raymondjparker - Posted - 09/03/2023:  09:53:42

I know there are many starter or intro you Tube type videos on 2-figered banjo playing, does anyne have a great recommendation for a starter book of beginner techniques and tabs? I play clawhammer now @ beginner/intermediate level.
Thanks much

jack_beuthin - Posted - 09/03/2023:  10:04:21

Matt Brown just published his Thumb-lead Two-Finger Banjo tab book with 46 arrangements that range from beginner to advanced. It is a fantastic resource and Matt has also created audio files for the arrangements, which he has posted on this twofingerbanjo.com website.



Book info and where to purchase: twofingerbanjo.com/



Audio files: twofingerbanjo.com/listen

Edited by - jack_beuthin on 09/03/2023 10:05:06

brownsdream - Posted - 09/03/2023:  10:38:33

Thanks for the kind words, Jack!

And yeah, Ray, I have been teaching two-finger banjo for 12 years now, and students kept asking me about a book to recommend. Unfortunately, I couldn't find one that fit their needs. So that turned into requests that I write a book, and I finally got to a point earlier this year where I had a collection of tabs that I felt would be of interest to a variety of people. And it came out just last month!

Here's a sample page, if it helps: twofingerbanjo.com/soldiersjoy

Let me know if you have any questions about the book. It is available as an eBook or as a spiral-bound physical collection.

best wishes,

Matt Brown

dbrooks - Posted - 09/03/2023:  10:41:36

I have my copy of Matt's new book coming this week. Looking forward to it. 

David

Mike Thompson - Posted - 09/03/2023:  11:41:09

I got my copy of Matt’s new book last week. Working though it now, a great 2F resource!

I also use a lot of Jack’s tabs and enjoy his YouTube 2 finger videos.

knoxjl - Posted - 09/03/2023:  16:04:21

Here's another vote for Matt's book. I've studied with Matt for about 2 years now and got to beta test several of the songs in this book. Now that I have it in my hands, I want to play them all. He's taken incredible care to build a collection of classics, plus mix in some inspired by some of the style-defining artists. He also posted recordings on his website that you can refer back to as you're learning. I'm loving this book so far!



If you happen to be a strum machine user, I've also created a playlist of the songs in the book, minus those that are inspired by particular recordings, since Matt chose not to include chords on those tabs.



strummachine.com/app/lists/K22...WGjnvfAM2



I've also tried the Sebastian Schroeder book that's available on Amazon, but it didn't work as well for me personally as Matt's book. YMMV.

blazo - Posted - 09/03/2023:  16:22:49

quote:

---

Originally posted by raymondjparker

I know there are many starter or intro you Tube type videos on 2-figered banjo playing, does anyne have a great recommendation for a starter book of beginner techniques and tabs? I play clawhammer now @ beginner/intermediate level.

Thanks much

---

Matt's book is great for tab but there is not much in the book regarding technique. I'd look at the Sebastian Schroeder books for that or just Youtube it. Since you know clawhammer, you know slides, po and hammer ons. The techniques you are missing (essentially bum-ditty, bumpaditty, and pinches) are really pretty easy and you should pick them up fast with repetition.

bart_brush - Posted - 09/03/2023:  18:28:46

Around 1970, after a year of confusion, the banjo finally made sense to me in when I discovered Art Rosenbaum's first book "Old Time Mountain Banjo" and his chapter on thumb lead (unfortunately out of print). There were only three song tabs in that chapter (plus the three basic thumb-index picking patterns) but I already had the recordings and knew the songs, so it was easy to find the notes.

I'm sure there are now other helpful books, but I'm not familiar with them, because I have found it easier to work directly from the melody, and only need to know the tuning--if it's not one of the common ones--in order to find the melody notes.

Try this direct method on a simple G tuning song or tune you can sign or hum, but don't yet play on the banjo--
1. Be SURE you can sing or hum the song AND know the correct tuning.

2. Strum across the strings with your thumb, which gives you the G chord/key. (Important: always plant middle, ring, and little fingers firmly on banjo head)

3. Pluck the strings with thumb singly from 4th string low D up to 1st string high D, and then 5th string G.

4. Now you've got the key and pitch in your mind. Play 3rd string G again. This is the key note, or tonic--the first note in the G scale. Often, the song starts here, or with a couple of "pick-up" notes leading to the G.

