Love this 'dark' sounding tune Jim and I love learning all your songs by ear rather than being wedded to a tab. It sounds more complicated than it really is and those repetitious but interchangeable rolls and riffs really spice it up and give it lots of life. Sounds so good it's kinda hard to stop, once you get on a roll, pun intended! I'm looking forward to impressing people when I get it strung out right and flowing well. Thanks a bunch for another cool song, Tina S.
So far in my almost two months of playing banjo I have learned eight of your tune tutorials and watched about every one of them just to see future tunes to learn. Now I'm on this one and I gotta say this has been the most fun to learn out of all of them. I am still working on getting my pinky flexible enough to reach that one cord but I know I'll get it eventually. I think I have thanked you in the comments on some other videos but seriously I would be lost without them so thanks again Jim!
Hi Jim! I'm a super beginner having just bought my first banjo two weeks ago. I've played electric and acoustic guitar for a few years. I just completed your Cripple Creek lessons and am pretty comfortable with it after following your instructions to practice things and come back...not move ahead. Thank you for that. Just browsing your channel and found this...one of my all time favorite MTB songs! Going to go back and learn and practice forward and reverse rolls and then going to figure this out. BTW, I've checked out a couple other instructional channels and yours is by far the best and most instructional, and you make sure I'm not cheating myself by jumping ahead because I'll only hurt my own progress. Thanks for the videos Jim!
That...is just...fabulous man, thank you Jim! Would love to have the privilege of jamming with you some day. (Just putting a request out there: Sunset Road by Bela Fleck.)
Awesome song, i was wondering have you got anything for "ring ring the banjo" too? I've been looking for tabs or tutorials but i could only find stuff for the guitar. That's the first bluegrass song I've ever heard and I'm dying to learn it somehow ;-;
@@KyleNobes I finally gave up. I have the Kay "Music Stand" banjo that my dad gave me 55 years ago. It needed a 5th string peg and that's installed. I'm on the fence about changing the other tuners. I have them but I have to ream or drill out the holes to install them. It's not playable with the old tuners.
Jim, I have a very slow internet connection and it is nearly impossible to use your RUclips videos at my home. Is there a way to purchase some of your lessons so I can download the videos at the library for use them when I get home?
I might be stupid, but this is kinda hard for me to play haha... So many different variations... Then again, I started learning to play the banjo on December 24th haha But I can already play Cripple Creek, Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Rainbow Connection... But somehow I struggle with this piece...
Love ya Jim! Just played a few hours and my ears sound like I'm underwater. I wondered if you've ever experienced this? It's a kinda thing where you can hear yourself breathing inside your head... if that makes any sense. Maybe I should get some earplugs or somethin like that. Haha sorry if I sound like a dork. :P
Banjos are loud. Maybe a mute would help. Maybe some sorta hearing protection... I attribute some of my hearing loss to playing in small rooms with a noisy banjo.
Haha. :) Thanks for replying. I reckon they are loud, the dern people next door just gave my wall a hammerin. Guess that's all I get to play for today. x.x
Hey Jim, Between 2:50 and 2:53 what is the string combination? I️ can’t seem to get the right roll to go into the chorus. You mentioned a walk up to the C earlier, but I️ don’t know what that means. Thanks!
Agree it would be helpful. Even just the string sequence would be a ton of help for getting the rhythm. One silly note dropped really tends to stop me cold because the beat and syncopation are as critical as the tune when you're trying to get The Flow... (Love the lessons, never had so much fun working so hard.)
@@ringram51 One of the important things - at least to me - is that folks avoid tabs for tunes I'm pretty sure they can figure out by just listening and trusting their own ears. This tune is a good example. There's no advanced ideas or concepts; it's all pretty basic stuff. If you've been through my beginner series, and maybe a handful of other tunes I've taught, you'll have mastered more than enough skills to create this tune. More than that, you could - if you really tried - figure it out your own way. If you can hear the beat, and are familiar with the song, then building the tune with skills you have shouldn't be a huge project. Truth is, that's how I approach everything I play. Nope, I don't have tons of songs memorized. I just play the tune in my head with the skills I have. Keep picking and practicing. Listen to what you're doing. You don't need a tab. :)
@@JimPankey Thanks Jim for the insights, and appreciate you taking the time very much. At 68, after playing guitar since I was about 11, you'd think I'd know better. And I do. Introduced to guitar originally by a family friend, he insisted that I wear finger picks (T 1&2) and taught me old time Rev Gary Davis style blues. In high school my forte' became figuring it all off the records. I would not use a book and in fact took it as an insult. My three guitar godfathers are Chet Atkins (god himself), James Taylor (Jesus), and Pat Matheney (the holy ghost). (I just hope they understand, the banjo is much more forgiving of the arthritis in my hands than a guitar.) So ultimately, I thank Goodness the Coen Bros made Oh Brother Where Art Thou... I got ahold of the Down from the Mountain video concert about five years ago and started following Alison K. and Union station and got Properly Bluegrass Inspired. Then after some significant frustration, I recently discovered your terrific lessons and finally starting to get serious with the banjo I bought 10 years ago. (BTW, You are so popular because you are so good at what you do. We all, thank you every day, when we play what you have taught us.) And to complete my little monologue, I actually stumbled onto you Streaming Event 5 minutes before only through divine intervention. Just clicked in to check a lesson and there you were. And(!) somehow something you talked about convinced me that I Did NOT REALLY finish the Beginners Lessons 1-10 PROPERLY and THAT is what was making me insecure about learning the song above. A very bright light bulb went off in my head and I can now play CCreek by heart and mess around with it as I would have any other song on one of my old git-fiddles. Your comments above and particularly in the stream made a very distinct impression on how I initially learn a given song. And how that repetition initially will build confidence forward. Never to old to learn... That streaming session was very fun AND very informative. I know I missed a few gems and would recommend to any of your students (including ME!) to listen to it every couple of months until they can't stand it (kind of like practicing...) There were many a good tip and some I bet missed for the fun. Thanks again, and yet again! And I'll be seeing you! Rob Ingram
TAB: wildjimbo.sellfy.store/p/marshall-tuckers-fire-on-the-mountain-tab/
Jim,
Thank you so much for making it easy to learn these songs.
