G Major Scale Exercises | Beginner Bluegrass Banjo Lesson With Tab
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- Опубликовано: 4 фев 2025
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I know this is quite an old video, but at 8:29, that scale is the Town Tune I made in Animal Crossing Wild World as a child. I knew nothing of scales as a kid, I just arranged the notes in that pretty pattern. Now I'm learning the banjo and am hearing my town tune as the g major scale. Wow!
You’re a modern day Beethoven!!
Hi Mike! Thanks for taking your time to make this video.. I started out playing Bluegrass Banjo in 1960. Quit playing in 1993. Can't remember a darn thing! Have to start all over again! I just bought a used Banjo and I am all thumbs! At 80 I wonder if I have the patience to relearn it all! Met Earl Scruggs, and Bill Keith some years ago (1960's) and Keith 1980's. .
Thanks! I'm sure with a bit of practice you'll be playing again in no time. That's great you go to meet some of the masters of this genre. - Mike
At least if you try clawhammer style you should be able to pick up double thumbing pretty quickly
Mike produces top of the line instructional videos that go beyond all the other videos from other pickers. I have his banjo Cripple Creek, banjo Old Home Place and mandolin Tennesee Waltz. They include back up and about two or three other versions of the song. Mike is a true professional and it shows in the video's and they are worth every penny!
Thanks for the kind words! I'm glad you're enjoying the lessons. -Mike
you're awesome man, thanks for the lessons.
Thanks for the kind words. - Mike
No, I'm not here because I'm learning how to play banjo. I have come here to overcome my irrational fear of the peculiar sharp sound that the banjo produces.. This video is helping me come to reality, it's making me make sense of a completely useless dread that has haunted me for years! thank you to everyone who produced this.
This is the best comment I've ever received. Thank you. - Mike
@@MikeHeddingMusic what did I just read? I never heard anything as beautiful as the sound of a banjo or bagpipes or can't think of anything right this second but there's a few I'm sure.
Thank you for this. I just got my banjo last week. I'm trying to form good habits and I was wondering if there was such a thing as a scale on the banjo thank you again
For future reference all instruments have scales except like drums and stuff like that
I really liked it a lot. Thanx for the lesson
Nice! I'm glad it was helpful. - Mike
I have liked and subscribed my main man Mike!
Nice! Thank you. - Mike
Great lesson Mike. Thank you. As an absolute beginner on banjo and music in general I am really enjoying learning the “mathematics” behind music. Scales. Chords. Sharps. Flats. And on and on….. intriguing to say the least. My current confusion lie in understanding major versus minor scales compared to chromatic versus diatonic scales. What’s the relationship if there is one? Thanks
Chromatic scales use half steps so it has 12 notes in the scale. Diatonic scales have seven notes and have whole steps and half steps. Diatonic scales can be major or minor. Chromatic scales aren't usually referred to in that way because it already includes every note. - Mike
@@MikeHeddingMusic Thank you for the clear explanation Mike. Most helpful. In my quest to learn how to play the banjo I have become equally if not more enthralled with understanding music theory and how it translates to why certain notes and chords sound well together and others do not. I want to understand the arrangement of the fretboard and why notes are where they are at as opposed to simply trying to memorize everything void of any true understanding.
Thanks Mike!
You're welcome. I hope it was helpful. - Mike
I need a full lesson on the Nashville Number System, I don’t know where to start learning it. Do I learn all the notes on each string all the way up to the 12th fret? What do I learn before learning that system being a tab player all my life just looking at numbers?
Exelent
06:54. G Major scale with closed position number one
New subscriber here. Wondering if you could do a lesson on red rocking chair please sir
Possibly, let me play around with it and see if I can work something up. - Mike
How come when you play the the notes starting on A (8:01), you fret the 6th fret to play a C and G but if you look at the G major scale of the banjo those notes are on the 5th fret. What's the theory behind that ? I can't figure out why it is played differently. Thank you.
jeeveeken That’s a movable major scale pattern so when I started the pattern on the 7th fret that was actually the A Major scale. So we moved all the notes up a whole step which is why you’ve got the 6th feet (C#). Sorry if that was confusing, that scale pattern can be moved around to wherever you’d like so you can use it to play any of the major scales. Hope this helps. Good luck. -Mike
Thanks for answering so quickly, makes sense now. I want to learn to improvise so I'm trying to understand the theory behind it all. Subscribed as well :)
What model banjo is that? That is the sound I want. I have a fender but it doesn't "crack" like that. Thanks.
It's a custom banjo built by Nechville Banjos. Thanks. -Mike
Thanks! Any thoughts on Deering banjos? That was the company I was looking at. Specifically the Deering Boston. If you don't know or don't want to bother answering internet questions, no problem, but thanks in advance...
To my knowledge I haven't played a Deering Boston but I've played several other models. They seem to be very well made instruments and are reasonably priced. My friend had a maple blossom from them that was a killer banjo. - Mike
I think I just experienced and epiphany on my Epiphone! Seriously, though, why did it take me this long to stumble across Scale= Chord Tones + "Passing Tones" (supporting tones melodically compatible with the chord in the right doses)... melodies sound weird trying to use just the chord tones. They seem to hop around like a pubescent voice crackle.
Great! I'm glad you found it helpful. - Mike
today i came and had my player on 1.5 speed, so Mike sounded like he had too much coffee
OMG it's so difficult to stretch my pinking and index finger that far apart!!! lol
Keep practicing and you'll get it! - Mike
You should address right hand technique before people watching this develop bad habits.
I did actually. Here's the video: ruclips.net/video/cDAFoqdYUaM/видео.html - Mike