✅ Note Identification: Learn to effortlessly identify any note across your banjo’s fretboard with clear, step-by-step instruction. This core skill sets the groundwork for advanced music theory applications, making it an essential first step for every banjo player.
✅ Time Signatures: Start by mastering the standard 4/4 time signature, the standard of many musical genres. Learn to subdivide the beat into quarters, eighths, and sixteenths through a variety of playing exercises designed to challenge your rhythmic ability.
✅ Chord Formulas and Harmony: Discover the formulas behind major, minor, and diminished chords and understand how they create harmony within a key. Master the basic chord shapes and then explore how to use inversions to play these chords across different parts of the fretboard.
✅ The Minor Key Connection: While major keys typically sound happy, minor keys bring depth and a darker mood to the banjo. Use my "one simple trick" to quickly identify any minor key, instantly expanding your ability to play a wider range of emotions.
✅ The 5 Major Scale Patterns Across the Neck: Unlock the fretboard with this chapter on mastering major scale patterns, featuring my foundational 5 patterns, 2 diagonal patterns, and Béla Fleck’s 7 scale patterns. Start in the key of G, the center of the banjo universe, and easily shift to any of the 12 keys by adjusting your starting point.
✅ Modes: Explore the unique moods of each mode and how they can transform your sound by expressing more subtle emotions. From Dorian to Lydian, each mode offers a new sonic palette that adds sophistication to your playing.
✅ Suspended, Dominant, and Seventh Chords: Expand your chord repertoire with suspended, dominant, and seventh chords—what I like to call the 'expensive' sounding chords. Learn how to integrate these complex chords into your progressions, adding rich, new textures to your compositions.
Learn all of this without:
❌ Needing prior experience: Begin with the basics and progress through structured, incremental lessons designed to build your skills confidently.
❌ Wasting time: This content is exclusively tailored for banjo players, ensuring everything you learn is relevant and directly applicable.
❌ Endless Talking: This course provide clear tabs with audio demonstrations, ensuring you spend more time playing and less time listening to lengthy, unnecessary explanations.
❌ Frustration and Burnout: Say goodbye to frustration and burnout with a structured learning plan that keeps you motivated to learn every day.
