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This week was a little different because I performed in front of people for the first time. Before this week the only people I had played live in front of was my parents, my brother, my grandpa and his girlfriend. On Saturday I had my 16th Birthday party and a lot of people that were there knew about this project and me learning how to play the banjo. A lot of people kept asking me to play the banjo. I didn't want to at first but the same people kept asking me so I finally said I would play. I played Mary Had A Little Lamb with the forward roll that I learned last week since it was the only thing I knew how to play. I was a little nervous since I was playing in front of all my friends but I finished the song and it went a lot better than I thought it would. When me and my dad started this week's lesson he said he was going to start teaching me how to play another song. Before I could learn the new song I had to learn a new roll. The new roll was harder then the forward roll that I had learned last week. This roll is called a reverse roll. To do a reverse roll you put your thumb on the second string, your pointer finger on the third string, and your middle finger on the fourth string. You also use your thumb for the fifth and first string. Then you strum the second string with your thumb, the third string with your pointer finger, the fourth string with your middle finger, the fifth string with your thumb, and the first string with your thumb. Once I started practicing that my dad said we were going to add a vamp to the reverse roll. All you have to do for a vamp is put your thumb on the fifth string, your middle finger on the fourth string, and pluck them at the same time. I practiced that for a little while but my eyes started getting tired and my fingers weren't hitting the right strings. I started getting really frustrated so I put the banjo down and started to work on other homework. Later after I had rested a bit I came back and started practicing again. The break really helped and I was playing the reverse roll with the vamp a lot better. Then I started playing the reverse roll with cords. I tried playing Mary Had A Little Lamb but my transitions weren't going very well so I took another break. When I started practicing again after the second break I played Mary Had A Little Lamb and it sounded a lot better. I practiced that a bit and then I got my dad to record it.
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10/15/2017 06:06:01 pm
I love that you are incorporating videos into your posts so we can see you progress. A lot of the videos remind me of myself when I was first learning guitar. It can get frustrating at times when you're trying to figure out the proper fingerings and are learning how to synchronize your hands, but keep it up -- everybody goes through that process at first. You're showing great progress so far!
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Nathaniel Marshall
10/25/2017 06:16:12 am
I was at that party. You played pretty well. Keep it up
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