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10 EASY but AWESOME banjo tabs

10 easy but awesome clawhammer banjo tabs

(If you’d also like the 10 EASY but AWESOME Tabs for 2 and 3 finger banjo, CLICK HERE)

Dear fellow fan of the five,

Mastering a musical instrument has very little to do with talent.

Combine persistent effort with the right learning tools, on the other hand, and the sky’s the limit.

But to be persistent means you must keep your motivational fire burning. You don’t practice because you have to, you practice because you want to.

Staying motivated and inspired, then, is vital. And the best way to stay motivated? Have really good tunes to play.

Always having great tunes to play that are appropriate for your current level (or just on the edge enough to push you a bit) is the best way to keep your motivational fire burning.

That’s a cornerstone of the Brainjo Method, and why maintaining a growing library of hundreds of tunes and songs with video demonstrations is part of the Breakthrough Banjo course.

It’s also why this “10 EASY but AWESOME” book of tabs exists!


(RELATED: Click here to learn more about the Breakthrough Banjo course, including “The Vault,” the ultimate TAB LIBRARY of clawhammer banjo tunes and songs.)


Complicated Does Not Equal Great!

I’ve been playing music for quite some time – piano, guitar, banjo, fiddle, and so on.

And yes, my technical skills have grown over the years, and along with them my ability to play arrangements that are increasingly complicated.

But I’ll let you in on a little secret…

A great tune is a great tune, no matter how simple or complicated you choose to play it.

In fact, being a highly skilled player can be a curse. It’s natural to think that things that are harder to play must be better.

But that’s entirely not true!

The reality is there’s very little to no correlation between how difficult something is to play, and how good it sounds.

Take a great melody, play it cleanly and with good timing, and I guarantee you’ll have a captive audience.

It’s for these reasons that I’ve created the Brainjo level system, a way of categorizing tablature according to its technical demands, to help ensure that folks learning by the Brainjo Method always have great music to play, no matter where they are on the Timeline of Mastery.

Remember, though, just because something is more technically difficult (i.e. a higher Brainjo level) doesn’t necessarily make it better! In the end, that’s for your ears to judge.


(RELATED: Click here to read more about the Brainjo level system)


 

The Brainjo Level System

The tabs in this book are all either Brainjo Level 1 or 2, which indicates the technical skills needed to play them (click here to learn more about the Brainjo Level system for clawhammer banjo).

Lastly, if you’re interested in learning more about how to create your own arrangements like these, entirely by ear, it’s one of the many topics covered in the Breakthrough Banjo course. Click here for more info.

Enjoy!

Josh Turknett

Founder and Lead Brain Hacker at Brainjo

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