Pretty Polly -- 5-String Bluegrass Banjo Tutorial with Guitar Accompaniment

Hear this tune played with guitar rhythm backup (slow, medium, fast) starting at 15:16. Guitar chords are provided on-screen. Only G and D on this one, and the D is a quick one at the end.
This is an instructional tutorial 5-string bluegrass banjo lesson teaching my version of the traditional folk/Bluegrass ballad "Pretty Polly."
On this video I teach the tune 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 downloadable 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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[@terrysmith257]

Brilliant

[@EastEndGirl99]

Sounds great, love this song! Thanks so much!

[@amirglinik8218]

Thank You A Thousand Times Bill ! 👍💕

[@billfriendo2975]

thanks for this one bill, sounds brilliant! hope you’re doing well

[@johnf7137]

Just about perfect

[@dutti65]

Ole!!

[@Quigg59]

yeah, buddy!!

[@annasiddle6119]

Thanks so much for this! Not many banjo teachers in Holland, so this is great! Very clear instructions; now just a whole lot of practice :)

[@coolcat3659]

13:55

[@thefl0ck]

Hey Bill, The tab on your website for Pretty Polly downloads the Beginner Roll tab. Looking forward to learning this one!

[@williamanesbitt]

Thanks!

[@RealPartySongs]

What? What did you say? The first string? 😅😅😅 (just kidding Bill ... I know all about that). Please post more guitar tutorials on RUclips on walking bass lines and the songs they 're played in.

[@TheDirtyyoungman1]

So the speed you played that last go around is the normal speed to play it at? Just a suggestion: Perhaps you could play it once at normal speed at the beginning of lesson so we know what we're working toward... Just a thought. 😁👍

[@maxcangaming4576]

the video opens with the song playing