More Right hand patterns
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Avram SiegelAvram Siegel adds two more right-hand banjo patterns - the galloping alternating thumb roll and the reverse roll, also known as 'Around the World'.
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Right Hand Patterns in Music
The next thing we're going to learn is a couple of other right hand patterns.
Gallop Pattern
The first pattern is something we're going to add to our Boom Chicka Boom. We're going to add one note in the space that's called a gallop because it has a galloping sound.
It's also called an alternating thumb roll because it alternates between the thumb and both fingers:
- Thumb - index
- Thumb - middle
- Thumb - index
- Thumb - middle
Reverse Roll
Another pattern is the reverse roll, sometimes referred to as Around the World.
- It's called a reverse roll because it goes in one direction and then the other way.
- This is forward.
Play that nice and slow.
We'll also start that roll on the fifth string. You can do both patterns as well, one then the other. That's a nice way to connect them up if you're playing along with just the C and H chords.
Practicing with Chords
Incidentally, you can practice your chords to these songs just with straight rhythm instead of playing the melody as well.
That was "Bilum Cabbage Down." Just the chords, no melody.
Applying the Reverse Roll
Now let's try just putting this reverse roll, this Around the World roll, into Bilum Cabbage Down. Just to make it a little...
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Meet your guru
Avram Siegel is a banjo player and a mainstay of the California bluegrass scene. He has played with the Kathy Kallick Band and True Blue, among many others, and has taught for decades - his step-by-step method has turned out some of the state's most respected young players. In his courses he breaks down three-finger Scruggs rolls, backup and melodic playing so you can build clean timing and tone at your own pace.
