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This is a perfect blend of Scruggs-style and melodics, tied up neatly in a tune we all know and love! Like most fiddle tunes, this one has two A parts and two B parts, so there's lots of creative freedom in building your own breaks from the parts I offer. Enjoy this one, and don't forget the gravy!

Earl Scruggs Key of G Melodic Banjo technique

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  1. Dale Hutchins ·

    Just want to say the multiple camera angles make all the difference. I could actually see what the right hand was doing.

  2. Rita Alvarez ·

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

  3. Gary Feldman ·

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

  4. Lou Ann Prater ·

    Take the capo off and play it in open G a few times, then put it back. Helped me hear it.

  5. Ben Clark Instructor ·

    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.

  6. Owen Brady ·

    I had that exact problem. Turned out my thumb was anchoring in the wrong spot.

  7. Owen Brady ·

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

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