TRAD: Arkansas Traveller on 5-string banjo (frailing)

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[Update: thanks to dropthumb2 for telling me the name of the tune!]
I don't know what this tune is called, cuz I'm an ignurt young'n. Well, maybe not that young, but younger'n some, I'll bet. Remember kids, don't do bluegrass. Frailing is the way forward.

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[denrizza]

Are you using a pick on your index finger? Everybody else seems to be teaching without one. Was it more comfortable to use one?

[danielearwicker]

@denrizza - my dad tells me to wear one, because he once played all day with his fingernail and scuff right through it to the skin underneath.

[BOOM71]

Way cool. Jesus was way cool.

[danielearwicker]

What, even that stuff about doing unto others what you would like to have done to you? What if you like having something disgusting done to you?

[bluedanbob]

Thing is, we don't need another Earl scruggs or Bela Fleck, we've already had them. We need young musicians who find their own voice and blaze their own trails. Imitating accomplished musicians tends to stunt that.

[7johnnyreb]

@denrizza i like the plink sound

[7johnnyreb]

@BOOM71 amen bro

[heptagram]

@BassGeekJack I can play sad banjo.

[rpeek]

That's danged good... 

[TenaciousFlea]

great stuff.

[1MartinD28]

@danielearwicker thats pretty amazing, good job

[denrizza]

@danielearwicker Hmmm...........I've been playing on and off all day for a week (I'm a new banjo player, and haven't had that happen yet. The only thing I notice is the skin on my thumb kind of sore and because my fingernails are shorter than they should be there is sometimes a little plink when hitting the strings. Using the pick, however, does make it sound louder.

[eggsbrenny]

Not so! Look up Dock Boggs - NOT a happy fellow.