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

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Up the neck, part 1: "Boil Them Cabbage Down"

Up the neck, part 1: "Boil Them Cabbage Down"

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

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Up the neck, part 1: "Boil Them Cabbage Down"

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- We've had a little bit of experience going up the neck meaning going up this way with the tune called The Water Mill, we did that earlier but now we're going to get a little more into going up the neck because it's gonna keep things interesting. If you can do something down here, it's nice to try to do it up here as well and we're going to try a little bit of this with a couple of tunes starting with Boil Them Cabbage Down. So I'll play it, Boil Them Cabbage Down, down the neck and now I consider this to be down the neck because you're going down to the lower frets and lower sounds, lower notes. Earl Scruggs, when I was talking to him one time referred to going to the 21st fret, so I think for Earl he considers this to be down because if your neck is up a little bit like this physically you are going down but for all intents and purposes with this website here we're going to be going down the neck that way. So I'll play little bit of Boil Them Cabbage Down down the neck and then up…

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