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Your first picking techniques will be the “pinch” and the “bum ditty,” and you’ll learn how to use them in the context of an old favorite that BB calls “Boil Them Cabbages Down.” More commonly known as “Boil (or Bile) Them Cabbage Down,” this ubiquitous folk ditty is a great first banjo tune. BB starts by showing you the three chords you’ll need for playing “Boil Them Cabbage Down” in the key of G: G, C, and D. Then she’ll show how to play the basic melody and combine it with a “pinch” and a “bum ditty.” In this video, BB shows you a basic “pinch” for playing two strings together using the thumb and middle finger, and walks you through the first half of the melody and how to combine that with the pinch.
| The Osborne Roll |
| The Osborne Roll, Part 1 |
BB returns to “Boil Them Cabbage Down” to introduce a classic banjo roll from bluegrass great Sonny Osborne. The Osborne roll can be shifted to other strings, but for this lesson, the pattern is middle finger on the first string, index finger on the second string, middle finger on the first string, and thumb on the fifth string: middle, index, middle, thumb.
