DVD-Clawhammer Banjo#1

Starring:David Holt
Studio: Homespun Tapes
Product Type: DVD

Description

Working in G and double-C tuning, Bob details the downstroking techniques that characterize the clawhammer sound. You'll combine the basics with hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides and double-thumbing to add style and complexity to your playing.

Songs: Shortenin' Bread, Cripple Creek, Liberty, Soldier's Joy.

Customer Reviews:

I learned to play banjo from this.......2005-01-05

I learned to play banjo from this tape and keep going back to it, now that it is DVD. This is a good basic explanation of how to play five string banjo clawhammer style.

PLEASE LISTEN TO WHAT ONE OF THE PREVIOUS REVIEWER SAYS AND WHAT BOB SAYS ON THE TAPE/CD. He explains the bump diddy rhythm quickly clearly and with explanation in what seems to be a few minutes on the tape. HOWEVER IT TAKES A LOT OF PRACTICE TO LEARN IT, AND MORE TO LEARN IT RIGHT. I sat in front of the TV practicing for about two months for an hour or so every evening before I got it. Bob says that you playing wont sound like anything unless you get this, and boy is he right. Learn that, and then go on to everything else, don't try to step over it.

If you had a teacher besides this video, he or she would be making you practice and practice and practice every step of the way before going on to another. If you don't have a teacher, find someone who knows clawhammer to check you out every once in a while because it is easy to learn it wrong and then have to relearn everything else. if you don't have that, don't move on until you can play everything just the way Bob does. He's really chosen the real basics in regarding to picking and teaching to give you the fundamentals.

I would have like to have the drop thumb picking introduced this early because it is such a fundamental part of the style.

But this is as good as they come. I keep going back to it to referesh and strength my playing

Beginning Clawhammer Banjo by Ken Perlman

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Beginning Clawhammer Banjo by Ken Perlman
Starring: Ken Perlman
Manufacturer: Hal Leonard
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DVD-Learn To Play Clawhammer Banjo-Lesson 2

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Great Banjo Teacher

DVD-Learn To Play Clawhammer Banjo-Lesson 2
Starring: Bob Carlin
Manufacturer: Homespun Tapes
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DVD-Old-Time Banjo Styles Taught By Mike Seeger

ASIN: B0002VI9AU
Release Date: 2004-08-06

Description

Spice up your repertoire with more advanced techniques and a new tuning, G modal! Bob provides a deeper analysis of previously-learned skills, adds drop thumb style to the mix, and experiments with variations and endings. Advice on choosing a banjo.

Songs: Arkansas Traveler, Cluck Old Hen, The Eighth Of January, Sally Goodin.

Customer Reviews:

Great Banjo Teacher.......2004-11-15

After seeing him play alongside John Hartford for a while I got this dvd and a banjo. Bob does a great job as a teacher- he looks like your goofy uncle (that shirt, those glasses!), but comes across subdued, serious and very intelligent on the subject of playing. Like all homespun tapes, the split screen instruction is really helpful. Having seen several instruction vids- I'd say this one is a peach.

Singing With the Banjo-Songs and Accompaniment Clawhammer Style

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Singing With the Banjo-Songs and Accompaniment Clawhammer Style
Starring: Cathy Fink
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ASIN: B000E1OICG
Release Date: 2006-01-01

Description

Here's a terrific lesson for banjo players who want to sing and accompany themselves in the clawhammer style.

Starting with two easy songs, Worried Man Blues and This Little Light of Mine, Cathy shows how to find the right key for your voice, use the capo, play a simple accompaniment and pick out scales and melody notes from within the chords. You'll then learn how to embellish any tune you play with slides, hammer-ons, pull-offs and other important licks and tricks that will add drive, complexity and excitement to your songs.

Moving on to more intermediate/advanced techniques and different tunings, Cathy shows you double thumbing on Cumberland Mountain Bear Chase; old-time modal sounds for Shady Grove; waltz time with Irene Goodnight; and a show-stopping version of Oh! Susanna that combines a variety of advanced devices unique to this style.

Description

The banjo inspired a great variety of playing styles in the South during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. On this in-depth DVD lesson and demonstration, Mike Seeger presents a survey of those styles, teaching each of them to help you develop a full range of repertoire and traditional techniques.

