Hot Licks for Advanced Players
Licks, Backup and Picking Secrets for intermediate and
advanced Bluegrass Banjo Players
(not for beginners!)
Reading the tab, as usual: The numbers in circles above the tab are the left hand fingers, and the letters below the tab are the right hand fingers(thumb, index and middle). The tabs are in file-type .pdf
Listen to the MP3s... and view the tab in .PDF
Runs in the key of G, in open position
hot lick 10.mp3 hot lick 10.pdf
Choking in G, half-way up the neck :
hot lick11.mp3 hot lick 11.pdf
Bluesy runs down from the twelfth fret
hot lick 12.mp3 hot lick 12.pdf
hot lick 13.mp3 hot lick 13.pdf
Two-note chord ascending scales in G:
hot lick 14.mp3 hot lick 14.pdf
hot lick 15.mp3 hot lick 15.pdf
More choking(bending) the strings, halfway up the neck in G:
hot lick 16.mp3 hot lick 16.pdf
Transitions from a G chord to a C chord:
hot lick 17.mp3 hot lick 17.pdf
Back up lick in G, up the neck
hot lick 18.mp3 hot lick 18.pdf
Ben's Personal Tab Collection::One Hundred Essential Bluegrass Banjo Solos
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