Backup Banjo
Unlock the power of providing solid and expressive support to any musical ensemble with our Banjo Backup Learning Path, where you'll develop the art of rhythmically enhancing songs, mastering chord progressions, and understanding the intricacies of backup techniques, transforming your banjo playing into an indispensable backbone for a wide range of musical collaborations.
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Learning Path
Vamping and Closed Position Chords
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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Learning Path
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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Learning Path
Up the Neck Backup
This lesson path will teach you how to incorporate common Scruggs style backup licks up the neck, teardrop style backup, and a stud...
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Song
Big Bucket of Backup Licks
This is a series that will introduce you to a lot of standard Bluegrass Backup vocabulary by using the lick switcher with a common ...
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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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Arrangement
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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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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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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