"John Hardy," part 2: Tag ending

- So, let me talk about another thing that's…in this arrangement, and that's the very ending.…Which is this.…Sorry.…(banjo music)…That's the "tag ending lick",…and if you listen to much Bluegrass,…you've probably heard that 8,000 times, at least.…'Cause it's just sort of the go-to ending.…(plays tag ending lick)…You just hear that so many times.…And there are a number of different ways of doing that,…but it's time that you learned that,…'cause it just gives you another foot up…on getting that authentic, Scruggsy sound.…

So, let's just start…by playing the lick without the left hand at all,…just the right hand.…(slow banjo picking)…And one thing this lick does,…you're going forward, and then you go backward…without hitting the fifth string again.…'Cause I've found through experience that a lot of people…when they get to the end of the forward roll,…here, fifth, third, first,…they just want to go to the fifth string again,…there's some... it's in the DNA for some reason,…the genetic makeup of a banjo player,…is wanting to go to the fifth string…