Cripple Creek Variations (Video 2 of 2): Bluegrass Banjo Lesson

[@peterpedersen2238]

Just want to say thanks Bill, i am from a guitar background & started playing banjo in march this year at the age of 62..I have learned 5 songs which are all arrangements of yours, including Ballad of Jed, Foggy Mountain, Country Roads, Cripple Creek part 1 & 2 and You are my Sunshine..I am playing all the songs cleanly "except Foggy Mountain" at the recorded tempo's & cant express enough gratitude for the help you have been...I practise hours every day & should have taken this instrument up decades ago because i love playing it..Thanks again Bill

[@DeadDiverDan]

Well week 5 as a beginner banjo student and I'm already working on these variations. I've gotten 3 songs down so far and I cannot express the joy and satisfaction that I get from learning on your site. And the lessons are so easy to follow. Thank you, I have waited soo many years to play this cheap "No-name Banjo from a Kit" and now I can. Amazingly it stays in tune.

[@williamanesbitt]

Congratulations! Glad I could help.

[@KidNoah2012]

Love this man's method of teaching. A good variation makes a simple tune really sing and learning this makes me feel like I'm on my way to becoming a banjo player.

[@jamesandersen1528]

This was the fist tune I learned on a banjo and I learned it from you, Bill...Thanks for all of these, I would have given up a long time ago had it not been for your help.

[@PlasmaDavid]

Hoooo YES son! Cripple Creek is so joyously simple to learn, and the variations are what really brings it to life. And even a beginner can quite easily experiment to tweak the variations, such as your alternate part A. I am VERY glad to see these new videos and tabs of yours!

[@hipdogdsv]

I am sooooooooooooo going to learn this Bill! Who knew we'd be here on youtube with our own channels way back in Jr high! I'll make a video once I can play a song all the way through!

[@spitfirekid1]

Thank you for making these videos!

[@royliquor3315]

Ah man im so happy you've done this, been wanting to learn this for AGES!!!

[@billfriendo2975]

amazing tutorial and the tab is brilliant! thanks a lot for the video

[@southwold]

HI THERE..IVE BEEN PLAYING THE BANJO FOR ABOUT A MONTH SAW YOUR VIDEO ON CRIPPLE CREEK VARIATIONS...AND THOUGHT ...WOW...THIS GUYS GOOD AT GETTING ACROSS THIS SONG...WELL EXPLAINED AND TAKES TIME TO REPEAT THE SONG....WELL DONE...NICE ONE....MANY THANKS

[@TimmyTraspie]

this has to be the best instructional video I've seen. thanks

[@janicebrown8159]

This is great ! Thank you so much !!!

[@thomas7johns]

Awesome, it is a better song now! Thanks again Bill!!

[@JAKENMK]

Top quality stuff this ! Cheers 🍻

[@tracnunya7165]

GREAT VID , here is a video tech suggestion, if you go full screen and watch your thumb, you see not a blur but these lines, that is usually a results of INTERLACING in the video, in your video production look for an option called DEINTERLACE and it removes that. It happens on interlaced video when there is motion.

[@ElsieDIY]

16:40 ending lick

[@vallen4586]

OK Now got it note for note at 180. Almost there at 200 note for note on everything except the 2nd ALT B it still need a little more work. Thanks again for all the time you spend with the videos and tabs, I know it takes hours and hours of work.

[@chrispatrickmiller]

Thanks a lot! Great lesson!

[@OldCessnaSkylaneGuy]

Sounds like you wove a little of the melodic element of “Blackberry Blossom” into part A. Awesome!

[@williamanesbitt]

Actually it's stolen from elements of "Banjo In The Hollow" by Doug Dillard. First notes are similar to "Blackberry Blossom" -- that might have inspired him, I don't know.

[@sunbrosolaire3952]

@@williamanesbitt Any chance on some Dillard lessons? I like Scruggs but their style is something else ,great! thanks

[@marcuviusblack5781]

ThankQ Bill.

[@ElsieDIY]

Learn this today also 8:15

[@ElsieDIY]

Practice 13:56

[@6Heureka]

Great lesson Thanks a lot.

[@juliamcleod3642]

Hi, Bill! Thanx a lot for this variation. Could u please put instruction for Lorena.

[@ElsieDIY]

1:30

[@ElsieDIY]

9:19

[@echoromeo7984]

Merci nesbitt

[@ElsieDIY]

17:20

[@TheoLorenzen]

12:10

[@supersol268]

You are the best teacher Will, thanks for making these videos. You don't happen to know Southern Flavor do you?

[@vallen4586]

Did not take long to get part A at 120BPM. Now to get it up to speed. Thank you for all of this. Do you have an e-mail or phone number or Face Book page. My wife used to play a banjo song she only knows by the name of Little David. Do you know it? It has been such a long time ago that she played it she can only remember the first few measures of it.

[@ElsieDIY]

Learn this today 6:37

[@gutbucket260]

3 thumbs up !!

[@ElsieDIY]

Practice 11:00

[@ElsieDIY]

17:10

[@TheoLorenzen]

11:00