I think I'm going to stop worrying about whether I flick or not
I watched Kevin Fore and other clawhammer players last night on a TV program. There was a whole lot of right hand finger-flickin going on. And it made sense to me, as I watched it. Fore's hand barely...
View Articleself teaching
Hi everybody, Does anyone have any advice on good clawhammer dvd's to learn from? I know there is a lot on the internet including Old woodchucks and I like that one but was wondering what dvd's were...
View ArticleTOTW 7/12/13 - Sweet Marie
For this week's tune, I've chosen Sweet Marie (not to be confused with the Bob Dylan song "Absolutely Sweet Marie"). I learned this tune this past spring from Jeff Titon, who I believe learned it from...
View ArticleMike Gregory?
Mike sold me one of his 14" banjos a few years ago, and I was going to tell him how much I still like it, and how well it's held up since I got it. I was surprised to find that his account's locked....
View ArticleRoscoe Holcomb playing style...
Hello all -I've been recently learning "Little Birdie" from TWO of Art Rosenbaum's books. He teaches an up-picking style that I'm relatively familiar with - but I'd always wondered quite what Roscoe...
View ArticleAubrey At***er
I thought I would pass this learning source on to others ( although I expect many of you know about this lady already) I have found it great fun and very helpful. The Aubrey At***er old time...
View Articledouble thumbing
I've been learning for about 5 months now, and thanks to RSB, Pat Costello, Cathy Fink, Aubrey At***er and others, I feel like I'm progressing. However, when I think about it. I seem to have got into...
View ArticleJuly 21 Dan Gellert, Adam Hurt, Paul Brown, Tony Trischka-Concert/workshops
Workshops with Dan Gellert, Adam Hurt, Paul Brown, Tony Trischka, Cathy Fink on Sunday, July 21- details attached. To reserve space send email to info@oldtimebanjofestival.com. $40 in advance, $50 at...
View Article"Translating" from Bluegrass to CH, how to?
Please help "translate" the following song. It's Green Acres, it looks like fun, and I'd love to play it. There are so many threads about (1) how to turn bluegrass into clawhammer and (2) turning...
View ArticleTablature question
I am learning this great tune. I found the tab below on the stringband web site. A great resource I might add. The tab works well for me. However, in the 7th measure between the h-o and p-o there...
View ArticleReasons NOT to do this?
I play around in chords when I am playing contemporary folk tunes - I try to throw in the key melody notes but I also brush a lot of chords when my husband and I are singing. So, here's something I am...
View ArticleKen Perlman Playing "Waynesboro"
Anyone out there in BHO land have a sense of what Ken might be doing here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipDn8v7INccI'm finding it hard to read his fingers. At the 2:17 minute marker I can read G/D/C...
View ArticleStandard Tuning and C tunes
Recently, I've started playing all my C tunes in standard tuning (gCGBD). Previously, I'd experimented with it, but had a lot of trouble with it, because I still played with a lot of heavy brushes and...
View Article5th string capo/spikes
In all the different tunings am i going to need to capo the 5th string? Using spikes seems daunting! Or do you just tune the 5th string to the tuning? I am not even playing songs yet but i heard about...
View ArticleTOTW The Devil Eat the Groundhog
I always find the history of a tune interesting, as well as information about the musicians. The Devil Eat the Groundhog comes from Kentuckian Owen “Snake” Chapman (1919 - 2002), who learned it from...
View ArticleDo you 432?
Lately I've been tuning to 432hz in stead of 440hz, its the old Verdi standard. There are all sorts of compelling metaphysical and mathematical arguments out there for it, from the square root of the...
View ArticlePete Steele
Two-finger players, listen to Pete Steele playEast Virginia on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xZvyMuVJBo
View ArticleCool Tunes in aDAC#E
This is the tuning I use for "Roustabout"...which I reckon is standard for that tune. Does anyone know of any other cool tunes in that tuning? It feels silly to get the banjo into any weird tuning,...
View ArticleSustain
I am not sure if this is the best forum to post this, but here goes. I play three finger, but I think that the music I do is "old time", think Wade Mainer. In any case, I recently converted a 1923 Lyon...
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