How-To Guides about Banjo World

Looking for beginner banjo lessons? Take them online with this free music lesson video series about how to tune, pick and strum a banjo.

This instructional banjo video takes a look at what the right hand does while playing the Rampi Rampi, a Turkish song in 9/8. The rhythm goes something like this: 2 (quick), 2 (quick), 2 (quick), 3 (slow). This is basically the bum-diddy pattern. Watch this tutorial video and learn how to play the rampi rampi rhythm with your right hand.

Learn how to play melodic C licks on the banjo with this tutorial. This lesson is an introduction to the C melodic scale and improvisation on the C scale. This is a great lesson for beginner to intermediate banjo players. Watch this how to video and you will be improvising on the C melodic scale on the banjo.

Learn how you can play a melodic lick on the banjo with this tutorial. This banjo lick is a nice melodic idea with chromatic intervals added. Watch this how to video and you will be able to play a melodic lick on the banjo.

This two part how to video is an informal banjo lesson showing ideas for syncopation and other rhythmic techniques you can use to make a tune your own. The tune "Julianne Johnson" is used as an example of more advanced fingerpicking. This video is aimed at intermediate players who are comfortable with drop-thumbing and plucks. Watch this two part tutorial and you can jazz up your banjo playing with different fingerpicking techniques.

Watch to learn how to play "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" on banjo, which features a right hand pattern that is used in many other banjo songs.

David Cavage breaks down "Cumberland Gap" on the 5-string banjo so you can you understand and play it easily, while he also lectures on the pentatonic scale and other necessities. This is a 10 part tutorial.

Learn this traditional bluegrass song on the banjo. Avram Siegel shows you how to play Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arm.

Learn how to play Old Joe Clark on the banjo. This tune is an old fiddle tune and a mainstay of the banjo.

This tune is a great opportunity to practice your forward rolls - Fire-Ball Males.

Here you will learn a few variations on the great Cumberland Gab tune - add some fun to your banjo playing!

Learn another left hand technique for the banjo - the hammer on, where you pluck the string and then hammer on it with your finger.

Get your banjo and learn how to play the Worried Man Blues!

Grab your banjo and get to know the different scales you can play with! He will begin with a short scale.

This lesson takes the mystery out of reading tablature. We also expand on the Forward\Reverse Roll and play it with three chords.

This video teaches you visually how do the Hammer/Pull technique on the banjo

Watch banjo expert Geoff Hohwald teach you how to play faster by teaching you two basic chords and how to switch between them efficiently. While the video starts out slowly, it eventually grows in speed so that you too can become a banjo master.

Learn the right hand position for banjo with instructor Geoff Hohwald. In this video, Mr. Hohwald explains the intricacies of the right hand position including the subtleties of the xy position which has importance in tone.