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The basics.
Grab your five-string banjo and get ready to frail! Bob Carlin covers all the basics of the traditional clawhammer styles, teaching the chords, scales, tunings and right-hand essentials you'll need to figure out almost any tune.
The core of this style is the right hand, and Bob demonstrates, in detail, how to get the real old-time clawhammer sound. He shows you easy renditions of four traditional banjo pieces, then adds hammer-ons, pull-offs, and other embellishments that create style and complexity. Within minutes you'll be playing Shortenin' Bread and Cripple Creek in G tuning. Bob introduces Liberty in double-C tuning, which features double thumbing the fifth string, a slightly more advanced right-hand approach. The well-known fiddle tune Soldiers Joy rounds out the lesson, with Bob adding a variety of slides to the other skills you've learned.
Each song is played at a moderate tempo, then broken down, section-by-section, to highlight crucial left- and right-hand techniques. This DVD offers all the skills you need to get started in this exciting style.
(about 110 minutes)
This video was added to our catalog on April 16, 2005 in Musical Instruction::Banjo.
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I have been through the first of the two (set) of Bob Calrtin's DVD on clawhammer banjo. I thought the lessons were very well thought out and very well taught. Mr Carltin does a very fine job of explaining, playing at a medium speed to follow, and makes it easy to learn the songs. You do not need TAB, but TAB is included for the lesson songs. Great stuff. Sincerely, Dennis.
