https://banjobenclark.com/lessons/real-deal-pick-n-fill-in-c-banjo-intermediate
Real Deal lessons are designed to give you the street level skills to play! In this lesson, we’ll take a common chord progression in the key of C and explore the classic rolling backup used by so many great banjo pickers!
Thanks Ben, you must have my place bugged and know that I am struggling with this. Great lesson as always.
Perfect! I really need a lesson like this for the key of D too. Thank you!
Agreed – Key of D would be prime!!
These Pick 'n Fill lessons have been extremely helpful. Thanks for putting them out there.
Is anyone else having trouble opening the PDF file? I just get an error message when I click on the link.
@btoll1019
I think that’s being worked on now Beverly.
The whole lesson wouldn’t show up when I went to look…
Same for me if I use the link above, but if I click on the video on the home page it loads and I can open the pdf.
Good looking out Kevin!
Everything opened for me that way as well.
Thank y’all for the heads up! The pdf downloaded for me fine and I fixed the link at the top of this thread.
@BanjoBen, these are really great. There were some real lightbulbs starting to flash for me in this lesson. I can understand much better how to use the walkups and walkdowns to transition between chords when you have two bars of a chord before the chord change.
What are some ways of pointing the ear towards the next chord when the chord is played for only a single bar? Is it using a slide or hammer on with eighth notes?
I was trying to work out a way to apply these concepts to figure out some simple (level 1/2 type) backup for another song in C, but I can’t quite grasp how to do this for one bar chord changes.
Or should pointing the ear not be tried and you just flip your roll directly into the next chord change?
I’ve also wondered if you should try to do any sort of chord walk note when a song stays on a chord for just a single measure.
Thanks, Ben! That’s a new concept for me, that I don’t always have to play something D-ish over a single measure of a D chord. I am definitely going to try this! Doing a chord walk or a transition lick and just see how it sounds.
Yep, and i just listened back to the video and the audio was almost useless, lol. I think I still explained it well enough…lesson to come next month!
Thanks @BanjoBen, I’ll look forward to that lesson! The video definitely gives some things to think about and play around with in the meantime.
Having lot’s of fun working through this one today @BanjoBen Sure hope your planning to complete the series soon with a Real Deal Pick in Fill Lesson in D. Just love playing in D not cap’d C