Learn to Play Whoa Mule Whoa - Bluegrass Banjo

[@jimmitchell8768]

Best, funnest and funniest banjo video ever. Thank you, Jim

[@JimPankey]

Thanks for watching. 😊

[@KevinMasters92]

I spent about a half an hour, 40 minutes last night getting the basic idea down and will happily spend the whole summer playing with those tricks. So much fun. Thank you!

[@JimPankey]

Have fun!!

[@michaelangelo9024]

It'll put a smile on your face more than any banjo tune. Raymond Fairchilds most requested tune.

[@JimPankey]

I guess Raymond was the first person I ever saw play it.

[@michaelangelo9024]

@@JimPankey I reckon he made that song his signature. He made his first platinum record with that tune. I only heard one fellow who was just amazing on that song . My dad knew him. He didn't pick with popular bands. He could play Whoa Mule better than anyone I heard then and now.

[@eddiemoore8468]

I just watched your video of this. I’ve heard different people do this number ever since I was a kid. Raymond Fairchild did an excellent version of it. From what I could see in your teaching, I get an excellent beginning and can experiment with it and come up with my own ideas. Your videos are great for learning from. Thanks again. Lee them coming.

[@JimPankey]

Glad you enjoyed it 😀

[@jackietalbott5822]

Had a banjo for years and watching you has made it possible for a 70 year old to finally play banjo all my cds banjo books tablature were just confusing to me thank you for what your doing and making it fun The

[@JimPankey]

Thanks for letting me be part of your banjo journey!

[@eliblock1362]

Coolest guy on KZbin

[@EliBoldman]

Thanks for coming back Jim! I've been checking back everyday for a new video! So exited, I'm getting an original Gold Star Wreath from the 70's, tomorrow! Your videos have helped me along so much!

[@wolfgangwylde5889]

One of the coolest banjo guys and instructors on the crazy web. Good to see ya Jim

[@JimPankey]

Wow, thanks!

[@tom-green]

Another fantastic lesson from the best banjo teacher around.

[@JimPankey]

Thanks 😊

[@my7578]

Jim. Thanks for all that you do! You have helped so many people. By far, you made the biggest impact on me when I started playing bluegrass banjo.

[@JimPankey]

Thanks for letting me help you learn

[@my7578]

Jim, you’re a great banjo teacher!!! Thanks for the great videos!!!

[@JimPankey]

Thanks for the kind words. Keep on picking!

[@only-vans]

Got my banjo as my 32nd wedding anniversary gift 2 days ago. I don't have any finger picks yet, so I started without them until they arrive. I'm still on lesson #3 even though I have watched a whole bunch of your tutorials in the past two days. I didn't even know how to tune a banjo until I stumbled across your youtube tutorials. I've watch a bunch of others tutorials, but they don't seem to teach anything. They play and show you a tab and the video ends with me no wiser. You sir, have a gift, a gift of teaching at a personal level on a mass media platform which very few seem able to do. Please do not change your format, it teaches me ( and many others ) how to play banjo like a friendly uncle would teach his 8 year old nephew, or a grandpa and grandson.

[@michaelangelo9024]

I've heard my dad play this song for 40+years and he has never played it the exact way twice I'd have to say. It's a tune for imagination and creativity.

[@JimPankey]

It’s fun!

[@michaelangelo9024]

I got the chords and rolls down already. Gotta put those mule sounds in there. Thanks for everything you do for me and others. You teach at a slow pace m That's why I can do alot of the things you teach.

[@Eric_000]

I started playing the banjo around middle of September and man I’ve hard the hardest time figuring out the timing on the goofy stuff and when to do it. But FINALLY I got it. It’s awesome when things suddenly click while playing and then you don’t forget it. Thank you for making these videos!

[@JimPankey]

Thanks for letting me help!

[@petemay4224]

Thanks Jim, I’ve followed your beginners videos and progressing nicely thanks to your tuition, you’ve given me the confidence to carry on learning! If a rock drummer of 40 years can learn the banjo with your help, you can help anyone! Cheers from Scotland 👍

[@JimPankey]

Glad to be part of your banjo journey!

[@Knappist]

Many thanks Jim, this is a fun tune to learn and you make it easy for the rest of us 👍🪕

[@JimPankey]

Glad I could help 😊

[@Genetherapy3232]

When he did “a whole bunch of slides” I hollered out YES!!! Paused and came here to say that! LOL How fun. :)

[@JimPankey]

Hoping those thoughts like that might actually make a difference and help folks to not worry about memorizing stuff

[@Genetherapy3232]

@@JimPankey You can tell that you have taught many students because you just have a understanding way bout ya. It really does come through in your vids ,Jim. You can hang your hat on that.

