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How To Arrange Banjo Songs Workshop

Step 1: Determine the Key

  • Standard G good for starting
  • Options: Find song already in key of G OR transpose the song from it’s key into G
  • The last note of the song usually is the key, as is the background note you hear

Step 2: Find the Chords

Step 3: Find the Melody

Step 4: Make it a Banjo Tune!

Version 1: Fill in the spaces with “ditty” strums and fifth string

 

Version 2: Add “space” with skip notes.

 

Version 3: Add grace notes and syncopations (fretting hand and thumb).

 

Version 4: Final.

 

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Step 1: Determine the Key

Step 2: Find the Chords

Step 3: Find the Melody

 

Step 4: Make it a Banjo Tune!

Version 1: all melody notes included.

 

Version 2: some melody notes sacrificed.

 

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