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Discuss the Banjo lesson: Old Rugged Cross

https://banjobenclark.com/lessons/old-rugged-cross-banjo-intermediate

Let’s do this one in the key of C, which is a decent key to sing it in as well! This isn’t too hard of an arrangement, but it does take practice to make it sound smooth. Don’t forget, I have a guitar & mandolin arrangement that matches this one!

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What a beatutiful arrangement @BanjoBen Thank you very_happy So looking forward to getting into this.

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Thank you, I have been wanting to learn this

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Thank you Ben, I’ve been hoping for this one.

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This was the first lesson I learned on the guitar way back when I was a wee lad. So glad its in banjo now, Thanks Mr. Ben

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Hi @BanjoBen

I am struggling a bit with the picking pattern measure 32 of the chorus, I am fine up to the C note after the pulloff but I fumble on the 3rd and 4th strings. Do you double thumb there? Measure 33 leads with a thumb. I just can’t get my head round that sequence

Yes, a double thumb so that you end up actually with a triple thumb going into 33, maybe even a quadruple thumb if you continue with it :slight_smile:

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thank_you I’ll work on it. 2ThumbsUp