Fireball Mail- Creating Drive
intermediate banjo
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- 23 Intro to Banjo Backup Utility Rolls
- 24 Bill Cheatham- Scruggs Style
- 25 Fireball Mail- Creating Drive — you are here
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Let's work on getting some drive in your banjo playing. Lots of factors contribute to "drive," and this tab illustrates how to create drive by reinforcing and driving the melody notes!
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Rita Alvarez ·
Just want to say the multiple camera angles make all the difference. I could actually see what the right hand was doing.
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SlowHandSteve ·
The pinky thing goes away, I promise. Took me about three months.
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Deb Carrigan ·
That's the one that made me finally understand backup. Stick with it.
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Curtis Rhodes ·
Take the capo off and play it in open G a few times, then put it back. Helped me hear it.
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Katie Clark Support ·
Try measure 3 on its own at half tempo, and keep your right hand rolling even when the left hand is behind. The right hand is the metronome.
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Owen Brady ·
Not just you. I still count this one out loud and I've been at it four years.