Single String Banjo Tips w/ Ryan Cavanaugh [Part 1]

Ryan came over the other day and shared his tips on playing virtuosic single string lines. Ryan is an incredibly technical and musical player, and it was so much fun to sit down and learn a few things from him! I hope you enjoy Part 1 of this lesson.
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[@jeremylebrun3056]

When I started single string I started immediatly with 3 fingers And I can't imagine how I could play with only just 2. Ryan's technique is really the best!

[@mikejustice1196]

That’s not his intention. Credit goes to Bela. Google him

[@twistedpine]

Bennett you are the man!

[@millerjeff]

Please Is there a Part 2? I don't see it. Thank you.

[@waynemorrison3598]

Outstanding!

[@fivestringhoss]

Great lesson!

[@JohnPaulsonJohnisaStegosaurus]

can't find part two! he's very good at explaining his process.

[@abbetiger7696]

To quote Ned Luberecki from this weekend's Midwest Banjo Camp "Everyone from Ryan's planet can do what he does."

[@merlynschutterle7242]

You should consider a different place to record. There is too much echo or something. It doesn't trouble the banjo too much, but the voices are muffled. I don't play anymore, and I like your effort to help players. I am subscribed and always give you thumbs up. You deserve it.

[@hikrose]

I got not found on the tab link.

[@BennettSullivan]

sorry..new website. here's the new link - bennettsullivanmusic.com/Instruction/instruction.html

[@vyoorm]

Anybody know what tune the Herbie Hancock lick at 11:29 comes from?

[@BennettSullivan]

that kind of sounds like Dolphin Dance

[@SwissBanjo]

Ryan is awesome !!!

[@BrandtM84]

shew, thats some fast pickin

[@TimothyRyanFisher]

I was lucky enough to teach next to Bob Black in Iowa City for a decade. Wes Montgomery is my big jazz influence.

[@davidfreel1451]

Ascending :Index takes new string, descending: thumb takes new string. Two notes on a string ip or pi (ascending or descending) , three imp or pmi. Thats it.

[@lucasposillico765]

What’s pi/ip/imp/pmi?

[@davidfreel1451]

@@lucasposillico765 Right hand fingers and thumb. p=thumb, i =index, m=middle.

[@isaacbeen2087]

Are you sure that’s it? how do you avoid hitting two notes with the same finger? I’m certain this isn’t quite right.

[@davidfreel1451]

@@isaacbeen2087 You are wrong.

[@isaacbeen2087]

@@davidfreel1451 Okay. Then why doesn’t he follow this pattern in his Rimsky-Korsakov example? he uses “m” when ascending on plenty of occasions…have you actually tried playing passages using your rules? it doesn’t work at all!

[@TimothyRyanFisher]

I spent a decade trying to play like Wes Montgomery on guitar and found the switch to bluegrass banjo very natural.

[@mikejustice1196]

Sewing machine with a muffler

[@TimothyRyanFisher]

I cut my teeth in Jazz with Von Freeman at the New Apartment Lounge in Chicago and many other Chicago Jazz players.

[@TimothyRyanFisher]

Bluegrass is an offshoot of Jazz, most of the very good old time and bluegrass musicians I know also know jazz standards. Bluegrass is the other Jazz.

[@davidfreel1451]

Maybe more accurate to say that they are both rooted in folk music, played by ear, passed hand to hand with 'innovations' emerging and reemerging with the investigation of new players exploring the tradition.

[@TimothyRyanFisher]

Nice talk though, modes theory are important.

[@brotherhawk3228]

Herbie Hancock !