Bluegrass Banjo Tutorial: Man of Constant
Hear this tune played with guitar rhythm backup (slow, medium, fast) starting at 11:13. Guitar chords are provided onscreen. By request, this is an instructional tutorial 5string bluegrass banjo lesson teaching my version of the popular folk song Man of Constant Sorrow in regular open G tuning. From Wikipedia: Man of Constant Sorrow (also known as I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow ) is a traditional American folk song first published by Dick Burnett, a partially blind fiddler from Kentucky. The song was originally titled Farewell Song in a songbook by Burnett dated to around 1913. An early version was recorded by Emry Arthur in 1928, which gave the song its current On this video I teach the tune lick by lick, phrase by phrase, using onscreen tablature, then I put it together slowly at first, then faster toward the end, adding rhythm guitar audio overlay and onscreen chord prompts. I have posted this teaching video for
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