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banjoplayer96 - Posted - 10/20/2009: 07:56:05
What was the first song you ever learned to play Scruggs Style?
drwt1 - Posted - 10/20/2009: 08:02:02
Cripple Creek
Mopick - Posted - 10/20/2009: 08:03:35
Cripple Creek.
I live in the mountains.....
The mountainous region of Central Florida.
Sugarloaf Mountain; 312 feet above sea level.
Randy
loggerhead - Posted - 10/20/2009: 08:04:14
I worked on the usual forward roll beginner songs to start with (Boil Them Cabbage Down, Aunt Rhody, and the like), but I guess Cripple Creek was the first Scruggs song I learned. At least it was the first one of the songs in the Earl Scruggs book that I could play.
I can already grin
meatmissle - Posted - 10/20/2009: 08:18:54
"Beverly Hillbillies" was the first Scruggs style song I learned. The first song I ever learned on banjo was "Another Morning" off Bela Fleck's Double Time with Jerry Douglas. I don't think it counts as Scruggs style though. It's close, but not quite Scruggs I think.
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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.
The KIDD - Posted - 10/20/2009: 08:47:07
I remember gettin Pete W's book back in 78 with my lil square record and not really knowing much how melodys were comprised on the JO thinkin DANG PETE, theres a heck of alotta notes here now.Are YOU sure WE need this many just for 'Comin around the MT"?  ..
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pandjlocke - Posted - 10/20/2009: 08:50:19
Amazing Grace
Beware of the urgent crowding out the important - C.E. Hummel
Paddy
bplumlee - Posted - 10/20/2009: 08:51:32
Cripple Creek then Cumberland Gap
big bird - Posted - 10/20/2009: 09:03:54
Little Darl'in Pal of Mine. (I play it better then I can spell it!)
Big Bird
youdye - Posted - 10/20/2009: 09:36:00
cripple creek
Mike Montgomery
4+1=Hootnanny!
O=='={::}
youdog - Posted - 10/20/2009: 09:40:28
cripple creek
youdog
armydad - Posted - 10/20/2009: 09:57:27
FMB
Trashbanjo - Posted - 10/20/2009: 10:17:01
Mary had a little lamb,bile dem cabbage,cripple creek.
"Pick it right or pick through it,just dont stop".
Vic Jenkins
connerspur - Posted - 10/20/2009: 11:30:35
Cripple Creek
David
big bird - Posted - 10/20/2009: 11:48:01
big bird again---------------just wanted to say that you are starting at a great young age. stick with it and you will learn to play sooner than you think, it's a great journey and you will meet a lot of great musician's and make a lot of friend's.
Big Bird
5-stringreiny - Posted - 10/20/2009: 17:32:04
Banjo in the hollow, cripple creek.
idnworks - Posted - 10/20/2009: 18:14:10
Banjo in the Hollow, Boil them cabbage down.
(this week!)
Shawn Clever
Albuquerque
We are the Banjo. You will be picked.
banjoman56 - Posted - 10/20/2009: 18:30:29
Cripple Creek, I tried to learn Foggy Mt. Breakdown first, but got disgusted and switched to Cripple Creek.
Pickin-N-KC - Posted - 10/20/2009: 19:47:48
Cripple Creek
Paul
pcfive - Posted - 10/21/2009: 11:20:43
FMB. But I'm still working on it. I learned some other songs meanwhile, but occasionally go back to FMB. I don't think it sounds very good without a guitar backup, at least, and I guess that's why I keep giving up on it.
pcfive
lespik - Posted - 10/21/2009: 12:25:58
cripple creek, worried man blues, shady grove, etc...
kingfisher78 - Posted - 10/21/2009: 12:32:06
quote:
Originally posted by The KIDD
I remember gettin Pete W's book back in 78 with my lil square record and not really knowing much how melodys were comprised on the JO thinkin DANG PETE, theres a heck of alotta notes here now.Are YOU sure WE need this many just for 'Comin around the MT"? ..
http://www.myspace.com/johnkuhnbluegrass
I remember something like that first time around. And being soft plastic, did you hear the groove before and after the one the needle was in? Shane.
