This is truly what guitar playing should sound like. When I first picked up a guitar in 1970 this was the style of sound I had in the back of mind, but over time never could make. All I could ever do was simple chord strumming. (who can't do that?)
Wish I stuck with the guitar and learned something like this.
...although some players have adapted banjo clawhammer / frailing techniques to guitar - Martin Simpson is perhaps the best known and certainly one of the most accomplished practitioners of this style.
This alternating-bass and fingerpicking technique was introduced to me as "clawhammer", which I accept may be a bit of a misnomer...
No, it's not. It's just that the meaning of "clawhammer" has changed over the past half-century. In the first edition of Pete Seeger's "How to Play the Five String Banjo," he references the "guitar-like" system of fingerpicking as "clawhammer," in clear contrast to "frailing." Likewise, Alan Lomax calls that guitar style of yours "clawhammer" in "Folk Songs of North America." Later editions of the Seeger book, however, reflect different usage of the term in question.
For true clawhammer, listen to Neil Young's acoustic stuff.
goredeathrot 3 months ago
amazing! what do u record with? : )
xRknDz 4 months ago
not clawhammer, but beautiful picking!
sazji 5 months ago
please post a how to play video!
ghsr82 6 months ago
thats not claw hammer its just finger pickin
brandonch25 7 months ago
Pretty music. NOT Clawhammer.
poneyboy23 1 year ago 2
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TheDrunkenHer0 8 months ago
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@poneyboy23 what is the clawhammer?
please teach me the ways....
lmao
TheDrunkenHer0 8 months ago
you have surprisingly good audio for your crappy camera. Good on ya!
kingbill733 1 year ago
Video title should be changed to Travis picking rather than clawhammer ...
But great picking .........
seefan1 1 year ago
Fantastic.........
tonypk0710 1 year ago
nice pickin. not clawhammer though
chaospahn1981 1 year ago
Nice pickin', but isn't clawhammer style.
coolmodine 2 years ago 7
Luv your style.
5041carol 2 years ago
This is truly what guitar playing should sound like. When I first picked up a guitar in 1970 this was the style of sound I had in the back of mind, but over time never could make. All I could ever do was simple chord strumming. (who can't do that?)
Wish I stuck with the guitar and learned something like this.
Deneb33 2 years ago
hey it's not too late!
mikoduciel 2 years ago 2
spectacular
Deneb33 2 years ago
nice
LuvLennonMcCartney 3 years ago
nice, very nice, not clawhammer, that's Travis picking. Nice though.
banjoleper 3 years ago 16
lovely
NuG919 3 years ago
reminds me of Doc Watson sometimes
lutshow 3 years ago 2
@lutshow only sometimes, i'm not very familiar with doc's work but I know he played with a flatpick so there are some differences.
migasaguiar 1 year ago
...although some players have adapted banjo clawhammer / frailing techniques to guitar - Martin Simpson is perhaps the best known and certainly one of the most accomplished practitioners of this style.
This alternating-bass and fingerpicking technique was introduced to me as "clawhammer", which I accept may be a bit of a misnomer...
domfox 3 years ago
No, it's not. It's just that the meaning of "clawhammer" has changed over the past half-century. In the first edition of Pete Seeger's "How to Play the Five String Banjo," he references the "guitar-like" system of fingerpicking as "clawhammer," in clear contrast to "frailing." Likewise, Alan Lomax calls that guitar style of yours "clawhammer" in "Folk Songs of North America." Later editions of the Seeger book, however, reflect different usage of the term in question.
L82106 3 years ago 2
Very well done, by the way.
L82106 3 years ago
yeah man for real
TheHolographicUniv 3 years ago
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TheDrunkenHer0 8 months ago
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@domfox Does 'clawhammer' style come from Donovan?
TheDrunkenHer0 8 months ago
clawhammer on the guitar is different from clawhammer banjo.
TheAlmightyDom 3 years ago
Pretty good playing, but that isn't clawhammer.
bojanglefunk 3 years ago
That sounds pretty cool.
TheAlmightyDom 3 years ago