Clawhammer Guitar Power, DEMO AND LESSON - Steve Baughman
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Melody, bass, groove and power all in one simple technique. Learn to do it. THE POWER OF CLAW DVD, 26 lessons, beginner to super- advanced is available at Amazon and at www.cdbaby.com/cd/stevebaughman Downloads also available at www.CelticGuitar.com.
Clawhammer is an African-based right hand technique that injects powerful groove (fast, medium or slow) into guitar playing through a simple, repetitive motion. I demonstrate the basic technique and several bells-and-whistles here. It is also great as vocal accompaniment. Thanks for visiting.
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As a clawhammer banjo player, the algorithm sent me here. I gotta say, you're an entertaining fellow and I imagine a great teacher if I ever picked up a guitar.
"Make sure you breathe. Make sure you're kind to yourself..." LOL. Great teaching.
I saw Steve in an in-house concert in Fair oaks. One of the absolute best guitarists I've seen
Holy moly. This guy is on a different planet than most guitarist
Finally! A claw hammer video that cuts to the chase.
...WOW!!! THANK YOU, FOR THIS AMAZING LESSON ON THIS BEAUTIFUL SOUNDING STRUMMING TECHNIQUE!
I love the excitement that Clawhammer guitar is generating. To answer some of the below questions, light and medium gauge strings both work. The tuning here is double D. And yes, the drop thumb is the same as on a banjo. But it is crucial to internalize the Bum Ditty before trying fancy stuff, one of the points my poor students have heard me say a million times. Patience, Grasshopper. The wait is well worth it. Steve Baughman
Being a nerd and a guitar player learning claw hammer I made the correlation of the simplicity and power of lambda calculus with claw hammer.
Both are very simple and versatile.
Beautiful****
Bless up Steve!
I'm English, have played guitar for over 30 years and I've heard no one here refer to Travis Picking as Clawhammer! Everyone here knows that Clawhammer is a downpicking banjo technique. Also most people in the UK are either pro monarch, or like me just are just apathetic about it - we just don't see advantages in creating more politicians to vote for - it just encourages them!
Having said all that this looks like a very cool video and one I'll look to adding to my collection. Nice one Steve!
Has Sarah heard this yet? She's likely too spaced out anyway, staring at Alaska from her living room window. Great playing by the way. Anxious to try it out.
Thanks for the clear, no nonsense, explanation.
First time I see this: simply amasing. Love that technique!
Thanks a lot for this tutorial. This is really a great explanation of the technique. I am really glad I found this tutorial, definitely an advanced course to discover a whole new approach to playing.
Sir, You are a great teacher.
Thanks for the nice video. You explained that very well.
God bless you for this one mister...I'm excited for this!
Love the way you play!!!!!!!!!
Thank you so much! I always wondered how they do that!
Most excellent ... seems it takes you into the zone ... and I am rich there with you .. love the sound
awesome video, lot's of thanks for sharing!
I bought the DVD, and it's the best $25 I've ever spent on a music lessons. The DVD is easy to navigate, the sound and picture clarity is spot on, and it's given enough material for quite a while. Highly recommended.
Dave Bagwill
Thank you. Great lesson.
fantastic dvd - i love it!
Steve, I have been playing for 38 years and sound pretty good but you just schooled me in the most awesome way. Love your style, best guitar lesson EVER. My compliments to your recording engineer/ studio as well. Perfecto!
Early Audio Well, Damn! Thank you.
brilliant! thanks for this!
Love it, great lesson - you explain it well. Was on absolutely-no-clue this morning, now I'm dum-diddling all the day. Absolutely my thing!
jackdeidolci nice. Thanks.
thats excellant patient instruction ,I am going to practice thanks
Stellar. I know what I'll be practicing over the next month.
This is proper guitar playing/teaching right here! Thanks :)
Steve,Thanks!
Great! I think this will help me to learn guitar. And I like this style.
Great video. I'd learned the "Frailing" guitar techniques from Steve a few years ago. Now I'm going to learn this "Clawhammer" techniques by ordering his DVD. Thx Steve!
You're amazing thank you so much!!!
I bought his cd years ago… just happened on this tonight.. so awesome think I’ll give it another shot!!
Bonjour,
Je suis Français et pratique depuis 30 ans la guitare folk , le banjo et la mandoline bluegrass . Je suis abonné à Peghead Nation aussi .
J'apprends le clawhammer depuis deux semaines grâce à vous car votre cours , même bref , est pédagogique .
