Sounds like me watching the breakdown of Big Love on acoustic by Lindsay Buckingham. I went from "is that all he''s doing?" to "I am so bad on guitar" in under a minute.
Recently saw Molly in person. I've never seen someone's hand move so fast while she was playing. So much fun to watch and one of the best shows I've been to.
Heard her play this past May in Asheville, NC. It’s an amazing experience to watch her play! It’s like she has super powers. And such a sweet, humble person!
Molly Tuttle, probably one of the most talented people on this planet. What she does on her guitar is absolutely jaw dropping! Thanks a lot for sharing this video. Please stay all healthy. God bless!
She is an *extraordinary* talent (and by talent, I mean of course that she put in tons of work and practice to become who she is). Check out this video of her if you want to hear something else amazing!!! th-cam.com/video/awFeDMNiKX4/w-d-xo.html
I'd never heard of that style of guitar playing before, which is amazing being that it's a logical extension of a well known banjo style. And it suits Molly's open and less rigid virtuosity. Cool video.
Love this. She's always been a highly regarded player imo. Love that she got insight into this. Its basically the bass note at the last note before starting all over agsin.
3:51. See also Lungs by Townes Van Zandt, which uses the same melody as this traditional song. The version of that song on his Live at the Old Quarter album is the best.
@@cszollinger interesting enough, the origin for the alternate version of cocaine blues (the version most are familiar with via Johnny Cash) borrows its lyrical content from little Sadie
Saw her band a bit over a year ago in Baraboo, Wisconsin for $20! My wife, son, daughter and son-in-law all had fifth row seats. We knew she was an up-and-coming star, and that she would eventually become a household name, at least in bluegrass circles. What a great concert it was. She's an amazing guitarist and rivals Alison Krauss with her angelic voice.
I like the style when you tune to open D and capo up to G. Then end your “bum-dity” with index finger up pick on 1st string instead of a thumb note. The 1st string becomes the short/high G string on a banjo and strings 2-5 are tuned open G similar to a banjo. From there you can change 2-4 to any banjo tuning you like.
Still awesome! I picked up claw hammer banjo over the past year, and am much more of a roots guitar player. This is a very cool style with lots of possibilities. My advice (I didn’t come up with this): any time your lost in the pattern (typically bum ditty, but there’s more comin’!), just slow it down to a crawl (even 60-70 bpm) and regain your control, then slowly work it back up to your target. Many patterns sound like nothing until you get it going faster. Then it magically reveals its nature. Real magic!! It’s a fantastic moment of victory! A metronome is your friend.
I learned this in 1970 from Stefan Grossman's first major booklet on guitar solo. Same tuning. Also had Miss McLeod's Reel and Pigtown Fling in modified tunings.
FANTSTIC!!....as a resident of Appalachia, and forever hearing these songs, and the claw hammer technique (grampa called it 'holler strummin'..." its great to see you teaching this.....unfortunately I didn't have enough sense or patience to learn all my people had to teach before they were all gone....I didn't start playing until last year and I'm 47...lol....better late than never.....i wish I would have sat with "paw-paw" as we all called him, and learned all he knew as far as musical instruments went....he could play anything ....literally.....he would throw his fiddle to his wife (ga-ga) and she would throw him his trusty hand saw (which as a Carpenter was always razor sharp) he would then substitute the fiddle with the saw, bending the blade he held in between thumb and fingers, holding the handle with his foot, he would stoke the fiddle bow on the opposite side of the teeth of the saw, making a beautiful haunting sound, one he could nurse the melody from any song he chose, sometimes only hearing once.....that generation....they as a group are indescribable in their resilience and patience.....genuine treasures...i miss him....thank you for recalling those memories for me....
I felt in love with Molly Tuttle's music one year ago, i highly recommend this first (and only) album "when you're ready" and the ep " rise ". Just great songs, great vocal, great guitar, great arrangement. Traditional and fresh at the same time. And of course an amazing guitar player ... !!! By the way this technique is really interesting, let's work now.
Thank you Molly ! Who says an old guy learning by ear and a prayer during Covid lockdown can't learn a new trick ! Wow I think I'm getting it !...while also freeing up my trouble strumming.Can't thank you enough for sharing your awesome skills. Mike in Marblehead
Awesome ,ive been playing clawhammer banjo but a guitar is lying in the corner, now i can use it too. i suspected all along it could work ,i wish Molly lived next door so i could direct my practise time efficiently .here in west aus don't even have a banjo teacher ,but I still enjoy the noises i produce playing a bit each day. Thank you Molly, such an inspiration.
