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Vamping

from: Beginning Banjo with Bill Evans

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Vamping

Vamping, Part 2

Vamping

In this lesson you’ll learn an accompaniment technique called “vamping.” Vamping involves using movable chords, and in this lesson you’ll learn the F shape. Bill shows you a vamping pattern you can use in a jam session when you want to get out of the way of the other instruments, but still provide some rhythmic support. This is a great technique behind a mandolin or guitar solo, for example, or to back up another banjo player. Bill shows you where the G, C, and D chords are with the F shape and then plays slow versions of “Roll In My Sweet Baby’s Arms” and “I’ll Fly Away” so you can vamp along with him.

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