Un grand merci , vous êtes un sacré musicien et je connais bien la fatigue des mains puisque je suis ébéniste alors , le clawhammer est tout indiqué en fin de journée !
bernard
Thanks for the kind words, Bernard. Yes, take care of your hands. The right hand should be relaxed during clawhammer. Maybe it's different from carpentry. :-) Have fun.
Wow I wish I had learned this when I was younger,such a great strumming technique thank you will practice..
Hi Steve, great vid. This is helping me get used to the clawhammer style on my 6 string before I actually get a banjo. Hopefully the muscle memory will have a head start. Subscribed!
Awesome video!!
very didactic. thanks a lot and greetings from Switzerland
Great teacher
Thank You
Steve your playing is superb..a smooth captivating rhythmic sound that demands to be heard over and over..thanks for sharing your skills with us bunch o would be Clawhammer pickers....!
Thank you, Gerry. Much appreciated.
sb
great lesson, one day I will learn this.
very nice!
Thank you
GReat stuff, Sir!
beautiful
Brilliant lesson:)
Hello Steve. I really enjoyed this video. I'm primarily a banjo picker, Just picked up mandolin and started getting back into guitar. I normally play guitar in Open D but i'm looking forward to learning Double Drop D now. Keep up the great work. Your videos are really inspirational.
you, steve, remind me of eddie daniels doin instructional clarinet videos. you are an inspirational teacher! started yesterday trying to get clawhammer underhand. love the music!!
Bill Sims 😎Kind of you. Thanks.
Awesome video, gotta wait a week for my banjo to come in and came across this, very descriptive, easy to learn, even figured out the harmonic tapping, for those of you who don't know how it's done, tap directly on the fret, 12 frets away from the root note, practice on the 12th fret, once you get that down, put your finger on the third fret of any string and count 12 frets up from that (15th), you can figure it out from there, I never knew it could sound so deadly
Really really cool. I'd not even been aware of this style played this way until today. Something that I'm going to have to learn. Really well explained too! Thanks.
Thanks!
thanks Steve....I just ordered your video yesterday and cant wait to get started hopefully this weekend.....I'm an intermediate player so It should be reasonably easy to get the hang of it...just so happened that I was writing a song in double drop d and this technique will work great for an intro/outro! thanks again!
+Martinman enjoy, and thanks. feel free to let me know how it goes.
Adding the slides and pulloffs is a nice touch
I've got your CD - Many thanks!!!!!!!
Learner here, this video is awesome, to a newby.
Good teacher
superb
nice guitar ty so much
great song
Ordered the DVD off Amazon
.........................................excellent..............thx kindly........................!!!
This was f'ing cool :D Sort of reminds me of Mark Knopfler's style in fact, combined with Tommy Emmanuel :P
That hat and sunglasses can't hide your identity as a medieval friar.
Fun 👍Thanks
Reminds me of Stephen Stills. Great video on this technique. Saw a Molly Tuttle video which led me to this one. Keeper for sure! Mahalo!
Yup, Molly is doing claw. Stephen Stills had not, but he does cool stuff. Molly is the real clawhammer guitar deal.
awesome claw
You rock.
I'm really digging your progressive styles of playing. I'm a long time guitar player and short term banjo player. I switched to banjo because arthritis has limited my ability to hold on to a flat pick. I recently stumbled onto your video covering the California roll. Cool stuff, maybe a bit advanced for me but I'm definitely getting it. This video along with a couple videos I've seen of Molly Tuttle using the clawhammer guitar technique may just save my old Martin from forever languishing in it's case. I can't wait to give this a go! Thank you so much for sharing this amazing guitar style!
dannoharlski So sorry to hear about the arthritis. Yes, Banjo was actually much easier on the left hand, and if you’re doing claw hammer you don’t need a whole lot of flexibility in your right hand. I wish you much luck and joy on this journey.
Keep the hoe hand strong. Thanks for this very informative demo and explanation🤟.
This is a really cool video! I love the names of all the techniques though, they were like the Adam West Batman series, with everything starting with 'bat'.
To the clawmobile!
Great lesson. I like the fact that the bottom of your git is "cut off" which means that for long-armed dudes the body of the guitar isn't stuck under your arm pit, deadening your nerves!
