I learned FMB from Rob's lessons, too...after I got his CC lessons down real good.

There's nothing cooler than the first time you actually nail it at speed, is there!?

Now I only have 2 real problems:
1) How to keep my wife from running off because I won't quit practicing it, and
2) I'm developing a pretty good case of Foggy Mountain Forearm.

(I recon chocolate will fix the first one and ibuprofen for the second, then I'll head off into Old Joe Clark and see what happens.)

Thanks for the chops, Rob!

Bad Taco,

It is amazing that spouses and children have no idea whatsoever, of how much practice on the exact same piece is needed, just to make it sound musical.

Glad it's working.

You are welcome Slim and Matt. I hope I can get some more lessons out in a few weeks.

Dear Rob . . . Here I am way down at the bottom of the Pacific in Dunedin, New Zealand and your lessons for Foggy Mountain Breakdown are absolutely fantastic!! I have only just discivered them a week ago. Thank you so much. Head and shoulders the best ever. Regards . . . . . . Michael Guest

Thank you Michael.

I would love to see New Zealand some day.

Let me know how the lessons work for you.

Hi , Paul here...I just found this forum and these lessons are great , hard to believe someone this day and age would do something for free..PLEASE keep up the good work..
I recieved an Oscar Schmidt ob3 for Christmas from my wife (she loves to hear banjo) and am trying to learn a few things on it . In just one hour of these lessons I have learned more than a month of a book that came with it ,.THANKS again,,,Paul

Hi Everybody:
Being very new here, I was quite surprised to find the tabs and Rob's video for FMB, this is great!
Two questions that I have, that I didn't see mentioned:
1. What is that text "tabedit version demo", is there a way to remove it? (on the tab sections)
2. I see "page 2/3" Is page three missing because Rob hasn't completed it, yet?

Again, amazing resource, I just wanted to clarify.
Thanks
Rich

one video and you've become a superstar rob lol

I keep claiming that I know the song and I've moved on to different songs, but is there something unique about the second up the eminor part, that I should take into consideration, because I always mess up the rythmn for the whole band everytime I play that part it never fails.

Wow Rob, your lessons are amazing. Thank you so very much for taking the time and going through such a list of mishaps.

I hope you're not going to take the FMB vids down. I have tried 3 or 4 different downloaders sofar, and not one worked. So I have to just go to youtube.

Thank you again so much!

Milli.

there's something about the rythmn that messes them up.

Milli2 YouTube Clip Extractor google it

You are welcome, and thanks for the kind words.

Richla, I don't see what you're talking about. Can you send me a link of the one in question?

Don't worry Milli, I don't plan on taking them down.

Profile 101, I know that a lot of my private students have trouble after the 2nd Em hammer, because it usually wants to drag when the index plucks the 4th string to keep the forward roll going. I would cycle that over and over till it gets in time. That's the hardest part for most folks.

Thanks Stony; The guru of tech.

Thanks, Rob, for these videos. I've been playing banjo for 30 years but I'm 100% self-taught and always played FMBD my own convoluted way, which is very different from the Scruggs version. Maybe now thanks to you I'll be able to finally get it "right."

I don't know if it's right Gretschman. I remember learning it several different times, but eventually hunkered down with an old Mercury 45, and re-vamped it to my memory of that. I change it up a bit.

I had a banjo teacher named Jim Morgan, and his teacher was a guy named Paul Boyd. We all did it differently. I also had the Scruggs book, which I think is a bit different as well. Who knows?

The only other book I had was Peter Wernick's, which I also liked a lot. I learned several tunes from that book, and revamped them, due to attrition. If one becomes familiar with the instrument, things change over time, because you start to mix and match. It's like grandma adding more salt to the soup every year.

I am basically a guy who played a lot of banjo in the late 70s, who didn't touch one for 20 years almost, because I was too busy playing guitar for the groceries. I have people mention tunes that I played every night for years, and I have to try to remember how they go.

I, too, want to add my note of thanks here! I just purchased a banjo two days ago and am in the process of going through your FMB video lessons. I am about half way through now. Getting it up to speed is the problem, isn't it? OMG. But it is coming along. Thank you for your efforts! Much appreciated.

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1. What is that text "tabedit version demo", is there a way to remove it? (on the tab sections)

Thanks
Rich

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What is TABLEDIT? Is it popping up on one of my vids?

Milli,

If you go to page One of this thread, you will see a whole set of links. They should take you directly to the lessons.

I think it worked for everyone else.

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What is TABLEDIT? Is it popping up on one of my vids?

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Milli,

If you go to page One of this thread, you will see a whole set of links. They should take you directly to the lessons.

I think it worked for everyone else.

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Milli Go to the link I'm sure one of these will work for you, if not get back to us

macshareware.com/software/yout...extractor

I want to use the tablature, but I have to install it so thats a problem because I can't download anything at the library.

sorry install

Thank you for puting these videos on here rob. Part of the joy of teaching is seeing your students progress, so I'm adding a link to a video of me playing after only playing a banjo for the first time three months ago. The only other instrument that I have ever played is the harmonica.
youtube.com/watch?v=bCOsfFRIm1g