https://banjobenclark.com/lessons/exploring-backup-ballads-in-c-mandolin-intermediate
Beautiful ballad backup is the bomb! We’ll check out the key of C and show you how to play some purty stuff on your mandolin!
Discuss the Mandolin lesson: Exploring Backup- Ballads in C
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Trying to find the best way to come up with fills and picking patterns, so far I have put a song in the amazing slow downer so I can loop a section and then just kind of jam over it with scale notes until I find something that I like. Do you have any other suggestions on working on something like this?
One good thing to do in this case is create a new thread for the song (or continue on your personal thread) with a link to the song where we can collab on it and I can suggest more.
Hi, I’m hoping to figure out playing this on the banjo (probably starting in G). Any tips to get me started?
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Hi @danlaurajacobson Laura it may help you to explore lessons on single string style and melodic banjo. Who knows @BanjoBen maybe inspired to do a banjo lesson on this topic.
The roll study courses would be one place to start: https://banjobenclark.com/courses/banjo-roll-studies
If I was going to “copy” this mandolin lesson over to banjo, I’d do it with simple rolls and add in some single string lines here and there. @Archie is right, this could be a cool focused lesson.
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Sounds good. Played around a little this morning and I have started to figure out something that sounds similar. I think I need to rewatch the mando lesson to see if there’s some theory info there that would give a good basis, too. Also, if my sister learns this on mando, what kind of banjo would you play with it?
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I would play something very un-busy so as not to interfere with what the mando was playing.
Makes sense, thanks