Tele65 - Posted - 10/21/2009: 15:18:30
Cripple Creek
I don't need six anymore...
Tele65 - Posted - 10/21/2009: 15:20:34
Cripple Creek
I don't need six anymore...
ifish - Posted - 10/21/2009: 15:52:13
Bile Dem Cabbage Down, boys, Bile Dem Cabbage Down. Wow I really had to think about that.
PBGuardsman - Posted - 10/21/2009: 16:21:53
Cripple Creek.
"The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever." 1 John 2:17 (NIV)
BPDye - Posted - 10/21/2009: 22:15:11
Boil Them Cabbage Down for me. Right out of the Janet Davis book. I still like that song today.
Barry
CosmicMaskedAvenger - Posted - 10/22/2009: 06:42:29
Are You Washed In The Blood
Deering Sierra
Deering Goodtime
GW in Ohio - Posted - 10/22/2009: 06:51:19
Cripple Creek.
Then Home, Sweet Home.
Then all hell broke loose.....
Glenn Tate - Posted - 10/22/2009: 07:31:06
Cripple Creek.
"Politicians are like diapers, both should be changed regularly, for the same reason."
Glenn
dgill - Posted - 10/23/2009: 19:21:07
Bile Em Cabbage Down and Banjo In The Hollow and still trying hard to master them to satisfaction.
stelling man - Posted - 10/24/2009: 06:53:44
I can't remember, It was too many years ago..
STELLING MAN
steve davis - Posted - 10/24/2009: 06:57:25
Bonanza or the Marlboro commercial...can't quite remember which
one came first.Probably around the same time as the Marlboro commercial aired during Bonanza.
OldFox - Posted - 10/24/2009: 12:40:09
I started with Geoff Hohwald's Banjo Primer, so it would have been Boil Them Cabbage Down followed by Cripple Creek, Shady Grove and Worried Man Blues. Can't say I mastered them, but these were the first ones I worked on and could get through. Still working on most of them sometimes.
OldFox
Every workplace should have a Banjo Break
DaveOmega - Posted - 10/24/2009: 14:32:39
Steam Powered Aereo Plane was the first tune I ever learned. I picked up a banjo and figured it out by ear. The next day I purchased a banjo and I've been pickin' ever since. Foggy Mountain Breakdown (at least a very basic version of it) was probably the next thing I tried.
Bitbender - Posted - 10/24/2009: 15:34:02
Banjo in The Hollow - as humble as it sounds - I just broke 60bpm and stayed stable (more or less) .
Edited by - Bitbender on 10/24/2009 15:36:48
Bluegrass - Posted - 10/24/2009: 16:45:12
Will The Circle
John
Bitbender - Posted - 10/24/2009: 16:51:16
Bluegrass - I like that avy!! It's great!!
jasper4564 - Posted - 10/25/2009: 21:26:08
i grew up in a house full of musicians and i learned from my dad , but still started with cripple creek, i guess that is the banjo standard
"IF YOU DON'T PLAY THE MELODY , YOU AIN'T PLAYING NOTHIN"
JCat - Posted - 10/25/2009: 22:25:15
As did KIDD, I got Pete Wernick's book and started with "Comin' 'Round The Mountain" and "Worried Man Blues" . . .
Edited by - JCat on 10/25/2009 22:26:20
nanobanjo - Posted - 10/25/2009: 23:04:20
Bile Dem Cabbage Down, I just learned it today!! I'm so happy I could sing. I just might keep this 5-stringed thing!
stanleytone - Posted - 10/26/2009: 14:11:04
banjo in the hollow
my first actual lick i learned was the ralph stanley 10th fret choke lick
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