Hot Licks for Advanced Players

Licks, Backup and Picking Secrets for intermediate and

advanced Bluegrass Banjo Players

(not for beginners!)

Reading the tab, as usual: The numbers in circles above the tab are the left hand fingers, and the letters below the tab are the right hand fingers(thumb, index and middle). The tabs are in file-type .pdf

hot lick 9.mp3 hot lick 9.pdf

hot lick 10.mp3 hot lick 10.pdf

Choking in G, half-way up the neck :

hot lick11.mp3 hot lick 11.pdf

Bluesy runs down from the twelfth fret

hot lick 12.mp3 hot lick 12.pdf

hot lick 13.mp3 hot lick 13.pdf

Two-note chord ascending scales in G:

hot lick 14.mp3 hot lick 14.pdf

hot lick 15.mp3 hot lick 15.pdf

More choking(bending) the strings, halfway up the neck in G:

hot lick 16.mp3 hot lick 16.pdf

Transitions from a G chord to a C chord:

hot lick 17.mp3 hot lick 17.pdf

Back up lick in G, up the neck

hot lick 18.mp3 hot lick 18.pdf

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