Chords for Basic Folk Banjo Fingerpicking Tutorial

_ _ _ Hello banjo friends today, we're going to work on some picking patterns that are useful for accompaniment of folk songs
Maybe you're playing more singer-songwriter type music.
Maybe you're _
You know doing a slower piece that does with where claw hammer or bluegrass style stuff isn't appropriate
You know, maybe it's slightly more modern sound and you want to use the banjo
But you know just be a good accompanist either way.
It's useful to learn some of these patterns
Because it'll get you around the banjo and get you doing some fun stuff pretty quick
Go over to quiet American music calm go to the banjo tabs page and download this little
PDF here of these patterns so you can watch the tabs go by and learn from it as we do the workshop
And feel free after I show you one of these patterns to stop
The video practice for a while come back to the next pattern and no way do I expect you to just play all the way?
Through with me
I'll try to get to five or six patterns today
We'll see how far we get but everything's going to be thumb first finger and second finger
So you'll see on the video that or sorry on the tab
I have teased ones and twos written for the first measure of each pattern first maybe first couple and that's just to get you
Realizing which finger does what but we'll follow the kind of normal
Idea that middle finger will play first string first finger will play second string and then the thumb has to do all the work of
these three strings
So if we do that stick with that it should be pretty easy for you to get to these
_ To begin with this first pattern we're going to do is
_ Starts with a thumb on the fourth string
Then we [Gm] pinch the two outside strings and [F#] we do this little roll
[G] _ _ Which is [D] fourth [Gm] string second [B] string [G] fifth string first string so _ _ _ _ we have that thumb _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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[D] of a nice little pattern _ it gets that fifth string on beats two [Gm] and four which is a good sound
_ [E] Now we were doing just the thumb on the fourth string and the fifth string
But we can also do the third string and fifth string if we'd rather so it sound [G] like this
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_ _ [G] _ [Gm] _ _ Or if you're feeling froggy you can alternate third string fifth string fourth string fifth string _ _
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_ _ I'd think about that one for a second
So yeah, [N] whether you're playing whichever these strings are alternating you can you can you know work with that in order to go along?
with the kind of chord you're playing so _
this next one is a
Little pattern that hits all five strings which makes it nice and rich harmonically
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_ [G] _ _ It's nice for [F#] ballads or lullaby type songs
_ So let's do a little waltz pattern here.
This is our third one to start with is a really simple thing
[D] We just do thumb on the fourth string [Gm] and then pinch pinch
on
The first and third so it's like thumb pinch pinch
And if you wanted you can play a waltz that way actually so thumb pinch pinch
_ Pinch pinch [D] the
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[F#] way I wrote it out that alternates with this little [G] roll _ _
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_ _ So thumb pinch pinch _
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_ [G] _ So that's nice.
I [F#] mean especially for claw hammer players.
It's like what am I doing a waltz well?
It's okay to finger pick a little bit
Next we'll do this thumb and then strum pattern.
It's kind of like Carter style guitar, and it sounds nice in string bands
_ Basically what you're doing [G] is you're playing a thumb on the third or fourth string
And then you just give a little brush with your first finger down
And [D] if you like you can come up with a afterwards so [G] like thumb down or thumb down up
Whichever you like I think I wrote it out as well on the tab _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [G] Notice that the [F#] thumb is alternating between third and fourth strings you can alter that
To fit the chords however you like [G] a little quicker.
It sounds like this _ _
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[B] And last we'll just do a simple mixed roll.
That's um comes from bluegrass land
It's nice because it gets the fourth string
Or if it's our excuse me [G] fifth string here and there which sounds good. _ _ _
It's like thumb finger thumb _ _
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_ [Gm] And that's mixed roll you don't [F#] have to lead with someone third string it could be someone fourth string
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[Gm] _ _ _ _ _ So yeah get [G] get started on these pick a song that you like and see if you can plug some of these in and send
Me an email if you have any questions, or if the tab looks weird to you
But I hope that you can download that PDF and get working on it.
Thanks _