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Beginning Bluegrass Banjo - Lessons 16 to 20

This series of entirely free lessons is designed for the newcomer to bluegrass banjo. Complete beginners can start at Lesson 01 and move on from there. These lessons and exercises are designed deliberately to be simple and easy to accomplish. They should give the beginner a good sense of accomplishment with a little application and practice. They are not designed to be done in any particular order. Just jump in anywhere you feel comfortable or browse around for something interesting!

Tab is available by following the links below the video.

See also the Beginning Bluegrass Bass website...

Here is the tab for some of the tunes

Lesson 16 - Basic Licks 01

Lesson 17 - Skip to My Lou

Lesson 18 - New Rolls

Lesson 19 - Rolling In My Sweet baby's Arms

Lesson 20 - Basic backup

Lesson 20 - Backup For 'Rolling In My Sweet baby's Arms'

Lesson 16 - Some Basic Licks

Here are some basic licks that you might use in your playing. They are based on the alternating thumb roll and the forward/backward roll. Some of these moves are used in the Lesson 12 video of 'Worried Man Blues'.

Lesson 17 - Skip To My Lou

This is a very simple arrangement of the old parlour song 'Skip To My Lou'. It combines some of the licks from Lesson 16 and earlier lessons.

Lesson 18 - Some more Roll Patterns

This video teaches the beginner some new roll patterns to help loosen up the picking hand a littel. These patterns will come in handy for some of the songs and tunes to be learnt in the future.

Lesson 19 - A simple version of Rolling In My Sweet Baby's Arms

Here is a simple arrangement of the tune 'Rolling in My Sweey Baby's Arms'. It uses some of the roll patterns covered in Lesson 18.

Lesson 20 - Basic Backup

An introduction to playing backup patterns on the banjo and also a look at some new chords.