Free Clawhammer Lesson! -GCGCD
Enjoy! The tune is in Double C Tuning: If you are in G Tuning: GDGBD you tune your fourth string (D) down to C and your second string (B) up to C. So GCGCD...capoed at the second fret and you are in...
View ArticleBest Open Back Banjo for Finger Picking
Recently someone was asking this same basic question in a different way under a different subject title, and I thought that a more focused title might help those looking for a possible answer to this...
View ArticleTeachers in South Australia
Can any member that lives in Adelaide recommend a teacher North Eastern suburbs to teach me thumb lead 2 finger style. The reason learning 2 finger style is after 40 years a motor mechanic now retired...
View ArticleTOTW (OT) 4 April 2014, 'ROUND THE HORN
“Round the Horn,” our TOTW subject for 4 April 2014, is a G major reel, in 4/4 time written by Jay Ungar and copyrighted 1978 by Swinging Door Music. The tune can be found on Ungar’s album Catskill...
View ArticleAlbuquerque Workshop Anyone?
Hey Folks,Last minute chance to add a workshop over in Albuquerque, NM on Wednesday April 23. Anyone up for that? Style, level, Clawhammer alone or mixed with Fiddle? Now's your chance!Play Nice,...
View ArticleMetronome
I am looking for a metronome that would allow me to make loops of specific measures or songs and then play those measures repetitively increasing the bpm each time a certain number of measures would...
View ArticleFunny right hand tricks
Depending on what I'm doing I use my middle (acrylic) , index (acrylic), and ring (natural) nails. For most of my melody playing I use my index finger due as it gives me a more focused note, but I find...
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Some lessons quickly learned in my 3-finger adventure
The first thing is that clawhammer's an incredibly versatile way of playing. It seems to just intuitively adapt itself to some of the "inconveniecies" I encounterd wit 3-finger style.I now recall some...
View ArticleStages of learning a new tune (revisited)
I posted this back in 2008, when I was just a beginner. After nearly 6 years, it's still 100% true.This is often how it goes for me:I hear a tune and say, "Hey, I want to play that!"Scour my music...
View ArticleWebsite
Linda is building us a banjo website ... http://mountainbanjos.wordpress.com/ It's just beginning to take shape, but has a little 2-finger lesson stuff up and some banjo pictures. More to come.
View ArticleCritique my newbie technique?
I'm still an infant in my banjo playing, but I'd like to know what you think about this. It's just a little jam with a repeating chord pattern that gets faster and faster. Is the high string too...
View ArticleWorkshop/Camp near Toronto, On, Canada
I've been looking for an old-time or clawhammer workshop/camp near Toronto, On, Canada to attend this summer, but haven't found much. Does anyone know of any? I'm willing to drive several hours in any...
View Articlecan someone help me with the picking in this video?
hopefully I'm asking this in the right spot... i'm trying to learn Charlie Parr's version of Dock Bogg's Country Blues ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS4APQ14Ht8 ) and i'm having trouble with the...
View Articlechuck, cluck, or damping?
I see players in videos brushing with a sudden cutoff of the brush.I don't know if this is referred to as clucking, chucking, or damping.I am trying to find short videos that show the proper way to do...
View Articlevideo lessons
can any one recommend a video lesson for beginner in thumb lead 2finger style please.
View ArticleNewbie saying hello.
Hi, I am planning on buying a banjo in the summer and start playing the banjo. I heard that Clawhammer-style is a bit easier for complete newbies ( I have never played any instrument and never looked...
View ArticleSawmill's a good tuning for key of G
I guess that should heve been obvious to me, but somehow it wasn't. I can play in G ( using sawmill tuning ) , and using just one and two finger chords, as long as I stick to G, C, and D, and many of...
View ArticleJohn Burke's book of Fiddle tunes
I have just received my John Buke's Book of Old Time Fiddle Tunes for the Banjo. Here is the problem..... I purchased the book as a keep sake (for lack of a better term). But I love the tabs. Is...
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TOTW (OT) - 4/11/14 - Pretty Little Cat
This week's old-time tune of the week is Pretty Little Cat from West Virginia fiddler Wilson Douglas. You can hear Wilson's original recording of the tune on the Slippery Hill site here...
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What Helped My Drop Thumb
Over the past two months, I have watched TV while playing. I played the same patterns over and over and over. This has galvanized my DT skills. It was so easy and became so automatic that I can plug it...
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