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Basic Banjo Improv 2
In this video lesson, Dan Miller continues the topic from the last banjo improvisation lesson by demonstrating how you can practice using various right hand roll patterns over chord changes to begin learning how to improvise on the banjo. In this video he uses the tune “Boil That Cabbage” down as an example.
The Fiddling of Sam Bush
Photos by Ron Evers Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine February 1985, Volume 19, Number 8 If I could re-live one musical experience it would be listening to Sam Bush’s fiddle jam on that newgrass tour de force, “Don’t Look Back,” performed August, 1982 outdoors at Green Acres Music Hall, near Rutherford, North Carolina. Despite the…
Basic Banjo Improv
In this video lesson Dan Miller discusses how to start thinking about improvisation on the 5-string banjo. He first talks about playing a solo just using the notes of the chords combined with banjo rolls, then he discusses adding notes from the major pentatonic scale and the major blues scale.
Eight More Miles to Louisville
Here is a jam track for the tune “Eight More Miles to Louisville”. The track is in the key of G and played at full tempo. If the tempo is not right for you, you can slow it down or speed it up using the “Playback” selection in the “Settings” menu.
