Jim and I have the same birthday. I wanted to meet him while I was living in Dallas...but didn't get to. Now I have a banjo I'm learning. Glad to find his teaching on the Internet!! 😄😄
@dr.p3637
4 ай бұрын
Thank you, Mr. Penson! Really appreciate you. I just purchased my first banjo and I'm scouring the Internet for a masters like you to share your wisdom with guitar geeks like me.
@banjiegirl2001
Жыл бұрын
Once you get some firm basic rolls down it really is the basis of your playing so it really is important to get these right! Thanks Jim, this has been a refresher course for me, I've been playing off and on since I was 13 but the off part makes me rusty.
@josephstewart5201
3 жыл бұрын
Brilliant! You've shared some real 'gems' here in terms of subtle fundamentals, like "any eight notes". This little morsel alone can and should quickly lead most observers or beginning students of banjo to the proverbial "promised land" of picking. Thanks, Jimbo!
@gplunky
5 жыл бұрын
It's all about the cadence that is the magic. The timing explained so well. How to turn two 3 note rolls into 8 notes really helped me.
@jpmacc94
4 жыл бұрын
Wow ...this tutorial was incredibly helpful in a straightforward no nonsense way ...cheers
@hammerfaced420
6 жыл бұрын
I have play guitar for 20 years and studied music theory for 8 years and this is the best banjo video I've seen yet I just started playing banjo about a month ago and this is the best video I've seen yet
@banjoist123
6 жыл бұрын
hammerfaced420 thanks!
@eperanzaqueen4400
Ай бұрын
Thank you, Mr. Penson just got back to actually practicing on my banjo. I started a few years ago and stopped wish i would have kept going. Now to start all over again. Love it. your lessons are great.
@geofo60
9 жыл бұрын
At last I find someone who takes 'time' to explain in such simple terms how to approach the banjo to beginners. Real pleasure to watch & much appreciated sir. Regards........ Geof Harris (UK) Yes I have subscribed.
@banjoist123
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@Joecoleman84
3 жыл бұрын
Brilliant! Genuinely felt like we were sat on the front porch with a glass of lemonade and you were showing me the secrets you can't get from book learning! Thanks!
@philm9593
7 жыл бұрын
I've only been practicing rolls for a little while so it's good to have them explained in a way that makes sense. Thanks for taking the mystery out of it. Great lesson.
@seamusreid2102
6 жыл бұрын
Phil M alan jackson
@CyprusLenny55
5 жыл бұрын
I am from England, and I go to Cyprus a lot, I can play the Greek Bouzouki now. Your lesson on the Banjo is awesome, thank you Jim, I can play the Banjo now thanks to you my friend. I play a couple of tunes on the Bouzouki and then pick up the Banjo and play that now because of you. Thank you Jim.
@banjoist123
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you, I'm glad to help!
@simon_patterson
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you! I picked up the banjo tonight for the first time in my life (long time guitar player) and this helped things click straight away! Now I have a lifetime of practice ahead of me!
@kayford9912
3 жыл бұрын
What an excellent lesson, easy to understand and repeat :)
@raleighthomas3079
3 жыл бұрын
I’ve been a drummer for 45 years, many genres, but fell in love with bluegrass a few years ago. Totally mesmerized by banjos, Dueling Banjos, Flatt and Scruggs, etc. Starting at 60 yrs old! I’m about to buy one, been ‘plinking’ on one my daughter owns, but I’m committed enough to buy a nice one to start with. I want to learn Three Finger, and your videos are truly a Godsend! Solid gold to learn the basics; I can’t thank you enough! Subscribed! 😊👍
@timothymason809
Жыл бұрын
I got a Deering GoodTime open back. I am from southern Appalachia is it sounds perfect. You can quieten it down by putting a tshirt in the back if you are plucking at night
@steveturner5519
10 ай бұрын
How's the playing going?
@wendytatton7518
5 жыл бұрын
That's so much. Every beginner needs to know this
@tluns810
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much for explaining in detail and the history of the banjo and it's techniques.
@Phoenix-np1iu
3 жыл бұрын
I've loved banjos for years and I am now seriously considering buying one. I've been playing piano for a few years
@TheTechnicolorRobot
4 жыл бұрын
Wow!! I had just told a friend of mine that I had given up on even using fingerpicks (never liked em with guitar when I tried), but this video was SO helpful. Rolls make so much sense now and, as a complete and utter beginner at banjo, I’m very excited to learn and practice more! Thanks so much for such a helpful video, my good sir!
@matthewlawton9241
Жыл бұрын
As a guitarist and a bassist, banjo finger picks are super alien. It feels wrong. Even on guitar, there's some touching of the strings, and almost subconsciously we're using those touches as, among other things, points of orientation...a map to where we are and where we're going. You don't have that on a banjo and it takes some serious rewiring to get it smooth. Just hard, unhappy drills.
