Advice for clawhammer players
This comment is a paraphrase of an article about the Singer Sewing Machine in 1949 ..Hope you like it."Prepare yourself mentally for playing your clawhammer style banjo . Think about what you are...
View ArticleRiley Baugus workshop in Galax
Kirk Sutphin and Riley Baugus will be featured at the next Crooked Road Weekend at Chestnut Creek School of the Arts, October 24 and 25. The weekend includes fiddle and banjo workshops and a...
View ArticleTOTW (OT) 25 September 2015: Candy Girl
Argh. I just wrote a really long and thorough post, but when I submitted it, it didn't post. Paging back didn't help. It's gone! Once the annoyance wears off I will try to write it again, (copying...
View ArticleClawhammer fingernail advice (advice given not sought)
I've recently had a lesson re-enforced, and I have decided to post a little bit of nail care advice. Most of you probably know this.When you cut or file your frailing nail, always smooth the edges down...
View ArticleSuperb example of old-style 3 finger stringband style
Here's a recording, snagged from YouTube of Long Eared Mule, rec. 1930. Posey Rorer, fiddle, (known as Charlie Poole & NC Ramblers' fiddler), Lewis McDaniel (guitar) and Buster Carter (banjo).
View Articlewhat is this playing style
I came across this video on youtube and i really love the sound of this type of playing, i've heard this style at festivals too, but i can never figure out how it's done? I can't tell exactly what his...
View Articleclawhammer on a bluegrass banjo
Not sure i phrased that subject right but here's what i mean. I'm still very new to learning the banjo but, love it can't practice enough. i started bluegrass style with the picking and than came...
View ArticleOrlando OT Jams???
Will be in Orlando in Early November..... Do I need to bring a 5 string?
View ArticleName This Tune, Please
This little dance tune, played on banjo and fiddle, appears in a 2011 motion picture, 17 Miracles.I recorded it from the TV speakers, so it isn't of the best quality and the participants are all...
View ArticleHow do/did you gague your own progress?
Kind of sounds like a stupid question, or an obvious one, but specifically I'm interested in progress during a plateau. I ask because I'm coming up to my one year mark and definitely feel like I'm at...
View ArticleTunes with a C part
Evening allI've recently become interested in songs with a third C part. So far I've got 'Boatman Dance', 'Sandy River Belle' and Rose for Polly'. Can anyone suggest a few more titles I could look into...
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TOTW (OT) 10/02/15 - Tippin' Back The Corn
Good friday morning, all!Our first TOTW for October '15 is another one of them new-old-time tunes, written by Chicago fiddler Jordan Wankoff. I tried reaching out to Mr. Wankoff a few weeks ago (via...
View ArticleBasic Jam Requirements?
What would you all recommend as prerequisite skills with respect to joining in at an OT jam?I know that context is everything, that the answers depend on a lot of factors...I'm hoping there are some...
View ArticleHomespun dvd Carlin vs. Holt
My wife is getting into clawhammer. I can show her the real basics but I am a two and three finger picker. I have had good luck with Homespun over the years so I want to get her a dvd set from them....
View ArticleUneven Volume: Clawhammer with a finger pick
I've been diligently practicing clawhammer, and though I'm very comfortable playing with bare fingers, my nails are just wearing away badly. So I've reluctantly concluded that wearing a fingerpick is...
View ArticleStuart Mason. Oil in my vessel
Anyone who enjoys old time music needs to check this guy out he is a super star. http://www.banjohangout.org/myhangout/videos.asp?m=d&catID=0&id=26161
View ArticleBreaking a tune up into phrases
I just started doing this and at first it was easy, because my teacher laid it out in lesson in the context of a tune I had been working on. But when I carried it over to other tunes, and especially...
View ArticleHow to get good old time on Pandora/iHeart ?
Wondering if anyone has good suggestions for Pandora stations that get good old time/fiddle tunes. I've tried a few different seeds, but it seems like the stations have a hard time finding much variety.
View ArticleSore finger nail
I bought a GoodTime a few weeks ago and have been trying to learn clawhammer. It has become uncomfortable to strike the strings with my index fingernail. (Sore under the nail.) What the heck? Is...
View ArticleTOTW (10/9/2015) - Black Cat in the Briar Patch
Black Cat in the Briar Patch comes from the fiddling of Melvin Wine, who is the only older musician I've ever heard play this tune (it's possible that Sarah Jane Blake Singleton also knew this tune as...
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