Hi Steve -- I took a Zen Banjo seminar from you years ago, had trouble with Drop-thumbing, but now think I can play the Drop-thumb needed for the Clawhammer Guitar; Sounds great with the Harmonics.
nice to hear from you, Mike.
sb
awesome! :D
sick
COOL...Very Steve Stills like.
Thanks ,I stumbled on Claw by accident after struggling with organized finger picking for 30 years. I realized ,oh this must be clawhammer technique! I lost 20 years all because Im ignorant of the people who came before I . Better late than never!
It’s a cool thing, have fun with it.
yep!
great course Steve...making progress..not perfect yet.
Great lesson Steve, flowing and fast with a sense of calm about it. Threw away the pick and finally got a handle on Travis picking 6 months ago, having fun with it but years of being a mechanic has given rise to a touch of the clawhand syndrome.
Glad i found this lesson, it'll keep me going. Many thanks
THanks for letting us know. I hope it goes well for you. Yes, great fun doing this.
My new hero. He emailed me once.
I will be happy to email you again some time. :-)
This is great stuff for a banjo frailer looking to play guitar -- as I am. I was a little surprised at the Double-D tuning instead of Open-G. Do you ever drop thumb for an alternating bass or melodic play? Great idea. Great video.
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I thought I saw you do some drop-thumbing at the beginning of this video. Do you use the drop-thumb the same way you would on a banjo? Loved this video!!!!
Master...
'Imagine you're a farmer, and you've just spent a couple of hours with a hoe'. Genius.
VERY interesting inlay there between the 5th and 6th frets! ;)
It's a pot leaf.
Your playing is stellar. Thanks so much for the lesson. Have to learn this style...
Would you consider Knopfler and Mayer's styles to be variations on Clawhammer -- or something else completely? Both seem to use what looks like a CH type of position, but they generally--but not always--play freestyle, without the alternating thumb pattern.
Is Clawhammer defined as a finger/hand position as well as a pattern? I'm trying to grasp the concept and its applications. I assume it's also a pattern as it I think it evolved from banjo. Thanks in advance for any info.
Hi, clawhammer is a pattern, but finger and hand position are important. The "bum-ditty" is the pattern, but with back of the fingernails, and thumb on the pickup to the downbeat. I am not aware of any big name folks using clawhammer guitar, definitely not Knopfler. John Jackson, the blues man, is the most famous but did only one claw piece. Funk bass players do the off-thumb, but most guitar players approximating clawhammer are doing thumb on the downbeat. That is cool, but an entirely different beast. thanks for your interest.
A very simple technique, but tricky until it is internalized. Once there, the payoff is huge. But it takes some concentration and repetition to get it in your blood.
FANTASTIC! ive been getting addicted to double drop d over the last month, and after watching this video im gonna have to insist on buying your dvd! - heres a question for you have you tried mixing this technique with a slide on your little finger? if so does it work/sound nice
the best lesson!
Terence Honeyford Hi Terence, I replied to this, but in the wrong field. I am working on claw slide as we speak. I am not a slide player but I think there is MASSIVE potential for clawhammer slide guitar.
Hi, sensitive subject :-) I was guilty of extreme imprecision in terminology at the time. I have tried to get the subtitle changed, and I hope it gets changed before too many more folks notice the issue. The groove is identical, but the finger direction is not. Thanks for the comment.
Hi Steve, yes, you are correct, the book is not clawhammer. It is about an UPpicking pattern that is quite close. Sorry for the confusion.
sb
When i started with clawhammer, I tried to keep a sturdy hand. BIG MISSTAKE! Just try to relax and think of the bum-ditty rythm.
It's really a very relaxed way of playing guitar.
Just bought the mp4 from Celtic Guitar and can't wait to jump in, Steve. BTW, the listing for your DVD on Amazon has the price at $375.22, so you should check into that.
The only place I've found to get it is on his website, www.celticguitar.com/store.html
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Clawhammer or fraling feels so natural when you know how to do it...but when you start out as a beginner (banjor or guitar) it feels like "ehhr wtf is this!?" ;) Love playing the clawhammer guitar or banjo!
Joshua, I play a circa guitar, by John Slobod. Thanks for asking.
Fantastic lesson. One question: when isolating strings, do you use the index finger for every string, or a different finger for the higher strings?
Excellent Question. I use index all the way. Banjo players often use middle, and on the banjo I use both middle and index. But on guitar just index.
hi, any gauge is fine. I use mediums but it does not matter.
I completely lost my shit 225 to 225 I know my heads in the gutter but that's the funniest shit I've heard all day