Bill Cheatham- Scruggs Style
intermediate banjo
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I've have an advanced Alan Munde melodic version, but it's good to present this tune in a Scruggs-style as well! The trick is to choose which melody notes are the important ones and to make our ornaments pronounced.
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Junior Pace ·
I keep losing the timing when I add the backup. Does anyone count this out loud or is that just me?
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Junior Pace ·
That's the one that made me finally understand backup. Stick with it.
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Sharon Kile ·
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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Bill Threadgill ·
Count it out loud. Everyone says it and everyone's right.
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Katie Clark Support ·
Great question. That's a slide going into the B part — I play it as a slide but a hammer-on works fine if that's cleaner for you. Do what sounds right.