Beginner 5 String Bluegrass Banjo-Bulid From The Ground Up!

What You Will Learn?

• Welcome to this Beginner 5 String Banjo Course, Build From The Ground Up!.
• In this course, you will learn many of the essential techniques and musical ideas that have helped me in my 20 year career as a professional Bluegrass Banjo player and instructor. We will start off by tuning up our Banjos and quickly start learning our first songs. I will show you how to hold your banjo, how to properly wear your picks and proper hand placement. We will go over all of the parts of the banjo so you will know more about how your instrument works and what each part is called. I will show you your first easy chords G, C and D7 and the first picking pattern so you can get right to the music! You will learn your first simple tunes such as Boil Them Cabbage Down and Goodnight Ladies. You will learn basic left hand techniques such as Slides, Hammer ons and Pull offs so you can add fun ornamentation to the songs. I will show you how to mix roll patterns up so you can improvise and add variety to your solos. You will also learn the very first boom chick backup patterns so you can accompany other musicians and Jam!. I will demonstrate how to apply roll patterns with scales so you can start to improvise and create your own arrangements of songs. After you have learned these basic techniques we will progress into more standard tunes such as Cripple Creek, Hard Aint it Hard, Blackberry Blossom and Old Mac Donald. Finally, you can put it all into practice with backing tracks. With regular practice, I know this course will get any student going in the right direction and learn a solid foundation to build on. The main thing is to have fun and keep picking! Thanks, Chris Elliott .