IamGulzow I’ve followed Molly for over 10 years... she has always been totally amazing, no matter what she does. Downloaded and saved all her videos... and brothers, Dad and AJ. are incredible as well. Look up all her stuff... you won’t be sorry! She’s written some good stuff as well.
I recall playing with a similar technique years ago, just doing a sort of fingers-only strum on the guitar. Now that I’m learning to play clawhammer banjo… I’ll have to give this a try….
I started doing this accidentally on guitar after starting on banjo last year. I thought it was "wrong" but sometimes I still bang out notes with the back of my fingernail anyway without thinking when I'm playing guitar. I never thought of retuning for it. Thanks for the lesson! :)
Not the same, but a lot like Mother Maybelle Carter's style. She was amazing. I love to show her playing style to my son. A great teaching tool to up and coming players. This was really good too, I will show this vid to him, he will love it
Really cool playing technique and musicianship. I love that in between drone vibe you get leaving out the 3rd and being able to drop hints of M or m in and out at will...Great vocal tone too!
Molly did 5 riffs for G P about 9 months ago.. The middle one was on claw hammer.... The mountain tuning is beautiful and I STILL can't get it!!! Nothing wrong with a challenge! Keep on plucking Miss Tuttle! X
Very nice lesson! I'm in San Francisco in your neck of the woods...used to see a lot of this at Amnesia in the good old days. Thank you for being so nice and clear!
@@johndufford5561 it detects when the audio is below a certain threshold and shuts it off altogether. so rather than any gentle ambient noise in the background when not talking or playing it slams to dead silence and feels like all the air has been sucked out of the room.
I play guitar Scruggs style banjo and have always wanted to learn clawhammer banjo. Didn't know till now that there was such a thing as clawhammer guitar. Sounds very cool.
this is so freakin cool! i had heard of clawhammer, but thought it was just the way some people pluck the strings when playing a rolling fingerstyle. life changing. thank u MOLLY! learned about a new tuning too.
Mike, there's a different style that Europeans call clawhammer that's more like Travis picking. I think Mark Knopfler has a TH-cam video demonstrating that technique.
Watching this is like listening to The Art of The Fugue by Bach 🤣🤣 Contrapunctus 1: Here's a nice, simple technique to get you started Contrapunctus 9: "And if you speed it up and a little it sounds like..." It is absolutely a solid tutorial on how to get there, I learned a TON, but it is CRAZY the gap between a beginner and an expert. Something to strive for - thanks for getting me started!
Good video. Made me remember, I had a crazy friend in college who used to write songs simply on the open strings of a standard E tuned guitar, really only so much you can do, but I appreciated his zeal.
That will teach you about interesting phrasing and call and response. I also had a friend in college who could jam on one chord for an hour and make it sound good. Fingerpicking a classical, always some ambiguous jazzy chord
Roscoe Holcomb played the guitar like a banjo in that same 'mountain minor' tuning...check him out ...he is an American treasure!! So is Molly Tuttle! I have used that tuning on both guitar and banjo, but usually play 3-finger style rather than frailing. It can evoke spooky and mysterious feelings,
Love you Molly ! Saw you on the Nashville Covid series play a song with this style of playing...loved it. Im in the San Fran Bay Are also...you should v]come back and play at the Freight and Salvage.....after Covid is cleared up..
4 and a half minutes of "I can do that!" followed by 30 seconds of crushing return to reality.
You read my mind
Haha, sometimes I can forget just how good she actually is.
It never lasts too long though.
Must. Go. Slow. Uhhh. Slower. Slower. Ah!
I'm thinking the big red "S" is hidden behind the guitar body.. LOL!!
Sounds like me watching the breakdown of Big Love on acoustic by Lindsay Buckingham. I went from "is that all he''s doing?" to "I am so bad on guitar" in under a minute.
Recently saw Molly in person. I've never seen someone's hand move so fast while she was playing. So much fun to watch and one of the best shows I've been to.
Heard her play this past May in Asheville, NC. It’s an amazing experience to watch her play! It’s like she has super powers. And such a sweet, humble person!
How about she's our new favorite super hero, okay? 😃
Molly Tuttle, probably one of the most talented people on this planet. What she does on her guitar is absolutely jaw dropping! Thanks a lot for sharing this video. Please stay all healthy. God bless!
Such a great technique/style, and Molly is a master who makes it sound effortless.
