Where to go now?
Learn some repertoire!
Now that you have the G scale under your fingers it would be a good idea to learn some tunes to really solidify it in your vocabulary. Here are a few tunes that would be great to move on to next:
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Song
Melodic Style
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Key
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Tuning
gDGBD
This tune is often a guitar players first flat picking song, and this version of Red Haired Boy is based on Tony Rice's playing.
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Song
Melodic Style
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Difficulty
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Key
G -
Tuning
gDGBD
Play like a fiddle player! A lot of melodic style banjo players listen to fiddle players for articulations and popular licks.
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Difficulty
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Song
Melodic Style
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Difficulty
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Key
G -
Tuning
gDGBD
This is a classic fiddle tune and this arrangement of June Apple is based on Noam Pikelny's performance.
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And if you're itching to keep learning scales, check out the C and D scale exercises:
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Song
C Major Scale
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Difficulty
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Key
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Tuning
gDGBD
You'll notice that the C scales use very similar positions to the G scales. The main difference between G and C is one note. C scale...
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Song
D Major Scale
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Difficulty
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Key
D -
Tuning
gDGBD
To play D major from the lowest note available on the banjo you have to play with the single string style until you reach the mid-r...
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