[@ScarCrw-bf5mk]

Practicing after school. This songs amazing

[@lenakingsleigh]

You're a really cool dude. I'm playing my Banjo for 2 and a half months now and learned pretty much everything from your awesome videos! Now I can play Cripple Creek, Foggy Mountain Breakdown, Rainbow Connection and I'm definitely gonna practice this great wonky and quirky song. Thanks for uploading those videos! It really helps a lot starting to learn and getting to know the Banjo :)

[@JimPankey]

Thanks for watching 😊

[@astro781]

So glad you did a video for Whoa Mule. Thank you Jim. I started with the 10 part beginning bluegrass banjo youtube lesson videos and now I am working on individual song lessons you upload. You provide the best beginning banjo instruction I have found online. I now have about 8 songs under my belt and I am indeed starting to recognize licks and progressions I have learned in songs I don't know yet--very exciting and inspiring. The way the lessons build on eachother in brilliant too, from the 10 part one to the You Are my Sunshine to Jed C, Shuckin the Corn for example. I wish I could take real lessons from you. Thank you for helping to make my banjo-playing-fantasy a reality. Your videos even helped me decide on an RK35 and I couldn't be happier with it. Banjo has given me a new enthusiasm for music and you played a role in that. Wishing you the very best, sir.

[@frankdittmer8540]

WOW Jim! What a great fun song. You really make the banjo come alive and make it sound the way I feel and hear it in my heart and soul. This is really the coolest ever. I just got through your 10 lessons which I am still fixing and cleaning up, when I came across this video. I just love it. I hope my banjo journey will always be this much fun! 😂 It's all thanks to you Jim. You are the best teacher and inspiration I could ever ask for. ❤🤗🤗

[@JimPankey]

Wow, thanks!

[@macaroni4]

I really love the end of the videos when you pic the song at your pace. Thanks for teaching me how to play banjo, or I should say learning how to play banjo!

[@Fatman0815]

Playing the banjo just became a hoot!!!!🤣🤣🤣

[@JimPankey]

🦉🪕

[@Eberdeberdee]

I just love this Jim, it made me laugh so much!

[@johnboyette4710]

RAYMOND FAIRCHILD DID THAT FOR YEARS. YOU DO JUST AS GOOD. YOU JUST NEED A COWBOY HAT

[@JimPankey]

Thanks!

[@tonytotten408]

Well done Jim .on your tube 50.000 subribers hope you get one of those funky awards ? All the best and thanks for posting all the tuition and help 👍👏👏👏👏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🥃

[@JimPankey]

Thanks! I don’t think I’ll get a button until 100k

[@tonytotten408]

Well if that's the case Jim ! I will keep liking all and any of your tuition videos till you do Receive one of those awards ! As you definitely are an insperation and a great teacher i 've had a banjo for ten years or so my wife bought me it was just as another string to my bow and never seemed to get round to picking it up till I watched your inspiring video s. I've always been a rockabilly s slap bass player for over 30yrs now and dabbled in guitar dobro /piano and mandolin as even lap and pedal steel for the last 4\5yrs just love American country folk music ..incl rockabilly /Rock n roll and played and still do in a rockabilly band but I guess in some way it's all linked to Scottish /Irish folk music from immigrants that came from across the pond to your good country to settle / even Elvis Presley /Johnny cash and his good freind glen Campbell all originated from Scotland way back .down the line! glen Campbells dad played the bag pipes and I'm pretty sure glen did also .him and j.cash wrote a great song call the croft of clachan a wee village in Scotland look it up .it's a great wee story put to song just like rabbie burns did with aul Lang syne . And amazing grace.all the best and good health to you and your family stay safe and keep posting if you do I will keep picking. ..lol thanks 👂👀👍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🥃

[@tobypritchard6095]

This is amazing. So many funny extra tricks and licks to liven up a jammin' sesh. Thanks Jim!

