Very helpful Jim, wish there was more!

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Hi Jim!! 👋

I’m having some trouble with this. Just found this video so will be taking everything you said in. I’m new to banjo and from the uk so May take me a little longer 😂

Bicyclists know about Cadence.

Jim and I have the same birthday. I wanted to meet him while I was living in Dallas...but didn't get to. Now I have a banjo I'm learning. Glad to find his teaching on the Internet!! 😄😄

Thank you, Mr. Penson just got back to actually practicing on my banjo. I started a few years ago and stopped wish i would have kept going. Now to start all over again. Love it. your lessons are great.

Get some D tuners

thank you. My father played banjo for year and I never was interested in it. He made it look so easy and effortless. I never realized the practice time he put into it. Now my father is blind from diabetes, and dementia and Alzheimer's has him. So i bought a banjo to at least learn one tune, to play for him.

Thank you, Mr. Penson! Really appreciate you. I just purchased my first banjo and I'm scouring the Internet for a masters like you to share your wisdom with guitar geeks like me.

Excellent lesson for an old guitar geek that just bought a banjo! Thank you

I love those archtop banjos! I know that I'm obviously within a minority (according to some opinions) but I'm not always (actually RARELY) in the groove with what's "most popular"! 😁

That arched top has a great pop :)

Cheers man,Stray1 Britain’s best unknown stuntman that never was,

Aww listen to that banjer clang! Sounds good!

Спасибо большое!!

Nice lesson

Very nice succinct info on right hand placement.

It's begun understanding Principle rather then memory of 1000 + rolls Thanks

Thanks Jim good stuff

Once you get some firm basic rolls down it really is the basis of your playing so it really is important to get these right! Thanks Jim, this has been a refresher course for me, I've been playing off and on since I was 13 but the off part makes me rusty.

You are a fantastic teacher

Good so far I'm left handed

Thank you so much, that's fantastic so clearly explained 😊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Amazing video, I'm a long-time guitarist, but I have a 5 string banjo that I mess around with from time to time. I have tried using the finger and thumb picks but really struggled with them, as I am used to feeling the strings on my fingers, this felt like playing with shoes on my fingers. You video has showed me that I was making every mistake known 😅.. I'll give it another go after seeing your video, thank you...

Hi Jim, txs for this video. Think we are the same age. I bought a 5-String when I was 25 Y old, but sold it later again cause could not play it really. 10 years ago I bought again a 5-String Banjo. And now I can play it lightly. I'm an electric guitar player in rock bands and metal, but also in a country band. And my love was since every time country music. Your video showed me how to pick the strings in a better way! I don't use this plastic things, only my fingernails. But this works. I am in Germany but have friends in US and was in FL many times. Again: Txs for this video and this advise!

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Sounds wonderful

Carnt see him playing

Hey Jim this is your cousin from Baltimore just wanted to say hi

Splendid instructional technique - master teacher.

awesome stuff

Professionally explained visually, educational explanations with great words teaching. Very helpful. Mucho Gracias

Is there a tab???

very helpful thank you!!! i've been doing the "bad" example you showed and have been unable to figure out what i needed to adjust in my right hand to fix it, this is helpful

Nice! Thank you!

Hello, I'm a guitarist for the past 30 years, and on my third banjo. Now it's starting to sound like a banjo player, and not a guitarist playing a banjo. Thanks!

Ok thanks, now 48 hours in i will relearn it all one more time lol

Great. Thank you very much. Total clarity for one returning to the instrument after 33 years - took for 6 months then instructor joined band and went on the road, no notice - left me flat. So, picking up my old, cheap learner (but with badly bowed neck tensioned as much as possible, but with new bridge (however with the original strings (!)) got the thing in tune. Put picks on fingers. Wife sitting next to me. From memory played the first little song (Cripple Creek) taught to me 46 years ago - VERY SLOWLY - as I worked to recall the first shub, pull off, pinch and roll pattern, and finally managed to get it after a few minutes. But moving one's fingers in a familiar, albeit murky, ingrained muscle memory was very satisfying. (Recently began learning guitar - new for me - but thought there were things to play on the banjo derived from the 6 stringer as, my feeling for any particular piece came to mind in this way: considered that it would work nicely if not getter rhythmically and sonically on Banjo. While thinking on this ran onto your videos. Basic Rolls video. Just wonderful on many levels and am grateful for you effort giving this to others. A true gift. Many thanks and much gratitude.

For gods sake ,,, just get on with it

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I need to get a banjo! I play mostly Hard Rock/Metal but I love the episodes of the Andy Griffith Show with the Dillards. My son who is nine always asks me to learn something that he hears. If it's the Dillards then I am willing to try to learn it. I learned the guitar part of Doug's Tune but the banjo makes the song. The banjo is just cool no matter what style of music you play and can be used to give a little spice to a song. A band called Volbeat actually use a banjo in one of their songs. It's mixed with the heavy guitars and it sounds awesome.

STOP talking and Play !!!

Great advice and video. That's exactly how I have always positioned my right hand. However, have you ever noticed how far Bela Fleck's index and middle finger are from the strings! Go figure! 😀

Very good! God bless you.

Thank you Jim, a demo I was looking for. I'm a beginner to the banjo and a video like yours helps tremendously .

Just what I was looking for always loved the sounds of bank I

This is good stuff!!!

Thanks for making this, Jim. I was stopped on a song by difficulty fretting the D chord. The online instructor had that over-extended wrist you mentioned- which may be ok for some, but I had a broken wrist as a kid that was treated as a sprain, so did not set properly, so overextending the wrist flawed my dexterity and caused the middle finger to draw up every time I tried to fret the 4th string with my ring finger. Your tips of coming around the neck more as well as the reminder to ease off the pressure on the string made the impossible- possible. Also, the tip of not worrying so much about crossing the first string with the middle finger since it is fretted higher up with the pinky made sense. Need more practice but at least being in the ball park makes hitting an occasional foul much less frustrating. So many direct and good tips in this short video! Love my Goodtime 2!

loving this very helpful video all the way in 2021! you have a great teaching ability, thank you for sharing!