How to Play the Banjo: Liza Jane

Next songs will going to learn has an arrangement that will help you work on your timing. One of the most important things in a banjo is to have good solid timing and understand how notes connect. The song Liza Jane, the melody is this;

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It will going to make a lot of this chick-a-boom patterns. There are thiings that you have to keep in mind when you play this chick-a-boom, when you play this vehicle to work on this. chick-a-boom and you play anything would say used this how do you called the work on this. Aiming has you connect that and you think to connect that all your fingers have already to playing the note. When the place is people get the most stock on the Banjo is getting it of the first string. They and up making Aiming at down, by the third string will other fingers is play and might has on this play you have to jump the trick.

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The trick is to left it up right away, and then make sure the other thing as well so ready. Left, and then is right, and will connect those two notes.

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It happens right open the bar line to you as a mention before. As a variation of this there is also a little ending pattern that follows the similar thing.

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The measure like this and any of the two. There is a ending of a tune and a the beginning of the tune there is a pick-up to the beginning.

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Chick-a-boom right on at the beginning and if you played the tune several times in a row you will use this to connect, so ending will also become the beginning which is the whole idea where you can get your timing to connect. So lift in that thumb-up and making sure you are ready to play the next thing and then make sure the next thing is also ready. We will just wait for the proper timing.
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We can even try this with a short scale which has very similar aspect as the song

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This will give you a way to practice just those connections while you are also moving your left hand. Your left hand has to be completely ready to play the next note or you will be waiting exactly at the time it needs to connect the most

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Here is a whole song

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Notice the pick-up in the beginning.

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Let us do a slow version.

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There you have it, make sure you really practice the timing and the connection of those notes. Try to connect that on your next measure.


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