Bluegrass Banjo Lesson: "Wagon Wheel"
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- Hear this tune played with guitar rhythm backup (slow, medium, fast) starting at 11:22. Guitar chords are provided on-screen.
This is an instructional tutorial 5-string bluegrass banjo lesson teaching a banjo instrumental break for the popular song, "Wagon Wheel."
According to Wikipedia:
"Wagon Wheel is a song co-written by Bob Dylan and Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show. Dylan recorded the chorus in 1973; Secor added verses 25 years later. ... The song has been covered numerous times, notably by Nathan Carter in 2012 and Darius Rucker in 2013."
On this video I teach a suggested banjo break lick by lick, phrase by phrase, using on-screen tablature, then I put it together -- slowly at
first, then faster toward the end, adding rhythm guitar audio overlay and on-screen chord prompts.
Free tab sheets (PDF) and play-along tracks (MP3) for this and many other tunes are available at my website, www.littlerockbanjo.com.
Hope you enjoy.
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This is my all time fav song. I stopped playing the banjo over 10 years ago and am just picking it up again.. I have been playing guitar for over 50 years now... Wagon Wheel and your site and way of teaching brought me back. Thank you so very much. You are the best teacher.
I just got a banjo last year. His lessons made some songs I thought I'd never learn feel possible. I just learned Jed Clampett thanks to this wonderful man!
i love this guy!!! he's taught me all of my favorite songs!!! you're awesome will!!!!
I appreciate the kind words!
@@williamanesbitt I second @TheKale! I had a long break from playing - your generosity of sharing brought me back! So, so, incredibly grateful!!!
The clarity of this demonstration inspires me to pick up my banjo instead of my guitar tonight, and really give this a serious try....THANK YOU!
This sounds make me so happy. I just cant stop frickin watching it lol
This was a very helpful lesson, and by far the best Wagon Wheel banjo part that I have ever heard!
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!
You are the quintessential teacher sir! Love your teaching style, so easy to comprehend and no nonsense tabs!
I've played it in a group with an accordian, guitar, saw, mandolin, and me on violin. Probably the best way to enjoy wagon wheel in my opinion.
Thank you. My Dad played. Didnt appreciate it then. ❤😊
Great teaching methodology.
So glad i stumbled upon your site. I am a guitarist first but want to learn enough banjo to make it a second instrument to perform. You are so great for teaching and providing these lessons and the tabs for free. You are one of the best teachers on youtube!
Thanks for this, Bill, you are easily the best banjo teacher on the 'net! And if you ever get to England, there is NO WAY you are going to buy your own drinks!!
Thanks William you are the only lessons ive ever had and now i have several songs within a year!
awesome tutorial...thank you for your video.
Too awesome and nicely taught - thank you!
Thank you for posting your videos I have learned so much from you living in the Uk
Banjo books are hard to find here
Great to you , you love this instrument and want to help other to learn great songs
Once again Thank you so much xx
Simply outstanding. What a gift to be this accomplished as a teacher and performer. Thank you. Cheers - T👍🏼
Great original banjo part....can't wait to learn it!
incredible. such a beautiful sound
You do the best tutorials! And the backup play-along tracks are like gold! Thank you so much! Please do more....
Thanks for this tune and the tracks! Appreciate your efforts!
Um, that was wicked cool! I liked all three speeds, could listen to that for hours
Hey Will! Great lesson. It’s great to see a piece that adds some bluegrass banjo flourish to a straightforward chord pattern. So glad to have found your channel.
Thank you Bill!
I have learned everything I can from you!
Thanks, glad you're having fun!
Little known fact: our favorite banjo teacher is in a band called Clark Family Trio. In the beginning it was a quartet (same name though) and Bill is the only one not named Clark. Now it's a trio and he's still the only one not named Clark :-) He is a heckuva guitar player too.
I love your style of teaching .. just found you. I am going to spend some time with you and finally be able to play a few songs
I felt the 420 part
Amazing lesson! I was jamming yesterday and they started doing wagon wheel. I didn't officially know so I just did some basic rolls over the chords; but next time I'll be prepared!
I love this song and you've given us an easy to play version that sounds great.
Love this tune and what a lesson. I really appreciate all you have put out here on RUclips.
another great lesson, long before I got myself a 5 string I heard a guy performing this tune outside the boot store in Nashville, so with your lessons hopefully I will get it :D
Hey Bill, I love your tutorials. Only been playing the banjo since March and I'm already impressing my friends and it's all thanks to you! So happy to see one of my favorite songs of all time on here :)
Excellent
Thanks Bill, you have given me (all who comes here actually) so much material to work on. I have become a better Banjo picker (and now a guitar picker as I just picked up a Taylor, PF420). All your videos for stringed instruments are like gold!!
Started working on this one a few weeks ago. Great tune. Great video!
Great video - will have to start working on it. Thanks for sharing.
Really good, thanks for the lesson!
It does seem a little difficult to nail down into a solo recognizable banjo version but no matter, the melody is very enjoyable and a good one for beginners to practice to build movement and finger coordination. Or ... Just kick bacon the porch with a cool refreshment and play enjoying it.
Thank you! Your videa Are super🤗🤗🤗
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WOW, very impressive
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Hey sir thanks for the great lesson that you give .I was wanting to make a request for a lesson on how to play silver eagle please.
I learnt so much of this guy simple to follow big thumbs up just wondering wat thump pick you use and were to get one thanks
Thanks so much for this. Do we play this through the entire song or Is this just for the chorus?
Verse and chorus are the same in this song.
@@williamanesbitt thank youso much 😊
Hey Will! Loved this lesson. I'm about 2.5 Months in my banjo playing and I'm obsessed. Loved this song arrangement. Quick question, is this what I would play throughout the song or just the chorus? If not what would you suggest for the rest? Thanks I'm advance, really appreciate it! 👍👍🪕
A shade faster? Music tempo described by color intensity? Poetry Bill. Nice banjo piece.
I'm also a visual artist so sometimes I mix my metaphors.
At the beginning of the 7th measure (at 7:27 into the video) the tab says "T-S". Should that be a "T-H"? You perform a hammer-on instead of a slide.
Thank you man! Has anybody these tabs on a sheet? :-)
check his website littlerockbanjo.com
Is there anyway to get a tab sheet?
0:13
Got the whole screen to put a section and chooses to put 1 bar at a time. Ugh useless lesson, but good lick to look up the tab elsewhere
Yeah go to Spbgma and start playing wagon wheel no one in bluegrass likes wagon wheel just a bad song
Not everyone likes cabbage either some are just cabbage heads