5. If not, repeat from step 2; thumb only, seeking the starting melody note(s) only. You're trying to find where the starting note(s) of your song in G lie on your banjo tuned in G. This may take several tries. Or try identifying a note for a different phrase other than the beginning.

6. Once you've identified the starting note for the song or a phrase, find the next note, still using thumb only. Is it at the 2nd fret? The 3rd? The next string? Hunt down those notes; it's like picking out a tune on the piano. Whenever you get confused trying to find the next note, go back to the beginning and repeat what you know.

7. After you've found all the melody notes, play them over and over--thumb only--until they're automatic.

8. Finally, wherever there is a "long" melody note--meaning a space before the next melody note--fill it with one of those thumb-index finger picking patterns. These give the music its continuity and drive.

9. The three basic thumb-index patterns are:
Note--pinch (melody note then pinch the two outer strings with thumb and index);
Note-a-did-dy (melody note, then index plucks 1st string, thumb plucks 5th string, index plucks 1st again);
Note--did-dy (same as above, but leave the "a" out).
"Note" usually refers to a melody note, unless that melody note is really long, in which case you just keep repeating the pattern--or mix 'em up--as long as the song requires.

10. Did you notice it's awkward when you have to play a melody note with your thumb on the first string, because that's where your index finger hangs out? There are various solutions--
Practice more until it works;
Switch to a two-finger-INDEX-lead pattern for those notes; or, my choice--
Don't play that note on the 1st string! Play it on the 2nd string so you can keep that driving thumb lead pattern going unchanged and unencumbered. This does mean that the note lies up a few frets when you switch it from 1st to 2nd string, so you'll usually have to slide your left hand up the neck. However, this opens all kinds of opportunities for new pitch sequences, bending, slides, etc

11. Lastly, every melody note fits into one of the three basic chords. In open G tuning, those chords are G, C, and D. Try playing the tune with and without those chords, which are formed simply by dropping extra left hand fingers.

brownsdream - Posted - 09/03/2023:  18:29:10

quote:

---

Originally posted by blazo

quote:

---

Originally posted by raymondjparker

I know there are many starter or intro you Tube type videos on 2-figered banjo playing, does anyne have a great recommendation for a starter book of beginner techniques and tabs? I play clawhammer now @ beginner/intermediate level.

Thanks much

---

Matt's book is great for tab but there is not much in the book regarding technique. I'd look at the Sebastian Schroeder books for that or just Youtube it. Since you know clawhammer, you know slides, po and hammer ons. The techniques you are missing (essentially bum-ditty, bumpaditty, and pinches) are really pretty easy and you should pick them up fast with repetition.

---

Hey Blaise,

Thanks so much for ordering the book and for your feedback here. I debated how much technique to include in the book. With the preponderance of banjo books and YouTube videos, I decided to skip explaining the pull-off, hammer-on, and slide. The pinch, I thought, was self-explanatory in two-finger banjo: if there are two notes played at once and we are only using two fingers, I hoped that folks would be able to extrapolate how to achieve that sound. But maybe you are right. I'm planning a second edition in about ten years, and I am already compiling feedback from folks who have tried out this first edition. I will certainly consider adding a more exhaustive explanation of all the techniques in the book rather than just the ones (harmonic, brush, etc.) that I thought might be too rare to skip over.

Edited by - brownsdream on 09/03/2023 18:32:08

raymondjparker - Posted - 09/05/2023:  05:35:54

Thanks to all for the input. Very helpful.
Based on the recommendations and of course , Matts reply--- I also will try Matts book (just ordered it ) . This, plus other resoponses make it totally impossible to excuse not playing two-fingerd in a 'short while" (?) . BTW-- I started with Bluegrass (that did not last long) ...and abruptly shifted to love the clawhammer "tone", after hearing Shiela K. Adams play John Browns Dream and Three Forks of Hell on a 1990s CDs by Jim Taylor .... . Never looked back ... Now @ about 3 years later, I was inspired by Joe Decosimo rendering, inter alia , of The Lost Gander--- and this great tune played best as 2- fingered. My only point is : thank you all so very much for the support as I try another path. Ray

Eric A - Posted - 09/05/2023:  05:58:32

Most discussions of 2F banjo assume you are talking about thumb lead. Be advised there is a whole world of index lead out there as well.

Oops! Going to need different books!

brownsdream - Posted - 09/05/2023:  07:10:04

quote:

---

Originally posted by raymondjparker

Thanks to all for the input. Very helpful.

