From the course: Banjo Lessons: 4 Improvisation and Melodic Styles

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Melodic scale patterns: Part 2

Melodic scale patterns: Part 2

From the course: Banjo Lessons: 4 Improvisation and Melodic Styles

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Melodic scale patterns: Part 2

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- Okay, continuing now with the scale patterns, we're gonna have a low, starting low down here on the fourth string. And when you're that low, you really need to use some single-string style. So, I'm gonna play the scale pattern, then I'll discuss it. And it goes like this. (plays scale) Going all the way up to the 12th fret of the first string there, with the pinky. So I'm doing single-string for this, for that first measure. Thumb, index, thumb, index, thumb, index, thumb, index. Those are not the lyrics. So I start with the thumb, then cross the index under to the fourth string, where your index is at the second fret, and then you can use the ring or pinky. My hand falls in such a way that even though it's not one finger per fret, and it is technically incorrect, I use my pinky there anyway. And in terms of the note choices of the degrees of the scale, you're going eight, six, seven, eight. So you hit the tonic note, then go down two notes below that, and then come up to the note…

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