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LyleK - Posted - 02/19/2008: sixteen:fifty:53

"Bluemule_77" started a actually interesting thread titled "Teachers/Pros: Who taught yous?" (meet http://www.banjohangout.org/forum/t...IC_ID=107055 if you oasis't already looked at it). I hope there will exist more posts to that.

That thread brings to mind a related question. I keep hearing clips from BHOers who are "novices" in terms of the corporeality of time they've played, but seem to exist progressing at an admittedly prodigious charge per unit (much, much faster than I did "dorsum in the day"). Is this the effect of DVDs, workshops, camps, teachers, books, youtube, ...?

LyleK
http://ezfolk.com/sound/bands/1084/
tabs at: http://lylek.abode.insightbb.com/

Beak Rogers - Posted - 02/nineteen/2008: sixteen:59:58

I practise recall that my younger sister, never having played a banjo, learned the basic "bum-ditty" clawhammer stroke from me in all of 90 seconds. She did little afterwards that, simply the path was at that place had she chosen to follow information technology.

Nib

haiku - Posted - 02/19/2008: 17:08:22

Internet...
All the good advices from here, lots of watching in Youtube.

And listening, listening and listening. There'due south a lot of free stuff available, from the digitals librairies for the old recording to archive.org for current stringbands alive recording. Plus the BHo jukebox.

That'due south why I think people tend to learn "faster" than back in the days - you lot tin can actually watch the old guys right in your living romm 24/7 instead of driving a 1000 miles to visit them.
It's obviously not exactly the same thing, but stille a darn adept assistance!

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Hats Off to the Zebras
http://www.myspace.com/hobohaiku

Edited by - haiku on 02/nineteen/2008 17:eleven:42

banjo13 - Posted - 02/19/2008: 17:11:54

I picked up the bum-ditty pretty fast from an 83 year old eastern Kentuckian, who learned from his great uncle when he was growing up. My start vocal was Cripple Creek. The best thing about learning from him was that he has taught music most of his life merely for the joy of seeing others play and would never have money for it, and I am quite mayhap the last person he will ever teach Clawhammer banjo to. He is at present most 85 and notwithstanding beatin out notes better than I tin can, he is a remarkable person, much like a grandad or old uncle to my brother and I.

Tyler Greene

wannabanjo - Posted - 02/xix/2008: 17:20:41

The Internet for me likewise! If I waited around to notice an onetime-time player in my area, I'd be ii years behind where I am now.

Besides offering a lot of instruction information itself, the Internet also pointed me in the right direction for books, festivals, etc. that I wouldn't have discovered otherwise.

Mark
http://www.mmwords.com

Stoneface - Posted - 02/19/2008: 17:33:57

quote:
Originally posted by LyleK
That thread brings to mind a related question. I keep hearing clips from BHOers who are "novices" in terms of the amount of time they've played, but seem to be progressing at an absolutely prodigious rate (much, much faster than I did "back in the 24-hour interval"). Is this the issue of DVDs, workshops, camps, teachers, books, youtube, ...?

LyleK

In my case, in particular, I learn from dvds, books, youtube, the hangout and recently I have a teacher (thanks again to oldwoodchuck, who contacts me to a friend of him, who lives here in Frg in my hometown and teaches clawhammer ).

All in all, without the internet, I wouldn't take made such a progess. In these days, y'all can get every necessary data, etc, with a few mouse-clicks...