Based on the recommendations and of course , Matts reply--- I also will try Matts book (just ordered it ) . This, plus other resoponses make it totally impossible to excuse not playing two-fingerd in a 'short while" (?) . BTW-- I started with Bluegrass (that did not last long) ...and abruptly shifted to love the clawhammer "tone", after hearing Shiela K. Adams play John Browns Dream and Three Forks of Hell on a 1990s CDs by Jim Taylor .... . Never looked back ... Now @ about 3 years later, I was inspired by Joe Decosimo rendering, inter alia , of The Lost Gander--- and this great tune played best as 2- fingered. My only point is : thank you all so very much for the support as I try another path. Ray

---

Thanks for your order, Ray! I hope you find my book useful. I've got a tab for "Lost Gander" in there. I transcribed Dee Hicks' iconic source recording as faithfully as I could.

As Eric mentioned, there's a whole world of index lead out there, too. My favorite tune in that style is "Flowery Girls" from Omer Forster, and Joseph Decosimo plays it beautifully, of course. I first heard Rick Good of Hotmud Family fame play it when I toured with Rhythm in Shoes, the dance company for which Rick was the musical director. Check out Rick's recording of it, it is so arresting.

Happy picking!

knoxjl - Posted - 09/05/2023:  09:04:24

quote:

---

Originally posted by raymondjparker

Thanks to all for the input. Very helpful.

Based on the recommendations and of course , Matts reply--- I also will try Matts book (just ordered it ) . This, plus other resoponses make it totally impossible to excuse not playing two-fingerd in a 'short while" (?) . BTW-- I started with Bluegrass (that did not last long) ...and abruptly shifted to love the clawhammer "tone", after hearing Shiela K. Adams play John Browns Dream and Three Forks of Hell on a 1990s CDs by Jim Taylor .... . Never looked back ... Now @ about 3 years later, I was inspired by Joe Decosimo rendering, inter alia , of The Lost Gander--- and this great tune played best as 2- fingered. My only point is : thank you all so very much for the support as I try another path. Ray

---

Your path seems similar to mine. I fell in love with clawhammer banjo (in my case, it was Steve Martin's Great Remember) but branched out to 2F after hearing some incredible old time tunes played in that style. When I started I thought finger style was just for bluegrass, but now I realize how much I'd pigeonholed the style. I worred when I first started that I would struggle with the fact that clawhammer is always thumb on the upbeat and thumb-lead 2F is always thumb on the downbeat (roughly speaking in both cases). I was pleasantly surprised to discover that my brain adapted and my playing got better in both styles.

bart_brush - Posted - 09/05/2023:  09:59:03

Knox, what were some of those first influential 2F songs and and banjo players you heard?

knoxjl - Posted - 09/05/2023:  13:27:34

quote:

---

Originally posted by bart_brush

Knox, what were some of those first influential 2F songs and and banjo players you heard?

---

Nora Brown, actually. I happened across her when I was looking for Clawhammer musicians I could listen to, but noticed that not everything she was playing was clawhammer. That led me to find an interview she did with Matt Brown (no relation) about the 2F style, which was a bit eye opening to me. I've since dug into more of the source artists, like Lee and Morgan Sexton, Roscoe Holcomb, and Granville Bowlin. I guess you can say that I came for the clawhammer and stayed for the old time music. :) 

RG - Posted - 09/05/2023:  22:00:27

If it's two-finger thumb lead you want to play, this video by Chris Berry shows you everything you need to know to start playing in that style...

chip arnold - Posted - 09/06/2023:  08:17:39

Ray, you don't say whether you're interested in thumb lead or index lead, or a combination of both. If it's thumb lead, you should run fast and get Matt Browns new book. It has everything you will ever need to get from just beginning, to mastery of the style. It really is a great resource.
If you're into Index lead, you can use any clawhammer tabs and instructions, by simply picking up instead of down. If you learn both, you'll find is easy to combine them.
Absolutely get a copy of Matt's stellar book. He's a master of the style and his years of experience are all there for you.

Mike Thompson - Posted - 09/06/2023:  10:10:15

I also used Chip Arnold’s 2F instruction on YouTube.

dlm7507 - Posted - 09/06/2023:  16:10:28

If you play clawhammer you don't need a any new books to play 2-finger index lead. You just up pick instead of down pick with your index finger. For the strums you can up pick the 1st string or 2 or three strings. It comes very naturally.

