Comments on: The Foggy Mountain Banjo album instructional series part 3: Ground Speed backup http://banjosrule.com/blog/the-foggy-mountain-banjo-album-instructional-series-part-3-ground-speed-backup/ Banjo Blog Wed, 25 Apr 2012 02:07:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: The Foggy Mountain Banjo Album instructional series part 2: Ground Speed continued | My banjo life http://banjosrule.com/blog/the-foggy-mountain-banjo-album-instructional-series-part-3-ground-speed-backup/comment-page-1/#comment-859 The Foggy Mountain Banjo Album instructional series part 2: Ground Speed continued | My banjo life Tue, 16 Nov 2010 02:01:42 +0000 http://banjosrule.com/blog/?p=1278#comment-859 [...] The next blog post of the series is posted! To go straight there, click this link: Ground Speed part 3 [...] [...] The next blog post of the series is posted! To go straight there, click this link: Ground Speed part 3 [...]

]]> By: admin http://banjosrule.com/blog/the-foggy-mountain-banjo-album-instructional-series-part-3-ground-speed-backup/comment-page-1/#comment-678 admin Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:22:52 +0000 http://banjosrule.com/blog/?p=1278#comment-678 Thanks so much for sharing George! Kudos to you for spending so much time on the banjo lately in anticipation of not having as much time in the coming weeks. I had the exact same reaction to Earl's book that you did; I tried as a beginner to work out of it, found it impossible, and put it on the shelf for many years. But I did find that after I had quite a bit more experience under my belt, his book was so much easier to work with. So peek at it now and then and you'll find it's slowly getting easier for you. Thanks for sending your recording in. Watch for it to appear on my main site soon! Keep on picking and thanks for commenting George. Thanks so much for sharing George! Kudos to you for spending so much time on the banjo lately in anticipation of not having as much time in the coming weeks.

I had the exact same reaction to Earl’s book that you did; I tried as a beginner to work out of it, found it impossible, and put it on the shelf for many years. But I did find that after I had quite a bit more experience under my belt, his book was so much easier to work with. So peek at it now and then and you’ll find it’s slowly getting easier for you.

Thanks for sending your recording in. Watch for it to appear on my main site soon! Keep on picking and thanks for commenting George.

]]> By: admin http://banjosrule.com/blog/the-foggy-mountain-banjo-album-instructional-series-part-3-ground-speed-backup/comment-page-1/#comment-677 admin Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:19:08 +0000 http://banjosrule.com/blog/?p=1278#comment-677 Glad I could help! Just come back to my blog when you are ready and click my link on the right side of the page. That'll take you right to it! Glad I could help! Just come back to my blog when you are ready and click my link on the right side of the page. That’ll take you right to it!

]]> By: admin http://banjosrule.com/blog/the-foggy-mountain-banjo-album-instructional-series-part-3-ground-speed-backup/comment-page-1/#comment-676 admin Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:17:59 +0000 http://banjosrule.com/blog/?p=1278#comment-676 Hi Ken, I understand Band In A Box to be a good product, but I don't own it so I can't really give you a comparison. If Band In A Box can take a CD track and slow it down so that you can hear every string of the banjo lead, then it'll do the trick. If not, you'll really benefit from owning a copy of Riffmaster Pro. Hi Ken, I understand Band In A Box to be a good product, but I don’t own it so I can’t really give you a comparison. If Band In A Box can take a CD track and slow it down so that you can hear every string of the banjo lead, then it’ll do the trick. If not, you’ll really benefit from owning a copy of Riffmaster Pro.

]]> By: gpreiss http://banjosrule.com/blog/the-foggy-mountain-banjo-album-instructional-series-part-3-ground-speed-backup/comment-page-1/#comment-672 gpreiss Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:44:30 +0000 http://banjosrule.com/blog/?p=1278#comment-672 I spent the whole day playing banjo! I worked on all three of the blog studies so far, and then my friend John came over with his guitar and we played together. I don't know about anyone else, but I'm already getting a lot out of this. I'm excited about where I might be at the end of the whole study. When I first started playing six years ago I bought Earl's book, and I just tried to go through it alone. I became frustrated with the difficulty of trying to do it and bailed soon after Cripple Creek. I took Earl's advice and tried working through the whole "pickin' section" before tackling songs, but even that was getting really complicated (to be truthful, I think that it still is.) I'm one of those guys that, admittedly, kind of got into banjo after seeing "Oh Brother Where Art Thou." I didn't really know anything about Bluegrass or the banjo. It took me a really long time to learn that a lot of stuff that I tried to play was actually clawhammer, and I couldn't figure out why I didn't sound that way! Well, now I've spent several years listening to Bluegrass a lot, and I am having much more success this time through. I enjoyed your comments, Paul, as you went through this third installment. It is comforting to know that even guys like you that can rip it up still have a hard time figuring out some of what Earl is doing. I also like your reverance toward him, because I feel the same way. The Scott Vestal stuff sounded really cool, and I'm glad that you included it. It really isn't nearly as hard to play as it sounds, but of course I'm going mighty slow. Well, one reason that I picked all day is because last week I was doing my best to squeeze in 15-30 minutes a day. Busy times lay ahead, but hopefully I'll get to play more this week. Also, I'd love to hear from some other readers about how they have been making out with all of this. Have a good week, George I spent the whole day playing banjo! I worked on all three of the blog studies so far, and then my friend John came over with his guitar and we played together. I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m already getting a lot out of this. I’m excited about where I might be at the end of the whole study.
When I first started playing six years ago I bought Earl’s book, and I just tried to go through it alone. I became frustrated with the difficulty of trying to do it and bailed soon after Cripple Creek. I took Earl’s advice and tried working through the whole “pickin’ section” before tackling songs, but even that was getting really complicated (to be truthful, I think that it still is.) I’m one of those guys that, admittedly, kind of got into banjo after seeing “Oh Brother Where Art Thou.” I didn’t really know anything about Bluegrass or the banjo. It took me a really long time to learn that a lot of stuff that I tried to play was actually clawhammer, and I couldn’t figure out why I didn’t sound that way! Well, now I’ve spent several years listening to Bluegrass a lot, and I am having much more success this time through.
I enjoyed your comments, Paul, as you went through this third installment. It is comforting to know that even guys like you that can rip it up still have a hard time figuring out some of what Earl is doing. I also like your reverance toward him, because I feel the same way. The Scott Vestal stuff sounded really cool, and I’m glad that you included it. It really isn’t nearly as hard to play as it sounds, but of course I’m going mighty slow.
Well, one reason that I picked all day is because last week I was doing my best to squeeze in 15-30 minutes a day. Busy times lay ahead, but hopefully I’ll get to play more this week. Also, I’d love to hear from some other readers about how they have been making out with all of this. Have a good week, George

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