Banjo Lesson Tutorial: "Ballad of Jed Clampett"
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- By request: This is a 5-string banjo instructional tutorial lesson teaching my 5-string banjo version of "The Ballad of Jed Clampett" written by Paul Henning, originally played by Earl Scruggs. As usual, I teach the instrumental tune lick by lick using on-screen tablature, then put it together -- slowly at first, then faster toward the end, adding guitar audio overlay, as well as guitar chords.
Free tab and play-along tracks at different speeds are available at my website, littlerockbanjo.com.
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I wished that I lived down the street from you. So far you have been my only teacher. Your teaching style is the best I have seen. Thanks!
Me too ,Bill is a great teacher , the best I have found.I have tried a few teachers. I have progressed the most with Bill.
This is a tough version. It's totally different from Jim pankeys version m
@@michaelangelo9024 I was working on Jim's version but I just can't get my pinky to do that big stretch. Bill's version avoids that but it's tougher overall.
I can tell you this much - if you have already learned a song somewhere else and want to unlearn it so you can play his arrangements, his "weird and disjointed" way of working on the individual licks is a great way to go about it. I have listened to most of his lesson videos and I am going to stay with his work. His arrangements are just intricate enough to be awesome without busting your balls. If I can get through a couple more songs successfully (that's up to my discipline, not his teaching) I think I will go for the SKYPE route for the next level.
Learning this has been the most successful and most rewarding of my two lockdown self-improvement projects. Thanks for the great lesson!
The side by side video windows is key. Your reference to slides and pull offs from other songs is also a huge help. Repeating the picking, several times is very cool. Seeing how your fingers make the chord up close is a real winner. Nice audio, well lit in both windows..
Santa brought me a long awaited Banjo for 2023 and found you here. I had searched through many lessons and love your teaching method. In just 7 days now, I can get some rolls going and learned slowly the first two bars of this Uncle Jed's classic. I do play guitar so I have some advantage here but love the banjo and always have. I will keep watching you.
So glad you played it at full speed at the end, that was smoking fast! Thank you for this tutorial and for the guitar chords. Time to start practicing!
I just was gifted a banjo a few months ago and have been struggling to learn songs on my own. This video and your other helps me ALOT more than anyone else so far. I appreciate every second of it!
The way this builds up to full tempo is mesmerizing and thrilling. Great video!
Very well done Bill. Best Ballet of Jed Clampett on banjo I've seen. Thank you for posting.
Thanks a million! I've been working on this a few minutes a day for the past year following your instructions, and I can now muddle through it fairly well. Two cameras and very clear tabs along with very clear instructions at different speeds cover all the bases. I bought a banjo just to learn this tune, but it ended up under my stairs for 12 years until I came across your video. Tutorials either didn't exist yet or just didn't give me what I needed. However, I haven't mastered the finger picks yet. Great job!
New banjo player, and finally got my banjo tuned and this is the first one I am going to learn to play. Thanks for this video. I have wartched my father play bano for decades, and now he is no longer physically able to, So i am learning to play a song that I can play for him.
*watched* *Banjo*
Love this! Brilliant brings my childhood right back, thanks Bill
I really enjoy your videos and style of teaching. I have tried many of the paid sites with little success. Each time you post a new video I learn the song from beginning to end. I have been playing for about 6 months and have a friend helping me along the way that has over 10 years of playing under his belt. Each time we get together and I show him what I have learned he is amazed. He said "who is the Nesbitt fellow" and I said look him on on the old inter-webs. Like most folks I want to say Thank You for taking the time post these videos at no charge. I hope to pass my knowledge on to my little ones some day and keep the Bluegrass tradition alive and strong!
I’m working my way through the video segment by segment. This is such a great way to learn. I tried to learn to play when I was a kid and it never took. Thanks so much!!!!
Can you play the song yet?
Thank you for making these available
Great lesson Bill, thanks..Looking forward to the next one..
I’m a left handed banjo picker and Bills format is the only one that approaches technique that both handed pickers alike can follow and play along with. He’s my go to instructor whenever I want to learn a new song. Thanks Bill.
That's awesome Bill! Thank you for sharing and putting it all together!
Excellent teaching style. Thanks for the tab and the tempo changes.
thank you,I already had this instilled in me and just needed it pulled out, thanks for doing so, great teaching and the fluff and rolls are like adaptive sounds for the players own choices I feel so even if many alternatives arrive it's all good and makes it a great practicing tune for exercises etc....
I've seen 1000 lessons on this..... yours is the only one that is correct. Thank you, Mr. Nesbitt.