This is the first of a 3-volume series covering virtually all of the major banjo styles and techniques, as well as a look at some of the types of banjos that have been played throughout its history in America. Volume 1 focuses on a family of styles generally considered to be of African origin and variously known as clawhammer, frailing, rapping, drop-thumb and down-picking. Each video section features a song or tune with brief information as to its style and source, a complete performance of the piece, and detailed split-screen instruction on how to play it. You'll also see a close-up view of each of the nine banjos used.

Mike teaches a wonderful variety of songs that you'll soon be adding to your repertoire: "Soon in the Morning, Babe" an African American clawhammer picking style from Mississippi with gourd banjo; Josh Thomas's "Roustabout" an African American accompaniment technique from Virginia; "Jim Crack Corn" an irregular-accent clawhammer style; "Battle in the Horseshoe" a basic clawhammer tune; "Darling Cora" using Kentucky multi-finger brush technique; "Devil's Dream" in North Carolina up-pick, up-&-down-stroke style; "Little Birdie" using two-finger Kentucky up-pick, down-stroke style; Around the World, in a three-finger up-pick down-stroke style; and "Whoopin' Up Cattle" a clawhammer piece on a double-drone-string banjo.

The pieces on this DVD encompass a wide range of difficulty. Some will be easy enough for a near-beginner to be able to play, and an advanced intermediate player will quickly be able to master these pieces and greatly benefit from Mike's program.

Book Description

This two-DVD set covers the fine art of clawhammer banjo. David Holt is considered one of the finest players and teachers of old-time clawhammer banjo. Start with the fundamentals including right and left hand technique in Lesson 1. Lesson 2 covers advanced techniques including thumb rolls. Lesson One: 60-MIN DVD * INCLUDES TAB * EARLY INTERMEDIATE LEVEL. Lesson Two: 55-MIN DVD * INCLUDES TAB * INTERMEDIATE LEVEL

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Warning - not for the novice.......2007-02-13

I bought this DVD thinking that it would be for beginners, but I soon realized that it assumes a fair bit of prior knowledge. The early quote by the instructor: "Now, I know you already know how to play clawhammer style..." was kind of a giveaway there.

This DVD is for those who know the style but want to "shade" their renditions, or develop their own style of embellishment. I guess I'll save it for later, but I'm now looking for another DVD to help me get started.

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not instructional

DVD Old-Time Banjo Clawhammer Style
Starring: Frank Lee
Manufacturer: Homespun
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ASIN: B000BJS4OE
Release Date: 2005-10-01

Description

Frank Lee, of the sensational old-time band The Freight Hoppers, has one of the strongest banjo sounds around.

On this lesson, Frank breaks down the traditional clawhammer style that has become his trademark. He teaches seven great tunes and the "tricks of the trade" that make his playing stand out in the field of old-time players. You'll learn right hand techniques for drop thumb playing and how Frank gets his percussive upbeat clucking sound; his use of a pick on his middle finger; and the details of his banjo set-up.

Frank starts off with Wade Ward's "Half Shaved," a "crooked tune" in C tuning. He discusses the "diddy-bop lick" and analyzes all of the techniques necessary to play the tune. Then he launches into "Cider Mill," a high-energy tune using the famous "Galax" lick.

Moving to G tuning, Frank teaches some invaluable exercises to improve technique and musicianship -- no matter what style you play -- such as "the spider," a powerful exercise to loosen your left hand. You'll also learn closed chord positions, scales, chord substitutions (6ths, 7ths, minor 5), movable G and D position chords, and other important information to allow you to play up and down the banjo neck.

One of the hallmarks of old-time banjo is the vast number of unusual tunings that players use. Frank teaches two tunes in EBEB, "Shaving a Dead Man" and "Shortnin' Bread." He then moves into GDGDE for "Stony Point" (also known as "Pigtown Fling"), and it's back to C tuning for "Hell Broke Loose in Georgia." David Bass joins Frank to show how a banjo and fiddle work together in a traditional tune like "Sandy Boys," and then the entire band joins in for a rousing finale.

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not instructional.......2007-03-09

this dvd jumped right into a song without detailed, or even a little instructions. i learned nothing. besides the 2 hours of reading between lines i did right when i got it i havent picked it up since.