Chords for Banjo - "How Mountain Girls Can Love"

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_ _ [D#] _ _ _ Hi
Welcome [Bm] back.
I'm Jim Penson today.
We're going to look at
Song that I consider to be Ralph Stanley's masterpiece banjo many people will think of clinch mountain [C#] backstep as _
Ralph's signature banjo piece, but to [F#] me what he does in [E] this song how mountain girls can love is
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The best [Bm] example of Stanley style banjo playing and one of the most tasteful pieces of banjo I've ever heard
[C#] _ We're going to break it down a little bit today.
I'm gonna play all the way through first
_ [G#m] _ _ [F#] And I'm this is an approximation of what Stanley does [C#] I'm throwing a lot of my own stuff in there's some Dillard stuff thrown in
Here, but it's pretty close, and there's a cadence [G] in this song that we'll look at later, but first.
I want to get through it
_ _ It's done pretty quick, but I'm gonna do [D] a little slower here
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_ _ _ _ [B] you know as I just did the verse the song goes
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_ [Bm] Okay, _ _ [G] _ _ _
that's the verse does it [G#m] twice
_ The chorus [D#] you
_ [G#] There's there is no [C#] banjo piece [E] to the chorus [B] because Stanley's singing at that point so what he's doing [A] is actually something
[G] _ Kind _ _ _ _
[D#] _ _ _ _ _ _ of vamping [Em] this up [D#] next stuff during the course let's not concern ourselves with the course we're gonna look at this down [D] neck verse _
_ [G] _ Okay, _ _ _ _
_ [N] _ _ so come back
In a minute or so and look at it _ _ _
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_ Okay, here's the down neck part
Left hand and I'll do it as slowly as I can it's hard to play really slowly because you lose the [G] cadence and I lose
Place when I go too slow, but I'll try
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_ real kicker part is this first roll
There's a hammer [C#] and a forward roll and the hammer on the second fret on the [Em] fourth string
_ [N] Has to happen almost simultaneously with the open [G] third string
_ In _ _ _ order for you to get into the the meter of what he's doing here the cadence and here it is about full speed
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_ [G] _ _ _ _ Okay, real slowly
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_ _ _ here's the right hand
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There is a two-finger pattern that he's doing in here Stanley was
Of course a three [E]-finger shrug style player
But he learned to play banjo from his mother who was a two-finger claw hammer player
And if you've ever heard Ralph Stanley claw hammer you can you can hear what she was doing, but it's a [D] it's a two [Em]-pound
Two-finger kind of action and he brought that forward with him
Into his three-finger style so you hear this cadence throughout this song _
See [G] _ _ _ _ _ how I'm repeating the middle and index twice _ _
That's what's creating that that galloping rolling sound that you're hearing _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ There's your eight counts, _ _ _ _ [B] okay, here's the here's the right hand to the down [G] neck part _ _ _ _
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He's a much more extensive
_ Index middle finger player than the typical Scruggs approach
Which is real heavy on the thumb and it's that particular in he also plays an archtop banjo like this one
So you can tell you can see where where the influence bled over to Doug Dillard, too
There's a lot of that playing and Dillard style and he plays an archtop banjo as well
So that thin piercing sound that you're hearing is coming from that
That right hand pattern and the fact that he's playing it real tight to the bridge real [B] to it _ _
_ _ _ [Bm] I'm not a half an inch away from the bridge on an archtop banjo
_ [N] _ Okay, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ that's the song.
I'm gonna play it through one more time and I'm gonna put it in context with the song
[G] So you'll hear the course and how it attaches _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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Get out [G] boys, go back home, back to the girl you love
_ [C] She's your own and [G] never alone, I'm Mountain Girls' Stanley
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it that's our look at how Mountain Girls can love what I consider to be [G] Ralph Stanley's masterpiece on the banjo
_ Check back soon and we'll look at another song
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