Jemmy Joe plays "In Your Hands"

Jemmy Joe of For Fear The Hearts Of Men Are Failing performs their song "In Your Hands", all by his lonesome. The song is in E minor, he uses clawhammer banjo style and played as if he has something to prove! And (cough cough) sings as if he DOESN'T have anything to prove.

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• folk
• punk
• steam punk
• folk punk
• old timey
• anarchist folk
• acoustic punk
• country punk
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• country
• indie
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• anti-folk
• anarcho
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• banjo
• acoustic guitar
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• clawhammer
• fingerpicking

[XSh4d0wX]

Is your banjo tuned to the standard open G tuning or is it tuned to something different?

[4feartheheartsofmen]

@XSh4d0wX Yes, its open G, standard tuning but in the key of E minor. That's G's relative minor, so its a good fit for that tuning. I do use a few alternative tunings, though. Mostly modal tuning for minors or playing some G tunes in an F tuning, capo-ed up a step.

[DissidentDescendant]

Superb playing. You could definitely do with more views. I wonder how this would sound in a 3-finger picking style?

[4feartheheartsofmen]

@DissidentDescendant Thanks. If you wanna give me more views, I support that. :) Its new, I'm new. As for 3-finger picking: I can't stand it, myself. I imagine it'd make the song worse. Wanna prove me wrong? Its it E minor. :)

[gatorrr83]

Makes me wanna play better now

[kymusabi]

Wow, you have inspired me to learn the banjo!

[sockpuppets33]

This has been enjoyed thoroughly.

[DissidentDescendant]

@4feartheheartsofmen Ha, I play banjo but I'm only a novice, just picked it up several months ago. 3-finger picking is what I'm most comfortable with, but I've been trying to grow accustomed to clawhammer as well, because I love the old-timey sound. Maybe I'll give it a shot some time in the future, but for now I still need to get myself up on my own two feet. :)

I'll let my friends of similar musical interest know about y'all for sure.