[@JimPankey]

Yup.. it's got all sorts of goofy ideas. :)

[@drakonyanazkar]

This is so far the best video in the channel. Everything about it is awesome. If there's one thing I learned since I started playing banjo is that there is no single right answer to covering a song. I've been writing down licks and rolls as you teach them in the songs as "case studies", so I can improve my arsenal and do my own thing, especially with the songs which don't have banjo tabs, so I just look at the chords and build my own bluegrass pattern. This is all thanks to you, Jim. I'm very very grateful. And if I can make one request, I'd like you to figure out Feral Mouth's version of the old time classic Darlin' Corey, but for Earl Scruggs style. Me and one of my bandmates love this song, but tuning to triple C when all else I play is in open G seems like too much of a hassle for a beginner with a single banjo. I looked through many covers and adaptations and suggestions, but I can't seem to avoid weird tunings, even if I can play 3-finger style instead of clawhammer.

[@severinneukom]

That's so cool that comes with me on the learning list! the banjo signal alternate part sounds awesome! 😎

[@JimPankey]

It's a fun one!

[@johnboyette4710]

Your a good teacher with a good attitude it's good to laugh it's heathy

[@JimPankey]

Thanks!

[@HandleThatIsNotTaken]

“I’m banjo, WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOA!”

[@JimPankey]

😅

[@jasonbro5290]

Hey Jim thanks for all of your great videos. I love playing the banjo up here In Saskatchewan. I was wondering if you could post a video to help me learn to play three wooden crosses by Randy Travis

[@timothythornburgh9515]

Great lesson Love this

[@JimPankey]

Thanks

[@bertlambert3817]

Love ya Brother Jim!!

[@8StringPlucker]

Awesome tune. Thanks for teaching this. Can you maybe post a lesson on how to play Siempre by Sonny Osborne? Thanks again for sharing some great banjo knowledge.

[@charleswade6040]

thank you for these great lessons..God bless

[@JimPankey]

You are very welcome

[@paulsykes5882]

Great stuff Jim, my old mate. Learnt alot from ya, cheers for your great vids buddy!!! Louis from London.

[@zachkelly89]

I hope I’ve not asked for this before, but old joe Clark would be a good little tune to throw up for us if you get bored thank you!

[@zachkelly89]

Checking this out after work today thanks

[@severinneukom]

Thanks for your time, very good videos, greeting from Switzerland✌🏼

[@JoseloGomezEA20101944]

Hi Jim!, this video like the others, is very simple and didactics, and easy, (sorry my bad english,hahaha!, big hug from Buenos Aires, Argentina, JL.

[@Gigler43]

Thank you so much Jim, and as always you inspire me to continue practicing!! This song has elements of Hot Corn Cold Corn 🌽. 😁

[@JimPankey]

You bet it has elements of Hot Corn Cold Corn! That’s the stuff I keep hoping folks will start to discover. :)

[@Carlos-zj9ev]

You're a very good teacher Jim!!!

[@pauljcote]

Love this video! I will practice this...

[@peterjohnson724]

Great video Jim, thank you.

[@keithreutter4253]

Jim you make it look so easy

[@JimPankey]

You can do it!

[@paulmccartney3495]

Jim, I posted a question on "Learn To Play Bluegrass Banjo - Lesson 4", if you could take a look at it and post the answer I would surely appreciate it. Thanks.

[@stevepawluk4129]

That one was fun! Thank you!

[@brcisna]

Thanks for the new tune Mr Jim with good and slowww explanation of steps. Only thing,one thing seems to missing in this video,,,,,oh ya,,,,cats. :)

[@JMoreenIII]

I love this. Just to confirm, the tapping replaces the initial pinch 1,3,4 slide from 2 to 5 and the slide from 2->5. So you pick up after the tapping on the D7 slide?

[@JimPankey]

Gosh... not sure I think of it that way at all. I just do those sound effect parts while thinking of the song in my head.

[@JMoreenIII]

@@JimPankey Sorry i'm still new to this but it helps putting the music on half speed. It sounds like you just pick up from the D7 note and play the rest of the song. The second D7 toward the end doesn't sound like the alternating 4251 roll though. I'll keep practicing!

[@invinciblecheng7844]

Confusing because what you teach and what you play are different, but I think I can put it together.

[@JimPankey]

Hopefully it’s close enough…

[@invinciblecheng7844]

I’m pretty sure I can get it from here. Thank you.

[@TheGuitarX]

Dear Jim, hi from France ! I follow all your videos and many thanks for your great work for us ! I have a request, do you think you can make a tutorial for the song Flint hill special by earl scruggs ? I appreciate so much your way to teach song. Merci !

[@JimPankey]

Yes... Look here: Flint Hill Special - Walk Through and Demo kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5fFd6xnjciNec0

[@ezrabarrow2005]

you are amazing thank you for existing

[@FindingAlabama]

Awesomeness thank you much👍

[@JimPankey]

Thanks for watching 😊

[@ingridvaneenennaam9410]

Jim .......do you have the tab on Whoa mule whoa on your site?

