Banjo Shuffle Rhythm
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- 23 How to Play Pull-Offs
- 24 Hop, Skip, & Jump– Pull-Offs
- 25 Timing Theory: Eighth & Sixteenth Notes
- 26 Banjo Shuffle Rhythm — you are here
- 27 Intro to Banjo Chokes Up next
- 28 The Foggy Mountain Lick
- 29 Ben's Breakdown
Shuffle rhythm is awesome when you want it–but deadly when you don't. Watch this lesson and save a life.
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Buddy Vann ·
My fingers know it but my brain doesn't yet — I can't play it without the tab in front of me. How do you all commit these to memory?
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Ann Marie Boyd ·
The pinky thing goes away, I promise. Took me about three months.
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Katie Clark Support ·
Answered over in the tab thread too, but short version: play what's comfortable, the tab is a map not a law.
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Theresa Nickels ·
The pinky thing goes away, I promise. Took me about three months.
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Roy Ellender ·
Try it without the pick for a few passes. Sounds silly but it told me my right hand was doing too much.
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Owen Brady ·
Same here at first. What fixed it for me was practicing that measure by itself for a week, no B part at all.
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Marcy Kern ·
There's a slower jam track under the resources tab on this lesson, worth grabbing.