Wow, her voice sounded so beautiful in unison with the guitar part.
I really like the sound of that tuning.
I was very impressed by her singing, too.
She is an *extraordinary* talent (and by talent, I mean of course that she put in tons of work and practice to become who she is). Check out this video of her if you want to hear something else amazing!!! th-cam.com/video/awFeDMNiKX4/w-d-xo.html
Most beautiful, most talented, most interesting artist currently on the scene.
You made it look easy. I had never heard of clawhammer style but it sounded amazing when I heard you play. Thanks
Watch Andy Griffith. It's what Sheriff Andy Taylor plays all the time!
m.th-cam.com/video/BSG3shlHG7c/w-d-xo.html
She's NOT a musician
Brandon Van Delden - What do you mean? She’s a phenomenal musician
@MegaStick93 anybody defending a female holding a guitar IS ALSO A FEMALE. That's you.
I'd never heard of that style of guitar playing before, which is amazing being that it's a logical extension of a well known banjo style. And it suits Molly's open and less rigid virtuosity. Cool video.
Love this. She's always been a highly regarded player imo. Love that she got insight into this. Its basically the bass note at the last note before starting all over agsin.
Stephen Stills uses this technique as well. He was my main inspiration to learn acoustic blues and bluegrass.
The minute she started playing full on, I thought of "Black Queen!"
@@kurthallsman I was thinking of Toe the Line or Word Game when she started playing.
Neil Young too, like on "Captain Kennedy" for instance.
Yes,Stephen Stills ⚡️👍
3:51. See also Lungs by Townes Van Zandt, which uses the same melody as this traditional song. The version of that song on his Live at the Old Quarter album is the best.
@m riggs I think he was just saying that song borrows the melody.
@@cszollinger interesting enough, the origin for the alternate version of cocaine blues (the version most are familiar with via Johnny Cash) borrows its lyrical content from little Sadie
Awesome, a Molly Tuttle lesson. Rich!
As a old-time banjo player I love this!
Molly is so incredibly talented and a truly good soul through and through.
Good to hear good folk saying good things about other good folk.
Saw her band a bit over a year ago in Baraboo, Wisconsin for $20! My wife, son, daughter and son-in-law all had fifth row seats. We knew she was an up-and-coming star, and that she would eventually become a household name, at least in bluegrass circles. What a great concert it was. She's an amazing guitarist and rivals Alison Krauss with her angelic voice.
I love Molly !!! Please do more lessons with her
This is the best clawhammer explained quickly and shortly
Im glad to have a sweet teacher like you
I love Molly, she’s amazing! So happy to see lessons from her. Thanks!!!
Thanks Molly,
Thanks Guitar World...
Molly is incredible! Dig it!
matthew white... Always!
"Merciless" groove!! This will keep me busy for a while.. Thank you Molly!
I like the style when you tune to open D and capo up to G. Then end your “bum-dity” with index finger up pick on 1st string instead of a thumb note. The 1st string becomes the short/high G string on a banjo and strings 2-5 are tuned open G similar to a banjo. From there you can change 2-4 to any banjo tuning you like.
Thanks GW, and thanks MT! I loved it
Thank you for my first introduction to the Claw Hammer method. I will be working on it!
Really interesting. I just like Molly's delivery too; not complicated and not showy.
Especially for how great a player she is too. Check out white freightliner blues that she covered.
Still awesome! I picked up claw hammer banjo over the past year, and am much more of a roots guitar player. This is a very cool style with lots of possibilities.
My advice (I didn’t come up with this): any time your lost in the pattern (typically bum ditty, but there’s more comin’!), just slow it down to a crawl (even 60-70 bpm) and regain your control, then slowly work it back up to your target. Many patterns sound like nothing until you get it going faster. Then it magically reveals its nature. Real magic!! It’s a fantastic moment of victory!
A metronome is your friend.
My Dad always used to talk about clawhammer, and he used to be able to do it, too. Now I finally understand what it is!
Been following Molly for a while. I HIGHLY suggest you search for her flatpicking videos. Trust.
I remember first seeing her in a video about her getting a new guitar. She's superb!
I was looking for Molly Tuttle guitar lessons and found this!! Exactly what I was looking for
I learned this in 1970 from Stefan Grossman's first major booklet on guitar solo. Same tuning. Also had Miss McLeod's Reel and Pigtown Fling in modified tunings.
