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No worries! Hope it's useful as a rough enough guide to get you rocking 🤘🏻let me know if there's any other maiden you'd like to learn!

No problem at all, they got me playing a thousands years ago and hold a special place in my heart! If you're looking for help on anything in particular give me a shout and I'll see what I can put together 🙂

Cheers! Glad the video was useful!

I think this one is an Eli Gilbert tab. I joined his patreon at some point and downloaded the pdf from there 🙂

@ awesome thank you!

When I started the channel I'd been in a parental wilderness for ten years not really playing much and the TH-cam channel felt like a good motivation to pick it up and play again 🙂 and most definitely does now play the guitar 😄

It's stunning isn't it. He was a genius

Glad to be of some assistance! What else you learning at the moment?

Having played a bunch of other banjos in shops since I've been learning I can tell you we bagged ourselves a solid bargain getting this Epiphone. Absolute bargain of a banjo! 🪕

I've never called myself an artist but thanks for commenting

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Awesome! I think he really nailed the pacing of his beginner lessons. You'll get the slide with practice, I've been playing maybe 18 months now, trying to get at least 20 mins a day in. It's exciting! It's still such an alien instrument to me, I was a fool to think it would be easy because I play guitar, they're very different beasts. And yet now I play more banjo than anything else. Great fun. Anyway, enough of my yapping! Keep going! Can recommend Bill Evans beginning banjo course on Peghead Nation when you're comfy with all the ElI Gilbert 30 days stuff, and Alison Brown on Artistworks is really good but too expensive for me. Good thing about Peghead Nation is the free trial too 🙂

​​​@@AndyPlayedGuitar I find Eli's lessons extremely helpful. I started with jim pankey but he was simply moving to fast for me (got autiHD - so im a bit slower at learning stuff). I never played guitar.. tried as a child but my hands are small and dainty and I struggled to reach half the chords on the neck. Banjo is the first string instrument that Im really giving it a good go on... and i love it. Probably dedicate a good 20mins to half hour every few days or so. Always wanted to learn (I fancy myself as a louisianna hillfolk... just without all the racism and homophobia)and was massively inspired by Colton Crawford of The Dead South. If you haven't discovered the joy of colton crawfords banjo playing then you totally should... the man is a banjo beast and he streams on a regular basis on twitch playing banjo. Not assuming btw... but this video comes across as completely british to me 😅... I may be wrong tho. 😂

@josie50000 yeah I'm on the North West coast UK, so the songs they're teaching about the hills of west Virginia and so on is so far removed from my lived experience 😂😂 no cabins round here either! A lot of the lessons around start with "and you know this one from your parents singing it to you" and I laugh because, no sir, no I do not 😂 It's a tremendously fun instrument though. Keeping my brain occupied, bit obsessive about it to be honest! I have a friend who's learning clawhammer style which sounds lovely but looks too hard to me, I understand picking the strings even though it's taken a while to get used to wearing picks on my thumb and fingers. Thanks for the recommendation btw, I'll go check that out and have a listen 🙂

Always a funny one putting stuff online, I just want to encourage people to play guitar cause for me, it's how I relax and it's an absolute joy! Thank you for your kind comment 🙂

It is outrageously good isn't it. I'll never get over Chris Cornell's chord choices. Absolute magic

Oh thank you! What else have you been learning lately?

Very kind of you to say so! I'm not sure my skins thick enough to face the ire of the wider Buckley fanbase if I did that 😂

Ah thanks! Glad it's of some use! 🙂

Best comment this week 😂

Thank you!

Sure I'll have a go at the weekend at recording something 🙂

Have fun and let me know how you get on!

Glad it was helpful!