And not to forget, as time permits, I practise a lot

Regards,

Oli

DelusionsOBanjer - Posted - 02/19/2008: 17:47:21

One of the things I find interesting is the idea that I would never have fifty-fifty discovered old-time music were information technology not for the hangout itself. I'thou not maxim that I hadn't heard Doc Watson or the Carters, merely I wasn't really into the '60s Revival stuff similar Pete Seeger. And I'd never heard nor knew anything virtually Mike Seeger. I might never take gotten interested in southeran Appalachian fiddle tunes, that side of things. (When I was in college, pre-Internet in the early '90s, by far my favorite of hundreds of records I owned was a Balfa Brothers dabble and guitar record that I establish for a few bucks by chance at a record shop. I had never run across anything like that. If I had discovered sometime-time fiddling then, I'm sure I would take jumped on it. But in those days, y'all had to lookout man for music at places similar tape stores or at your university library or maybe your university radio station. It was kind of hard to come by interesting new music then.)
Like a lot of folks, I bought a banjo figuring bluegrass was all there was for the instrument, maybe Dixieland as well.. It is true that if yous go to enough bluegrass festivals, y'all'll hear some folks playing CH, merely often, at to the lowest degree where I'chiliad from in the Southeast, they're playing in styles that are pretty bluegrass-sounding, maybe considering they're playing a really loud clangy resonator banjo. I think something as exotic equally, say, a person playing a Circular Peak type melody on a freless gourd banjo is something I might never accept run beyond at all were information technology not for the hangout. Clearly, the Internet has a lot to do, not merely with the prodigious learning footstep of a lot of these folks (I'chiliad Not one of those!), as well every bit the sheer number of old-time players today.

And how many people would have any idea about the even more previously obscure minstrel-type banjo styles, were it not for SoundOff! posts and and so along. Now, the one caveat here is that clearly the Banjo Newsletter has been covering old-time for a long fourth dimension, but the MP3s weren't there, accessible and for free, like they are now. And trying out an old-time tab without start understanding the stroke would exist pretty tough!

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Edited by - DelusionsOBanjer on 02/nineteen/2008 17:50:05

slabounty - Posted - 02/19/2008: 18:xix:38

Well, at a personal level, I learn all-time from books (but didn't really "get" clawhammer until I saw Dan L.'south DVD). We actually live in a golden age for learning just nigh anything, not just clawhammer. Between the cyberspace, easy to create DVDs and music, y'all can learn or teach just nearly anything. In the clawhammer earth, we're in fifty-fifty better shape every bit many of the leading lights of the scene are actually hither. My guess is that even on a apartment pick guitar site you wouldn't have Tony Rice or Dan Crary hanging out (maybe I'yard wrong), merely here we take people like Dan Levenson, Mary Cox, R.D. Lunceford, Chris Coole, etc. willing to share their thoughts with us. That doesn't even include all of the other talented people who may not tour or have CDs out that are willing to share (OldWoodChuck, etc.). So yeah, it'southward a adept time to learn just about annihilation and a improve time to learn clawhammer.

Scott LaBounty
Orange, CA

njaxx - Posted - 02/19/2008: 18:39:27

TableEdit and excellent tab form Jack Baker's site.

jhandsfield - Posted - 02/19/2008: 18:39:51

The two people most responsible for teaching me were Grady Tuck and Pam Ostergren, both playing primarily at the Heritage in San Diego at the time. Grady taught me a lot of how to put a song together. Pam taught me frailing/clawhammer - or at least gave me a starting time. Grady died a couple of years ago - far as well young for that kind of talent - and I'm not certain where Pam is now.

Jim Handsfield
jhandsfield@mindspring.com

dennywv - Posted - 02/19/2008: eighteen:47:27

Most of my banjo instruction has come from the Net. I'grand really amazed by all the resources that are available - from setup, to instruction books and playing tips, tabs, buying advice, mp3's. Then there's all the corking discussion that goes on here. (I'm still on dialup, so I miss out on youtube.) I've made a page of the links which have helped me alot, mostly for my own convenience, and placed it in my signature.

Denny Sayre

http://www.geocities.com/dennywv/frailing/

Edited by - dennywv on 02/19/2008 19:09:01

Clodhopper - Posted - 02/xix/2008: 19:20:08

I started out bold that Scruggs style was the only style. I had my fathers Peter Wernick book that he had gotten in the seventy's when he decided he wanted to larn to play. Somewhere in that book he makes mention of other styles of banjo playing which of class prompted a google search. Bluegrass banjo kind of felt similar an ill fitted pair of overalls to me, simply when I discovered clawhammer I idea "hither we are". I don't quite know how somebody who likes all kinds of music as much equally I do could go 39 years without knowing much of anything about Onetime Time Music in general and clawhammer banjo in detail, simply that was me.
Anyhow, I started out with Ken Perlmans book, in conjunction with reading the Banjo Hangout forum everyday, and watching y'all tube video's (I may exist responsible for a majority of Jim Pankey"southward hits). When I started to become a little bored with the Perlman book I got Dan Levenson's book and started to work out of that. Those books start kind of from different ends, so I sort of feel like I am working toward the center sometimes. It was nice to accept the dropthumb well under mode from Levenson when I showtime encountered it with Perlman. Recently I have started working on tab from Mike Iverson and Tom Joad. They all accept a piddling different feel which helps to keep things fresh.

