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Learning Banjo - Frailing Backup Banjo

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A good way to get started on this is to take a basic song you already know and start experimenting with ways to spice things up.

Let's take a look at Boil Them Cabbage Down in G and C with a basic frailing

stroke.

Boil Them cabbage Down in C:

There are a lot of things you can do to change the way the song is presented without losing the songs identity.

For example, we could play Boil Them Cabbage Down in C, but instead of just using the fist string for the "bump" we could try the second string. We could even take things further and add in a hammer-on.

Here is the first few measures of Boil Them Cabbage Down in C trying that

idea:

Boil Them Cabbage Down In C