For 2-finger thumb lead technique youtu.be/dVWW9kQcuz8?si=X7IdxsPZWXfyqjVZ

dlm7507 - Posted - 09/06/2023:  19:38:13

More 2-finger technique from Clifton Hicks. youtu.be/otSCZhiBZN4?si=Ku_867xmEVyVafEV

Mivo - Posted - 09/09/2023:  11:50:10

quote:

---

Originally posted by brownsdream

And yeah, Ray, I have been teaching two-finger banjo for 12 years now, and students kept asking me about a book to recommend. Unfortunately, I couldn't find one that fit their needs. So that turned into requests that I write a book, and I finally got to a point earlier this year where I had a collection of tabs that I felt would be of interest to a variety of people. And it came out just last month!

---

Most of the freely available tabs that were on the site and that went with the YouTube videos seem gone now. Did all of them go into the book?

Mivo - Posted - 09/09/2023:  12:29:54

quote:

---

Originally posted by Mivo

Most of the freely available tabs that were on the site and that went with the YouTube videos seem gone now. Did all of them go into the book?

---

I can't edit my post, so responding to myself: I bought Matt's book and found some of the ones that were on the site before that I still wanted to learn. So all is good! :)

To the OP's question: Another 2-finger book that I like is "10 Tabs for Two Finger Old Time Banjo" by Aaron Keim (link). There is a playlist with videos for each song here.

Mike Thompson - Posted - 09/09/2023:  13:48:14

quote:

---

Originally posted by Mivo

quote:

---

Originally posted by Mivo

To the OP's question: Another 2-finger book that I like is "10 Tabs for Two Finger Old Time Banjo" by Aaron Keim (link). There is a playlist with videos for each song here.

---

Aaron Keim has YouTube videos for the tabs in his book.  He also makes Beansprout banjo's, a very nice instrument.

Josh Turknett also teaches 2 Finger in his Brainjo course, plus lots of tabs and videos.

Paul R - Posted - 09/09/2023:  14:15:06

I'm surprised that nobody has pointed to Thumb-Lead Banjer, the site that Sean Barth put together several years ago. It has a fair number of tabs. 2ftlbanjer.wordpress.com/

nightingale - Posted - 09/09/2023:  20:27:14

Thank you for this Matt. I will be ordering your book shortly. After playing Clawhammer for a few years, I heard a youtube recording of Red Rocking Chair by Lily May Ledford and The Coon Creek Girls. She also did a haunting solo version. It was one of those songs that I had to learn. I soon realized she wasnt playing clawhammer and figured out it was thumb lead and knew I had to learn it. I was able to figure out the pattern 2 finger thumb lead pattern (roll) she used during the song.

Its a bit advanced for me so I've been working on some more simple tunes and its coming along.



I'm glad your book is a songbook. I know my theory and prefer a songbook with simple to more advanced tunes. I learn best by learning a simple song if I'm learning a new instrument, and then eventually getting more advanced. After awhile, you realize, I learned that in this song, or I recognize that pattern, etc. I really look forward to your book, and appreciate the different levels of difficulty in the songs you've chosen. This is a much needed book - thank you for taking the time to do this.

Edited by - nightingale on 09/09/2023 20:29:53

brownsdream - Posted - 09/09/2023:  21:34:55

quote:

---

Originally posted by Mivo

quote:

---

Originally posted by brownsdream

And yeah, Ray, I have been teaching two-finger banjo for 12 years now, and students kept asking me about a book to recommend. Unfortunately, I couldn't find one that fit their needs. So that turned into requests that I write a book, and I finally got to a point earlier this year where I had a collection of tabs that I felt would be of interest to a variety of people. And it came out just last month!

---

Most of the freely available tabs that were on the site and that went with the YouTube videos seem gone now. Did all of them go into the book?

---

Almost all of them made it into the book, plus a bunch that were never up on the site before. 

JSB88 - Posted - 09/10/2023:  05:44:26

I haven't commented until now as I don't know of any actual books but from my experience of learning 2f, both thumb and index, I thought I'd just add my experience that Sean Barth and Chris Berry are great when starting out, as is Chip Arnold. Once you feel confident in the style Mr Jack Beuthin ( the first respondent, no less) has some great tunes with tab over on the 'other clawhammer etc' section

dlm7507 - Posted - 09/10/2023:  07:49:29

The book "Two-Finger Banjo", by Dick Sheridan is good but not strictly one stye which is why I didn't mention it right away. It is a good book for exploration of two-finger styles and tunings.
Thumb Lead 15 songs
Up-Picking 8 songs
Up-Picking - Drop Thumb 10 songs
Frailing/Clawhammer (stroke style) 14 songs
Frailing/Clawhammer (drop-thumb) 9 songs
Tunings:
gDGBD
gCGDB
gCGCD & aDADE (CAPO 2)
gCGCE
f#DF#AD
gDGCD

writerrad - Posted - 09/13/2023:  17:56:15

quote

two questions if you have a book on 2 finger, where can I buy it.