It's never also hot for java, it's never too cold for beer.

rendesvous1840 - Posted - 02/xix/2008: xix:28:13

I started with Pete Seegers book when there wasn't a whole lot else available. That was the simply banjo book in the store, and they had to hunt for information technology. That was fine, every bit Pete and The Kingston Trio were the main reason I wanted a banjo.There was a 16mm motion picture bachelor for rent to go with the Seeger book, only no one I knew had a projector for information technology. I after bought Pete Wernicks Bluegrass Banjo book, but it never grabbed me like Pete's OT styles.The banjo was a inexpensive resonator model that still drives me crazy with the wa-wa issue it does if I motion but a little while playing. It's subtle, but it changes pitch.And so I mostly played guitar, raised kids, etc. The next main step was my wife buying me a dulcimer kit. After edifice it, I started with a volume, and heard about a festival. And then I went to that, and heard how proficient a CH banjo sounded with dulcimers. I bought Miles Krassens volume Clawhammer Banjo and worked on that a while. It came with a soundsheet. A flimsy picayune phonograph record. At present I wouldn't purchase whatever book that didn't come with a CD or a DVD. I'yard dorsum to some of the ii/3 finger OT styles over again. And to me, they sound as good as anything else, when done past people who play well. Played by me, well, nevermind. But I sure savor myself.I bought a much ameliorate banjo in January 2002, and I can hardly wait to come home from piece of work and play. Even my guitar gets jealous.
Paul

"A master banjo player isn't the one who tin play the most notes. It's the one who tin impact the most hearts." Patrick Costello

jasper - Posted - 02/19/2008: 20:05:39

Enjoy your posts Paul, We got to get together sometime for a jam, send me an email.......Jasper

Relax,grab your Banjo, take a Homebrew.

Isaac Enloe - Posted - 02/20/2008: 08:47:01

Looking back, I was pretty lucky to get into the music virtually a vibrant old-time community. I got to spend a lot of time listening and watching some really cracking players. I also made a lot of friends who were into sharing field recordings and I still spend a lot of my time collecting and listening to scratchy quondam dabble recordings. Every bit I've gotten better, I've been playing more than at firm parties and local festivals/jams, but I spent many a night sitting in the corners of rooms at parties or in the dark on the border of festival jams just listening--withal exercise, in fact!

Within this community I met two of my best friends--a married couple, 1 of whom is a BHO member--and nosotros played music at least once a calendar week for a couple of years. Aside from listening, I'd say this regular playing with two close friends has so far been about important in my growth as a banjo player and musician.

I was also lucky enough to accept made some swell friends and "mentors" (I judge you lot could say) who are older and actually experienced players. I include Brendan Doyle (BHO member) and his wife Maxine in this group. My first and well-nigh influential mentor is Heath Curdts who is a terrific banjo player and spent a lot of fourth dimension learning and playing with Tommy Jarrell. Heath encouraged me from the beginning to walk away from tab and spend as much fourth dimension listening and playing with others as possible. Through a bizarre but happy accident, I got to spend a month at Mike Seeger'south house last summertime, helping him with an archiving projection, playing music, and hearing some really astonishing stories. These days I'm lucky to live almost Bosco, who is a smashing musician and friend.

To boil information technology downward, for me it has been about:

-Listening as much every bit possible, trying to internalize the music and how it feels, and developing a sense of what I like and what I don't and then that I know the sounds I want to make.
-Playing with others as much as possible, especially regularly with a fiddler in small sessions or one-on-one.
-Connecting with and learning from the older generation of experienced players, who have learned from their elders.

That'southward the story then far. I love beingness a novice at this whole thing. It feels like I've taken only a few steps on what's sure to be an incredible journey over the side by side (God willing) fifty years or so!

Isaac

"In that location's more than to think of than yous's idea of, ain't information technology?"
-Paul Sutphin

janolov - Posted - 02/20/2008: 09:15:35

I have been learning banjo for a very long fourth dimension and accept both ups and downs, mostly downs. I started with Pete Seeger's book and learned his basic strum, some thumb-lead upwards-picking and some nuts of three-finger.