Glad I can help!
That’s a pretty one. Thank you for teaching us again. I’ll never be as proficient as you but you give me a goalpost.
You can do it!
Love this 'dark' sounding tune Jim and I love learning all your songs by ear rather than being wedded to a tab. It sounds more complicated than it really is and those repetitious but interchangeable rolls and riffs really spice it up and give it lots of life. Sounds so good it's kinda hard to stop, once you get on a roll, pun intended! I'm looking forward to impressing people when I get it strung out right and flowing well. Thanks a bunch for another cool song, Tina S.
Glad you like it!
So far in my almost two months of playing banjo I have learned eight of your tune tutorials and watched about every one of them just to see future tunes to learn. Now I'm on this one and I gotta say this has been the most fun to learn out of all of them. I am still working on getting my pinky flexible enough to reach that one cord but I know I'll get it eventually. I think I have thanked you in the comments on some other videos but seriously I would be lost without them so thanks again Jim!
Thanks for letting me help you learn 😊
You are an awsome teacher. Love the fact you taught Marshall Tucker. Thank you.
Great video love the song and u have a great version and breakdown thanks for sharing
Great job Jim I love it
Thanks (again). I love the opening part.
Glad you liked it ☺️
Wow Jimbo that is just the best, FANTASTIC! Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it!
Hi Jim! I'm a super beginner having just bought my first banjo two weeks ago. I've played electric and acoustic guitar for a few years. I just completed your Cripple Creek lessons and am pretty comfortable with it after following your instructions to practice things and come back...not move ahead. Thank you for that. Just browsing your channel and found this...one of my all time favorite MTB songs! Going to go back and learn and practice forward and reverse rolls and then going to figure this out. BTW, I've checked out a couple other instructional channels and yours is by far the best and most instructional, and you make sure I'm not cheating myself by jumping ahead because I'll only hurt my own progress. Thanks for the videos Jim!
Glad you are enjoying the videos. Feel free to jump around. You can always backtrack to figure out what you may not know. 😃
Just saw this....always loved this song & now ill be able to play it on my banjo...love your arrangement as well thanks...subbed!
Glad I can help!
See where I’m going wrong now, I’m stop dropping and rock and rolling !
Just make sure you're having fun!
Jimbo nice job on this one. I have always loved the MTB and got to see them once years ago. Love the way you walk down on that riff etc. MT
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great work. Thanks
Really nice, Jim!
Thanks 😊
A great big Thank You! I'm reinspired and my banjo glad is glad not to be under the bed.
You're welcome!
Thank you! I like it!
I'm glad you like it
That’s epic I’m gonna learn this when I have some time.
Thank you.
Thanks for watching 😀
That...is just...fabulous man, thank you Jim! Would love to have the privilege of jamming with you some day.
(Just putting a request out there: Sunset Road by Bela Fleck.)
Awesome song, i was wondering have you got anything for "ring ring the banjo" too? I've been looking for tabs or tutorials but i could only find stuff for the guitar. That's the first bluegrass song I've ever heard and I'm dying to learn it somehow ;-;
I really don’t play that tune…
I'm still waiting on my banjo to arrive. 2 months and counting. Hopefully I've absorbed something. If not, I will :)
You can do it!
Did you buy an RK35? I bought one earlier this year, took 4 months!
@@KyleNobes I finally gave up. I have the Kay "Music Stand" banjo that my dad gave me 55 years ago. It needed a 5th string peg and that's installed. I'm on the fence about changing the other tuners. I have them but I have to ream or drill out the holes to install them. It's not playable with the old tuners.
Jim,
I have a very slow internet connection and it is nearly impossible to use your RUclips videos at my home. Is there a way to purchase some of your lessons so I can download the videos at the library for use them when I get home?