Thank you William nice way of teaching this ballad. of Jed Clampett, I'm not a banjo player but for the last few years I got the interest in banjo playing but never got around it. With so much info on youtube lately the Banjo is getting its popularity back. I've decided to buy the Deering Artisan GoodTime 2 with resonator. I'm in my 80s but the enjoyment of learning the Banjo is worth trying and the fun is priceless. Thank you for the video. The Banjo is a great instrument.
Yee ha!!! This is so great - I love the arrangement and love your teaching style.
I've been playing for about a half a year I learned The Ballad of Jed Clampett from you greatly appreciated
Oh my lord my fingers are on fire from trying to keep up with you when you played it the last time. Thanks a lot Bill.
I am 64 years restarted playing the banjo I got one in Nashville men I was 16. You are the best.
Through your instructions I learned the distinct difference in the three finger and clawhammer styles I love the music from both.
😅❤I love it...going to make this my first song...I been building caluses and such. Now I am ready to play the Ballard of Jed Clampet...ty😊
That was fantastic! And done so clearly that maybe someday I’ll get it, a looooog time from now. Thanks 🙏🏽
William has the BEST banjo tutorial videos on the web! Jimmy Cash said that! Amen!
Thank you, been a git fiddler most of my life but just getting started on five string banjo. I think I can pull it off✌️😎
Really enjoying this!! Nice lesson
I’m so dang happy
about this ! 😃
Many thanks
Thanks a lot Bill, I come from liverpool england and can't get banjo lessons. I'd be lost without your videos.
You are such a great teacher!!
Thanks for posting the close ups and tabs all together, anyone (like me) can sound really good with your lessons, ha!...and free to boot!
Thank you thank you sir!
Love the arrangement
Wow, this tutorial and song are just beautiful. You are truly a banjo artist. I’m going to try my best to learn this before my last day on earth. As I go I will have a big smile. Thanks for setting a new goal for me. I’m sure you should be proud for being such an inspiration.
LittleRockBanjo tutorials are top notch.
Excellent! Keep em comming!
My success to Bills tutoring has added these two components that my neighbors 15 year old mandolin picker son gave me. …. (1) Play to the song….. don’t sing to the music….. also (2) learn it like you are going to teach it. When I added these to Bills great lesson I changed my thought process and really accelerated.
I've been watching this and studying this everyday I just started playing banjo 3 months ago still super complicated for me but you definitely make it easy to learn
Wow! Thats what I call a teacher. I have Scruggs" book with this song. Your method is far better! Thankyou!
Love this version, thanks so much
I enjoy your teaching on three finger, thank you. I think you are better than the other banjo gurus on the internet. Thank you!
possibly the best teacher on earth,everything is shown and explained so perfectly and the notes are right on.
Glad you're enjoying playing the 5-string!
@@williamanesbitt bill.i learned something from seeing how bent over your steel picks are,i bent mine like that and it works much better for me.i played guitar for 40 years but nothing is as much fun as a 5 string banjo
@@whitestrat69 So do you own a white '69 Strat, or are you white and 69 years old and own a Strat or...?
Sorry I saw your videos... beautiful guitar! Nicely played too!
@@williamanesbitt ty bill
Well done. Enjoyed much and if exactness is always a issue for someone ... we all fall short of perfection. Good enough for me, thanks Bill.
It's really great to see someone sharing what they know for free, for those of us who can't afford one-on-one lessons. So many people on here will lure you into a lesson, only to cut it short and send you to their website to pay for the rest. It's hard enough learning banjo on your own, or just getting young people to play the banjo in the first place, without adding additional walls between them and the folk knowledge. This is how it was meant to be. Subscribed, favorited, bookmarked.
Oh, one thing though. I think it's really important for you to play through the song before you start teaching it. I can't tell you how many videos I've clicked off of when the teacher jumps right into the tune without ever letting us hear what it's supposed to sound like.
Another thing I think would be really helpful for beginners, since you do write out all your taps, if you made the bottom line either dotted or lighter. Some indication that it's not really touched with the left hand. Coming from guitar, I always associate that bottom line with the first line on the left hand, so it's a little tricky to ignore that on banjo, if you know what I mean.
Brilliant! Thank you!
Wooolllll... congratulation...what a class!!!... I'm Brazilian and I like very much bluegrass Stlyle... I'm trying lern banjo alone... but in my country this is very dificult, because of our culture... So, thank you very much for all the class... 🙏🙂
Great job! I really like your videos.
That was AWESOME!
These tutorials are great!
