Click the link below to get the tab, and subscribe to the Tab of the Week Click Here To Get The Tab Like so many of the great old-time fingerpicking numbers, “John Greer’s Two Step” is a tune composed on the banjo, for the banjo. And also like so many of the great old-time fingerpicking […]
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Fingerstyle Banjo Song and Tab of the Week: “Banjo in the Hollow”
Click Here To Get The Tab There is an ocean of great music to be played on the banjo that’s pretty easy to pick up once you’ve learned the basic techniques. This is why I’m constantly trying to encourage people to explore this ocean fully before moving on to the more complicated stuff (and […]
Fingerstyle Banjo Song and Tab of the Week: “Waterbound”
Click on the button below to get the PDF download for this tab delivered to you, and get a new song and tab delivered to you every week! Click Here To Get The Tab “Waterbound” is one of my absolute favorite banjo songs for playing and singing. When played in old-time jams as a […]
Fingerstyle Banjo Song and Tab of the Week: “Goin’ Down That Road Feeling Bad”
Click on the button below to get the PDF download for this tab delivered to you, and get a new song and tab delivered to you every week! Click Here To Get The Tab Speed kills. That’s a phrase with multiple meanings. So what exactly does speed kill when it comes to banjo playing? Timing. […]
Fingerstyle Banjo Song and Tab of the Week: “Nine Pound Hammer”
Click on the button below to get the PDF download for this tab delivered to you, and get a new song and tab delivered to you every week! Click Here To Get The Tab What’s the purpose of music? Entertainment? That’s probably the word that comes to mind for most in these times. Music is […]
Should You Learn Multiple Banjo Styles?
by Josh Turknett, MD Should bluegrass banjo players learn clawhammer? Should clawhammer players learn old time fingerpicking? Should Scruggs style pickers learn melodic style? These sorts of questions are bandied about all the time inside banjo forums. Not surprisingly, you’ll find the range of responses and opinions run the full gamut. The argument against the […]
Fingerstyle Banjo Song and Tab of the Week: “Aint Gonna Work Tomorrow”
Click on the button below to get the PDF download for this tab delivered to you, and get a new song and tab delivered to you every week! Click Here To Get The Tab These days, the prevailing view seems to be that, if you want to sing and play the banjo, or will be […]
Fingerstyle Banjo Song and Tab of the Week: “Liberty”
Click on the button below to get the PDF download for this tab delivered to you, and get a new song and tab delivered to you every week! Click Here To Get The Tab In a recent workshop on “Branching Out With 2-Finger Thumb Lead Style” banjo (now available in the workshop archive for Breakthrough […]
Introducing the Banjo Tab “Walk-Through” Series
A New Series (Fingerstyle Banjo Tab “Walk-Throughs”) I’ve recently started a new series of video tutorials in the Brainjo Virtual Classroom where I “walk-through” one of the tabs in The Vault (the growing library of tabs in the Breakthrough Banjo course), measure-by-measure, as you see in the video above for the tune “Amazing Grace”. These […]
Fingerstyle Banjo Song and Tab of the Week: “Handsome Molly”
Click on the button below to get the PDF download for this tab delivered to you, and get a new song and tab delivered to you every week! Click Here To Get The Tab As I’ve said before (and will surely say many times again), there’s seemingly no end to the number of ways you […]