Then I took a break for some years, but got Art Rosenbaum'southward book and Earl Scruggs book that woke up my interest again. I had difficulties with the frailing but I made some progress with 2-finger and threefinger picking.

Then I got married and took some other break for some years, but after a divorce I started again in a small scale and continued with the same books. After some years I managed to go some kind of clawhammer stroke that worked. I also tried to play finger-style guitar during that flow.

Then I got married once more, got children, built house, made a lot of travels in my work and didn't have any time for the banjo. The banjo were hanging on the wall for 19 years.

Then in the summer of 2005 I went by a music store that sold out sometime videos, among them 1 of Mike Seeger (Old-Fourth dimension Banjo Styles). Then I started once again, but concentrated on clawhammer and a petty ii-finger picking. And then it has been since then.

When I restarted in 2005 the music on Internet was a totally new experiance for me. There were free tabs and there were mp3:s to listen to. Later a while likewise all these video clips became available. And at that place was BanjoHangout, which is where I have learnt most.

Jan-Olov

Yopparai - Posted - 02/twenty/2008: 10:50:14

I, as well, would have never 'found' clawhammer had it not been for BHO and hearing information technology in the sound off section. My teachers were folks like Zepp, and Erich (vrteach) and Mike Iverson.. People who I take never met - well, except for Zepp - and with whom I have never had a unmarried lesson. But past listening and watching them play(via the internet), and using the resource they provided, I was able to not only go the motions, but as well to get a sense of the spirit of the music.

That and an mp3 histrion total of former-fourth dimension music and field recordings and BHO soundoffs.

Loo P. - Posted - 02/xx/2008: eleven:04:17

Videos accept been the greatest help then far. I've been able to take lessons with Bob Carlin, Ken Perlman & Dwight Diller even though I've never met any of these wonderful players.

I''ve as well learned a agglomeration from forum members such as Zepp, oldwoodchuckb, Mike Iverson, Chip, LyleK, R.D. Lunceford, Dan Levenson, Tom Collins, Mary Cox, John Balch & many more who have been so helpful.

Cheers everyone !!!!!!

"MUSIC IS WHAT FEELINGS Audio LIKE" (Anonymous)

LyleK - Posted - 02/20/2008: 11:38:02

Well, I wouldn't have expected a random sample, just still information technology looks like the internet and DVDs are a prime source (neither of which were bachelor when I learned). Many of you who have responded are on my deeply guarded listing of "Novice major offenders" - people who play like they've been at information technology for ten times the corporeality of time that they've actually been playing. Were that the case for me I'd be giving Methuselah a run for his money.

LyleK
http://ezfolk.com/sound/bands/1084/
tabs at: http://lylek.home.insightbb.com/

RatLer - Posted - 02/20/2008: 11:40:34

I started out playing Scruggs style. Only after listening to an elderly friend play drib thumb-claw hammer as best he could with arthritic hands, I knew I had to larn that. (never take figured out the driblet-pollex part)Also, I was really struggling with the Scruggs manner. I never had any lessons, read very little music, most tunes I acquire past ear, and I'm not all that musically inclined...then it didn't come like shooting fish in a barrel. Near jam sessions I go into are with bluegrass pickers. Of course they don't await too much from an erstwhile claw-hammer banjer picker, just they do raise their eyebrows when I proceed right upward with the three finger banjo picker on Foggy Mtn. Breakdown or Rocky Summit!
I'd have to say I've learned the virtually from playing jam sessions. As my confidence grew I could leap into a lead part or just play redundancy and rythum.

RatLer

J-Walk - Posted - 02/20/2008: 15:29:thirty

I've been at it for about two years, completely cocky-taught (and it shows).

I learned a lot from watching YouTube videos, but mostly the way I learn is listening to recordings and figuring out the tunes past ear. I'll use tab occasionally, merely it'south much easier for me to learn by listening. I also attended a Levenson workshop, and had a semi-private lesson with him. Both of those were really helpful. This weekend, I'm off to Clawcamp West!

