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This is banjo master Jim Britton's arrangement of a classic hymn that works just PERFECTLY in C tuning! Let's get those 4th strings down a notch and head up the neck on this challenging piece!

C Tuning Key of C

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  1. Sam Whitlock ·

    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?

  2. FifthStringFred ·

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

  3. Lou Ann Prater ·

    There's a slower jam track under the resources tab on this lesson, worth grabbing.

  4. Ben Clark Instructor ·

    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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