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You Are My Sunshine– Slides

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Step 4 of 12 in Using Ornaments

  1. 1 How to Play Banjo Slides
  2. 2 Cripple Creek– Slides
  3. 3 Joy to the World- Basic
  4. 4 You Are My Sunshine– Slides — you are here
  5. 5 How to Play Banjo Hammer-Ons Up next
  6. 6 Cripple Creek– Hammer-Ons
  7. 7 Worried Man Blues– Hammer-Ons

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Let's put those banjo slides to use to play the happiest-sounding sad song ever written.

Key of G technique

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  1. Curtis Rhodes ·

    Question on the tab — is that a hammer-on or a slide going into the B part? Sounds like a slide to my ear but the tab reads hammer.

  2. Mick Stanton ·

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

  3. Ben Clark Instructor ·

    There's a slower track in the resources for this one. If you want it slower still, let me know and I'll cut one.

  4. Theresa Nickels ·

    Recording yourself is humbling but it's the fastest fix I've found.

  5. Deb Carrigan ·

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

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