Learn Backup Banjo
Build all-around backup skills by learning more about vamping, closed-position chords, rolling backup, and Scruggs style licks.
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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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Common 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 Chord Scales
In this lesson path, you'll explore the harmonized major scale, also known as a chord scale, to deepen your understanding of the ban...
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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...
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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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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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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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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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Blueridge Mountain Blues
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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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Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms
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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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Down in the Willow Garden
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gDGBD
Backup. Shelor Style. Extra Lonesome.
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Get in Line Brother
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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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Dim Lights, Thick Smoke
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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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Somehow Tonight
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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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Eight More Miles to Louisville
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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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