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"Don't Get Trouble in Your Mind": Key of C

"Don't Get Trouble in Your Mind": Key of C

From the course: Banjo Lessons: 3 Playing Songs

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"Don't Get Trouble in Your Mind": Key of C

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- Alright, we've been hanging out in G for quite a while here, let's go back to C. Do a tune in C that I learned, another tune I learned recently from the The Carolina Chocolate Drops. And this is called "Don't Get Trouble in Your Mind." And to begin with, I'm gonna be using what I call the Steve roll. Steve Martin is a wonderful banjo player, and as of this taping, this recording, has a fairly new album out of all instrumental banjo music with some, a few vocals thrown in, and he wrote 14 out of the 15 tunes, just remarkable. He has talents in other areas, as well, in case you're not familiar with him, but one thing that he tends to do in a lot of his tunes, he has what I call the Steve Roll, which is jumping back from the fifth, to the first, to the fifth string. And I hadn't done this before I started transcribing some of his music, but I've realized that there's sometimes when just a forward roll or a background roll or alternating thumb roll just won't do. Nothing feels like it…

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