FANTSTIC!!....as a resident of Appalachia, and forever hearing these songs, and the claw hammer technique (grampa called it 'holler strummin'..." its great to see you teaching this.....unfortunately I didn't have enough sense or patience to learn all my people had to teach before they were all gone....I didn't start playing until last year and I'm 47...lol....better late than never.....i wish I would have sat with "paw-paw" as we all called him, and learned all he knew as far as musical instruments went....he could play anything ....literally.....he would throw his fiddle to his wife (ga-ga) and she would throw him his trusty hand saw (which as a Carpenter was always razor sharp) he would then substitute the fiddle with the saw, bending the blade he held in between thumb and fingers, holding the handle with his foot, he would stoke the fiddle bow on the opposite side of the teeth of the saw, making a beautiful haunting sound, one he could nurse the melody from any song he chose, sometimes only hearing once.....that generation....they as a group are indescribable in their resilience and patience.....genuine treasures...i miss him....thank you for recalling those memories for me....
Molly is awesome, love this claw hammer style
Molly rocks......such a talented, classy person.........well done🇦🇺
Eric Messer... Yep!!
Awesome! :D I've heard that kind of sound so many times before but had no idea how they did it; this was very helpful
One of the BEST pickers I've ever seen. Saw her first on the picking channel: Troy Grady.
I felt in love with Molly Tuttle's music one year ago, i highly recommend this first (and only) album "when you're ready" and the ep " rise ". Just great songs, great vocal, great guitar, great arrangement. Traditional and fresh at the same time. And of course an amazing guitar player ... !!! By the way this technique is really interesting, let's work now.
In 2019 she released another album
I’ve followed her for over 10 years.... amazing talent!... but so are her Dad and brothers.
Definitely need more lessons by Molly. One of my favorite guitarists & musicians out there now. I would kill to play 1/1000000th of that :D
Oh my!!!! Thanks, Molly!
More Molly Lessons Please!
Thank you Molly ! Who says an old guy learning by ear and a prayer during Covid lockdown can't learn a new trick ! Wow I think I'm getting it !...while also freeing up my trouble strumming.Can't thank you enough for sharing your awesome skills. Mike in Marblehead
Awesome ,ive been playing clawhammer banjo but a guitar is lying in the corner, now i can use it too. i suspected all along it could work ,i wish Molly lived next door so i could direct my practise time efficiently .here in west aus don't even have a banjo teacher ,but I still enjoy the noises i produce playing a bit each day.
Thank you Molly, such an inspiration.
That was soo amazing! MORE of these, please!
I started playing banjo a week ago I love you so much 😊
I love that technique. I want to explore it further. Thank you for the lesson.
Never heard of this before. Thanks for educating us.
Wow, that sounds great. I had never even heard of claw hammer before. Thanks Molly!
IamGulzow I’ve followed Molly for over 10 years... she has always been totally amazing, no matter what she does. Downloaded and saved all her videos... and brothers, Dad and AJ. are incredible as well. Look up all her stuff... you won’t be sorry! She’s written some good stuff as well.
m.th-cam.com/video/BSG3shlHG7c/w-d-xo.html
I recall playing with a similar technique years ago, just doing a sort of fingers-only strum on the guitar. Now that I’m learning to play clawhammer banjo… I’ll have to give this a try….
Excellent, excellent playing! Great job!
Truly inspirational! Thank you for sharing your story and showing us the claw hammer technique!
Neat. Good teaching style from Molly.
I started doing this accidentally on guitar after starting on banjo last year.
I thought it was "wrong" but sometimes I still bang out notes with the back of my fingernail anyway without thinking when I'm playing guitar.
I never thought of retuning for it.
Thanks for the lesson! :)
Thanks Molly, great lesson.
Not the same, but a lot like Mother Maybelle Carter's style. She was amazing. I love to show her playing style to my son. A great teaching tool to up and coming players. This was really good too, I will show this vid to him, he will love it
Holly Molly that was great! Thanks for the lesson
Really cool playing technique and musicianship. I love that in between drone vibe you get leaving out the 3rd and being able to drop hints of M or m in and out at will...Great vocal tone too!
Molly did 5 riffs for G P about 9 months ago.. The middle one was on claw hammer.... The mountain tuning is beautiful and I STILL can't get it!!! Nothing wrong with a challenge! Keep on plucking Miss Tuttle! X
NIce! I'm still trying to figure out RL Burnside s strumming. I'll give this a try but cant promise anything. Love your playing Molly!
New sub here, would love to see more molly tuttle stuff she’s incredible !
