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Owen,, I would try go through some of those online lessons for tone-deaf elimination. I think you mentioned before that you had trouble differentiating musical pitches. Try singing happy birthday starting on the note on your open 3rd string,, then try playing the melody on your banjo. Get that one down,, & move on to Beethoven’s 5th …. (just joshing). You know the drill henceforth.
Edited by - chuckv97 on 07/24/2024 11:27:31
Chuck please talk some Canadian to Owen. I’m not getting through.
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Originally posted by Laurence DiehlChuck please talk some Canadian to Owen. I’m not getting through.
Haha,,, you know what those former teachers are like - ya can't tell'em nothin'
But, but, but, Laurence, everything in good time [no pun intended]. I'd asked, "...is playing a C chord shape the same as forming [with the fretting hand] a C chord?" So far, I'm unable to find an answer in your reply/explanation. 
From my perspective, there's a h-u-g-e chasm between my question and your reply, as there is between having a note (?) [or the melody of Happy Birthday ot Twinkle Twinkle or Jinglr Bells, or ???] in my head and being able to reproduce it on the banjo. There's a B-I-G disconnect between my brain and my hands ... after dozens of [or typically 'way more] unsuccessful trial-and errors I have a hard time maintaining my focus, and maybe even remembering the target (?) sound.
Chuck, I "looked up" stuff on tone-deaf elimination.... the first promising one mentions that most "learn perfect pitch" programs are ineffective and go on to intimate that theirs is different. Yes!! Good start! They go on to say that an additional bonus is that theirs is free. Now things are really lookin' up!! Then they turn around and ask for a bunch of info so I can "register." Should I proceed??
Anyhoo, I thank youse guys for your efforts, but it's probably best if cease and desist ... maybe ward off others chiming in telling me BBC will fix my problem or it's just that I'm stupid or lazy.
... and let the thread get back to making Bob's practices less chaotic. 
Beware of freebies, Owen,,, remember John A told the First Nations folks they’d get free food… except he didn’t mention every second day,,, but I digress. Yer loco Russellonian piano teacher with a B.A. Mus. would love you to come over for some pitch recognition lessons,, not probably free, however.
Edited by - chuckv97 on 07/24/2024 16:03:34
Find a teacher, someone who will want to see your practicing organized and tell you how to do it, someone you will be embarrassed not to have done the lesson for, someone who will tell you that figuring it out for him or her self they made the same dumb mistakes you are making so you can avoid them, Go where people play banjos and ask, and you can find someone who will help you. Many offer online instruction. Many banjoists will do it just to help you because they care,
Nothing significant for humanity has been done by people on their own, especially if it something they do not get, it all requires someone to tell you where you are messing up,
But playing banjo is work. Earl Scruggs and his brother and sister as children learned the banjo and worked hard at it in memory of Earl's dad who died when Earl was 8 years old. Though they were poor working people, Earl's mom helped him buy a Mastertone when he was a teenager.
As a kid Earl, his sister and his brother would practice so hard. There is the thing they did, where they would take turns. One with a guitar, the other with a banjo. They would stand back to back outside the house. They would start out a tune each one walking in the opposite direction around the house playing the same tune. The goal was not just to keep playing, but to be on the same note, the same beat playing their tunes wherever and whenever they met walking around the house in opposite directions,
Work at the banjo with that spirit, and it will help more than your banjo playing.,
Thanks you
Playing with others was mentioned above. That’s my suggestion too. Find an individual or a jam that you can start out “picking” in the background and go from there.
This approach is a lot more fun than exercises.
BANJO BEN CLARK FOR SURE.
Very Structured and goal oriented.
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