Backup. Shelor Style. Extra Lonesome.

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  • Banjo  Vamping

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    Get in Line Brother
    Vamping

    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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  • Banjo  Backup

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    Dim Lights, Thick Smoke
    Backup

    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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  • Banjo  Crowe Style Backup

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    Somehow Tonight
    Crowe Style Backup

    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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  • Banjo  Backup

    Tablature

    Eight More Miles to Louisville
    Backup

    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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