From the course: Banjo Lessons: 2 Hammer-Ons and Pull-Offs
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Hitting the head with the picks
From the course: Banjo Lessons: 2 Hammer-Ons and Pull-Offs
Hitting the head with the picks
- Alright, now that we're up and running with some playing, playing some rolls, picking a little bit, one of the things you may find yourself doing is hitting the head with the picks. This is a not uncommon problem, in fact, you may not be aware that you're doing that, but tune into your playing and make sure you're not doing that, and if you are, what I used to tell my students originally, many years ago, was like when you go to the doctor and say "doctor, every time I do this, it hurts." The doctor says, "Don't do that." That's a Henny Youngman joke. Anyway, and people would have varying degrees of success with that, and then I gave a workshop up in Toronto, Canada and a wonderful banjo player and wonderful human being, a guy named Ian Perry, who writes for Banjo Newsletter, which you should all subscribe to, told me what his technique was, and what he said was, when you're picking, just start picking so you're not, you're sort of air picking, you're not quite hitting the strings…
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Separation of notes: Part 14m 52s
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Separation of notes: Part 21m 16s
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Hitting the head with the picks1m 59s
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Keeping a positive attitude2m 18s
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Playing with others: Part 12m 33s
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Playing with others: Part 2, beginning backup4m 50s
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Playing with others: Part 32m 30s
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Using the capo: Part 14m 40s
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Using the capo: Part 23m 51s
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Metronome4m 54s
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