WILD CLAWHAMMER BANJO TECHNIQUE! California Roll Banjo Lesson - Steve Baughman
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- Demonstration of the California Roll on clawhammer banjo that I teach on the ZEN BANJO DVD. This is a pretty advanced technique and it is best to be really comfy in your claw hand and rhythm before trying to learn this. Also, the California Roll is so much fun that it is hard to not grossly overdo it (like I do in the intro clip :-). Try not to do that.
Enjoy!
I use a Fred Kelly fingerpick on my first finger when I play the banjo (usually) but it is not necessary for the California Roll. I have it on here in the opening bit of June Apple, but not for the rest of the video. So a fingerpick is not necessary.
Great lesson. I’m fascinated by the variety of up-stroke techniques folks will sprinkle in. This was a nice breakdown.
Yeah, thanks. Up-picking is interesting the way it fit with clawhammer.
Wow! Crazy innovation for sure. You taught me to play clawhammer banjo on your "power of the claw" guitar dvd years ago. Can´t wait to incorporate this California roll into some tunes. Thanks much Steve!
Interesting. You learned banjo from the guitar DVD? I have actually told people that was possible, but you're the first I've heard who did it. Thanks for the comment.
@@friendlybanjoatheist5464 I also learnt clawhammer first as a guitarist, from the Power of the Claw DVD. It was my first introduction to clawhammer.
I enjoyed the technique so much that I eventually decided I had to buy a banjo (I now own 5😄) to carry the exploration of this amazing playing method.
I absolutely love playing clawhammer guitar and banjo and it all started with that excellent DVD.
So that you Steve!!🙏🤝
Jonsey. Thanks for the kind words. So nice to hear you are enjoying claw. 🙏
Great to learn a new technique. Kind of reminds me of the Irish style of playing.
Mind blown! Good stuff, crazy innovative, keep it up!
Damn! Coming from you that means a lot. Thanks. Maybe we will get to hear you incorporate it into your next video :-)
Awesome. I now have a new lick.. took me 2 seconds and will be good to throw in from time to time. ruffle a few feathers ;)
Morgan deBruler Cool, Morgan. If you ever post something of yourself using the California roll, please let me know. I’d love to hear how you use it.
Very nice ornamentation that really brings out a sort of folksy feel. Looking forward to more, Steve!
thanks, Rob.
Steve Baughman, Grand Master Banjoist, Red Belt
I play an uppicking style of claw hammer, and I worked something similar to this into my repertoire. Except, my version uses all upstrokes with the middle.
Middle is my main striking finger.
I also like using my index on occasion to do a reverse drop thumb thingy. I pick the 2nd string and drop to the 1st string with my middle.
Scott Marinis hi Scott, any chance you have a recording of you demonstrating this? I’d love to hear it. You can email me at Zenbanjo@gmail.com.
Great innovation … thanks for sharing …. “swine before pearls” … ha! Also the sushi plug! 😊
I don't really like rules as a whole. Thanks for breaking one more! fantastic roll.
So good!
I love it I love it... man this is really wicked... really nice Learning..... mad cool
Week. Very neat. Cripplecreek has always been one of my favourite songs. Casting your swim before pearls? Lol
wow cool roll thanks
I have just got back into playing my banjo after a 10 year break. All my strings are perfectly in tune but when I play the 1st string on the 5th fret it is higher than G. Does anyone know why this would be?
It could be an old string, one that is no longer true, or it could be that the neck has been a little bit.
Picking up with a clawhammer? I don't know about this! lol
Very Cool!!!!
Les Claypool's technique is what influenced me in discovering this technique. What was yours?
I am from California (Bay Area)
I have been working on this technique for a couple weeks......I found this vid tonight.
Guess us Bay Area have a similar mindset.
Ben Peoples Hi Ben. Wild! I have found nobody else using this technique. Can it really by two Bay Area dudes who discovered it? I am not aware of Claypool doing clawhammer banjo. Did he do some technique like this? Can you tell me where? I would love to check it out. Also tell me more about how you do the pattern and how you discovered it? Eager to hear more. Thanks for being in touch. (Where u live? Me in SF and Larkspur.)
your video helped me finally break it down (Thank you!), I can get smoother with it now.
Ive been playing bass longer and do my best to imitate Claypool (for fun) and thought, why not try something like it on banjo. Ive also tried double thumbing, as in up/down with the thumb - in a Claypool fashion.
I just purchased 'Zen Banjo'; I am so very excited. It Combines two of my favorite practices. Im getting started on it right away! Thank you for creating this
I live just up the road in Santa Rosa. Well, Windsor.
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Hot Damm! Will work on it thx
Haha “Casting your swine before pearls” gave me a good laugh. Jesus‘ words were “Do not cast your pearls before swine,” aka vice versa, so I got a kick out of that. I think he’d have a laugh with us too :D
Thanks for the instructional vids. Keep em coming! Cheers
I took that as an intentional to imply getting mixed up though I did wonder haha.
I'm having a blast of a time with this banjo after playing a little classical guitar a while back so I I'm glad to have found this early on & will not feel bad about my up picking.
Can you slow it down
Why does banjo have to play fast? I love slow banjo
Sure I've been playing like this never realized it had a name, I just threw it in occasionally, it's fun alright
Garnett M Garnett. Sooo cool to hear that. Any chance we can get in email touch and you send me a sound file of the way you do this? I’d love to hear how you use the technique. I am at zenbanjo@gmail.com if you’d like to pursue this. I’m really interested in how other people have happened upon the California roll and what they have done with it.
What kind of banjo is that? Very similar to mine especially the tailpiece.
It is a Rickard.
@@friendlybanjoatheist5464 thanks friend 👍
What are you putting on your finger at the beginning of the video?
Fred Kelly pick index finger.
Irish roll
Awesome roll! Who was the banjo made by?
Hi Isaac. Bill Rickard in Toronto.
Thanks!
I guess so..
Never seen this type of up stroke on claw hammer on TH-cam in 5 yrs...
Sounds a bit like double thumbing.
Ralph Stanley did a similar clawhammer lick like this very cool !
Good Ole Hobo Hi. Can you tell me where?
FriendlyBanjoAtheist I don’t remember exactly I think if you search for Ralph Stanley clawhammer..If I remember right it was one of those home spun type videos but I might be wrong..But he did explain it and how he would catch some notes with that up pick of the picking finger..
FriendlyBanjoAtheist here is one that shows it if you can find the fuller version of that DVD he explains it in depth th-cam.com/video/unbKvS1QCpQ/w-d-xo.html
Good Ole Hobo Thanks. I will check it out
Hobo. thanks for this. Yes, Ralph is doing an UPpick with his first finger. Very cool. That is not uncommon clawhammer players, but it is not quite the California Roll because he is not doing the triplet thing.
If you hear it somewhere else, please let me know. The search goes on! And thanks so much for sharing this.
Awesome, it's a lot similar to like the Knoxville roll
Knoxville roll? Where can I hear one? Nothing on google that I can find.
Do you think your Banjo built itself? Atheism is ignorant. Great vid!
Jeff. You are making an argument that was outdated 200 years ago. But thanks for the kind comment on my video. Appreciated.
@@friendlybanjoatheist5464 not hardly. How can anyone believe this fantastic world just happened? What if your wrong.
@@sjeter61 Play banjo. Be happy. Keep theology off this channel. Thanks. Happy new year to you.
Have you sped the footage up slightly? You seem to be talking pretty fast at the start
No.
Nonsense. .not even a music. . .
Hey, thanks! 😂