070308 90bpm CrippleCreek

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2 weeks into learning - things must get better!

070315a - 3wks into learn +20bpm but messy CCrk

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Another week's practice and a few more pages in YCTYB. I can play faster now but oh what a mess.. missed picks, timing off.. Next week maybe.

070315ba - 3.1wks into learn 180bpm CumbGap

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YCTYB page 35. A miserable 180bpm is all I could do (JD does it faster than my metronome goes and grins at the same time) ah well...

070322 4 wks learning 200bpm CumbGap (bad)

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4 weeks into learning from YCTYB now - another week, another 20bpm on CG - its so hard to play cleanly, faster :-(

070325 4wks WildwoodFlower 200bpm

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Finally struggled through this one.

070329 5wks of learning CrippleCreek now 240bpm

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After 5wks it's a bit faster but I think I'm losing definition in the slides etc. Is this normal?

070329b 5wks of learning - SaltyDog 182bpm

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Trying to incorporate these G licks (YCTYB p 43). Are these licks as taught in this book "standard, well-known" licks or are they just the way JD teaches in the book?

070405 6wks learning - brokedown

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I was planning on recording this at 120bpm but when I sat down in front of the mic, all fingers and thumbs :-( so a miserable 105bpm. Pathetic!

070412 7wks learning 125 bpm SunnyvaleBD

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Another week, another 20bpm

070412a 7wks of learning - Foggy Mt BD 125

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As suggested by JD, changed the C to Em of Sunnyvale Breakdown - it sort of sounds like FMB but well slow :-(

070419 8wks of learning - FMB 140bpm

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8 wks now - another 15bpm and that's as fast as I can manage. Lot's of muddy picking and timing is getting rough too. Ah well. Back to the metronome...

070427 - 9wks learning Wabash @ 120bpm

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Janet Davis' You Can Teach Yourself Banjo at 9weeks - this week's effort includes the partial D chord

070430 Salty Dog with the missus

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well 9 weeks now - got to start playing with someone!

070506 10wks learning - 1st go at John Hardy

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10wks into Janet Davis YCTYB book - this first effort is a bit slow but I found the new bits on D quite hard to get. I think I'll try to get this better - an interesting song

070615 14wks learning - Lonesome Rd

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070623 15wks Down the Road - Janet Davis

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15wks into learning - getting some RH ring finger pain :-(

070701 16wks of Janet Davis - Pig In Pen 108

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3 days off for RH pain. Now trying to pick more gently with more relaxed RH/arm. Its hard - 16weeks of a bad habit to correct!

070804 19wks SallyGoodin 90bpm

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After a complete 2week layoff to let my RH heal I've enjoyed getting back into Janet Davis YCTYB. Finding this one quite tricky. 19weeks into learning now. Slow progress.. :-(

070823 22wks learning - OldJoeClark YCTYB

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My RH has stopped hurting almost completely so now I'm back to Janet Davis' YCTYB. Trying to get speed up on this one is, for me, very hard, the simple looking MIM is still messy.

070906 24wks learning - LittleMaggie YCTYB

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This weeks effort features my new Deering Calico and my wife's $310 mando. Nearly 6months of learning now and I'm beginning to *almost* feel what it must be like to play proper Scruggs style - like a machine gun Janet Davis says... (mine sounds more like a rusty Gatling gun missing a few barrels and being turned by a wounded soldier :-( Ah well.. one day maybe)