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Category: Technique

Here you will find my various technique articles. This is a growing archive for my existing students, but I offer them in the hopes that you may become a student yourself! Click on the “Lessons” tab for more information.

Modal Arpeggios for the Tenor Banjo

Here is a tenor banjo arpeggio lesson that I have written. It…
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Posted on: 29 Jun 2020 Written by: Ron Hinkle Comments: Comments: 1

Plectrum Playing for Modern Banjoists: MP3s

Here are the exercise examples that go with Plectrum Playing for Modern…
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Posted on: 4 Sep 2019 Written by: Ron Hinkle

Notes vs. Chords part 2

In my recent blog Notes vs. Chords, I attempted to describe my…
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Posted on: 6 Jun 2019 Written by: Ron Hinkle Comments: Comments: 4

Sing, Play, Sing

This phrase refers to a common banjo band song “arrangement”; sing the…
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Posted on: 5 Jun 2019 Written by: Ron Hinkle

Notes vs. Chords

Thanks to my desire to learn how to improvise jazz (and the…
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Posted on: 27 May 2019 Written by: Ron Hinkle Comments: Comments: 1

BMG Articles on Scales

A few years back, I wrote a 5-article series on scales for…
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Posted on: 10 Mar 2019 Written by: Ron Hinkle Comments: Comments: 2

Tire Kicking

I have two serious challenges for you at the end of this…
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Posted on: 13 Feb 2019 Written by: Ron Hinkle Comments: Comments: 6

Jazz Patterns for the Tenor Banjo

This will be a slow-growing page, as I am concentrating on the…
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Posted on: 15 Sep 2018 Written by: Ron Hinkle Comments: Comments: 4

Melody in Other Places

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Posted on: 5 Mar 2018 Written by: Ron Hinkle Comments: Comments: 1

Modal Scale Compendium

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Posted on: 30 Mar 2017 Written by: Ron Hinkle Comments: Comments: 2

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Ron Hinkle has been playing the four-string plectrum banjo for over 40 years, and writing/teaching for 25 years.
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