I only have my beginner series available at www.Sellfy.com/wildjimbo
I might be stupid, but this is kinda hard for me to play haha...
So many different variations... Then again, I started learning to play the banjo on December 24th haha
But I can already play Cripple Creek, Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Rainbow Connection... But somehow I struggle with this piece...
Yeah... not really a beginner tune. Bookmark it and come back to it later. 😊
Love ya Jim! Just played a few hours and my ears sound like I'm underwater. I wondered if you've ever experienced this? It's a kinda thing where you can hear yourself breathing inside your head... if that makes any sense. Maybe I should get some earplugs or somethin like that. Haha sorry if I sound like a dork. :P
Banjos are loud. Maybe a mute would help. Maybe some sorta hearing protection... I attribute some of my hearing loss to playing in small rooms with a noisy banjo.
Haha. :) Thanks for replying. I reckon they are loud, the dern people next door just gave my wall a hammerin. Guess that's all I get to play for today. x.x
Earplugs, or you could possibly take the resonator off when practicing.
Get an open back banjo for practice.
Eevee I got an open back for practice and use a mute, downside it’s sounds nothing like a banjo plus side I can practice anytime
Hey Jim,
Between 2:50 and 2:53 what is the string combination? I️ can’t seem to get the right roll to go into the chorus. You mentioned a walk up to the C earlier, but I️ don’t know what that means. Thanks!
+Shawn Powell string sequence is 2 - 2 1 5 2 1 5
Thanks Jim - love your videos! Thanks for putting these walkthroughs up.
Jim are you picking the b note with the thumb
Yup... I think so. :)
what is this tuned in? mentioned g and e minor and I could not get the sound to match at all.
It’s in standard tuning. gDGBD
@@JimPankey Thank you, I wasn't pressing second fret first string is why it was off.
Jim, could I buy the tablature on this?
I never tabbed it out
Hey, do you think you could make tab for this?
Agree it would be helpful. Even just the string sequence would be a ton of help for getting the rhythm. One silly note dropped really tends to stop me cold because the beat and syncopation are as critical as the tune when you're trying to get The Flow... (Love the lessons, never had so much fun working so hard.)
@@ringram51 One of the important things - at least to me - is that folks avoid tabs for tunes I'm pretty sure they can figure out by just listening and trusting their own ears.
This tune is a good example. There's no advanced ideas or concepts; it's all pretty basic stuff. If you've been through my beginner series, and maybe a handful of other tunes I've taught, you'll have mastered more than enough skills to create this tune. More than that, you could - if you really tried - figure it out your own way.
If you can hear the beat, and are familiar with the song, then building the tune with skills you have shouldn't be a huge project. Truth is, that's how I approach everything I play. Nope, I don't have tons of songs memorized. I just play the tune in my head with the skills I have.
Keep picking and practicing. Listen to what you're doing. You don't need a tab. :)
@@JimPankey
Thanks Jim for the insights, and appreciate you taking the time very much.
At 68, after playing guitar since I was about 11, you'd think I'd know better. And I do.
Introduced to guitar originally by a family friend, he insisted that I wear finger picks (T 1&2) and taught me old time Rev Gary Davis style blues. In high school my forte' became figuring it all off the records. I would not use a book and in fact took it as an insult.
My three guitar godfathers are Chet Atkins (god himself), James Taylor (Jesus), and Pat Matheney (the holy ghost). (I just hope they understand, the banjo is much more forgiving of the arthritis in my hands than a guitar.)
So ultimately, I thank Goodness the Coen Bros made Oh Brother Where Art Thou... I got ahold of the Down from the Mountain video concert about five years ago and started following Alison K. and Union station and got Properly Bluegrass Inspired. Then after some significant frustration, I recently discovered your terrific lessons and finally starting to get serious with the banjo I bought 10 years ago. (BTW, You are so popular because you are so good at what you do. We all, thank you every day, when we play what you have taught us.)
And to complete my little monologue, I actually stumbled onto you Streaming Event 5 minutes before only through divine intervention. Just clicked in to check a lesson and there you were. And(!) somehow something you talked about convinced me that I Did NOT REALLY finish the Beginners Lessons 1-10 PROPERLY and THAT is what was making me insecure about learning the song above. A very bright light bulb went off in my head and I can now play CCreek by heart and mess around with it as I would have any other song on one of my old git-fiddles. Your comments above and particularly in the stream made a very distinct impression on how I initially learn a given song. And how that repetition initially will build confidence forward. Never to old to learn...
That streaming session was very fun AND very informative. I know I missed a few gems and would recommend to any of your students (including ME!) to listen to it every couple of months until they can't stand it (kind of like practicing...) There were many a good tip and some I bet missed for the fun.
Thanks again, and yet again! And I'll be seeing you! Rob Ingram
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wouldn't it be easier to mount the camera a bit higher for your intro? I'm always worried that you're going to hurt your neck...
+Mark McCluney it would be nearly as much fun though, would it? :)
Jim Pankey well I suppose it's a comedy moment. love to T and The Spankster.