Banjo Blues for Beginners

Double C for clawhammer banjo is known for its sweet sounds. Today we're going to learn how to play blues within that tuning to turn it dark and gritty.
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[@TheBlueYodelingDad]

Thank you, Tom! I've been messing around in double C for quite a while, and have been drawn to its haunting, bluesy sound, but have always felt like I could do more in this tuning. For years, I didn't give much thought to scales on the banjo, but this video really opened up some new pathways for me.

[@jethrobodine4638]

awesome Tom. thanks for this video. I am new to clawhammer, just over a year of playing. i have some G and sawmill tunings under my belt, just now getting into double C and this is very helpful. cannot wait to try the scales. keep up the great work.

[@FretlessFury]

So glad this was helpful! We'll be covering lots of this kind of stuff over the summer. Cheers! Tom

[@banjodaze]

this is really helpful! awesome

[@bodurango]

Well this is weird. Just yesterday I did a "Cluck Jam". I played Cluck Old Hen for over an hour in Sawmill Tuning and just noodled all over the fingerboard trying to incorporate pleasant sounding notes into my clawhammer jam. It was the first time I ever tried that, and I loved it. I'm hooked. I will be joining your Patreon page because I am very interested in the scales that you will develop for non-G tunings. Doing clawhammer improv and jamming is definitely the direction I want to go in my playing. And I also love blues on the banjo. So a big thank you for undertaking your scales project. Also, BTW, a big thank you to Strum Machine. What a great resource for doing hours of banjo noodling. Having a backing track going makes it so much more enjoyable. No human guitar playing would want to play for over an hour while enduring my noodling experiments.