Nide44 - Posted - 02/20/2008: 17:14:24

I was in college from '62 thru '65-'66 and played guitar in java houses from '63 to about'68.
I had a buddy that taught me some guitar equally well, and we did an act together.
(Kinda like the Smothers Brothers- lotsa vocals and shtick)
At some festival, maybe the Autumn Glory Festival in Garrett County of Western MD,
somewhere effectually '65 or '66, I establish an one-time time boy of nigh 65-70 years young,
and he taught me the basic strum.and a few chords. I got a chord book and played alongwith my buddy for a while -as a change-off for variety. He occasionally played
a Ludwig Dixie, 4 string plectrum banjo that I had inherited from my dad,
fabricated around 1920. (I've even so got it), but I was never really interested in four string.
I lost my old Harmony Bakelite v cord about '68 and hadn't thought about information technology until 2006.
I decided that it was fourth dimension I really learned to play and got an old Gretsch
student openback, made about '66.. I remembered well-nigh of how to do the basic strum
(muscle memory) and remembered a few chords, and then I got me a Mel Bay (I think) chord book
of 2000 chords for the 5 string and a DVD of Bob C's instruction
and went to the races. Now I've taken a workshop from Dan, and found that.......
......."there own't no bum-ditty" !

Bob B

Penchaser - Posted - 02/20/2008: 22:13:08

I first saw clawhammer virtually twenty years before I started playing and was fascinated by the clawhammer technique only could not effigy out how it was done. Zoom forward 20 years and I decided that 2006 was going to be the year I was going to conquer the banjo. My local music shop refered me to this guy:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=mi1LsreNvmc

Fortunately he lives about 20 minutes from my business firm and have taken well-nigh 10 lessons, which has to be the ultimate style to learn clawhammer. Now, if I could but discover some folks to play with on a regular basis.

Bob

Cottonmouth - Posted - 02/20/2008: 22:33:26

Since get-go my clawhammer journeying last November I accept been aided by a Mike Seeger video which includes a segment with Dr. Watson; a Bob Carlin video, a David Holt DVD; Mikel Iverson's fine spider web site; oldwoodchuck's YouTube instruction, as well every bit MP3s I've obtained from various artists similar Laura Boosinger and Abigail Washburn. Where has all of this taken me? Nowhere in particular, every bit you might approximate, but I hope to comprise those sounds I particularly like to hear, into the fashion I play. I played mandolin in church building on Christmas sunday and one of the songs we played was "Bring A Torch Jeanette, Isabella". I struggled with the melody, simply found clarification in listening to Mary Z. Cox play it in clawhammer style; what a blessing!

"Look upwards; He is coming dorsum!"

maryzcox - Posted - 02/27/2008: 20:17:11

Hello Ken,
LOL
I love it that you played that lovely ballad for Christmas Sunday--because that's how information technology started here.
My expert friend, Ellen Sheppard, was visiting and it was in the fall and we began fooling around with some pretty carols we knew. I had merely got my Gabriella and I was playing it--and her husband was so entranced with that banjo that he but blurted out
"hey==why don't you play advent service with us?"

So that's what we did. I drove over to Fort Walton and Ellen and I played Calorie-free the Torch and as well We 3 Kings for advent at St. Simon'southward by the Sea.

Well, nosotros really got to liking those tunes and then much--we drove back to Tallahassee and recorded them. Then, concluded up putting them on our concluding CD fifty-fifty though it wasn't a Christmas CD, considering nosotros just liked the fashion those tunes sounded.

All-time wishes,
Mary Z. Cox

www.maryzcox.com
If y'all suspect you need a new banjo--you do. Trust your musical instincts. If a banjo calls to you to buy information technology, don't fight destiny. It was meant to be. :)

ZenPickin - Posted - 02/28/2008: 05:58:13

I have to thank BHO too! Honestly, I didn't know what CH was as such until I came here and started listening. Suddenly, I knew I was home!!

I had some musical (classical) training a long fourth dimension ago, and I was a school teacher for many years, then I was pretty confident virtually self-pedagogy. In the past 5 months I have listened to OT music nigh non-cease on CDs, youtube, here on the jukebox, etc.

I watched OldWoodchuck's rocket science videos - which finally REALLY sank in - THANKS OldWoodchuck!!! And I watched everyone else I could notice. At that place was a lot of trial and fault, and still is, but I've begun to identify which players I actually love and listen to them a LOT.

I learned to read tab and use it as a reference betoken, and I play about iii hours a day when I can. My best instructor is the absolute thrill I get when I'm playing and it sounds like I retrieve information technology should.