[@JimPankey]

I don’t; you should watch to the end of the video.

[@Rip1Outdoors]

I think I can do this!!

[@JimPankey]

Totally!!!

[@DarrenDavis]

Hi Jim where can i find the words for this song. Thanks For teaching be the banjo, out of everyone that i tried with your the BEST!

[@JimPankey]

Grandma had a muley cow Muley when she's born It took a jaybird forty years To fly from horn to horn Whoa mule whoa Whoa mule I say Ain't got time to kiss you now The mule has run away Grandma had a yellow hen Yellw as gold Sat her on three buzzard eggs She hatched out one old crow Whoa mule whoa Whoa mule I say Ain't got time to kiss you now The mule has run away Keep your seat Miss Liza Just you stay cool I ain't got time to kiss you now I'm foolin' with this mule Whoa mule whoa Whoa mule I say Ain't got time to kiss you now The mule has run away I'll never marry an old maid I'll tell you the reasons why Her lips are all tobacco juice And her chin ain't never dry Whoa mule whoa Whoa mule I say Ain't got time to kiss you now The mule has run away

[@Genetherapy3232]

Thank you!

[@JimPankey]

De nada!

[@Genetherapy3232]

@@JimPankey Heart felt video here. And funny! Loved the ending. After working all day, in a kinda stressful field. Watching a Jim video when I get home and practice,is a real bright spot in my day. Inspirational and motivational. I just found a better banjo on Facebook market place. Gonna be a great summer in Michigan. I got the word out in my circle I’m looking for string players to jam with. If I have any milestones like a open Mike or good jam I will make sure to share, Jim. Thanks again:)

[@Eric_000]

What roll do you do after the funny slides, I can’t catch onto it?

[@JimPankey]

Try a forward roll pattern… maybe 3 - 531531

[@alexanderbogander2671]

Do you know what the riff is for Raymond Fairchild's 'talking banjo' is? Is it an existing riff? Would you be able to do a lesson on this? I really like the riff. Obvs the slides don't need to be taught!

[@JimPankey]

I used to play that, but was over thirty years ago. I’d have to go back and listen, but I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t have been too hard.

[@alexanderbogander2671]

@@JimPankey Thanks! Yeah it sounds pretty simple, I think I could play (a lot slower) if I had one of your good tutorials to follow!

[@gutbucket260]

Is this tune also called, "Kicking Mule" ?

[@JimPankey]

You have to be careful with the Mule Songs. I learned this one based on Raymond Fairchild's version. Bill Napier also played it, but in C - similar to what the Doug Dillard played with the Dillards, but I believe they called it Buckin' Mule. However, Clarence White has a cut called Kickin' Mule which is actually Flop Eared Mule. Then there's Grandpa Jones' version which is similar to the tune I play, but again, it's different enough that it's obviously not the same tune. Didn't expect that long of an answer I bet. :)

[@Guitarwizzard1833]

@@JimPankey…Sounding good! Take care.

[@raymondduffy5002]

Jim you should do a video on how to play Mountain Dew

[@JimPankey]

Will this work? Mountain Dew - Walk Through and Demo - Bluegrass Banjo kzbin.info/www/bejne/m2ilmXxqm7p_g6c

[@mohergenrader2113]

Andy Griffith always did this.

[@JimPankey]

It’s a fun one!

[@johnboyette4710]

Have you ever considerd

[@mattkirk8078]

Wow thanks love it you da man 🤪🤠😂👍

[@SammieLeeArt]

Thanks!

[@JimPankey]

Thanks for watching 😊

[@loubich76]

merci!!!!!

[@JimPankey]

You're Welcome!

[@johnboyette4710]

Do you have a mule

[@johnboyette4710]

Posting the words

[@banjojude4403]

tutorial starts at 2:35

[@glennmallott8719]

What about tik tok

[@JimPankey]

What about it?

[@MarkMcCluney]

You were at the North Pole, weren't you...

[@JimPankey]

Rumors!

[@Gigler43]

Heading there tomorrow!!!

[@РоманЧарыев]

Very cool. Only say in Russian please))

[@JimPankey]

Спасибо!

[@nicovaneenennaam5065]

Jim .......do you have the tab on Whoa mule whoa on your site?

[@JimPankey]

Nope... didn’t tab that one. Watch to the end of the video.