Friday, August 30, 2024

New Backing Track For “Clinch Mountain Backstep”

“Clinch Mountain Backstep” is a Bluegrass banjo tune composed by Ralph Stanley (1927-2016), who until his passing was the last survivor of the great first-generation pioneers of Bluegrass music. This song uses only two chords, A and E (I capoed my acoustic guitar at the 2nd fret, so I played the G and D chord positions to give me the A and E chords, respectively). This song has a nice backwoods mountain feel to it. You'll need a capo on fret 2, and also for fret 7 on the fifth string on your banjo.

Although Dave Hum recorded this song, I chose to use this backing track on YouTube by Ted Lambert at BluegrassBackingTracks.com (a new website that I can't wait to be finished). I love collecting backing tracks...lol. I used this song as a template because it has a clear bass line for me to follow. So you've got my backing track, plus the one I just shared with you. Good stuff! Enjoy!
I used a MIDI bass. I'm playing my Cort acoustic guitar. I used a tambourine audio loop at the end. One of my favorite banjo teachers, Bill Nesbitt, explains step-by-step how to play Clinch Mountain Backstep. Bill also has a backing track for this song at three different speeds to help learn the song. I feel comfortable using the medium speed.

Dave Hum (1966-2012)

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