Thirty Days to Better Banjo
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Day 1 - The Musical Alphabet

The Musical Alphabet
Day 2 - Chord Alphabet

The Chord Alphabet
Day 3 - The Major Scale

The Major Scale - Construction & Conceptualization
Day 4 - Movable Chord Shapes

Movable Chord Shapes
Day 5 - Partial Chords & Chord Clusters

Day 5 - Movable Chords (cont.)
Day 6 - Review

Review Notes & Assignments
Day 8 - Drop Thumbing

Drop Thumb - Explanation & Exercises
Day 9 - Putting It All Together

Drop Thumb Studies Continued - Partial Chords
Day 10 - Chord Progressions & Keys

Explanation, Terminology, and Examples
Day 11 - Pentatonic Scale

Explanation & Exercises
Day 12 - Back Up Strategies

Part 1: Basic Approach
Day 13 - Review

Week 2 in Review
Day 14 - Organizing Practice Time

Tips & Techniques for Optimization
Day 15 - Expanded Pentatonics

Vertical & Two Octave Scales
Two Octave Pentatonic Etude
Day 16- Instrumental Break

Soloing Studies - Jesse James
Day 17 - Alternate String Pull Offs & Phantom Strokes

Alternate String Pull Offs
Phantom Strokes
Day 18 - Repertoire & Tool Building

New Tunes + New Tuning
Day 19 - Waltz Time

Waltz Time Strategies - Technique & Repertoire
Day 20 - Instrumental Break Studies Continued

Down in the Willow Garden Solo Study
Day 21 - Practice Optimization Continued

Five Times & Tortoise Techniques
Day 22 - Right Hand Technique Study

Back Thumbing
Day 23 - Repertoire Building & Application

Sugar in the Gourd
Sugar in the Gourd - Played Slowly
Day 24 - Chord Theory

Explained & Applied
Day 25 - Repertoire & Application

Answer Key
Open C Tune Study - Cold Snap
Day 26 - Expanded Back Up Techniques

Whamming
Day 27 - Advanced Soloing Studies

Hand Me Down my Walking Cane
Day 28 - Melodic Clawhammer Studies

Liberty - Melodic Study
Liberty - Rhythmic Study
Day 29 - Bending

Explanation & Demonstration
Day 30 - Bending Continued

Tune Study - Pretty Polly - Integrating Bends
Tune Study - John Henry
Day 31 - Follow Up

Now What?

Day 4 - Movable Chord Shapes

1 Lesson