About This Course
Learn a step-by-step process for building your own great bluegrass banjo solos. Starting with the fundamentals of finding melodies on the fingerboard, Bill Evans shows you how to combine basic banjo chord shapes and rolls with licks, techniques, and patterns to create your own unique solos that will give your playing that authentic bluegrass sound.
Try a Sample Lesson
Two Essential Banjo Rolls
In this video, Bill shows you how to add the forward-reverse roll to the melody of “Worried Man Blues,” which you learned to play in an earlier lesson. You’ll be relieved to know that there isn’t a hard-and-fast rule about getting every single melody note into your solo. Your ear will fill in some of the missing notes, and the rolls will maintain the momentum of your solo.
