Click on the button below to get the PDF download for this tab delivered to you, and get a new song and tab delivered to you every week! Click Here To Get The Tab As you may have noticed, in some videos I play with fingerpicks on, and in others I’m playing with my bare […]
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Fingerstyle Banjo Song of the Week: “Feast Here Tonight”
Click on the button below to get the PDF download for this tab delivered to you, and get a new song and tab delivered to you every week! Click Here To Get The Tab For the 5-string banjo player, playing in different keys can present a bit of a challenge. The 5th string drone, while […]
Fingerstyle Banjo Song of the Week: “East Tennessee Blues”
Click on the button below to get the PDF download for this tab delivered to you, and get a new song and tab delivered to you every week! Click Here To Get The Tab This week’s tune, written by fiddler Charlie Bowman and recorded in 1926 by his group The Hillbillies, was introduced to me […]
Fingerstyle Banjo Song of the Week: “Walking Cane”
Click on the button below to get the PDF download for this tab delivered to you, and get a new song and tab delivered to you every week! Click Here To Get The Tab I must confess to knowing little of the history of this week’s song until very recently, despite the fact that […]
Fingerstyle Banjo Song of the Week: “Pretty Polly”
Click on the button below to get the PDF download for this tab delivered to you, and get a new song and tab delivered to you every week! Click Here To Get The Tab Banjos and murder ballads go together like peas and carrots. The murder described in this week’s song, Pretty Polly, has […]
Fingerstyle Banjo Song of the Week: “Home Sweet Home”
Click on the button below to get the PDF download for this tab delivered to you, and get a new song and tab delivered to you every week! Click Here To Get The Tab It’s probably not a stretch to say that this week’s song changed my life. It’s been well over a decade, but […]
Fingerstyle Banjo Song of the Week: “The Miller’s Will”
Click on the button below to get the PDF download for this tab delivered to you, and get a new song and tab delivered to you every week! Click Here To Get The Tab Years ago, I had the pleasure of attending a workshop on fingerpicked banjo by the great Mike Seeger. It blew my […]
Coming in 2018 from Brainjo
So now that the dust has settled from the rush of the holidays and we’ve fully settled into the rhythms of a new year, it’s time to share with you what sorts of things are in store from the world of Brainjo in 2018. 2017 brought the launch of the long awaited fingerstyle course. And […]
How To Pick The Banjo In Any Style
As long as there have been banjos to be picked, people have been coming up with all sorts of inventive and wonderful sounding ways of picking them. Listen to a sample of fingerpicking banjoists from a half century or so ago, and you’ll hear all manner original sounding music. Yet, it seems like these days, […]
The 5 Signs of Tab Dependency
BREAKING TAB In aural traditions (like the banjo), the pinnacle of musicianship, regardless of chosen instrument, is musical fluency, or the ability to take imagined sounds and, via the movement of the hands, get them out into the world and into the ears of others. The ability to do such a thing requires a specific type […]