Randy Lynn Rag

[waydav1s]

First, I LOVE your video. Very clean playing and... YOU DID IT. YOU inspired me to pick up banjo. I'm 52. Right now i'm using a old "Chicago" given to me that has seen MUCH better days. BARELY playable due to water damage. LOL Some frets have the same note for 4 or 5 frets in length at the bottom of the neck. Thing goes out of tune in 30 seconds of playing too. BUT, it is enough to show that I am interested. Looking at a used Washburn FB54. THANKS. This is how the torches are passed.

[ludwigtrap]

@waydav1s Good to hear. Sounds like you're ready for a different banjo though.

[iamelvisman68]

great picking.. and man that banjo sounds good..

[MrLongtimegone]

So clean Good Job Man..I have always found the forward roll to be much harder for me.Like you said tho it is easier for most people. Takes a lot of work to do any of them good. Nice job

[Pickinbuddy]

GREAT tone...regardless of when the Banjo was made!

[carteru93]

What year is your RB-250?

[ludwigtrap]

70-Something?

It's from the "dog years" but doesn't sound too bad.

[carteru93]

Nope not bad at all! I suspect the lack of crisp highs is from a multi ply rim. Do you know how many plys your rim has? If it's from the 70's, the ring is great, but the rim's probably multi ply.

[giggleblaggle]

You make the scruggs tuning pegs look like a piece of pie with gummi worms on top.

[floppier]

Get it up to speed and that will be some real pickin'! Scruggs used to rip that off at around 160BMP.

[sandiegoDM]

thanks for posting this! that part where you change tuning looks pretty difficult

[banjoec]

Love this song. You do it justice. Thanks for posting.

[Studenttom1983]

on a difficulty scale how hard is this song??

[ludwigtrap]

Depends on how comfortable you are with the forward roll. Most people find this to be the easiest roll; I on the other hand do not so I still struggle with this tune.

[HaydnMozartBeethoven]

in the Scruggs book the first fretted note after the tuning passage is a E on the D-string which is supposed to be slided backwards to the open D-string. I found it impossible to do that without pulling off. Are you also pulling off? I couldn't tell from the video.

[ludwigtrap]

If I'm understanding you correctly you're talking about the E on the low D string after the tuning section?

If so I'm hammering that not on.

[JaytheGreek]

Nice banjo.

[iizabunghole1234]

my buddy and i play dat on da geetar

[laerwen]

This is incredible. I've always loved the banjo, and only recently I've become a little obsessed with learning it. This is awesome to hear and see, and all of your vids are really helpful and just plain cool! Thanks for going to the trouble of posting them. :D

[yelirt5]

This is straight out of the Scruggs book?

[ludwigtrap]

Yup, note for note except for the ending which I snagged off the Carnegie Hall album.

[JasperCrabb]

ridiculously good

[napster66]

the distunnig part is amazing

[FTFDrummer7]

that's the most hardcore display of banjo greatness i've ever seen.

[fatuesque]

lmaooooooooo thats ridiculously good.I think the way you tune it (or whatever you're doing) during the song is very hendrix.

[bradfordknights]

clean, very nice. i love the keith tuners, they add almost a foreign sound.