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Welcome to this week's newsletter! Below you'll see my favorite BHO content from recent days, including some fun member videos. I've been loving the "Slow Banjo Playing" from Michael Staun for office background music...
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The Essential Sawmill Scale: A Roadmap To Modal Tunes

If there's one tuning that defines clawhammer banjo, it's sawmill tuning (gDGCD). Today's featured video from the great Tom Collins teaches the "essential sawmill scale", which is important to get under your fingers because, as Tom says, scales are "the basket of notes you can pull from when picking out melodies."

He illustrates this using Clarence Ashley's "The Cuckoo".
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