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I want to keep learning and improving with my clawhammer playing (thanks to your continued teachings, Jack !)

I've heard from other banjo players that there are no 1, 4,5 chords in sawmill but I always felt like that they just didn't know the chords. I searched and this is the first youtube video that explains these chords.

Black Eyed Susie Brown...I can just hear Ralph Stanley as you play. Love it.

Im a beginner clawhammer player ahd I read its important to learn double thumb technique FIRST before the bum-diddy because if I learn bum-diddy 1st THEN double thumb it wd be extremely difficult. Im confused so please advice !!!

Thanks for the tabs and easy to see demo of fingering! Boy, groundhog are a bit fatty sometimes but makes really good stew and soup! the next one that makes home under your garden shed, try it!! Surprised anyone commented about that...?? yet.

This is excellent I have been struggling on and off for years your explanation on how to take a simple melody and slowly build it into a claw hammer version is probably the most helpful bit of information I’ve come across. I can now take versions that are either too basic or too complicated, break them down to the basic melody and then build them into something I enjoy and can play. Thanks so much!!!!!! From Tasmania Australia.

I'm an absolute beginner on banjo (fair with guitar & mandolin) and this is just what I needed.

As Always, Lovely Touch. Merry Christmas Jack. STP

Sir, what kind of strings are you using?

I sent you my email but darn I could not get to where I could down load any PDF songs 🤨

Merry christmas sir. Greetings from belgium.

2:53 Why do you play lazy john on the neck and not the pot? I’m a novice and trying to understand different styles of play.

Nice One Jack. Merry Christmas. Many Thanks. STP

Thank you Jack and Merry Christmas!

Helpful!

Merry Christmas from New Zealand. I'll play it for folk night next year.

❤ Merry Christmas

great video, thanks! just messing with double c tuning and a capo to play in D I had the idea to cover the strings with a capo except for the first one (D) and that gives me a nice sort of triple D tuning as well.. very nice for D droning,, I play 2/3 finger style

Thank you I love it

Im going to start using this as a warm up. Thanks man!

Open G tuning ?

SWEET!

Hey what kind of strings do you use?

I love that!

Love It. STP

I'm having a hard time 0:49 grasping "proper" bluegrass picking or clawhammer styles and that's ok with me because I won't be playing either for my own material so I'm just busting out with my own right hand style which means I'll NEVER be able to play other's arrangements. I'm working on learning the blues scale because I will be incorporating some blues licks and riffs that I write myself for my own songs. Yes I know I'm being awfully confident and borderline cocky for a 53 year old man that just started learning to play August of 2024 but you can go ahead and put me on the books at the Grand Ole Opry because GYPSY ANGELS are on their way! I will release my first single by summer '25 called BORN IN '71. I fight with depression and anxiety really bad and I've lost so many that I love to depression so I started the GYPSY ANGELS ;YOU ARE NOT ALONE; crusade raising awareness for mental health. That's what our music is about bringing hope and a prayer to those that feel totally hopeless. I watch you daily (in fact I take your advice more than any others on TH-cam University! because although I'm not playing your style you help me tremendously with my ultimate goal!

I just ordered the Deering Vega Star in Cherry. I have to wait till February to get it. Im a Guitar, Mandolin teacher and have always wanted to learn round Peak playing. I think I made a good choice.

There’s a general music playing tip for playing any instrument that I learned in the fourth grade (1958) when I started learning my first instrument, trombone. I’ve never seen it mentioned in any TH-cam tutorial for any instrument. Tap your foot. Nothing will serve you better for rhythm and timing.And one more tip that I can’t stress enough: practice! You can’t learn if you’re not woodshedding. One more tip, track down other players and jam. You’ll learn more jamming than from any course or lesson. I’ve been making music since 1958, primarily on guitar, and I’ve learned so much from you! Thanks for all your work to help me pick up this new (to me) instrument. I haven’t had this much fun since those early trombone days. The idea that we mortals can make such amazing stuffs is one of the things that keeps me going during these trying times.

Thank you for the tips. Honestly what I'm struggling with most on the banjo is using the basic bum Diddy and applying it to songs. I have been trying to play the banjo for about 7 years now, but I can't use the bum Diddy in any song. I know how to play several melodies and have even come up with a method of playing that focuses more on melodies, by using the thumb string and the high d strings as drones. Maybe this issue comes from playing the tin whistle and singing for about 19 years now. I also play the guitar, but I focus mostly on playing the melodies even on the guitar.

Well put to the previous comment. I've been playing for over twenty years and it's people like you Jack that have definitely improved my Playing. Many Thanks. STP

Damn fine playing! Loved it!

Good work! I am learning clawhammer (got the basic rhythm down), am fixin' to move on to changing chords, and then I'll be ready to learn CC. I like that you separate the melody and teach it before adding to it. That is what I have in mind for learning all songs I play clawhammer stiyle.

I'm self taught for the last 3yrs and I def learned a lot off of you and youtube as a whole.

Gorgeous instrument. What's the make/model?

I have a GoodTime artisan. It stays in tune exceptionally well. I have the vintage vega star on order. Are you happy with the vintage star staying in tune?

Awesome! Thanks 🙏

Cc carlin is great. For a very long time I've Been finger-picking guitar so I knew I would probably keep up with clawhammer so I just went and got a nicer banjo to start with so I wouldn't waste 250 bucks just to want a better one in a year

Howdy Jack, Thanks so much! Holler at me when you get a paper tab book goin for sale?? ;>) I'm not tech savvy by no means but i sure would buy one of your tab books if ya ever print one out. Keep the videos comin i surly do appreciate them all.

Grab the tabs at www.banjoskills.com/download-5-essential-banjo-tabs

Nice One Jack. Excellent Examples. Brilliantly Played. STP

Love your content Jack, but why is measure 3 defined as a C chord not as an Am chord?

Thanks very much for this Jack - nice and clear!

A TH-cam channel I didn't know I needed, and I don't even play!😂❤

A great exercise! Thank-you.

Thanks for the tip! One Eyed Banjo

Great lesson. Thank you!

Good lesson! Once my Willow tab came through, I was marking it along with you to remind me!

I really love the graphic on the thumbnail (in addition to the video itself)

As Always Jack. Respect, Great Respect. STP.