Single String Banjo
Discover the enchanting world of Single String Banjo with our specialized learning path, where you'll dive deep into the art of playing in the single string style. Unleash your banjo's potential as you master melodic runs, explore intricate solos, and develop exceptional finger dexterity, elevating your banjo playing to new levels of creativity and musicality.
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Song
Single String 101
Through a series of exercises and scale patterns, students develop precise finger placement and control while navigating a single st...
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Song
Single String Minicourse
The "Single String Minicourse" for banjo offers a focused and efficient approach to mastering single-string playing techniques. Wi...
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Arrangement
Boil Them Cabbage Down
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G -
Tuning
gDGBD
The Bum-Ditty rhythm pattern is the foundation for this arrangement. Pay close attention to the pick hand fingering in the tab. Lear...
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Salty Dog Blues
Single String-
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Key
G -
Tuning
gDGBD
This great single string arrangement follows the melody similar to the way Lester Flatt would sing it. It might be easy to sing or h...
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Turkey in the Straw
Single String-
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Key
G -
Tuning
gDGBD
Learning to adapt to the limitations of your instrument is important. When playing Turkey in the Straw in the key G and in second po...
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Learning Path
How to Play Chinquapin Hunting
This beautiful fiddle tune works great in the single string style of banjo. No capo gives allows us to use that nice low open D stri...
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Arrangement
Chinquapin Hunting
Single String Style-
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Key
D -
Tuning
aDGBD
This is a first position arrangement of Chinquapin Hunting. Using open strings can help us to closely emulate the sound and style of...
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Lonesome Fiddle Blues
Single String Style-
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Key
Dm -
Tuning
aDGBD
This is an alternate version of the Lonesome Fiddle Blues melodic style with a slightly different melody. The B section will make yo...
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Whiskey Before Breakfast
Single String Style-
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Key
D -
Tuning
aDGBD
A lower octave arrangement than the melodic version. This version of Whiskey Before Breakfast gives you a great single string work o...
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Angeline the Baker
Single String-
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Key
D -
Tuning
aDGBD
This is an advanced version of Angeline the Baker with some fancy triplets at the end of the A section. Using 3 fingers on one strin...
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Wild Bill Jones
Single String Style-
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Key
G minor -
Tuning
gDGBD
If you're gonna play single string, don't hold back. Don't box yourself into thinking you have to play single string the way Earl di...
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Raleigh and Spencer
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D minor -
Tuning
aDGBD
Triplets, cross-picking make this arrangement of Raleigh and Spencer a smoking hot single sting arrangement. It also makes it a chal...
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Cattle in the Cane
Single String Style-
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Key
G -
Tuning
gDGBD
Tony Rice transcription. Put on your big person pants and get to work!
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