Had a couple of requests for that I'm going to try and get it recorded this weekend

@@AndyPlayedGuitar I had this one in mind: What Will You Say (Live at the Theatre de Fourvière, Lyon, France - July 1995) … this is the only one I found where he does it in that exciting rhythm, thank you anyways ❤️😃

@@this4455 oh okay, well I can still go have a listen and figure it out, maybe could cover both in one video to demonstrate variations and suchlike? 🤔

@@AndyPlayedGuitar yeah, that would be nice to play around with 🙂👍

Hope it helped!

Cheers! Still trucking away at it this afternoon!

Agreed

Ah sorry, yes someone else asked about that and I'll try and do one this week!

@@AndyPlayedGuitar okay thank you!!

It's so damn good, let me know how you get on!

Amazing! Let me know how you get on! 🎸🤘🏻

@@AndyPlayedGuitar absolutely 💯 🤘

I don't want to, clawhammer sounds beautiful but I'm learning bluegrass style. It's plenty loud enough without a resonator. I'm not playing on stages in the 1940s or with other people so I'm happy as it 😁

Thanks! I'm saving up for another banjo and I tried an open back with a tone ring a few months back and it was like a cannon compared with some of the closed back ones I tried. Plus I like the weight of the one backs too! Happy pickin'!

Ah cheers! I'll go have a look at that, also had no idea there was an acoustic version kicking about out there so that's exciting. I've been in a musical/cultural/technological black hole for the past 11 years of parenthood and just emerging now 😂 my cd collection is...dated...to say the least. Thanks for commenting and the recommendation 🙂🎸🤘🏻

@@AndyPlayedGuitar Oh man, keeping up with guitar as a parent must be near impossible. Your singing voice is really good considering, way better than mine

@@_SmiIe_ yeah I kinda didn't play for a number of years and started this channel as an excuse/reason to pick it back up again when they got older and busier. I miss playing in my band though, those were the best of times ❤️🎸 just 3 like minded idiots making loud noises every week 😂

Thank you! I hope it helps, let me know how you get on! 😎🎸

Amazing version by Jeff but let’s not forget who wrote and performed this . The great band that is The Smiths ❤️❤️❤️

@@modmutha8608 I made sure it was in the title, but The Smiths, for a moment, were wonderful. Their respective post-Smiths output has sadly not worked for me! Clever guitarist Johnny Marr though, underrated!

I started I Know It's Over a while back and should revisit it! Let me know how you get on!

Oh thank you! I'd never dare do it out in public though! Just in my flat when the neighbours are out 😂

@@AndyPlayedGuitar yeah i get that🥲, i often get commended for my voice just to end up being quiet for the next few hours

@@clayscale I'm trying to get my confidence back and hitting open mic nights but Jeff B is off limits, I'll stay in my vocal safety zone (for everyone's sake 😂) do you write your own tunes at all? How long have you been playing?

@@AndyPlayedGuitar true, jeff is in his own league when it comes to the voice. i once bought a notebook and told myself "i'm gonna write great songs in here" it's been 4 months and the book is still empty. only been playing for about a year or two😅

@@clayscale Right, you have two weeks from today to write a song. Doesnt matter if it's crap, you'll have written a song, just write it demo it, then start your next one. your time starts... NOW!

It's one of the best songs ever for sure! ❤️🤘🏻🎸

Hi! I'm afraid I've deleted the tab boxes I made on my phone but you could screenshot them from the video into a word doc? The tabs in the video are a rough guide, and you can roughly see which fingers I'm using in the video I think. So watch through and print screen or screen grab the different bits of tab? Sorry I've not got the tab to share in an easier format, I'll have a look at making something a bit clearer in future

Oh thank you! That's awesome! What else are you playing on guitar at the moment? 😃🎸🤘🏻

I've just recorded a quick short on how I approached learning rhythm when I was starting out. I'll upload it later and hope it helps a little

Here we go! If you train your ear you'll be able to pick songs up loads quicker 🙂 th-cam.com/users/shorts-1j5Tg4xkXs?si=EJ1Ofvg-L8YinLia

Yeah but it sounds so damn pretty!