Melodic Style 5-String Banjo

Getting Into Melodic Banjo! Melodic Scales and Fiddle Tunes-Intermediate 5-string Banjo

What you'll learn

Learn Melodic Style Fiddle Tunes on the Banjo

Learn Melodic Style Scales to Arrange Tunes and Improvise

Learn Exercises In The Melodic Style

Learn Melodies Using The Melodic Scale

Learn how The Scales Work With Chord Progressions

Requirements

All students need is a 5-String Banjo

Description

In this course you will learn the classic style of Melodic 5-String Banjo that was first introduced to the world of Bluegrass music in 1963 by Bill Keith. It has been developed and used by many other Bluegrass Banjo innovators such as Tony Trischka, Alan Munde, Bela Fleck, Bobby Thompson and many others. This course is geared for anyone that already plays Scruggs Style Banjo and wants to add these new tools and techniques into their style in order to have more ways to express linear melodies such as fiddle tunes or classical music. In this you will learn the basic melodic G scale so you understand the basic techniques of melodic style banjo. You will learn fiddle tunes such as Boil Them Cabbage Down, Whiskey Before Breakfast, Dixie Hoedown, Cripple Creek, Boston Boyand June Apple. You will also learn how to use the Melodic scales to create solos or improvise over simple Bluegrass chord progressions such as Hard Aint it Hard and other 3 chord tunes. I will teach you how to play basic melodic phrases over G, C and D chords so you can create your own melodic licks. You will learn how to play multiple patterns with the melodic Scale so you can understand how to practice the scale and know how to improvise. I will demonstrate the modes of the G scale so you will understand how to start the scales on different scale degrees and how they function over chord progressions. You will also learn how to play melodic scales in the keys of C and D major in order to play tunes and songs in different keys. The melodic style should serve as a tool to develop your own creativity so you can build more interesting solos and give you more fun and exciting ways to express your musical ideas on your Banjo. Have fun and keep on picking!

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introducing Melodic Style 5-String Banjo

Section 2: Basic G Scales

Lecture 2 Basic G Scales

Section 3: Tunes In The Lower G Scale Position

Lecture 3 Boil Them Cabbage Down

Lecture 4 Hard Aint It Hard

Lecture 5 Cripple Creek

Lecture 6 Melodic Phrases For G, C and D

Section 4: Extended G Scales and Tunes

Lecture 7 Extended G Scales

Lecture 8 Turkey In The Straw

Lecture 9 Dixie Hoedown

Lecture 10 Devils Dream

Lecture 11 June Apple

Section 5: Melodic Scale Exercises For The G Scale

Lecture 12 Circular Scale Pattern for G Scale

Lecture 13 Exercise for Melodic G Scale (free up your Patterns)

Section 6: The Key of C Major

Lecture 14 Melodic C Scale

Lecture 15 Boston Boy

Section 7: The Key of D Major

Lecture 16 Melodic D Scale

Lecture 17 Whiskey Before Breakfast

This course is designed for anyone who wants to incorporate Melodic Style 5-String Banjo into their playing style