Proud Mom says: Check out my son's new original song music video
~ audio-visual bass & blues vocals
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lugTfZw80gk

Debbielee - Posted - 02/28/2008: 06:41:23

I was exposed to Quondam Time Music while growing up in rural Michigan. My Granddad was an Old Fourth dimension fiddler. Later on his chores he would spend hours everyday fiddling by himself. I never appreciated the music during that time, but I recall it must have made an impression. It wasn't until I was an aging adult that I picked upwardly the banjo. Never had a chance to play oldtime music with my grandfather, and that saddens me. As far as learning...At start it was mostly from instructional cloth that offered CDs. Thank you R.D. Lunceford and Dan Levenson. I did a lot of listening. Now I can option upward nigh things by ear...Thank you Grandpa!

Debbielee

Clawdan - Posted - 02/28/2008: 08:nineteen:23

quote:
Originally posted by Debbielee
I was exposed to Old Time Music while growing up in rural Michigan. My Grandfather was an Sometime Time fiddler...Cheers Grandad!

Debbielee

At present I'k curious. Who was your Gramps? Was he a member of the Michigan Old Fourth dimension Fiddlers groups?

Play nice,
Dan "Ain't no bum-ditty" Levenson
www.ClawhammerBanjo.us
Come to Clawcamp!

dbrooks - Posted - 02/28/2008: 09:05:52

In 1963, the banjoist for the Stephen Foster Story in Bardstown, KY, agreed to permit me follow him around for most of the summertime. His name was Mike Lawrence, and he got me started with Travis picking on the guitar and a fiddling bit of Scruggs-mode playing on the banjo. Mike played in costume at My Old Kentucky Dwelling state park in the afternoons, and I often went out there to dorsum him upwardly and but absorb the music he was playing.

I played folk and bluegrass through loftier school, college and grad school. My playing diminished as our kids got older until I was picking up the guitar or banjo three or 4 times a year. About 8 years ago, I got the urge again. Hippie flashback? Possibly. I decided to have the neck reset on my old little Martin.

While my guitar was in the shop, I pulled out my Vega longneck I bought in 1969. I had never been able to master the clawhammer stroke before, but my banjo quietly insisted that it needed a clawhammer thespian. I gave information technology some other try. I institute I had a Ken Perlman book I bought 10 years or and then earlier, then I began with that. I soon found that I could get a decent clawhammer sound with Dylan'due south "Y'all Ain't Going Nowhere." I began looking for other instruction.

I purchased more Ken Perlman instructional books and his 6-CD set up. A friend suggested I sit in with the volunteer Mon night contra dance band. I rapidly constitute out I could not play fast enough to keep up with them. But I persisted, learning lots of new tunes along the manner.

In 2004 or 2005, I volunteered to work at IBMA in Louisville. I cornered Dan and Jennifer Levenson a couple of times in the hallway, and he gave me some very helpful impromptu advice on correct hand position. He likewise suggested that some of Ken Perlman's arrangements might be a bit besides complex for contra dance tempo. Dan suggested I buy his Clawhammer from Scratch volume. I idea I was across beginner status simply bought the book. I attended a weekend ClawCamp the next two summers and got terrific assistance from Dan (and Jennifer).

I keep to play in the contra trip the light fantastic ring as much as I tin can. I listen to lots of old-time music (to my married woman'southward dismay). I accept spent the winter trasnferring some former cassette tapes to CDs and have heard lots of bully former-time players and music in that process. I have institute Mike Iverson's tabs and MP3 files very helpful. BHO has been a great resource. Then the Internet has been terrific at hooking me up with other bang-up players and teachers. I notwithstanding do non accept DVDs still.

David

yard-hog - Posted - 02/28/2008: 09:26:46

I played fingerstyle guitar for years, and then messed effectually with onetime-timey finger picking on banjo a lilliputian fleck here and there. I tried Scruggs a petty and found I tended to mix in fingerstyle guitar licks, which I didn't really want to exercise on banjo...and so out with Scruggs fashion for me.

When I finally got my ain banjo, I stumbled beyond Dwight Diller's website and ordered a couple of tapes... Intermediate Banjo (OUCH... that was Difficult to learn from!) and Modal. I studied that Intermediate banjo tape for over a year, and finally started to become the hang of information technology, sort of. At present I am planning a trip to visit with Dwight this jump, and get it down better than I am able to practise just on my ain. I've been playing consistently now for about six years on clawhammer banjo.

