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My dad and I continued to work on the song Dueling Banjos this week but it was more difficult this week than it has been over the last couple weeks. The way my dad plays this part of the song and was trying to teach me how to play it is by fretting a cord. Fretting is where you hold down all the strings of one fret. We found out very quickly that I wasn't going to be able to do that because I couldn't stretch my fingers as far as I needed to be able to play this part of the song. My dad had to play around with the strings and found a few different ways I could play the new part of the song. He finally found a way that I could play this part of the song easier and it still sound right. The new part of the song that I learned goes with the same beat as the part before it but you play it with different strings to make the pitch different. The first part that I learned goes like this: note the second string in the fifth fret three times with a beat, slide to the seventh fret and note the second string there, move down to the third string in the fifth fret and note the third string, slide to the sixth fret and note the third string, slide to the eighth fret and note the third string, slide back to the sixth fret and note the third string, and go back to the fifth fret and note the third string. The next part of the song goes in the same beat but a higher pitch. For the next part you start in the seventh fret and note the second string three times in the same beat, move up to ninth fret and note the second string, move down to the third string in the seventh fret and note the third string, note the third string in the eighth fret, note the third string in the tenth fret, move back to the eighth fret and note the third string, and then note the third string in the seventh fret. Once I figured out the order of everything and how many frets to move up it was a lot simpler than I thought it would be at the beginning of my lesson. Here is what the two new parts that I learned this week sound like together. The second video is of my dad and me playing everything I have learned so far together.
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