From the course: Banjo Lessons: 2 Hammer-Ons and Pull-Offs

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"The Old Cat Died": Up the neck

"The Old Cat Died": Up the neck

From the course: Banjo Lessons: 2 Hammer-Ons and Pull-Offs

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"The Old Cat Died": Up the neck

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(banjo music) - So Old Cat Died, we've been doing the down the neck version. (banjo music) Now we're gonna do it up the neck, in the melodic style. This is jumping ahead. Melodic style I've placed in the intermediate lessons, but I know people that teach it as beginning style, and so it's not that hard to do, and so we're jumping the gun here a little bit but. There are a few melodic licks here, which the melodic style is based on scales, and for more information just go to the melodic section in the intermediate lessons there. So we're gonna start with I'm just gonna give you some of the building blocks for the solo, one of which is if you put your middle finger at the 10th fret of the second string, and your index at the ninth fret of the first, and just do a forward roll, fifth, second, first, that's part of a G scale. Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti, Do, you can go all the way up, but we're just hitting those first three strings, the first three notes out of the G scale. Fifth, 10th…

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