A few months ago I found one of your videos instead of doing homework and now I own a banjo. Only thing left is to learn how to use it🤣

@JimPankey

3 жыл бұрын

You can do it!

@TheSithpower

2 жыл бұрын

Its been a year, you shredding?

Thanks Jim, something new to pass a cold, windy, snowy Colorado Day.

@JimPankey

3 жыл бұрын

Enjoy!

Jim, your lessons are invaluable to me. I've been a guitar player for 50 years, and there is always something new to learn. You never learn it all. So I decided to buy myself a banjo and extend my musical versatility. Thanks so much for taking the time to do these videos, because I appreciate them. I'm having fun learning from you.

@JimPankey

3 жыл бұрын

You'll have to post a video! Would love to hear you play. 😀

Epiphany! The G on the 5th fret (F-shape) allows the tones in your g-major scale to “ring over” one another. Because you’re alternating strings (as you go up the scale), the previous string is allowed “sustain” underneath the next tone. So cool!!

@JimPankey

3 жыл бұрын

Yup!

I can truly understand why anyone would love hanging out here with you ....You have a way of making it fun for the student ..

@JimPankey

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks 😊

Hey Jim. My wife got me a banjo for Christmas and other then the two weeks I’ve been away from home, I’ve been practicing, A LOT! I love this thing! My wife is now a huge fan of yours because of how I describe your lessons. I think she follows you. I’m trying to get foggy mountain breakdown up to 100bpm and doing ok on the low part but struggling a bit on the half way up the neck part. It’s coming. Anyway, thanks for doing a great job in helping us all out here on you tube. Thanks from Toronto, Ontario. Bob.

@JimPankey

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for letting me teach you ☺️

This is a good lesson for the do ray me and switching strings, a keeper. I may even put labels on the fretboard for a while. I'm just getting started with the banjo at 74 and having fun. Thanks.

@JimPankey

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for letting me teach you 😀

Brilliant cheers Jim 👍

@JimPankey

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks 😊

Thanks Jim! Keep up the good work! We're still frozen, up here, -20 below last week!

@JimPankey

Жыл бұрын

Too cold for me. 🥶😜

Just got my first banjo here el central alabama. Trying to figure this out with a vintage kent. I am a cuban so this is definitely outside my regular list of expected hobbies 😅

@JimPankey

3 жыл бұрын

You’ve got this!

Thanks Jim!....Melodic has always been intimidating to me....thanks for easing us into it a bit. I'm excited with this one.

@JimPankey

3 жыл бұрын

You can do it 🙂

you are absolutely fantastic, you keep me playing through this covid pandemic, thank you Jim, honestly, thank you.

@JimPankey

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoy it!

I got nothin' to say. Just commenting to help the optics. Thanks for the great video.

@JimPankey

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks 😊

Hi Jim great video i was just going through your worried man video on the back of your truck these new ideas will keep me occupied for a while

@JimPankey

3 жыл бұрын

Hey, thanks for watching 🙂

Hey Y’all . Still loving these videos Jim .

@JimPankey

Ай бұрын

Thank you 😊

Your teaching style is so awesome thanks

@JimPankey

Жыл бұрын

So nice of you

Well Jim, if someone had told me that I would spend $40 for a thumb pick, I would have called them crazy. But I just got my BCT-BRL from Blue Chip and I'm sold. Love the design and it plays really well. Just wanted to say thanks for for the heads up on that company. Real good people too. Hope you and yours have a Happy New Year, and I'm still grinding away on my Recording King.

@JimPankey

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you like it! Yup, those Blue Chip folks are tops!

I had been hoping you’d do a melodic video 😊 Thank you!

@JimPankey

3 жыл бұрын

I love it when a plan comes together 😉

Thanks a bunch, Jim! After learning Fox on the Run, I was really interested in playing more melodic tunes using tabs. Glad this is here👍

@JimPankey

3 жыл бұрын

Hope this will help!

THANK YOU SO MUCH JIM. I requested this a couple videos ago. You’re the best.

@JimPankey

3 жыл бұрын

Hopefully this’ll get you started 🙂

Very nice sound and player. I am a guitarist just wan to learn banjo. Thx for great tutorial 😁🙏

@JimPankey

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

r u crazy, i like this ♥ thanks professor !

@JimPankey

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching 😊

Thank you, Jim!

@JimPankey

3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

Thank you for teaching me the banjo

@JimPankey

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for letting me teach you!

I'will play Paganini capriccio 24 one day.Those licks help me to make it real.Thanke you for teaching us Mr.Jim Pankey.Josef from germany.

@JimPankey

3 жыл бұрын

You can do it!

Love your videos Jim! I was wondering if you could make some lessons on the Del McCoury band? Nashville Cats is an all time favorite of mine!

@JimPankey

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the recommendation.

Thanks jim

@JimPankey

3 жыл бұрын

Welcome!

Nice lick great lesson thank you 🙏

@JimPankey

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Fantastic as always Jim Thank you so much!

@JimPankey

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure! Thanks for watching.

Hi Jim thanks for your unselfish generous use of your time helping us beginners and more advanced players, who all benefit from your clear brilliant lessons. As for melodic banjo, Don Wayne Reno does some melodic runs across the strings which are also used by his pa Don Reno. I wonder if you know the sort of things I am describing.

@JimPankey

3 жыл бұрын

Yes... Don Reno was well known for his single string style. It’s different than what I show here.

