Cripple Creek Clawhammer Style

Basic Cripple Creek in open g tuning.

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Music

Tags:

• Clawhammer
• banjo
• cripple
• creek

[KaimaniaFly]

One of my friend is at the hospital but he was often listening to your banjo saying it was magical, now, I believe him... I hope he get well soon!

[ReverendGoob]

@KaimaniaFly - Good banjo joke. I gotta remember that one.

[ReverendGoob]

You folks crack me up on what tuning it is in. It's in the key of Goob! Get y'er noses out of the book and just play.

[JohnnyTHEripperLIVE]

What kind of banjo is that?

[ReverendGoob]

Epiphone MB-250 built by Gibson. The same parts as the Gibson Mastertone. Got lucky and picked it up off ebay a few years back with the hard shell case for $150 when banjos weren't popular.Lowered the bridge/action and took off the resonator to give it a less twangy tone for clawhammer. I need to take off the flange.

[ReverendGoob]

Way outta what :) Musicians tune to each other not to an electronic tuner. Been playing music with others for over 30 years. Listen to my sawmill tuning of Cluck old Hen. That's a whole different sound. There is no tuning standard unless you are selling books or instrument tuners. There are also hundreds of tunings and styles for the banjo. That's the beauty of this instrument. Everyone has their own style and tunings. Feel the music not just "perfect" it.

[ReverendGoob]

@joereadel I'm not saying to avoid tuning. As you can hear I am tuned to myself. If I were playing with others we would tune together. Using a tuner and tuning to a standard key is only a reference and not a rule. I got past that mentality years ago. ....oh I still have my tuning forks laying around somewhere ;) Maybe I should put in a refernece note at the beginning of my songs so folks can play along? Man, these vids are old...I need to put some more up.

[oldsnoringrottie]

@Grayson412 clawhammer is for banjo players that are annoyed by the loud twang of bg banjo

[9lontoonieful1]

I like this version of , Cripple Creek. It's quite a bit different than most.

[ltswampcrawler]

@Grayson412 Clearly you are inbred and I shouldn't get irritated with you - it's not your fault. But . . . the plural (means more than one) of "pussy" is "pussies." See, now you can get back to trying to insult people without exposing the depths of your own ignorance. Have a great day!

[sopastar]

@Grayson412 It's actually more like the other way around. Clawhammer is probably more than a hundred years older than the Scruggs style you're talking about. You are neither required to play any particular kind of music genre or style on the banjo; when using this instrument, everything you do is enjoyable. Go and watch some of Grandpa Jones' videos, and tell us what you think afterwards.

[shamrock4500]

awesome job

[joereadel]

@ReverendGoob While I like your free spirit attitude towards playing music, I'm not sure telling people to avoid a tuner is sound advice. Have fun with playing, get weird, but keep yourselves in tune, kids. Your music will sound better and your mandolin player won't have to take 10 minutes re-tuning to the inevitably wonky banjo every other song.