Pretty Fair Damsel | Lesson
Added 2018-06-15 23:16:58 +0000 UTCLet's talk through how to play Pretty Fair Damsel. Banjo is tuned fA#FA#C (one step below gDGCD). In this video I show the basics of how to play the song both two-finger "thumb lead" style and overhand.
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Hello Clifton, I've recently joined your patreon site (first time I've ever done that) after a number of years of admiring your playing, and because I came to realize that ballads were really the only type of songs that have given me enough satisfaction to stick with them long enough to let them take up permanent residence in my mind - which I guess just means that I can stick with them long enough to learn them properly and enjoy doing it. One reason that I went ahead and joined your patreon is that I do like having a tab of something which I learn a tune to begin with. I am currently working on Swanno Mountain (as tought by you) and hopefully will record it soon. The next song that I'd really like to work on after that is this one, Pretty Little Damsel. Now, I can't find a tab for it here, but there is a gentleman on youtube playing it who says he got the tab from your patreon site. Is there any chance that you tabbed it out somewhere and it just got deleted off the site sometime? In case you have a few versions of it, I am a clawhammer player. Well, I'm looking forward to hearing from you either way, and thanks again for all of this, your body of work is incredible, and you are an excellent teacher. Regards, Daniyel.
Ben Asher
2022-11-15 05:10:56 +0000 UTCThanks, Jake.
Clifton Hicks
2018-06-26 20:46:48 +0000 UTCFor whatever it's worth, that chord at 6:35 (2020) is a G (as opposed to a G7, which is 0023). Then next one (moving both fingers towards the floor a string) is a Bm at 0202.
Jake Tolbert
2018-06-26 14:42:59 +0000 UTCLast Gold Dollar was the first real song that I learned with the banjo and still one of my favorites, we'll definitely examine it in the future. It's also an easy one!
Clifton Hicks
2018-06-16 04:24:01 +0000 UTCI've always wanted to expand my double C repertoire as it's pretty thin. If I'm not mistaken, those very first few notes are the same in Last Gold Dollar, and one of those chords looks like a chord I couldn't figure out in Rocky Island - both double C songs I'd like to be able to play!
Bobby Banks
2018-06-16 00:29:39 +0000 UTC
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