Thanks, very useful for us noobs to read but also understand what other people do with their fingers exactly. Wanted something to start with to practice your Sugar Hill and Angeline The Baker tabs you posted. Really appreciated.
Hi Josh, the other symbol I've come across in your tabs that's maybe worth mentioning here is the galax lick - solid black arrow placed above tab - pointing away from it. An example is the B part of Adam Hurt's Josie-O near the delayed pull-offs. That took me a while to figure out!! You may have covered that elsewhere in the course (I have to confess to skipping ahead a little bit; couldn't resist learning a tune or two from Adam's Earth Tones album!) Keep up the fine work!...and thanks again.
Thanks for this video Josh! I do have one question though, in some of your tabs a note is written with an "x" on a string, see here: i.imgur.com/WlMa9uy.png What exactly does this mean and how do I play this note? Thank you for being such a useful resource for a poor college student like me who can't afford lessons!
That's almost certainly just another way of indicating a skipped-note (12:03 in this video), but without indicating what that note might be if you chose to play it. Another possibility is that it's a ghost-note (this is how a ghost-note would be indicated on bass guitar tab). That's done by muffling the string with a finger (not pressing fully behind a fret) and striking the string for a percussive thump without a discernible note/pitch. That's unlikely in banjo tab though -- almost certainly just an alternate way to indicate a skipped-note.
Thanks, very useful for us noobs to read but also understand what other people do with their fingers exactly.
Wanted something to start with to practice your Sugar Hill and Angeline The Baker tabs you posted. Really appreciated.
Hi Josh, the other symbol I've come across in your tabs that's maybe worth mentioning here is the galax lick - solid black arrow placed above tab - pointing away from it. An example is the B part of Adam Hurt's Josie-O near the delayed pull-offs. That took me a while to figure out!!
You may have covered that elsewhere in the course (I have to confess to skipping ahead a little bit; couldn't resist learning a tune or two from Adam's Earth Tones album!)
Keep up the fine work!...and thanks again.
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Thanks for this video Josh! I do have one question though, in some of your tabs a note is written with an "x" on a string, see here: i.imgur.com/WlMa9uy.png
What exactly does this mean and how do I play this note? Thank you for being such a useful resource for a poor college student like me who can't afford lessons!
That's almost certainly just another way of indicating a skipped-note (12:03 in this video), but without indicating what that note might be if you chose to play it. Another possibility is that it's a ghost-note (this is how a ghost-note would be indicated on bass guitar tab). That's done by muffling the string with a finger (not pressing fully behind a fret) and striking the string for a percussive thump without a discernible note/pitch. That's unlikely in banjo tab though -- almost certainly just an alternate way to indicate a skipped-note.
Yep, that’s an indication for a skip note - you might see that in some of the older tabs, as that’s what the software was using then.