How do you play claw hammer in other styles of music
So I've been playing claw hammer style for a year or two now and really enjoy it, however I feel like it's a hard style to play when at a jam with other musicians. It seems like I am somewhat limited...
View ArticleI'll Fly Away
Complete beginner here trying to understand the direction to take with learning and a goal to try and reach.If I listen to I'll Fly Away on the O Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack I can clearly hear...
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"Breakin' Up Christmas" - Clawhammer Tunetorial for 12/28/14
Watch a preview video >Key of A – aEAC#EThis week’s tunetorial celebrates the season. What better tune to use this week than Breakin Up Christmas! The tab for this can be found in Dan's book, “Kyle...
View ArticleDrop thumb & drop thumb roll practice
Hi friends,I wonder if anyone might be able to suggest some good songs o practice my drop thumb? I have mastered the drop thumb for Cripple Creek and Jawbone, and I'm ready for something a little more...
View Articlewhere should I begin? totally newbie here
I just got my first banjo for christmas. Great surprise gift from my sister. While I have played guitar for several years I have quickly learned that the banjo is a totally different instrument. from...
View ArticleTabs and Chords
Hi, another beginner question. I've noticed on quite a few tabs I've looked at that the chords are not given. For...
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Workshop and House Concert with Clawdan and more
Hi Folks,I'll be joing Bill Burke and Fred Coon for a workshop afternoon with a house concert in the evening up in Phoenix this weekend. Banjo, fiddle, mando, potluck AND a show!Play Nice, Dan...
View ArticleBob Dylan??
Anyone here play Bob Dylan tunes on OT banjo? He has some very good songs that sound great on the guitar, but I haven't tried any of them on the banjo. I don't see why they wouldn't work ok, though, so...
View ArticleTab for lucille by kenny rogers
i am new to playing banjo. I have heard a version of lucille by Kenny Rogers. Has anybody got any idea where I can find it
View ArticleMy favorite original Vega
The older feller sitting behind me let me play some on his on his old original 5 stringer Vega. Very nice condition and he's had it 60 sum years....what's crazy is he can't play at all and has this...
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TOTW (OT) 1/2/15 Waiting for the Boatman
Happy new year and new tune of the week! The first tune for 2015 is Waiting for the Boatman from West Virginia fiddler Melvin Wine, who is one of my favorite old time fiddlers.This is an entirely...
View ArticleThumb/Hand Snap Back (RSB)
I have studied the Rocket Science Banjo Basic Stroke video and tried it for myself, however I don't understand how I can get my hand to fly back to the starting point by moving my thumb off the 5th...
View Article2-Finger, Up-Picking Technique?
Working on Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down from the Rosenbaum book and it's in a 2-finger up-picking style which is new to me.If I hold the banjo the way I do for clawhammer or 2-finger thumb lead,...
View ArticleBest wrist brace ?
I picked up one at Walgreens thinking it was for a right hand - wrong !, I still thought it was too thick after I reversed it, which really didn't matter. I had a problem with the bottom part of the...
View Articleappalachian banjo tunes book
Can anyone recommend a good book with appalachian clawhammer tunes. I really like the sound of alot of the tunes, but I don't really know that many of them right now. I'd like to get a book with a good...
View ArticleClawhammer Beginners in Cincinnati?
Hi everyone, This is chapter 2 of a post I made a couple months back, titled "Looking in Cincinnati". In November I was Looking for someone to help get me started (and BTW thanks to Howard, Chris &...
View ArticleChords?
Hey guys,So I'm still a beginner, and I have taken an interest in clawhammer style, and specifically g-modal tuning (but that's besides the point).Anyway, I've gotten as far as getting fairly...
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"Cumberland Gap" - Clawhammer Tunetorial for 1/4/2015
Watch a preview video >Key of D – double D tuning – aDADE (or Double C capo 2nd fret)Dan first got this 3 part version from Thorn Cary at the Mount Airy Fiddlers Convention back about 1985 or so. He...
View ArticleIndex finger as picking finger and doing the cluck
The cluck which uses the next finger to quickly stop the string I mean. Seems to me that most people use the middle finger as the picking finger and the index finger as the stopping finger for doing...
View ArticleThree Forks of the Cheat?
I'm trying to figure out what to do while my fiddler is playing 3 Forks of the Cheat..besides go get a cup of coffee. I want to do something complimentary, and a little percussive, rather than try to...
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