Learn to Play - Fireball Mail - Bluegrass Banjo
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2019
- Here's an intermediate version of Fireball Mail. I go pretty quickly, but hopefully I've covered everything you'll need. Take your time; you can learn this!
Tab is here: sellfy.com/p/oDL8/
I'm playing my Recording King M5.
Tab is here: sellfy.com/p/oDL8/
Love your lessons! Strait to the picking without talking for 10 minutes before you start. I've learned a lot from you and I highly appreciate it! I've played guitar, mandolin and bass for 20 some yrs and now getting that banjo work in and you have helped me learn a lot. Thanks again from the mountains of NC
Awesome, thank you!
I'm ready. I am in the middle of learning the advanced version of Foggy Mountain Breakdown just like Earl Scruggs.
Thank you Jim for this….Happy National banjo day. I just worked thru this video took me two days of several times per day study to memorize it. I’m learning it for a “banjo” jam this Saturday in Boise Idaho! Not sure if I’ll have it down. I learn primarily by ear. You gotta know you are one of the best teachers out there!
You can do it! Thanks for the kind word!
You are the greatest jim, thanks for this video!
The algorithm has been kind to me this morning
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Dynamite song Jim. Great slow walk through. I nailed it in less than 30 minutes. Thanks!
Awesome! Would love to hear you play!
Thanks Jim, much appreciated. Give the family something besides, wagon wheel, ballad of jed and cripple creek to listen to lol. A man knows how patient his family is when he rips off a few thousand banjo rolls lol....
Great work jimbo, much appreciated here in Kilmersdon uk I love the banjo I saw a tee shirt which said I may look like I’m listening to you but in my head I’m playing banjo ! And this is exactly what I am like now thanks to you lol kind regards Ken Roberts ( wish I had bought that tee shirt)
I have that shirt! One of my local students got it for me. :)
I like your right hand work in this song. You give it a ton of drive. Like the freight train the song is about. I try to emulate that.
Oh man, thanks so much. ☺️
I love these videos, they have really helped me learn how to play this beautiful instrument. I was wondering if you could teach us about how to work the neck of the banjo so that I could improve my improv when I’m jamming with my friends instead of just playing chords? Thank you so much, and I always look forward to your next video.
Live Long and Prosper Jim!!! :) V
This is the one I was hearing u play several times but didn't know the name of!
Hope you can learn it
@@JimPankey I'm sure I can do it! Thank u for all the lessons so far. I hope you keep it up! Would love see more expansion packs! 😊
Outstanding I am on it. Thanks Jim.😁🪕🪕🪕🪕🪕🪕🪕
You can do it!
Thanks Jim!
Another song in the books !
Great!
Hey Mr. Pankey, this is DeShawn again, we may be related? Could
Not be related to a better guy. I don't pick that good but with your help I can do it better. I like the way you take a song step by step. Thanks for sharing this with me. I will keep practicing, keep in touch.
Timeless classic
Glad you enjoyed it 😊
Nice little tune! Thanks!
It’s one of my favorites. 🙂
@@JimPankey I can see why. I enjoyed listening to the version by Roy Acuff. Just need to speed up and smooth out my playing a little bit more. Fun to learn these historic tunes and songs. I really appreciate you helping us out in this way.
I've been learning this tune using tab from banjo hangout (transcription from Jack Baker) it's interesting how the same tune can have 100 different ways to be played (is it the oral tradition?) Regardless, I'm buying yours, might as well have a reliable tab sheet and help feed the cats over at Pankey Manor.
The tune itself isn’t so much about all the eighth notes, but rather the melody that it implies. It’s a representation of the lyrics and yeah, it can be approached all different ways. Just like there are thousands of car designs, be all are recognizable as cars.
Just want to say thanks for sharing your talent with all of us banjo-player-wana-bes. I can't seem to find comfortable finger picks. I've tried three different brands, but they all hurt, or slip, or wont' adapt to the angle I like to use when picking. Any suggestions? What type of finger picks do you use???? and where can I find them????
Thanks again.
Patrick
I use Ernie Ball finger picks, but most of my students use Dunlops. They just take time to get used to.
Absolutely love your lessons, thank you so much!Currently going through "I'll fly away," in your opinion, is this one more or less difficult ?Cant wait to learn this one,it sounds awesome!
Probably about the same.
This is a great video. Now that I've pretty well got this part, I was wondering if you could do an expansion pack for the high break and ending?
Probably won't revisit this one for a while. High break isn't too big of a stretch if you're comfortable with Cumberland Gap... I bet you can work it out.
Great video (;
Thanks!
Great song, as always, but I have a request. I've been looking everywhere for a good scruggs style version of Turkey in the Straw, but I can't find any that aren't simple and melodic. I would love it if you could make a video on that.
Turkey in the Straw is one of those tunes that just has a lot of notes; it's an eighth note melody. It's hard to weave the tune into scruggs style -- probably harder than just learning a melodic break to it.
Fiddle tunes, in general, are like that. I figure that's why guys like Bill Keith, Bobby Thompson, and Carroll Best all gravitated toward the melodic style.
I may yet address this sort of thing in a video... more of a discussion than rather a tutorial for a song, but it would be good to explain...
I have seen some videos of people playing it scruggs style on youtube, but my problem is I can't find any tabs or tutorials on it. Maybe I'll work on my own arrangement, I think it would be worth it. 😁
It’s not that I “can’t” do it. It’s more of a square peg round hole deal...
There’s an older recording of it on “American Banjo Three Finger and Scruggs Style” - it’s passable, but drops a ton of the melody just to make it work.
However, making your own break gets two thumbs up from me. That’s the point of all of my videos - getting people playing on their own.
I think I get what you mean, but it's just that all the tutorials and tabs are so overly simple that they don't sound good by themselves. I would just like to learn a version that livens it up a bit, and sounds good by itself, like scruggs style often does, even if it's not actually scruggs style.
Jim, can you teach us mandolins too? I’m wanting to start picking it but kind seem to find Panky-ish teacher.
I do play mandolin, but I really don’t have a good teaching method for it.
Well, if you ever take a notion to do a short series of beginner lessons, I’ll be ready!
Thanks for the vote of confidence, but no one needs me teaching them mandolin. lol
Lol.
I think you'd be good at teaching mandolin. I'm also learning mandolin myself, so if you do decide to, I'll be ready as well.
Hi
I was wondering if you can play Spencer’s wedding...My sons name is Spencer and I can’t find anywhere.If he ever gets married I’d like to play it at his wedding,so I need lots of practice since I’m a new at this! Thanks so much,I’m learning so much with all the posts! Hugs from Quebec,Canada. Yup,you got bluegrass fans way up here too! :)
Sorry, but I don't know that one. I pretty much only know old traditional stuff...
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@@JimPankey Had to look that one up. Hell, I gotta look em all up!
Or: How to watch a seven minute clip in two hours :D
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I'm not able to follow this like I could the minute shorts. Runs too fast for me.
This is NOT the first stop after the minute shorts. This is for someone that already plays...
@@JimPankey Yep. Realizing that unfortunately. Thanks tho. Itching to get going so I moved to a song that might show me how to incorporate rolls better. Whats the next stop?
If you've only done the minute series you should pick up in the beginner series I did somewhere around lesson 5 or 6.
Then look at the "learn these next" playlist.