Two Finger Oldtime Banjo Styles Darling Corey

[joeshea1010]

firstly thanks very much, very nice jump with it. with the double thumbing; is it T-I, T-I simple as that? joe

[sfdgardner]

Um, sorry but that looks like three fingers to me!

[RusnakBanjo]

@sfdgardner Yeah, I do through in a third finger sometimes but I could have just done two finger all the way through. Guess I got carried away...

[willsoflo]

Very nice. A friend of mine won 3rd place in a banjo contest in Florida this year. He played 2 tunes. I was very surprised that he chose to play one of them 2 finger style. He was very surprised to win a banjo with the tune! Thanks for posting. I'm a 65 year old beginner claw hammer and I'm fascinated with 2 finger because I play guitar finger style. I'm not ready to learn it though. Got too much clawhammer to work on.

[bison851]

A great , full sounding style of tw0-finger picking. May I ask as well, what brand of banjo are you playing? A Tubaphone?

[RusnakBanjo]

@bison851 Im playing a A.C. Fairbanks "Electric" circa 1898...The tone ring is very similar to the Whyte Laydie

[RusnakBanjo]

Find Hedy West on Youtube. She does Death of a Cowboy using the index lead without dropping her thumb. I first saw that performance in the early 60's and it was the first time I had seen anyone do it. Pete Seeger mentioned it in his instruction book, but seeing her do that blew my mind. I try to keep these techniques alive and I demonstrate the many varied ways one can play oldtime 5 string banjo. With the great popularity of clawhammer/ fiddle styles, these other styles need to be still taught

[rpeek]

Interesting.. 

[RusnakBanjo]

@rpeek Thanks for your interest...