From the course: Banjo Lessons: 4 Improvisation and Melodic Styles
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Backward-alternating thumb roll: Part 1
From the course: Banjo Lessons: 4 Improvisation and Melodic Styles
Backward-alternating thumb roll: Part 1
- We're gonna talk about the reverse or backward alternating thumb roll, there's no official term for this right now, we've certainly all played a lot of alternating thumb rolls in Boiling Cabbage Down Cripple Creek, et cetera, et cetera and a million other places, but right now, we're gonna talk about the reverse alternating thumb roll. This comes in handy for all sorts of improvisatory things. I have specific things here on the tablature and things that I'm gonna show you, but this is something I want you to forage around for and find all sorts of other uses for. I just wanted to get you in the door with this and I'm sure you'll be able to find lots of other things to do with the technique. The basic move is this. Those are the first two measures. There's middle on the first, thumb on the third, index on the second, thumb on the third and then just repeating it. So, just to get right into it here, here's a nice little d-lick. Sorry. Which you could use in Nine Pound Hammer, but I'll…
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