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Hi Jim. New student here. There is one part of this lesson where I can't figure out what your picking hand is doing. It's the 3 consecutive slides at around 1:33. It sounds to me like you're plucking either the 2nd or 3rd string in sync with the end of the slide rather than just letting the end of the slide hold the note . You didn't say you were plucking a string at that point but it sure sounds like it to my ears. Am I hearing a pluck where there ain't one?

with you, apart of learn to play the banjo, i learn english haha, (i'm from chile)

Thanks , hope you’re doing well?

Better to just add a sliding 5th-string capo. Had one on my banjo for 45 years.

Sound Advice. Respect. STP

I’m struggling with the slides.I can’t seem to figure the pressure part out anybody got tips

I'm gonna learn this song. Might take some blood sweat and tears but it'll turn out to be worth it😂

Banjo playing is finger gymnastics, literally! Everything Jim said is 100% true in my experience and applies to every instrument.

Cripple Creek after a night of binge drinking 🤢

Hi Jim, what song should I learn next after these teaching videos? Do you have more lessons? Thanks, I really want to keep on learning, and progressing. I appreciate you so much! You are a good teacher.😊

Awesome bud. I've never picked a banjo up till last week I've figured out foggy mt break down the guitar rhythm on it mabe you can show me how to row on it. Great video 2thumbs up thank you for sharing...😊

I just got my first banjo two days ago and you taught me how to play a song in one day thank you so much. I’ve always dreamed of playing the banjo.

3251, 4251, 3251, 4251. I'll be back. 🎶🪕🎶🕤

Thanks Jim, been close to giving up. Made me realise that I can already do a lot of the things that I said I couldn't do just a year ago. Some I just can't do.........yet.

Great Teacher Using your Ideas always.

I found out something just the other day that really helped me. Course. I'm trying to learn banjo. As I said to practice, always have the strap-on, the banjo and around your neck. It sure makes life so much lighter!! Lol

Awesome. Just said I hope he gives us the tab and there u go! Thank you!,

Jim, your great

Are you wearing your thumb pick over your cuticle? I'm wearing mine right against it. Think I need to get more of my thumb in it.

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Thank you for simplifying this for me. It IS a "singing song." So the chords are all I really need at this stage in my playing. Love you for taking this seriously and giving us something removed from your tradition. Though, since you described the pattern as "ragtime," maybe it's not _that_ far removed after all.

Thanks for the encouragement! Had my first in person lesson in my area & was just practicing. Better afterward than when I first started!

Thanks Jim ! ~~~

I managed to find a deal on some Keith tuners, sent them to Martin Keith and he did an overhaul job on them for me and this tube is exactly what I'm playing with now! Fun tune! Love them on my archtop!

Well I was going to get the Tab. But I can't afford to pay these dollars here and there. Being on SS we have to count every penny. 😢 Just have to figure it out.

Thank you for encouraging words Mr Panky. Happy Fourth of July to you!

How did you know? Thanks Jim

Thanks Jim your a legend you can't make it to Queensland....yet one day I hope you do haha cheers mate

The awesome power "Yet" Thanks Jim.

Me trying to learn backup

"Songs you never thought would be played on the banjo." But what a great combination! This song really takes me back❤

those detuners is that the entire peg u have to replace ?

Thanks bub.

I thought he was Cheech for a sec 😅😅😅

Thanks Jim. I do get despondent sometimes with my playing. I know: practice practice practice, right?

Boy, I needed to hear this one. Thanks, Jim

This just popped up on my CZcams recommended. Thanks for the encouragement Jim.

Cool! Thanks! What amp are you using? That would be really helpful.

I just found your channel tonight. I put the banjo down over a decade ago when I cut the tip of my left middle finger off preventing me from making full chords. I put new strings today as well as new battery in my tuner and new picks. I'm literally starting from the bottom all over again. Any lick tricks care to help me with that doesn't involve my left social finger would be much appreciated!

Is the "stupid" part supposed to be for vamp/picking for backup?

Hey Jim, great story on your Stelling; that's the first one I've seen without "Stelling" inlaid in the peghead! In 1986 travelled from Australia to Jamestown TN for a festival there and met Clyde Blaylock there ... I'd left my capo back in Melbourne and he took pity on me and very generously gave me a capo which I have and use to this day. Clyde introduced me to Sonny Osborne at breakfast under the awning of his RV ... great memories for me.

Can you tell me what should be the proper height of the strings to the fretboard and how to make that adjustment

I installed the spikes on most of my banjos, and trying to get them into an ebony fingerboard is no easy task.

Reminds me of the version by the Seldom Scene!

Thank you sir 😳

So to avoid getting spiked, do you just use it as an open string?

railroad spikes on a banjo might be among the most USA things I've ever heard

Last four notes sounded like the start of an announcement over a tannoy 🤣

“Keep an eye on him” as if they weren’t the ones that just killed an animal because of a “mistake” good god law enforcement is a joke

Thats some ingenious resourcing right there! It ain't crazy if it works.