Congratulations, you took me from "hey, I could learn this" all the way to "aw, forget it", in less than 5 minutes!
Jep same here 😂
Yeah way too fast.
me too ... :-)
It’s doable... just takes “stick-att’em-ness”!!! 😁
That was super cool! Even has an Irish sound to it! Thanks for sharing!
Great guitarist, great teacher
Very nice lesson! I'm in San Francisco in your neck of the woods...used to see a lot of this at Amnesia in the good old days. Thank you for being so nice and clear!
"the first of her series of monthly lessons" aww yeah! this is great and i can't wait for more.
PS: the noise gate is really intense
I saw the poster but not the gate.
The gate was driving me insane
I cant stand the gate lol... makes me kinda feel sick
OIP 1, please define a "noise gate". Don't know what you mean. Thanks.
@@johndufford5561 it detects when the audio is below a certain threshold and shuts it off altogether. so rather than any gentle ambient noise in the background when not talking or playing it slams to dead silence and feels like all the air has been sucked out of the room.
Very kool technique, Thank you for sharing!
Thanks! from Central America, Guatemala City!!
JUSTIFIED! I'm hooked! Will try!
Well presented. I believe it is the best I have seen Clawhammer explained and demonstrated.
So cool! Love this clawhammer style
I play guitar Scruggs style banjo and have always wanted to learn clawhammer banjo. Didn't know till now that there was such a thing as clawhammer guitar. Sounds very cool.
this is so freakin cool! i had heard of clawhammer, but thought it was just the way some people pluck the strings when playing a rolling fingerstyle. life changing. thank u MOLLY! learned about a new tuning too.
Mike, there's a different style that Europeans call clawhammer that's more like Travis picking. I think Mark Knopfler has a TH-cam video demonstrating that technique.
@@marcperdue9975 thanks! i'll have to check it out sometime.
Nice, sounds great, especially at the ending tempo...thanks!
Beautiful playing. Thank you so much.
Wow! What a great acoustic tone that guitar had.
Robert Pickacard... it’s a Martin, of course... 🤪
@@skwrttj seems like a D-18 but nothing on the headstock? Wonder if logo wore off and what year it is?
Your explanation is fantastic! Anyone who can pick at all can add this to their arsenal.
This is excellent!! Great instruction! Thanks for sharing this.
She is so ridiculously good
That is entirely too cool! I love it!
That. Was. Awesome!
Fascinating demo!
Watching this is like listening to The Art of The Fugue by Bach 🤣🤣
Contrapunctus 1: Here's a nice, simple technique to get you started
Contrapunctus 9: "And if you speed it up and a little it sounds like..."
It is absolutely a solid tutorial on how to get there, I learned a TON, but it is CRAZY the gap between a beginner and an expert.
Something to strive for - thanks for getting me started!
So very very brilliant Angel!
I love this so much. Thank you for sharing.
I have never in my life heard of this style of playing guitar! I totally love it and am glad I came across your video. Thank you for sharing!
Watch Andy Griffith Show then.
m.th-cam.com/video/BSG3shlHG7c/w-d-xo.html
dylan does a great Little Sadie, if i recall on that acoustic double album around 1971 or so
Thanks Molly, great information for a banjo player!
Cool technique! I will give it a try. I love Doc Watson's Little Sadie great song!
Love her music.
Thank you Molly! That was a great introduction to that style of playing. Definitely piqued my interest.
Oh yeah. That's getting learned. Thank you
Good golly miss Molly! That was great !
Love your backdrop Molly, Those posters are great!!
Good video. Made me remember, I had a crazy friend in college who used to write songs simply on the open strings of a standard E tuned guitar, really only so much you can do, but I appreciated his zeal.
That will teach you about interesting phrasing and call and response. I also had a friend in college who could jam on one chord for an hour and make it sound good. Fingerpicking a classical, always some ambiguous jazzy chord
Roscoe Holcomb played the guitar like a banjo in that same 'mountain minor' tuning...check him out ...he is an American treasure!! So is Molly Tuttle!
I have used that tuning on both guitar and banjo, but usually play 3-finger style rather than frailing. It can evoke spooky and mysterious feelings,
A lesson I understood and can put to use. Thanks.
Very interesting and a good instructor
Love you Molly ! Saw you on the Nashville Covid series play a song with this style of playing...loved it. Im in the San Fran Bay Are also...you should v]come back and play at the Freight and Salvage.....after Covid is cleared up..
Love it. I play banjo and open G guitar tuning. Down the rabbit hole we go