Bluegrass Songbook by Pete Wernick

[wb8842]

My Question is: I have purchased the Bluegrass Songbook; however, I am not sure how to use it. I understand that it is applicable for guitars as well as banjos. I play the banjo, and my specific question is: In a particular measure, do you just pick the notes shown in tab, or should you do a roll and incorporate these notes in the roll?
Thanks,

Walt B.

[Pete]

Walt,
The tab is just to convey the melody. It's sort of instead of music notation. My simplified system gives the notes and the essential timing of the singing.

A banjo player can of course pick the melody notes, but by themselves that's not what people think of as bluegrass style. If you're a bluegrass banjo player, the standard thing to do in Scruggs style is to keep 8-note rolls going that include a recognizable melody, which would of course be some but probably not all of the melody notes, along with the notes from other strings that happen in rolls.

Pete

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