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@@timmyg4295 No, I have no tabs. I’m terrible at reading or writing them. Maybe you know that you can use the cogwheel icon to slow the video to help work out the notes.

@@luisrauda1925 Great! There’s lots of clawhammer banjo instruction vids on TH-cam. Check Tom Collin’s or Jim Pankey for two among many.

@@HorseObsessedGrrl Thanks! There’s a singing version of Sounds of Silence on my channel also. Check it out.

@@roserious If you claw banjo, I added a brief vid showing the fingering.

@@MountainOfSmilingBodies Thanks, I think.

@@worldofwelding1303 Sorry! I’m no good at writing or reading tab. But here’s a start: I tune to G minor capoed up 2 frets. I couldn’t do anything on it until I did that.

@@lewh4354 Alright, thanks. I'll give it a shot.

Sorry, I haven’t been getting notices from TH-cam. The banjo is in G modal tuning, gDGCD. Thanks!

@@lewh4354 no worries, thank you !

Thanks! The banjo and clawhammer are rooted in Africa, just like the blues, so why shouldn't this sound cool!

Thanks! Best to you!

Thanks, Lillyanne! How was playing at the Smithsonian Festival in DC?

Thanks! I like to get out the usual "old Appalachian tunes" genre to show the breath of styles with clawhammer.

Thanks!

Thanks! But actually it's my weird way of clawing the banjo--basically downstroke with index frailing finger, and middle finger strum or dit note. Two finger index lead might work. Tuning is sawmill G. (gDGCD).

Thank you..

I'm happy to send more, but I'm slow at this. It is a challenge to adapt blues to clawhammer (or is it the other way around?). I'm slow at it but working on it. Meanwhile, check out the other "things you don't expect to hear on banjo" here on my YT channel.

@@lewh4354 I understand, Lew! You're doing a good job at it...better than I could.

Thanks! It's not your usual claw!

Thanks, Joe! Getting this far on this song was a challenge, but a fun one!

Thanks so much! I had fun working out the guitar part.

Thanks! I play this in double C tuning--gCGCD--for the key of C minor.

Yes. There's a vocal version here too, capoed up 5 frets to fit my voice.

Thanks so much. I try on most songs to make the melody notes louder than the drones, but I made this tune to be full of chords, so there are a lot of brush strokes.

Thanks! Keep picking!

I made up the song about a short girl with long hair I had a crush on.

Thanks, Ric. I'm old, so I've been singing (sometimes poorly) for 75 years, playing guitar for over 60. That was all before computer assistance was available.

You're welcome. I'm glad you like it.

Thanks! It's a bit late to say this, but try to get some sleep.

Gosh, I don't have tab, and I'm awful at writing it. It my help to use the cogwheel icon to slow the video. The tuning is double D.

Thanks! I think it makes a wonderful banjo tune!

Thanks!

It's an earlier version of Rollin' and Tumblin'. The original recording doesn't come to mind. You can google lyrics

I'm happy that you approve.

Thanks so much. I decided to try blues clawhammer 10 or 15 year ago. I Dion't know many blues songs, but the flatted 7ths and 3rd and bends come almost automatically now. Sometimes they slip out in oldtime fiddle tunes that I play.

Deering, yes, but it is the open back version of their Sierra model which is more commonly a bluegrass resonator banjo. It has the heavy tone ring of a bluegrass banjo,.

@@lewh4354 wow it has a beautiful tone. I have a deering artisan. I really love my banjo. That is a gorgeous banjo. Thank you for sharing.

@@Orourkebanjo Thanks! I like a lot of different banjo tones, and this one especially. I think I had a hand towel stuffed in it to make it quieter while. I sing this in a separate video, but I had to capo up five frets.

Thanks! I heard it on jukeboxes in the sixties, but first liked the melody as a banjo tune, then decided to sing it. Too many lyrics to memorize, though!

Thanks 🤗

Double C: gCDCD, Key is C minor.

@@lewh4354 thank you sir.

As a banjo player, I don’t really see it being used in metal. That’s just my opinion, though.

@@lasses0450 cuz you were captivated by its non metal original use. I wish you were there when I picked one up at GC and was jamming. songwise, would be good as an intro i would think. the fade out and fade in to a electric riff

Maybe piped through an overdrive pedal?

There are electric 5-string banjos. A tele can be modified with a banjo neck to get whatever guitar sound you want.

Thanks! I'm just playing a simple downstroke bum-ditty on this wonderful song with nice lyrics and melody.