Chords for Ron Block banjo DVD

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_ _ [A] Hi, I'm John Lawless with Accutab, and we're just pleased as we could be to have Ron Block
with us today.
We'll talk some about Ron's fairly unique style and [Em] how he approaches the banjo, [Am] and
hopefully a lot of things that will help people improve their own banjo playing.
Shortly after I began playing, well maybe a couple of years, I [G] took [Am] a few lessons from John Hickman.
And he showed me a few things that were really good, and his [D] sense of timing and touch were
always really good.
So I start pretty slow, and I'll just do stuff like this.
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_ _ _ [D] _ I often like having that, I have a kick and a snare, just like the bass and the mando,
but then there's also the dividing of the beats.
I like having that sometimes, and then other times I take it out and just have [A] kick and snare.
And then other times I just have kick or just snare.
_ And I guess what I'm trying to do is, first of all, use that to delineate the space between
my notes, and then take it away and try [D] to do that myself.
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_ _ Now in that second example, were you using this box concept, which comes from guitar
as well, doesn't it?
It does, it does.
It does, and it really, well let me go back to the Unitar idea, which built that concept.
As I learned this, _ _ [A] _ _
and began to improvise on that one string, then I began to learn this.
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_ _ _ [G] _ Now how do you approach playing backup when you've modified your tuning that much?
You know, I stick pretty much down here.
[D#m] There's a few things I'll do, _ [E] _ _ just a few little things here and there, but I just, _ _ _ [E] _ _
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Because the band is delineating the chords, you can just draw a straight line through.
And then sometimes, for the kickoff to I'll Remember You Loving My Prayers, I [A] wanted to
play it fairly [B] straight.
And so this break has a lot of forward roll in it, and I wanted to really drive the intro to it.
So, _ [A] let me go through it here.
It starts off with a fairly [B]
standard, _ I guess it's a variation of, [B] and I always like to,
on the bluesier tunes, to go [F] _ [B] and make that more chromatic-y.
[F] _ And then I do a slide, _ _ _ and just start rolling.
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I guess one of the main things I want to get across is the ideas behind what I do,
rather than, you know, I think it's okay to learn some of the songs and, you know, dig
into that, because that's what a DVD is for, but not [E] to make that your center.
You know, that's where, [D] _ it's my hope people would listen to this and learn the concepts
presented and use those [C] ideas to come up with their [E] own way of playing, their own idea.
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