@picknngrinn
5 ай бұрын
Excellent lesson for an old guitar geek that just bought a banjo! Thank you
@presanctuary7279
3 жыл бұрын
loving this very helpful video all the way in 2021! you have a great teaching ability, thank you for sharing!
@johncompton1403
2 жыл бұрын
Great. Thank you very much. Total clarity for one returning to the instrument after 33 years - took for 6 months then instructor joined band and went on the road, no notice - left me flat. So, picking up my old, cheap learner (but with badly bowed neck tensioned as much as possible, but with new bridge (however with the original strings (!)) got the thing in tune. Put picks on fingers. Wife sitting next to me. From memory played the first little song (Cripple Creek) taught to me 46 years ago - VERY SLOWLY - as I worked to recall the first shub, pull off, pinch and roll pattern, and finally managed to get it after a few minutes. But moving one's fingers in a familiar, albeit murky, ingrained muscle memory was very satisfying. (Recently began learning guitar - new for me - but thought there were things to play on the banjo derived from the 6 stringer as, my feeling for any particular piece came to mind in this way: considered that it would work nicely if not getter rhythmically and sonically on Banjo. While thinking on this ran onto your videos. Basic Rolls video. Just wonderful on many levels and am grateful for you effort giving this to others. A true gift. Many thanks and much gratitude.
@AvromCrovax
3 жыл бұрын
That's exactly what I wanted to hear bro. Any combination of 8 notes makes it fun n exciting around a fire
@Stray1One
11 ай бұрын
Cheers man,Stray1 Britain’s best unknown stuntman that never was,
@terryarnold7423
4 жыл бұрын
Great teaching technique. Thank you!
@davidgouin8420
8 жыл бұрын
Great stuff Jim!!! Thanks!
@warriorsgreatness6182
2 жыл бұрын
Professionally explained visually, educational explanations with great words teaching. Very helpful. Mucho Gracias
Hello, I'm a guitarist for the past 30 years, and on my third banjo. Now it's starting to sound like a banjo player, and not a guitarist playing a banjo. Thanks!
Excellent explanation, I have just started literally 2 days ago and was getting the one note one note sound, all of a sudden today I noticed it was rolling together instead of sounding as a single string. I loved it that it was coming together, problem is is that when I notice I’m getting that cadence as you put it I lose the rhythm and it goes back to the single string sound lol.
@banjoist123
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you, and welcome to the dark side!
@paohatch9619
5 жыл бұрын
Mystery solved. My teaching book never explained the 8 notes... just that I had to Memorize the rolls.. as is... great tips!
@donnawheeler1716
3 жыл бұрын
Stringbean was an awesome banjo picker
@bobcourtier4674
2 жыл бұрын
RIP Stringbean
@lukewarren7857
Жыл бұрын
It's begun understanding Principle rather then memory of 1000 + rolls Thanks
@bentoncushing8693
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Jim good stuff
@paulwatson2961
4 жыл бұрын
Great instructions, I have been trying to get that bounce on 3251, can do it ok, but put I a song like cripple creek and it stills sounds numerical if you follow my meaning.
@nickcrawford5516
6 жыл бұрын
Thanks Jim!
@SleepingJoe.
6 жыл бұрын
Nice one..
@terrybrady1644
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you 🤗
@jmccormick1490
4 жыл бұрын
I've been playing guitar for 20 years but I want a banjo so bad.
@lisa-gayle9939
5 жыл бұрын
Best banjo instructor on KZitem!
@banjoist123
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@rainerrain9689
6 жыл бұрын
I notice in all the roll videos for beginners,I never see anyone use the 4th string in a roll,why is that? Thanks
@azendaya
4 жыл бұрын
Im using this to show for my students! Really loved this channel, take a look at mine, i play banjo either!
@gregorymeads9300
2 жыл бұрын
Just what I was looking for always loved the sounds of bank I
@gregorymeads9300
2 жыл бұрын
Sorry banjo just a beginner
@corettajohnson5638
4 жыл бұрын
I would like to buy my dad a banjo though He's never played one before but he does play guitar piano and harmonica; all self taught by ear. I believe this would be a good challenge for him is this instrument easy to pick up if one already plays guitar? Should I even invest in this idea at all?
@schwarzesonne6529
3 жыл бұрын
Probably too late but he should enjoy it itll be familiar enough to pick up but alien in nature to guitar so it will give him a new mountain to climb in terms of growing as a musician
@hunters.5627
4 жыл бұрын
In the book I have the forward roll goes 5th,2nd,lst it's that correct as well?
@banjomark9900
2 жыл бұрын
Yes that is correct as well. It’s the order in which the fingers of the right hand strike the strings that determines the roll direction not the string number. You can play any string you want and it’s still a forward roll . You can also start with any finger.
