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I also am 51 and started the banjo and mike hedding has been my self taught teacher i guess you could say(youtube) very helpful

I appreciate your videos.  I just bought a banjo this week, my first instrument ever in my 51 years, and my sole reason is to one day to be able to play gospel songs on it.  I have  along way to go... lol.

I've been a guitar player for 15 years, and now that I'm picking up the banjo, I am so grateful for your videos. You break down the rolls is a fun way (i.e. by learning them through a song). Your full videos and pdf were worth the 8 or so bucks just to work on playing along and playing accompaniment. Great videos and keep up the excellent lessons.

Thank you for these terrific lessons.  I'm a jazz guitarist just picking up the banjo, and these are really helpful as a student and a teacher of beginning banjo

I just want to THANK YOU all the way from Hobart, Tasmania at the very bottom tip of Australia. I bought a Deering GOODTIME open-back Banjo last week and love it!! Your patience and break-downs of tricky stuff with the TAB window included on the bottom R.H.S window, was really helpful! I was a Bagpiper in the Army and I think the Banjo is the only other instrument I have heard so far, that gives you the same sweet reverent stare as the bagpipes certainly do too to this song. Thank you again for sharing and God Bless

Very talented man and a great player!
Fantastic and hugely helpful Tutorials. Thank you very much for sharing.
Really appreciate you! 🙂

Thank you. Just learning banjo and your teaching methods are great for me to learn banjo.

Really, really appreciate your videos. Yes, needing to keep that hand up and "out"; really wish I had the Martian guitarist long fingers like you and my brother, but working with what I have. Could be stubbier I guess. I'm very pleasantly surprised at how decent sounding and easy-playing I got this no-name vintage "Made in Korea BJ-160" banjo to be. Obviously not my end all be all but very surprising on both counts and rewarding enough to keep me going for now, but only because I took it apart and put it back together with advice and a little trial and error.

Mike, you know that is not a beginner video!! We need "old Macdonald something like that okay".

i have ben playing fore about 40 years now but i pay by ear
john
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The 3/4 is so hard for me on banjo

Aw man you didn’t do the signature “hey everybody out there in banjo land!”  I’m cut to the quik as my papaw used to say, 😂

Why do you need to pluck with the index on the middle string?

Just wondering ... what brand banjo is that. Thanks for the lesson. Later

What's the difference between a pull off and a slide?

Mike, where's the tab. I have this in a chord version but haven't seen it in tab bluegrass style.

Hi Iike to purchase the 42 mins lesson on amazin grace but the link does now work

Hi Mike, thank you very much for your lessons. Soon I hope to subscribe to your channel. There are two lessons - a package of lessons - that I think you should consider posting: banjo scales and rolls - we find a few lessons on the G scale, D scale, etc but they show HOW TO USE the scales on a musical/roll content. The second is a complete lesson on ROLLS. I purchased your roll workout and it is excelent. I am working on it. But I am not sure if it inclues all the rolls. Even thougth I am beginner, I think there are some rolls missing. And I understand that was not your intention (to include all types of rolls), but it would very helpfull to have a complete roll lesson (s). Well, and THIRD - a lesson on how to play the banjo and sing at the same time. Meaning how to accompain yourself singing, which time of roll or rhythm cell should you use. I do not think I have enought time to become a really picker (and soloing) but I will be happy if I can sing hymns and folk songs and accompain myself, like I do on guitar. Thank you a lot for your help and contribution to the music! Specially at times like this. Cheers froM Brazil!! Be safe

Am I getting this wrong here Mike or on that second measure the (2-4 slide) after that are you suddenly calling the 1st string the 5th string? Because before on the first measure you called the 4th string the second from the top looking down the banjo as you play it (the one under the short top string) but in the second measure you called the smallest string the 5th (the one at the bottom as you look down the banjo)? It’s confusing me being a beginner and not knowing which string you are saying and plucking. Thanks.