How to Play the Banjo: Foggy Mountain Breakdown

This is an important song to learn since it utilizes a popular right hand pattern - Foggy Mountain Breakdown.

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• 5min
• how
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• banjo
• bluegrass
• breakdown
• foggy
• hand
• instrument
• mountain
• music
• pattern
• right
• technique

[Zero11270]

this tutorial at least helped me more than those stupid expert village ones.

[mauricenanalook]

@tibrotibroprokk Banjo is probly easier. It does help out if you learn the guitar. the strings are basically no different on the banjo and guitar. just the bottom, or first string they call it, is tuned at D. The only hard part, to me, was learning the rolls on the banjo. other than that, your all set'n'ready to go... have fun. I know I am. and Good luck.

[genericsoul]

you need a better quality camera, but i thank you very much for posting this video, it's not easy to learn on my own and paying for lessons is out of the question

[HeavyDutyAvalanche]

is he picking the 3 lower strings on the right?

[MSfeller]

I've been playing for 4 and a half years and still ain't got around learning Dueling Banjos and the Scruggs version of FMB. In my experience playing so far, those two, along with the Ballad of Jed Clampett, are the most requested tunes by regular people who know little about banjo, or in other words, just about everybody I come across. At least I learned the last one, better get into the other two beg'uns if I wanna please people! Foggy Mountain has always been my favorite though.

[Kyarina93]

@flopsy1997xfactor exacly...im addicted to their music, it has opened up our taste in music..acctually my sister agreed to buy the mandolin and i bought the banjo =p we tried playing the songs on our violins but it just ddnt sound the same...im so excited to play along with the banjo and mandolin!!

[flopsy1997xfactor]

@Kyarina93 hahaha i know theyre so awesome! i used to think the banjo was some weird uncool old fashioned nerdy instrument that only hillbillies play but then along came mumford and sons and now i see it as an amazing beautiful instrument! im getting a mandolin soon, like next week or something, before them i didnt even know what it was :D

[Kyarina93]

@flopsy1997xfactor same here!! once i started to hear mumford and sons, i thought, I HAVE TO PLAY THIS i immediatly bought a banjo...and here i am =)

[jrgal27]

thats not how u do a hammer on (rocking fingers back and forth)!!!

[imavampwhazup]

FMB is pretty hard to play, and the hardest part is getting to banjo to play it on