Recently started putting some up on youtube... but don't have much fourth dimension for that http://www.youtube.com/user/groundhogpeggy

roger martin - Posted - 02/28/2008: 15:03:51

Though I played banjo (very little) way back in the late 60's my only experience with sometime time was my g begetter ,who played a combination of old bluegrass and claw.
I actually didnt go serious about onetime time until terminal jump when I designed an exibit for the mall where I work featuring old mount style instruments.We didnt have the money to buy several of the existent matter if we could even detect them,instead I decided to disappear in the workshop and build a replica of a dulcimer and then an old manner monutain banjo . Using soft wood to keep costs downwardly.
One time I did that I thought maybe I could build the real matter.That has snowballed into building real lil banjos just as simply as I can.Using methods and parts that the one-time guys may take used back in the old days.
I'm now trying to learn truthful clawhammer but am hampered somewhat by a stroke I had a couple of years ago.Merely I'm getting there!

Roger MArtin

MrSrubas - Posted - 02/28/2008: 18:54:44

This was a fun thread to read, thus far.

I'chiliad a self-proclaimed novice.
When I first started, I spent a lot of time with a lot of recordings. I did some tab stuff some sheet-music too. I too spent A LOT of time in the sound-off section.
Present, I don't do enough of any of that...

Back to lurk-way,

Steve Srubas

Loo P. - Posted - 02/28/2008: nineteen:21:38

quote:
Originally posted by MrSrubas
This was a fun thread to read, thus far.

I'm a self-proclaimed novice.
When I first started, I spent a lot of time with a lot of recordings. I did some tab stuff some canvas-music also. I also spent A LOT of fourth dimension in the sound-off section.
Present, I don't practise enough of any of that...

Back to lurk-mode,

Steve Srubas

I really want to hear you play when y'all become an adept.....

prossignol - Posted - 02/28/2008: 22:42:fifty

Some books, some of oldwookchucks videos, lots of listening to onetime records....and Im reminded of something that Steve Martin said about learning the banjo: "Obsession can be a reasonable substitute for talent"

"....I wish I had that pan full of squirell head gravy..."

RWJones1970 - Posted - 03/01/2008: 23:53:15

The most helpful resource for me to larn the clawhammer way has been instructional DVD'southward. Dwight Diller, Dan Levenson, Bob Carlin, David Holt, Mike Seeger, and Ken Perlman are among the best of what I take owned. These are invaluable equally you can always rewind and break every bit many times every bit it takes....put it away and and then go back weeks later to learn more. I accept also purchased about every major tablature publication available to the public. Once I developed my own technique I used tab as a backbone to many other traditional tunes. I accept spent endless hours learning in my petty isolated log cabin up here in Parish, New York. Anytime I hope to meet most of yous at a festival somewhere that I might exist blessed to learn from you also. I already am thank you to this incredible website....

Snap-On - Posted - 03/03/2008: 10:45:21

I started out by working through ezfolk.coms tabs. I loved how for most of their songs they had different levels of difficulty, which helped from just learning how to hitting the cord, through the bum diddy, to drop thumbing. Too when I bought my Goodtime I also picked up a re-create of "Frailing the 5-string Banjo", which had some great beginner stuff in there.

I think the source that'due south helped me the about though, especially recently, was Mike Iverson's site. Great array of unlike levels of difficulty, different techniques, different tunings and unlike styles of songs that helped me figure out what I liked, what I didn't like, what I picked upward quickly, and what I had to slog through by brute force.

I'm sure I'm in the minority here, but I tried online video, youtube-type lessons, and didn't really feel that I got much out of it. Hearing the song and tidbits of advices helped, but I've found that my prefered method of learning is finding a song tabbed out, maybe with audio, and practicing it to decease until information technology becomes 2d nature. Watching somebody play didn't do me every bit much good as hearing somebody play.

littlefletch - Posted - 03/05/2008: 01:58:51

I had never really idea about the banjo until I found one in my attic six months agone. In my expanse, clawhammer isn't actually very prevalent, but then, neither is BG. I had never actually seen anyone play any style of banjo.
Later discovering the banjo in the attic, I felt compelled to learn to play. I bought a banjo book, information technology was for BG.
1 of my friend'due south dad'southward friends knew someone who plays banjo and directed me (through the grapevine) to this site. BHO has been the best resource for me. Information technology has too directed me to other sites which are very helpful and the questions and posts from experienced players, and beginner players are all quite enlightening.
Sincerely, thanks to all who post.
All-time of all, BHO has brought clawhammer into my life.
I am a definite beginner, I am struggling, merely I proceed practising.
The internet is a great matter.
Simply I have yet never seen anyone play the banjo live.

