I play OT banjo and would like to take OT backup guitar lessons from someone preferably a fiddle player. I’m located in central Virginia close to Richmond. Does anyone know of someone who could help me?
To get you started, you have to know a small bunch of guitar chords. Just concentrate on major keys of A, D, G, and maybe C.
If you play banjo by ear, you know how to listen for chord changes.
You might start with a simple 2 chord tune.
Find a nice recording on U-Tube. One where you can CLEARLY hear the melody.
If it's too fast for you, you can slow the speed down. Try playing along.
There you go. Have fun exploring and developing your talents.
Thank you for the suggestions.
The book / CD "Flatpicking Essentials Volume 1" provides an excellent introduction to country/bluegrass/old time rhythm guitar playing. If you study and understand what you read, you will end up being a good rhythm guitar player. The CD helps a lot. The book has musical notation and tab. It will take time to work your way through this book.
You can purchase the book/cd online.
if you don't already have it, consider getting the software app "The Amazing Slow Downer". Lets you change speed without changing pitch, change keys, and "loop" a tune and increase tempo by the designated amount for each loop. I have used this software for years and use it more than any other app on my computer. I don't have any connection with any publisher or app developer. BTW I use to 2 apps, One downloads Youtube videos. The other extracts the audio portion of the video. I play the tunes on
"The Amazing Slow Downer".
Good Luck
Sgonyo - Don't know if you found a teacher, or if you're still following your thread, but some years ago John Schwab wrote a book on this topic. I've never actually seen the book, but I know John and he knows what he's talking about. backupguitar.com/index.html
Sgonyo, why would you want to take backup guitar lessons from a fiddle player, and not a guitar player? That part is confusing to me?
I was going to mention John Schwab too. Played in a jam with him and he knows what he's doing.
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Originally posted by NCnotesSgonyo, why would you want to take backup guitar lessons from a fiddle player, and not a guitar player? That part is confusing to me?
A lot of fiddlers are also good guitar players. As a OT fiddler, they can have greater insight, perspective to what makes for good backup guitar for that; and can give very focused instruction.
Guitar players - cover a wide diversity, and technique. Not all of them are that familiar with backing up OT fiddle; nor would they necessarily focus instruction just on that.
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