Cripple Creek Variations (Video 2 of 2): Bluegrass Banjo Lesson
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Hear this tune played with guitar rhythm backup (slow, medium, fast) starting at 12:07. Chords are provided in the first "Cripple Creek Revisited" video.
This is video 2 of 2 -- Here I add variations to both parts A (one variation) and B (two variations) to the "Regular" parts from the previous video.
The A part variation is loosely based on the first half of "Banjo In The Hollow" by Doug Dillard. The original recording for this tune from 1963 can be found on KZread here: • Video
Both of the B part variations are from the Flatt and Scruggs "Foggy Mountain Banjo" album version of Cripple Creek.
Here I also teach a Scruggs style ending to the tune, found at 16:57.
Free tab sheets (PDF) and play-along tracks (MP3) for this and many other tunes are available at my website, www.littlerockbanjo.com.
Hope you enjoy.
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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
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.
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
4 жыл бұрын
Congratulations! Glad I could help.
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.
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!
Thank you for making these videos!
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!
Ah man im so happy you've done this, been wanting to learn this for AGES!!!
This is great ! Thank you so much !!!
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
Awesome, it is a better song now! Thanks again Bill!!
this has to be the best instructional video I've seen. thanks
amazing tutorial and the tab is brilliant! thanks a lot for the video
Top quality stuff this ! Cheers 🍻
Thanks a lot! Great lesson!
ThankQ Bill.
Great lesson Thanks a lot.
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.
Merci nesbitt
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.
You are the best teacher Will, thanks for making these videos. You don't happen to know Southern Flavor do you?
Sounds like you wove a little of the melodic element of “Blackberry Blossom” into part A. Awesome!
@williamanesbitt
4 жыл бұрын
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
4 жыл бұрын
@@williamanesbitt Any chance on some Dillard lessons? I like Scruggs but their style is something else ,great! thanks
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Hi, Bill! Thanx a lot for this variation. Could u please put instruction for Lorena.
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3 thumbs up !!
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.
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