“Not exactly like the original” Are you serious? It’s brilliant Bill, thank you!
so clear and easy to follow. Thank you!
very good tuition one of the best online well done Bill
Thanks a lot, it was a great help and we'll explained.
Exactly what I was looking for. Exactly.
So...Awesome!!!!
Thanks for your videos buddy.....
Working on it, Bill - thanks again!
Love it!
Excellent video .....!!!
Great lesson thnxs dude enjoyed it
Awesome !!
Thank you for the tutorial on this song. You are a superb teacher... I'm learning the the way of the Rolls..without picks
May not be exactly like the original, but, it is still pretty amazing Bill. Thank you for great & valuable lessons.
12:19 with backing tracks nicely done.
Bravo!. Thank you!.
its good enough for me and then some!
BRAVO!
I have been playing or learning to play the banjo for the past few years and you have been such a great teacher. Thank you for your awesome lessons. I just turned eighty but still can reach these chords. Thanks again Bill.
Hiya , I'm just learning the banjo and I find your videos very helpful. ( especially dueling banjo one) I was wondering if you could do a Mumford and sons one. I feel like all the vids on Mumford are hard to understand and you allways make it clear. Thank you very much
Lexie ❤️
thanks Bill !
Oh, Man!!! Looks easy when you do!
thank you so much!!
I love dit song
Merci beaucoup, bravo x 1000
excellent
Thanks!
Thanks so much for your help in learning the banjo! It's so much fun to play now!
I suddenly have a craving for some Chaw tobacco.
Thanks for the good lesson.
Man, ist das cool, man!!!
Thanks for your time and effort Bill. Your videos have done me a lot of good. I'm a noobie as of 12/2016. Wish you would put one together for "Down the road". Thanks again Richard, Picayune ,MS
Richard Mitchell love the videos. Second "down the road" PLLLLEEEAAASE
Wonderful¡
HI Bill, thanks again for your time and work. Where might find the tab for the tune?
Hi Bill, I'm not sure if you are still monitoring this page but thank you for this lesson. I need this "Jed - weird and disjointed" refresher right now. I learned this from Earl's book a bunch of years ago and then kinda stopped playing. I'm back playing again but I don't like the way I learned it or I just don't remember it correctly but either way, I really like your arrangement, and your style of demonstration is working well for me to unlearn/relearn this song. I haven't been able to find the tab for "Jed" on your site but that's ok. I will be moving on to Cripple Creek next (another one I learned from Earl's book and I will need to go through the same process).
Sorry I misspelled the name! Buddy Ebsen, wherever you are, please forgive me!
I have been learning banjo for under a year, and i think its going very well with your help. I just wanted to thank you for the amazing lessons, and i was wondering if you had a patreon or some other website that we could donate money for all the lessons. Thanks again!
Hey williamanesbitt you think you could do a video on blackjack from J.D. Crowe if you can that would be helpful
Thanks
MUITO interessante para MIM
Thank you so much for your awesome website, and tutorials and ran downloads. I really feel like I owe you one for all of this you have made available to us, is there some route to where I can donate. I am definitely interested in your Skype lessons. I just have to figure out scheduling with what you have available, because I work 80 hours a week
You can email me via my website littlerockbanjo.com and we can take it from there. I look forward to hearing from you.
Do you have instruction on how to play “Dooley” like on the Andy Griffith show as played by the Darling family?
I would love to learn that too
Is the tab for this song available somewhere? I looked on your website but was unable to find it.
Will u do a crawdad song tutorial ur the best video to learn from please please please please
Y'all come back now, y'hear!
was wondering if you could show how to play Lonesome banjo?
Did not know that tune. Thanks for bringing it to my attention! Nice!
Great version, you should try picking the second pinch at the second string, in the opening pinch after the pick on the third string.
William, thank you for this tutorial, but i do have a question. Why do you sometimes use your thumb for the 3rd string when you can use your index finger? I feel i'm working harder by having to move my thumb from 3 right to 2 for some parts of this song. Thanks again.-NIck
Depends on whether they're quarter or eighth notes. If I"m playing two eighth note thumbs back to back, please show me where and I'll correct it. If they're quarter notes, they go twice as slow, so no sweat. But all I'm offering here is suggestions anyway. If it sounds right, it's right.
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How long would it take to learn this on Banjo if just learning?
Can someone explain please... at 0:51 the tab says to slide from A-B then pluck the B string after that. If you play a B after a B, why would I change strings instead of double plucking it? Or is this some "intonation" thing?
This comment is a year old but I figured I'd answer anyway🤣
With banjo, it's best to use a different string with each note so it'll flow better. Also, playing the slide and plucking the B string just gives it a more bluegrass sound.