Edited by - littlefletch on 03/05/2008 02:01:12

Everbody - Posted - 03/05/2008: 20:51:00

Our family isn't musical and we've been kicking an erstwhile four string around with an old, old Mel Bay book. It's probably so out of adjustment to exist unplayable. I gave up on information technology 20 years ago. Now I have a decent beginner'due south 5 string and a whole lot of resources on the net. I'll utilize the internet to find a jam group when I know a few more chords. Will acquire with a buddy who jumped into it subsequently hearing me bum-ditty a few times. I'thou counting on technology to learn erstwhile time music!
To those who are learning from quondam timers... beg, borrow and run a video recorder during the lessons. They tin be edited later, much later if necessary, past others who know that skill, to preserve their music and their way of life.

twelvefret - Posted - 03/05/2008: 21:xx:37

I have enjoyed reading this thread a lot. I would like to add my experiences.

I leaened CH banjo from a YouTube video.

I learned the concept of drop thumb from R.D. Lunceford.

I learned when to throw in a drop thumb from Clyde Davenport.

chuck

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"uniformly poor intonation trumps solidly incorrect notes" LyleK

" Our music is office of a different arrangement. The rules of classical music don't employ. " R.D. Lunsford

"If nosotros all wanted to audio similar one dude, I call back we would all be playing another kind of music." Oldwoodchuck

"Whatever darn fool tin can brand something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple." Pete Seeger

Banjo Rob - Posted - 03/07/2008: eleven:00:12

I originally moved to NC to acquire how to play. I took lessons from Wayne Erbsen so played around with some contra folks. I quickly realized that although DANCING to contra music is fun, PLAYING contra music totally sucks if y'all're a banjo player.

I soon found some former-timers (lots of 'em, really) and started playing weekly with them. It was playing regularly with other people that helped me progress faster.

Also, trying to acquire different styles helped me. I was playing "traditional" bum-ditty clawhammer, hit a plateau and then started focusing on Round Elevation style. At present I experience I'm hit some other plateau and only came across some fabric from Tony (see "oldwoodchuck", here on BHO and Rocket Science Banjo videos on YouTube) and I'm going to effort and "acquire to play the banjo again" to try and incorporate some newer ways to play into my mode.

Playing off paper is helpful, but learning past ear with a group of people is by far the best way I accept learned. Besides, its more fun that way, too! Tony (oldwoodchuck) has some humorous thoughts regarding tablature and learning. I highly recommend checking out his material. Not anybody, however has the ability to be surrounded past tons of OT musicians (I don't live in NC anymore) then in that respect paper is helpful. Thank God there'southward resources out there like YouTube and BHO that allows us the ability to see so many people playing dissimilar stuff. It's almost like having a mini-jam in your house!

"Our music is part of a dissimilar arrangement. The rules of classical music don't apply."

- R.D. Lunceford

nmusser - Posted - 03/07/2008: 13:43:xiv

Self-taught -- with aid from:

Pete Seeger book
"Clawhammer for ignoramuses" volume
Bob Carlin DVD
Ken Perlman book
And and then lots and lots of listening and trying to figure out "How'd they do that?"

SoggyBottom - Posted - 03/07/2008: thirteen:46:15

Back in the early fourscore's, I institute myself living in Tennessee for a couple years … for some reason a number of locals took a liking to me (existence from the due west they called me an "exotic") and used to play tunes in my living room. Ane evening they said they would no longer come and play unless I joined in … asked what I would like to play I said "banjo" … they showed me the basic bum-ditty and from there I was on my ain. I am sure I have adult every bad addiction there is, but I love to play banjo

SoggyBottom

Sultans of Claw - Posted - 03/08/2008: 21:43:04

So far, information technology's been a conversation betwixt my banjo and my ears!