If I cannot buy it, where can I steal one!

---

Originally posted by brownsdream

Thanks for the kind words, Jack!

And yeah, Ray, I have been teaching two-finger banjo for 12 years now, and students kept asking me about a book to recommend. Unfortunately, I couldn't find one that fit their needs. So that turned into requests that I write a book, and I finally got to a point earlier this year where I had a collection of tabs that I felt would be of interest to a variety of people. And it came out just last month!

Here's a sample page, if it helps: twofingerbanjo.com/soldiersjoy

Let me know if you have any questions about the book. It is available as an eBook or as a spiral-bound physical collection.

best wishes,

Matt Brown

---

writerrad - Posted - 09/13/2023:  17:58:47

Two finger is the missing link that suffers from the dumb ways people who claim to know the banjo look at banjo playing.  2 finger has so many good varieties and variations and wonderful players but there is massive discrimination against it.  Here in Florida in the preCovid Old time championships, two finger players were not allowed in string bands or banjo and fiddle contestants.   Most real science shows that 2 finger was just as popular as clawhammer at least in the late 19th and early 20th century and has just as African, along with its European, roots as clawhammer.    

writerrad - Posted - 09/13/2023:  18:01:02

quote:

to be fair Sebastian has two or maybe 3 books out both an index lead and a thumb lead and I forget what the third book is.

 

---

Originally posted by knoxjl

Here's another vote for Matt's book. I've studied with Matt for about 2 years now and got to beta test several of the songs in this book. Now that I have it in my hands, I want to play them all. He's taken incredible care to build a collection of classics, plus mix in some inspired by some of the style-defining artists. He also posted recordings on his website that you can refer back to as you're learning. I'm loving this book so far!



If you happen to be a strum machine user, I've also created a playlist of the songs in the book, minus those that are inspired by particular recordings, since Matt chose not to include chords on those tabs.



strummachine.com/app/lists/K22...WGjnvfAM2



I've also tried the Sebastian Schroeder book that's available on Amazon, but it didn't work as well for me personally as Matt's book. YMMV.

---

writerrad - Posted - 09/13/2023:  18:07:44

quote:I  find it liberating to realize that there are 2 finger players who go back and forth according to the needs of the music between index lead and thumb lead depending on the needs of the tune .

Thumb lead is really easy especially if you have played clawhammer or 2 or 3 finger guitar.  I was whailing on thumb lead the first night I took home a Goodtime from a music store 25 years ago.

But this is much like learning clawhammer.,  If they make you learn the bump diddy ad infinitum and then later try to get you to learn drop thumb and double thumb, it is hard for you to get out of bump diddy.,    I encourage my students to learn all three of those at the same time,

I take lessons with a very good 2 finger teacher, and he often shows me that you can go back and forth between thumb and index lead on the same tune depending on what you can do.  I am very very adamant TWO FINGER PLAYING SHOULD NOT HAVE ANY KIND OF SECOND CLASS CITIZENSHIP IN THE OLD TIME MUSIC WORLD TO CLAWHAMMER.  ITS ROOTS IN AFRICA AND IN EARLY 19TH CENTURY BANJO ARE JUST AS STRONG AS CLAWHAMMER AND EVEN IF IT DID NOT HAVE THOSE ROOTS ITS SOUNDS GOOD 

---

Originally posted by Eric A

Most discussions of 2F banjo assume you are talking about thumb lead. Be advised there is a whole world of index lead out there as well.



Oops! Going to need different books!

