Tempos
Looking over a few books that I got to help me get started, I've noticed that most tunes don't have a tempo marking. Some books don't seem to mention tempo (at least not that I've noticed). One of my...
View ArticleTOTW 5/22/15: "Italy"
Yonder comes a pretty little girl, I’ll tell you how I know,Her head is full of purtty little curls, all hanging down so low.I’m going to Italy afore long to see that gal of mine. Finger ring, finger...
View ArticleLearning Double Thumb
I started learning clawhammer about 7 months. I have been practicing with bum-ditty, plus whatever felt natural close to bum-ditty. And I can get a tune going, in a simple way, and it can sound...
View ArticleClawhammer Teacher-Newcastle Area-UK
Kinda dropped off a while ago learning claw on my own, and been messing around with two finger style ever since. I really want to get back into it but feel I would benefit from one on one lessons. So,...
View ArticleOld Time Clawhammer recordings
Hi All, I have just purchased and downloaded a copy of Dwight Diller's CD "Jericho" which has a great collection of standard Old-Time Clawhammer tunes but I am wondering if anybody could recommend any...
View ArticleBrad Kolodner work shop
Just got back from Brad's work shop at Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music. It had to be the best planned out work shops I ever attended. He used Roscoe in G tuning to show some very nice...
View Articleclawhammer, two fingers, scruggs
Hello, just bought a fretless (already have a fretless gourd, long time fretless bass player too). But since I'm playing again the fretless with banjo, 3 obvious ideas are growing in my mind :a)...
View ArticleSnake Chapman's Tune
happy memorial day, all! i'm hoping someone can shed a little light on "Snake Chapman's Tune" for me. i've been trying to pin down exactly which tune IS snake chapman's tune, with mixed results. over...
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"Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss" - Clawhammer Tunetorial for 5/24/15
Watch a preview video >aka …My Blue Eyed Gal; Western Country; Suzanna Gal Key of D – aDADE In this, tunetorial number 45, Dan "Clawdan" Levenson teaches Fly Around. This tune is probably one of the...
View ArticleDave Hum (& music download)
Sorry if I've bunged this in the wrong column, but nothing seems to really suit this thread.Anyway, I had never heard of Dave Hum until I joined BHO.What a lovely player.I see on his website that you...
View Articleplaying ascending quavers (1/8th notes)
Hi I'm trying to self-convert from three finger up-picking to claw hammer and I'm not too sure about playing some ascending phrases.One that cropped-up today was while picking through a tune that had...
View Article3 Innovative & Unique "All Instrument" Workshops, July 18th, TN
CLAWHAMMERERS? THIS IS FOR YOU!!!Wood-N-Strings Dulcimer Shop, Townsend, Tennessee 7645 East Lamar Alexander Parkway ♫ 865.448.6647presents: A Day of Unique and Innovative ALL INSTRUMENT Workshops with...
View Articlequestions about Clifftop: questions from a first-timer
Hi all,I've heard so much about Clifftop that I think I might give it a try this summer. I've found a couple of videos, and some of the discussions on this forum, but I still have questions.1. What's...
View ArticleHaving a 'bad fingernail fortnight'
Some people have 'bad hair' days and other kinds of 'bad' days. I am having a clawhammer banjo player's classic 'bad fingernail fortnight' where I cannot get a decent sound out of my musical instrument...
View Articlethis Goatskin seems to like the humidity.
Playing my Ramsey with a Balch Goatskin head on a very rainy day, and figured that the natural hide would suffer in tone. Au contraire! Sounding really fine today, no idea as to why. But this Woody has...
View ArticleNew to the banjo
I have noodled in the guitar for many years and took up the uke a few years back. They are both fun instruments to play but I have felt I am was suppose to be a banjo playerI love the sound of...
View ArticleClawhammers phrases and licks
When I was learning Scruggs style banjo, I came across several resources for licks and phrases that one could use to construct solos and breaks at jams. Even Peter Wernick on his instruction videos...
View ArticleAlternate 5th string tuning
I see that this subject is mentioned in the archives, but I want to relate my experience with it.. Today I was giving a lesson and demonstrated how different the 5th string can sound by putting a small...
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TOTW 5/29/15: Fine Times at Our House
Today we would say that he was a free spirit, one of the last, perhaps, of a vanishing breed of mountain woodsmen who lived off the land. When he was born in 1874, logging was already a growing...
View ArticleCan someone email the Booklet for Bob Carlin DVD Vol 2?
Hoping for some help -- a couple of weeks ago, I bought the 2-volume Bob Carlin DVD set, "Learn to Play Clawhammer Banjo." A couple of days ago, I cracked open Volume 2, but the file with the booklet...
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