Late for School - Steve Martin cover (demonstration) no vocals

I run through the melody for Steve Martin's banjo gem "Late for school" (just the verses), sans vocals, since my throat is shot. I figured this out by ear, so I may not be exactly right but it sounds right to me.

The song is in G and the melody notes all fall within or right near chord forms as usual. If you want to learn to play by ear this is essential: Learn major and minor scale patterns (by this I mean patterns, not memorizing finger movements) and work out songs by chord progression in multiple keys. Melody comes on its own if you do.

This is not to say learning melody is of secondary importance, but just that if you try to learn the melody first you're going backwards and making it a lot harder than you have to!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Banjo
• Frailing
• Clawhammer
• Late
• for
• school
• Steve
• Martin
• crow

[MSfeller]

You bet, in such a little time, you have become a great artist on that banjo. Very good, Dan!

[bluedanbob]

@MSfeller Thanks Mike, the banjo just clicked for me in ways I wish other instruments had clicked earlier! I tried to learn the guitar (I wanted to make music so bad I could taste it) but that's probably one of the more difficult instruments for a complete beginner, and on top of that there's a lot of peer pressure and opinions on how that instrument is best played and enjoyed (I'm over generalizing a bit...) the banjo, for me, was the opposite entirely.

[ukeshale]

great stuff

[bluedanbob]

@ukeshale Thanks!

[dexeron]

Dude, I'm astounded at the way you've progressed as a player in, what is it, a year, two at the most? And largely self-taught to boot.

Sounds great, as always.

[bluedanbob]

@dexeron Thanks man, we need to jam again soon... That Pancho and Lefty tune maybe?

I think I've progressed at it mostly because it clicked for me as an instrument more than anything else I tried (and I've tried a lot, I've wanted to make music for years and had a lot of trouble getting off the ground).

It helps that I've had such great support through my learning process too!

[sirlink215]

I'd love a tutorial!

[bluedanbob]

@DreamPiano Thank you very much!

[DreamPiano]

very very nice !

Serena