Exercises: No matter your skill level, there’s something here for you. This is to earn the fretboard, work on weak points of one’s playing and to develop speed, clarity, good tone, and precision in all your arrangements.
You will receive these PDFs as download links.
Legend
s – Scruggs style
m – melodic style
ss – single string style
c – classical style (usually chord melody)
pp – pedal point technique
utn – up the neck
 | Basic Scruggs Rolls | $1.00 | |
| Chord Melody Drills (Advanced) | $3.00 | |
| Chord Scale Drills | $3.00 | |
| Pedal Point Drills 1 | $3.00 | |
| Scale Exercises: Integrating Chords | $3.00 | |
| Scale Exercises: Sequences | $3.00 | |
 | Scruggs Chord Formations | $1.00 | |
| Scruggs Fiddle Backup (4 examples) | $1.00 | |
| Scruggs Rolls | $1.00 | |
| Scruggs Syncopation | $1.00 | |
| Scruggs Two-Measure Backup Patterns | $1.00 | |
| Scruggs Upper-Neck Fingerings | $1.00 | |
| Song Endings (Beginner) | $1.00 | |
| Song Endings in the Key of G (Intermediate) | $2.00 |
Jack has spent fifty years learning to play and teach banjo and in publishing banjo instruction materials. He has acquired the knowledge and ability necessary to plot the most efficient left-hand fingering and right-hand sequencing while still rendering an accurate melody, which has resulted in playable, easily memorized melody-oriented arrangements can be proud to play in any jam session or public performance. Many feature creative and esthetically pleasing variations which can be used to win banjo contests. He has spent hundreds of hours on (expensive) state-of-the-art Finale software creating these clear, legible tablature arrangements.
Please don’t pirate them to your friends or post them on the Internet without permission. Instead, share this page link so they can download their own personal Jack Hatfield tab libraries.