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This week my dad started teaching how to play the song Dueling Banjos. The first part, the part I learned how to play this week, is slow so it wasn't too bad to learn. Just like when I was learning how to play Cripple Creek a few weeks ago my dad broke the song up into parts. The first half of the first part of the song I was learning that week was really easy. All I had to do was strum all of the strings with my thumb, come back up the strings, go back down again and then play a C cord while strumming down once and then strum down one more time with my left hand was open. You do this part two times. The last half of the part of the song I learned this week was more complicated. My dad was really confusing me and we were both kind of tired which made this week's lesson 10x harder because neither one of us had a lot of patience. My dad finally figured out how to teach it to me and we had to take it slow. This half of the song goes like this: you pluck the third string open, put your pointer finger on the third string in the first fret and pluck the third string (this is called noting), pluck the fourth string open, pluck the third string open, note the third string again, then you note the second string by putting your middle finger on the second string in the second fret while plucking the second string, pluck the third string open, pluck the second string open, and then note the second string again. Once both parts of the first part of the song are put together it sounds like this. Dueling Banjos can be played by yourself or it can be played with another person like it was originally meant to be played. This week me and my dad played Dueling Banjos together and recorded it so I could put it on my blog. In the video you can definitely hear the difference between how long each of us have been playing. Also, sorry about the video quality, my brother was recording it.
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