Exercises/Warmups
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4-Beat Play-Along Samples: Sound clips to play long with
Jim Bottorff
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Fingering Exercises & Techniques: Set One: intended to help you develop strength, dexterity, and coordination, each includes a midi sound file as an example, and a tab file that you can download to practice with
All Tabs & Jim Crowley
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Fingering Exercises & Techniques: Set Two: intended to help you develop strength, dexterity, and coordination, each includes a midi sound file as an example, and a tab file that you can download to practice with
All Tabs & Jim Crowley
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Left Hand Exercises: The finger-spacing and spider walking exercises
Bob Kensinger
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Left Hand Exercises: Introduction and Banjo-less (tabletop) Exercises
Banjo Brad
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Left Hand Exercises: Vertical Exercises (working up and down the neck)
Banjo Brad
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Left Hand Exercises: Horizontal Exercises (Working across the strings)
Banjo Brad
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Left Hand Exercises: Finger Stretches (increasing your reach)
Banjo Brad
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Left Hand Exercises: The Chord of Death! And a 3-finger challenge
Banjo Brad
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Play-Along Samples, 3/4 Time: Sound clips to practice with
Jim Bottorff
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Play-Along Tremolo Exercises: Test your skill--progressive exercises for ya
Jim Bottorff
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Frailing/Clawhammer
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Basic Clawhammer Technique: The Bum-Ditty Strum Richard Hefner
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Clawhammer Banjo: The Basics: A very short introduction to clawhammer/frailing
Don Doughty
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Clawhammer Tutorials: Ezbanjo.com's list of tutorials
Richard Hefner
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The "Bum Ditty" Strum Richard Hefner
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The Frailing Strum: the basic technique, rhythm, tablature, practice patterns and chords
Stover Mountain Music
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Scruggs Style
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Backward Rolls Terry Holland
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Double Forward Rolls Terry Holland
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Double Thumbing Richard Hefner
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Forward Roll Richard Hefner
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Forward-Reverse Roll Richard Hefner
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Introduction to Bluegrass Banjo: for absolute beginners who want an organized and step wise introduction to picking
Ben Freed
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Mixed Roll Richard Hefner
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Slurred Notes Richard Hefner
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The Banjo Book, revised 2013: A simple, easy to understand resource for the beginner to intermediate player. Introduces basic chord theory and playing techniques. First published in 1979 and revised 2013.
Frank Eastes
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The Pinch Richard Hefner
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Two-Finger Rolls Terry Holland
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Tenor Banjo
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Keith Style on Tenor Banjo: Melodic technique on DGdg tenor banjo
Mirek Patek
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Old-Time Brush Style on Tenor Banjo: Frailing on tenor banjo
Mirek Patek
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Patek Style Tenor Banjo: New tenor banjo playing styles
Mirek Patek
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Playing in Octaves: In case of DGdg or CGcg tunings the fingering of octaves is very easy on Patek style tenor banjo so one can use octave soloing known from jazz guitar.
Mirek Patek
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Reno Style on Tenor Banjo: Single-string fingerpicking on DGdg tenor banjo
Mirek Patek
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Scruggs Style on Tenor Banjo: The basics of Scruggs style on tenor banjo
Mirek Patek
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