Your Journey Begins here, Welcome to Banjo Adventures

In this welcome Introduction we will talk about:

• Things you can start working on before you even pick up your banjo for the first time

• Understanding how timing plays a role from day 1

• Hearing how timing flows through every note we play

Cant do anything unless your banjo is in tune! This introduction video will take a deep dive into:

• How to correctly tune your banjo

• The importance of regular tuning up

• What a banjo sounds like when correctly in tune

You have officially taken the first steps and are doing it! congrats to you, here is what to expect in lesson 1

• Properly Sit, hold and play the banjo

• What is Clawhammer banjo and the bum-ditty

• Making our first real frailing banjo noise

• How to strum and pluck using nail and thumb

Learning banjo isn’t just about technique—it’s about building the right habits early on, this includes:

• How to make the best use of your practice time

• What is good and bad practice

• The quickest way to learn this new skill

• Create your own practice plan that works

Ready to start sounding like a banjo player? This is where the magic begins. In this lesson we will:

• Discover the basic frailing strum

• learn correct sitting posture and position

• how to perform the basic frailing strum

• Maintaining a basic clawhammer rhythm

Understanding this common mistake early on can save you a lot of problems later on

• Understand the most common beginner mistake

• Solution and improvement

Understanding the clawhammer motion and range of movements helps us to develop our maximum and minimum parameters for our frailing hand

• Excellent exercise for developing our “Crab Claw”

• Lock in the basic frailing motion

• Build confidence and ability

• Improve rhythm and momentum

Ready to lock in that frailing rhythm? This extended play-along session is here to help you feel the groove and build muscle memory the fun way—by actually playing!

• Play along exercise video

• Build confidence strength and rhythm

• Know that you’re doing it right by following me

Let’s take our basic frailing strum and bring it alive by playing more than just open strings. In this video we will:

• Learn how to fret strings to get a clean sound

• How fretting single strings can start to make music

• combining fretting with the basic frailing strum

Now we are starting to make waves with our banjo, you’ll may notice some strings are more challenging than others, Here we’ll:

• Improve 3rd and 4th string accuracy

• Practice with two simple but powerful drills

• Develop our lower string skills

Speed and confidence go hand in hand, when you can comfortably play at speed your confidence and ability will naturally follow.

• Fun speed building challenge

• Frailing on targeted strings

• Build confidence and resilience

• Prepare for Module 2

You’ve made it through the first stage of your banjo journey—and that’s no small feat!

• Complete the assigned challenge in this video

• Share your audio with me to get a role promotion

• Rank up in the Discord and celebrate your WIN!

• Move onto the WANDERER module

Lets kickstart the Wanderer module off with a brand new frailing hand technique

• Double Thumbing for beginners

• How To Perform it

• Where and when to double thumb

• Play along exercises

Time to explore one of the most essential elements of becoming a solid banjo player: Timing and Tempo.

• Understand both concepts

• how timing is implemented throughout a tune

• The effects of poor timing

• How to play faster banjo

If you’ve ever looked at a banjo tab and thought, “What do all these numbers and lines mean?” — you’re in the right place.

• How to understand tab (Beginners Guide)

• Playing written music exercises

• Identifying the basic frailing strum in tab

• How fretted strings appear in tab

Now that you have a basic understanding of how banjo tabs work, lets test it out.

• Play along practice exercises

• Link together melody and rhythm

• Understand how tablature is read

• Improve timing and accuracy

Time to make some actual banjo sounds with some cool fun to play banjo licks

• Banjo Licks Explained

• How to play 4 cool banjo licks

• Downloadable TAB for take away

• Audio Exorcises to build skills

n this lesson, we’ll focus on the D7 chord, a simple but powerful shape that opens the door to real, musical playing.

• How chords affect the direction of a song

• How to fret a chord shape

• Switching between G and D7

• Common fretting problems solved

Every beginner banjo player wants to "play faster" — but what if that's the wrong goal?

• How and when to expect to play fast banjo

• What should be your focus now

• Problems with playing too fast too soon

Nothing beats time spent with your banjo, practice to perfection is key to success:

• Great play-along practice exercise

• Build up confidence and muscle memory

• Develop long lasting fretting skills

• Preparation for taking on your first song

The following three exercises are snippets from real songs. We will use this as an opportunity to strengthen all the skills we have learned up to this point.

• Three great skill building exercises

• Start to feel like a real banjo musician

• Understand how tablature and music work together

• Preparation for playing your first REAL songs

Are you ready to take on your first full banjo tune playthrough. I think you are.

• Play your very first real banjo song

• See how the tune appears on tab

• Full play along tutorial

• Preparation for the end of module test

Why stop at Skip To My Lou! Let's work on our second banjo tune and keep the momentum going

• Second Song In The Bag

• Work with tablature

• Develop frailing skills

• Putting Together Melody, Rhythm and Harmony

Look how far you’ve come! From your very first strum to playing full tunes with confidence, Lets put what you have learned to the test.

• End of module test

• Role promotion in Discord

• Move up to the rambler module