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The First Noel

intermediate banjo

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Stuck on something here? Ask — somebody will have hit the same wall.

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  1. Junior Pace ·

    Slowed the video to 50% and worked it a measure at a time. Two weeks in and it's coming. Patience is the lesson here as much as the notes.

  2. Deb Carrigan ·

    Count it out loud. Everyone says it and everyone's right.

  3. Junior Pace ·

    Metronome at 60 and no faster until it's clean twice through. Boring but it works.

  4. Katie Clark Support ·

    Memorization comes from playing it at a tempo you can think at. If you need the tab, you're playing it faster than you know it.

  5. Tom Vasquez ·

    Same here at first. What fixed it for me was practicing that measure by itself for a week, no B part at all.

  6. Buddy Vann ·

    Welcome aboard — you picked a good one to start on.

  7. Theresa Nickels ·

    The pinky thing goes away, I promise. Took me about three months.

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