The Deering Clawhammer Method (Part 2)
Welcome to the Clawhammer Method Part 2!
The first lesson is the most successful video we have posted to date and is presented by Barry Hunn.
In part two, Barry will allow you to use the clawhammer technique learned in the previous video, through to playing a full song with advanced techniques. Enjoy!
Part 2: This Land Is Your Land/Incorporating advanced techniques.
Practice Videos
Below is a playlist of videos to allow you to play along with the various steps of each video to perfect your technique.
Please, a simple tab for the melody notes segment would be a huge help for us older beginning players!
Really, really, REALLY need the TAB that matches this lesson! Even a hand-written tab that shows which strings are being hit on which chords! Thank you very much, Bill
PS – I am the proud owner of two, soon to be three, Deering banjos!
As others have commented, I found it a bit to follow which strings were being hit, in what order, in the melody-only segment. Could you provide me a tab or simple list of the string sequence, i.e. “2 3 2 2 2 3…etc.” so I can better learn the order in which the strings are hit? Love the beginner videos! Thanks, Bill
Love the videos. Love Deering banjos! Your clawhammer videos have motivated me to add this style to my repertoire…. Always trying something new is simply fun! I’ll never abandon the Scruggs style, but I clawhammer adds another dimension! Thank you!!!
I purchased and learned to play an inexpensive banjo when I was a teenager. That was 65 years ago, more or less. There was no youtube, no cd’s, videos or anything like that, and my teacher was a printed booklet that was written by Pete Seeger, called How To Play The 5-String Banjo. He taught a method that was similar to clawhammer, except the first notes were plucked instead of struck, and I still play that way today when my old fingers allow me to play at all. To my ears it sounds just like clawhammer when the hammers, pulls and slides are added. But then my ears are old too, so maybe I’m missing something here. I did buy myself a Deering recently and the little embellishments (not “legatos” as you called them in the video) do sound better on my new instrument, just as you stated. Any thoughts or comments about the “Seeger Method”?Thanks for your good work.
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