@nman48
6 жыл бұрын
relaxed economy of motion
@banjoist123
6 жыл бұрын
Thanks, and you are spot on. The hardest thing to achieve with any instrument, total relaxation is absolutely necessary. The great Sonny Rollins said you can't think and play music at the same time.
@halkrepp6289
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks
@StGeorgeCross21
3 жыл бұрын
I have just bough my 1st Banjo,why do you have a plastic pick on your thumb and metal ones on your fingers ?
@martyjohnson5861
7 жыл бұрын
i think you deleted 2 of my favorite practice videos...i like your style..and the way you teach... building speed was great..that was you right?
@banjoist123
6 жыл бұрын
Hmmm.Haven't deleted anything. Don't think I've done anything on building speed.
@unibuzzer
5 жыл бұрын
Just got me a banjo, and now I'm Rollin. Totally gonna be on my next album. Y'all click on the chicken to hear my ditties!
@20alphabet
5 жыл бұрын
Get outta here.
@tanthiennguyen9133
4 жыл бұрын
Vielen Dank
@wadeknight9202
4 жыл бұрын
What kind of head is that you use
@tymospoelman8175
4 жыл бұрын
What banjo do you play?
@germcgra6765
6 жыл бұрын
jim whats that banjo make and whats that tailpiece?
@banjoist123
6 жыл бұрын
That's one of my own, built around a 1994 Gibson Grenada 40 hole tone ring. That's a clamshell tailpiece.
@banjoist123
5 жыл бұрын
@@stvo2009 Correct. Try www.banjoben.com. He may have some lefties in stock. They are hard to come by.
@theeaskey
4 жыл бұрын
I'm a fairly accomplished guitar player, been thinking about buying a good 5 string, can you recommend one tks
@MaxwellCWong
4 жыл бұрын
martin kenny I’m not a millionaire banjo player yet, so the only good banjo I could recommend is a starter Deering Goodtime 5-String Banjo
@banjiegirl2001
Жыл бұрын
Yes, I think a Deering Goodtime is an excellent choice, great sound and price range for beginners. Well worth the price.
@mrmote-xt6oy
4 жыл бұрын
great
@stevenrask7705
3 жыл бұрын
I wonder if there's a California roll. I might be able to master that!
@mohamedboucheikha374
3 жыл бұрын
💐 💐 💐 💐 💐 💐 💐 💐 💐
@stansmith4054
5 жыл бұрын
Such a simple looking instrument but quit difficult to play well.
@merijn9602
4 жыл бұрын
Is this a open or closed back banjo?
@lukewilson9901
4 жыл бұрын
Merijn closed
@jackvalentine566
3 жыл бұрын
I find my picks go too far and scrape the head of banjo when I try to pick a string please help
@banjoist123
3 жыл бұрын
We all struggle with this, Jack. Look at old pics of the heads on Scrugg's banjos and you can see the pick marks. About all I can say is that the more proficient and relaxed you become, the less this wll happen. WIth me, anyway, this is a result of "trying to hard".
@jackvalentine566
3 жыл бұрын
Jim Penson really appreciate the reply my friend thank you for the confidence!!
@miguelcruzcanal9207
Жыл бұрын
Show
@Joy-do9vv
4 жыл бұрын
At 3:42 in the video the text says the double forward roll is 52152121, but what you are playing is 53153131.
@pianimation2257
3 жыл бұрын
Did u put thumb pic for all fingers
@banjoist123
3 жыл бұрын
No, just the thumb
@edwinemiller1423
Жыл бұрын
Good so far I'm left handed
@chekovcall2286
4 жыл бұрын
I had to laugh 'cause I was counting fewer plucks than strings then you made the math problem comment. Banjo's on the way. (:
@tanthiennguyen9133
4 жыл бұрын
Banjo & Mantarin geeignet für Kinder.....Ein Gitarre ist Breit für die Kinder armen zu Spielen.....
@spencermarshall6854
5 жыл бұрын
where is lesson 3?
@stansmith4054
5 жыл бұрын
Just north of Arkansas.
@richardmika2136
4 жыл бұрын
all bano sounds sound the same to me
@Guitaroverkill
4 жыл бұрын
Richard Mika That’s because there are only 4 banjo songs.
@pm8278
3 жыл бұрын
the roll begin at 3'06.......LOL
@MrLamontSanford
6 жыл бұрын
Isn't this 5-3-1? You put 5-2-1 but your index finger lands on 3!!
@banjoist123
5 жыл бұрын
Yes, my bad.
@99999liquid
28 күн бұрын
Bicyclists know about Cadence.
@realmatus_eu4053
4 жыл бұрын
t
@zonianinexile
4 жыл бұрын
Too much talk
@royliquor3315
4 жыл бұрын
shut the hell up, this dude goes out of his way to teach us for free. asshole
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