Chords for How to play banjo solos or leads, lesson (2) Mike Haduck

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_ _ _ _ Hi, I'm Mike Haddock and I'm going to show you the fastest, easiest way I know how to
play banjo solos.
_ Right before I do that though, first thing you got to know about a banjo, it's tuned
in [D] the key of [G] G.
_ _ So when you're playing with a bluegrass band, most bluegrass bands play
[N] in G, A, or D.
_ So you learn everything in G and then you just get a capo and you capo.
So let's say they want to play a song in D.
You go to D _ like this and you put nails on your banjo.
You see there's little nails in there, maybe you can see that.
You take that string and you go down around the nail and [D] you clip it in there.
_ _ _ _ You tune your _ fifth string up to there and then you play everything like that. _ _
_ _ _ _ So you never learn stuff [N] in other keys.
You learn everything in the key of G.
It's just a slang fast way to learn everything. _ _
Okay, this is the way you want to approach a solo.
I showed you [G] in my first video how to play a few songs. _
_ [B] Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms.
Here would be a solo.
Someone said, take a solo.
Alright, here [G] we go. _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Okay, what did I do there?
Well, you know you're going from G _ and you're going to D, then you're going back to G, then
you're going to C.
_ So that's the way you've got to think.
I told you in the first video, you've got to know where all your G's are.
G is open, this is G, this is G, this is G, and this is G.
A [Abm] little trick when you start [Dm] playing in G is you go to your second fret to your fourth
fret like this.
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_ _ _ And you can always go into that like going _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ in and out of that, and then you go to this G.
_ _ Then _ _ you'll be going back to your G, watch. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Cm] It doesn't matter which G you work, watch, I use this [G] G. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Whichever one sounds better to you.
[N] Now we're going _ to our D, [G] so here we go, watch.
_ _ G, _ _ _ _ _ _ still G, _
_ [D] D, see that D?
Then we go to this D, _ _ _ [A] then we go back [G] to G, watch, here we go again. _ _ _
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See that trick?
Then you go to C, [C] _
and any time you go to C, you [Bb] see this little pinky here?
You [C] drop it.
_ _ _ Sounds like a 1930s [G] car from the Bobby and Clyde movie [C] going off _ the road.
_ _ [G] Watch, here we go, the whole solo again.
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D, _ _ _ D, G again, _ _ [C] C, drop the pinky, _ [G] G again.
_ _ _ Now this is what they call a Scruggs ending.
I _ _ mean _ you can skip that and just [D] play the D at the [G] end, but it gets a little complicated.
You have to learn Earl Scruggs.
He has a book out, the Earl Scruggs way.
He was the king of the banjo back in the 50s.
[Ab] They fell in love with the banjo watching the Bobby and Clyde movie in the [G] 64.
I remember going to the movies to see it.
So we're going to go over this solo one more [Eb] time and see if you get it.
Alright, [G] here we go.
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_ If you missed that, don't worry about it, I always miss it.
_ So _ [N] what you do is [G] you're G, _ _ it's _ not a G, back to G.
It's a little tricky, always do it.
G, _ D, _ D, _ G, _ _ _ [C] C, _ drop the pinky.
_ _ That dropping [E] the pinky, anytime [Cm] you're playing chords [G] anywhere, there's always a [C] place to drop that pinky. _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ And the Scruggs ending goes, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ oh, _ _ _ see I never get that.
It doesn't matter, watch. _
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_ _ _ I guess you got to slow that down, I still trip over that.
I hope you got something out of that.
If I get any _ feedback, I'll do another little video on _ little tricks on the banjo.
They're all tricks, you could just remember to capo all the time.
_ [N] And people see more than they hear.
_ _ And you always hire the laziest [G] guy to find the easiest way.
So, _ there you go.
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