Banjo Help and Advice
Learn Timing and how to count time
Tips
from Ross Nickerson answers to students
A couple of tips.
Learning to count time is very important on the
banjo and easy if you just take the time to practice it.
Learn some basic
rolls and chords and focus on picking steady without pausing or stopping to fix
things. Producing a steady rhythm is paramount when playing the banjo and in music
in general.
One last tip, music is not a perfect science, don't strive
for perfection but for something fun and uplifting. If you want to strive for
perfection, learn to pick steady, then almost anything sounds good, that to me
as a teacher, from a student, is perfection.
There you go tips from the
horses mouth.
I'm not sure my book puts it that pointed, in fact I'm
sure it doesn't but it really does boil it down to that and it may help you to
hear that before you get too deeply in to it.
Left
Hand Advice
Learn
the left hand positions without picking or sight reading the tab.
All
you need to is just look at the tab and find where your left hand needs to be
placed. Do that in the order it happens in the song, and do it a lot!
then try to add the picking.
Thanks
again,
Sincerely,
Ross Nickerson
http://banjoteacher.com
1-866-322-6567
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