Melodic Banjo Tutorial -- Blackberry Blossom

Hear this tune played with guitar rhythm backup (slow, medium, fast) starting at 20:34. Guitar chords are provided on-screen. This tune is also an excellent chord-changing exercise for guitar. This is an instructional tutorial 5-string bluegrass banjo lesson teaching the popular fiddle tune instrumental “Blackberry Blossom,“ first recorded by Fiddlin’ Arthur Smith in 1935 and since has become a staple for fiddlers and banjoists alike. It was popularized for melodic banjo by the late, great Bill Keith in th