@dangeoopatrick2593

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jim, I get it that Don did the single string stuff and he would incorporate the single string bits into a Scruggs style tune, ie such as Sockeye and it would fits in nicely. Problem is he does it so quick its hard to figure the notes. Its kinda like the B part in Beaumont Rag where everyone stops and whoever’s playing lead does a nice little sort of melodic lick. Its at that part of the tune where Reno would throw in a melodic type lick using the single string style. I have heard you do similar stuff in some tunes, I find using such variants makes the picking very interesting and attractive. I was trying to conquer picking a tune and trying over and over again when my wife said ‘Wonder what will come first, you getting that tune or the Covid Vaccine?’’ Keep with the great lessons Jim and y’all Stay Safe.

Nice ,,,,thank you

@JimPankey

3 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome!

Nice lesson! :-)

@JimPankey

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Very cool! Thanks Jim!

@JimPankey

3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

when he tilts his head sideways i do too :)

@JimPankey

2 жыл бұрын

🙃

WHO DARE DISLIKE THIS VIDEOOOOO!!!!!!!

@JimPankey

3 жыл бұрын

🤷🏻‍♂️

Excellent

@JimPankey

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks

Tasty!

@JimPankey

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks 😊

Thanks for the post, captain. Lookin' great- you lost weight!

@JimPankey

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you kindly

Congrats on 60k subs!

@JimPankey

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

Tiny little palm trees. It took me the whole video.

@JimPankey

3 жыл бұрын

😁🏝

Hi, can you do a breakdown off "you took all the ramblin out of me". Realy want to play this. Btw, love your videos!

@JimPankey

3 жыл бұрын

I don’t know that one. 🤷🏻‍♂️

@celinak7619

3 жыл бұрын

Oh, sad :/ do you have any suggestions of where it is best to look for tabs? Tryd to find some without luck.

Can you please do a lesson of the battle of New Orleans it’s an old military country song that my grandfather used to play but he never wrote down the tab so I haven’t been able to learn it thank you for your time

@JimPankey

3 жыл бұрын

If you can hum it, or sing it, you should be able to take the concepts I teach in this video and start to find the tune.

Hi! I am a classical musician. I have a banjo and would like to learn to play it well. I always wished there was banjo music written on treble clef, kind of like for classical guitar. If I read tab, I don't know what notes I am playing which is really frustrating for a classical musician. I hadn't thought of just practicing scales (and arpeggios!). I'll do that, practicing several different scales until I know the fingerboard and where all the notes are inside, outside, upside down!

@JimPankey

Жыл бұрын

You can occasionally find tabs with notation included. I’m not a fan of either since I play folk styles and primarily by ear. You should give my beginner lessons a peep.

Whole, whole, half, whole, whole, whole, half!

Ok Jim I promise to never ask this again but which model of Recording King is that banjo? I promise. And thanks for the great lesson on melodic banjo. Do you recommend memorizing all of the notes on the fretboard?

@JimPankey

3 жыл бұрын

It’s an M5 like I said in the description.

@JimPankey

3 жыл бұрын

...I’ve never memorized all the notes

@millerjeff

3 жыл бұрын

@@JimPankey Thanks Jim that what I've got. Just wish I could get a brighter sound out of mine. Sounds good on open strings but when I fret a string it sounds dead. Thanks again. I'm working through all of your beginner lessons. Love the way you taech.

@millerjeff

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry I didn't read the show more. *teach

Hi Jim i am really enjoying yr videos. just wondering what scale is the second lick ? It sounds really funky playing with G and F chords i thought might be minor /mixalodean,?

@JimPankey

3 жыл бұрын

I really have no idea. I don’t have any practical knowledge of sharing what I play in theoretical language. I kinda just play what sounds good to me.

Great video Jim, Could you play Hard ain't Hard please?

@JimPankey

3 жыл бұрын

That's not one I usually play or teach, though I am familiar with it.

Hey Jim. I know that this request is a little strange but, is there any way that you could maybe do a lesson on the banjo part to Thirst Mutilator by billy strings? I have watched countless live recordings of the tune to try and get it down but I have no luck. I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you.

@JimPankey

3 жыл бұрын

I wasn’t familiar with it until you mentioned it. I probably won’t learn it, but it’s pretty straight melodic stuff. Once you get to where you can sing the melody, then maybe start piecing together the melodic break for it.

Dear Jim, do you know that pop song by Taylor Swift which is named “love story”? Can we play that song with a five string banjo?

@JimPankey

3 жыл бұрын

I don’t play it, but I’m sure it can be played on banjo; you can play anything on the banjo.

@Butterapplejuice

3 жыл бұрын

@@JimPankey Thank you for the prompt response Jim!🙂

Is it important which finger you use to pluck each note?

@JimPankey

3 жыл бұрын

I'd recommend using the same ones that I do

I'm home schooled

ℑ 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔨 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔰𝔬𝔲𝔫𝔡 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔟𝔞𝔫𝔧𝔬 𝔦𝔰 𝔞𝔫 𝔞𝔠𝔮𝔲𝔦𝔯𝔢𝔡 𝔱𝔞𝔰𝔱𝔢. ℭ𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔡 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔯𝔢𝔠𝔬𝔪𝔪𝔢𝔫𝔡 𝔞𝔫𝔶 𝔫𝔦𝔠𝔢 𝔭𝔦𝔢𝔠𝔢𝔰 𝔱𝔬 𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔫 𝔱𝔬?

Hey can someone tell me why my fifth string page is so hard to turn

@JimPankey

3 жыл бұрын

Could be a number of reasons... hard to say without actually seeing it.

@thomasschwartz3245

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the reply not the answer I was looking for but thank you

Hi Jim I like your videos but please stop bending your head over you look ridiculous. Hello from Scotland

@JimPankey

3 жыл бұрын

I had 1,500 subscribers before I started leaning. Now I’m at 60k. I’m probably gonna continue the lean. 🤓