---

Jake1945 - Posted - 09/14/2023:  07:16:35

Someone mentioned the out-of-print book by Art Rosenbaum. There are 2 copies available at abebooks.com: abebooks.com/servlet/SearchRes...n%20Banjo

Mivo - Posted - 09/14/2023:  07:25:15

quote:

---

Originally posted by Jake1945

Someone mentioned the out-of-print book by Art Rosenbaum. There are 2 copies available at abebooks.com: abebooks.com/servlet/SearchRes...n%20Banjo

---

The e-book version is available at Google Books, Amazon, iBooks/iTunes, etc. Around $10.

banjered - Posted - 09/14/2023:  16:15:35

For better or worse, correct or incorrect: During our Covid "holiday" I decided to learn Thumb lead/two finger for folk songs. I was at a folk jam and someone played Four Strong Winds which I knew I could play Clawhammer style but which just didn't sound good to me, too clunky for lack of a better word. It took a little practice to finger lead on the first string for melody but not too hard at all. I save bum-ditty CH for fiddle tunes and I think of/use two finger as four parts, no pause as in bum-ditty gallop, and use it to play slow ballads such as Four Strong Winds, Dirty Old Town, Give Yourself to Love, and heap plenty more. Instead of using my index finger for two finger I use my ring finger because 1) with thin nails I want to save that index nail for clawhammer, and 2) I am used to picking out melody with my ring finger in guitar (when I used to play guitar) and so use my ring finger as lead for three finger style. I actually prefer three finger for some songs such as Four Strong Winds/Shenandoah etc. It is nice to have these extra tools in the tool box to more customize a song to what I prefer. My main song player is a Stone banjo/wood rim (strongly recommended for a warm tone for vocals!) with Minstrel Nylgut strings lowered down to D# from G tuning. I now make ones and ones of dollars at our local farmer's market. Ha! As said, for better or worse, correct or incorrect. Haven't been arrested yet, so far, so good. Good Luck to all! banjered

writerrad - Posted - 09/14/2023:  17:28:16

quote:thanks  going to pick up the banjo and try that right now.  I have loved that song since Ian and Silvia came out with that tune in the Album with that title in 1963 when I just played guitar.  A great great song.  Clawhammer is really hard to play slower songs like that. I usually play either guitar or 3 finger banjo will try that,

what tuning do you use, though just thinking about it CC or DD sounds like it would do with the harmonization there,

hope you post the tune!

---

Originally posted by banjered

For better or worse, correct or incorrect: During our Covid "holiday" I decided to learn Thumb lead/two finger for folk songs. I was at a folk jam and someone played Four Strong Winds which I knew I could play Clawhammer style but which just didn't sound good to me, too clunky for lack of a better word. It took a little practice to finger lead on the first string for melody but not too hard at all. I save bum-ditty CH for fiddle tunes and I think of/use two finger as four parts, no pause as in bum-ditty gallop, and use it to play slow ballads such as Four Strong Winds, Dirty Old Town, Give Yourself to Love, and heap plenty more. Instead of using my index finger for two finger I use my ring finger because 1) with thin nails I want to save that index nail for clawhammer, and 2) I am used to picking out melody with my ring finger in guitar (when I used to play guitar) and so use my ring finger as lead for three finger style. I actually prefer three finger for some songs such as Four Strong Winds/Shenandoah etc. It is nice to have these extra tools in the tool box to more customize a song to what I prefer. My main song player is a Stone banjo/wood rim (strongly recommended for a warm tone for vocals!) with Minstrel Nylgut strings lowered down to D# from G tuning. I now make ones and ones of dollars at our local farmer's market. Ha! As said, for better or worse, correct or incorrect. Haven't been arrested yet, so far, so good. Good Luck to all! banjered

---

writerrad - Posted - 09/14/2023:  18:11:28

quote: thanks for the generosity and hard work of putting this book together and posting the same tunes online for anyone to hear,   People in our community do not give enough thanks to those who do such things to continue our playing the music.

---

Originally posted by writerrad

quote

two questions if you have a book on 2 finger, where can I buy it.

If I cannot buy it, where can I steal one!

---

Originally posted by brownsdream

Thanks for the kind words, Jack!

And yeah, Ray, I have been teaching two-finger banjo for 12 years now, and students kept asking me about a book to recommend. Unfortunately, I couldn't find one that fit their needs. So that turned into requests that I write a book, and I finally got to a point earlier this year where I had a collection of tabs that I felt would be of interest to a variety of people. And it came out just last month!

Here's a sample page, if it helps: twofingerbanjo.com/soldiersjoy

Let me know if you have any questions about the book. It is available as an eBook or as a spiral-bound physical collection.

best wishes,

Matt Brown

---

 

---

banjered - Posted - 09/14/2023:  18:34:37

For Four Strong Winds Tony, I play the equivalent of the key of C out of G tuning. Best! banjered