"How to play" Series

Master iconic bluegrass songs with this in-depth banjo lessons pack. Each lesson guides you through the tune step by step, from understanding their context and mastering playing techniques to perfecting the arrangements. This comprehensive approach helps you enhance your banjo playing skills and unlock the full potential of your instrument.

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  How to Play Cripple Creek

  This learning path is your guide to mastering the iconic banjo tune "Cripple Creek." Designed for banjo enthusiasts eager to enhance...

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  How to Play Clinch Mountain Backstep

  This lesson path will walk you through playing the tune Clinch Mountain Backstep. The base arrangement is very much modeled after th...

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  How to Play Fireball Mail

  This lesson path takes you through Fireball Mail in several steps. First we learn the bear bones melody. Second, we learn a simplifi...

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  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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  How to Play Foggy Mountain Special

  Learn Foggy Mountain Special the way Earl played it. This learning path will take you through 4 different breaks as played by Earl S...

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  How to Play Sally Goodwin Up the Neck

  Learn some basics of playing Scruggs style banjo up the neck. Sally Goodin is absolute standard in Bluegrass, and a quintessential s...

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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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