And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
I'll be popping the frets out of my 1880's to make a scribed fretless. Got a new goatskin head coming to replace the plastic head it has now. Also adding more brackets just for looks.. Going from 12 to 30 plus brackets. Just for more bling.
@@thomasdavidson6910 I personally would sell that fretted banjo Or get Clifton to sell it for you and find you a fretless. You may end up with a lot more work for yourself by taking the frets out, more brackets, and goat is the least consistant hide.
@@thomasdavidson6910 I agree that frets are an unnecessary limitation for most traditional banjo players; after all, the banjo has been fretless for most of it's 200+ year history. However, I usually encourage people to leave antique instruments in their original condition unless the thing is already beat all to Hell. If you email photos of your banjo to me at clifhicks@gmail.com I'd love to see it, and might even be able to offer some ideas about altering/restoring it.
Ya know I’m not one to dance but from a small fella if I hear a banjo my feet just take off and across the floor I go! Love banjo it just reaches deep down in me.
We get a dozen cottontails in our yard every night. One of then shook his fist at our dog and he ran back in the house. Them Desert rabbit are not to be messed with.
Hi Clifton, I played the violin at one time (not very well lol) and these fretless banjos really fascinate me. I'm going to save up this coming year to get enough money to buy one. Hopefully in 2021 you may have one for sale. I just love how you can slide those sweet notes, I'm just an old banger, but I sure like making noise on the banjo - keeps me going (I'm 79)
Hi Clifton, got the tabs from your Patreon on this one, don’t usually bother with tabs, but nice to play a better structured 2 finger picking, mine tends to be a bit random.
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Great song Clif ,Nice lookin banjo I like how the hooks are mounted what kind of head Ya have on it I need to sing that song in church ! I know it's not a church song But Our Pastor loves to hunt lol
Just a plastic "renaissance" head. Works nicely. Turns out the chorus to this song, "Rock in a weary land, rock in a weary land," actually is in the Bible...
And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
Fretless is my favorite
Nylon fretless!
I'll be popping the frets out of my 1880's to make a scribed fretless. Got a new goatskin head coming to replace the plastic head it has now. Also adding more brackets just for looks.. Going from 12 to 30 plus brackets. Just for more bling.
@@thomasdavidson6910 I personally would sell that fretted banjo Or get Clifton to sell it for you and find you a fretless. You may end up with a lot more work for yourself by taking the frets out, more brackets, and goat is the least consistant hide.
@@thomasdavidson6910 I agree that frets are an unnecessary limitation for most traditional banjo players; after all, the banjo has been fretless for most of it's 200+ year history. However, I usually encourage people to leave antique instruments in their original condition unless the thing is already beat all to Hell. If you email photos of your banjo to me at clifhicks@gmail.com I'd love to see it, and might even be able to offer some ideas about altering/restoring it.
Charley Patton was talking about a rock in a weary land on his prayer of death.
Songs such a good song thanks for the lesson
So glad I found you. Thank you for keeping the flames a burnin.
Very nice Clifton, Cant beat a nylon/gut stringed fretless.
Gosh, yes! Totally agree
Thank you for the lesson
Love that banjo.
Can't play for a couple months.
Fell off a ladder, busted my shoulder all to hell so I'm stuck with just my left hand for a while
You can still practice your pull-offs and hammer-ons! Get well soon 😄
@@JohnyG29 I been laying it on my lap and playing slide blues on it.
I've been in a bit of a funk recently, your videos always put a smile on my face and make me feel like getting the banjo out again. Thanks always
Amazing. Still fascinated how you play without frets on that thing.
Been hunting in Kansas all week and the day I’m headed home to play you drop a good lesson. Thanks man
Ya know I’m not one to dance but from a small fella if I hear a banjo my feet just take off and across the floor I go! Love banjo it just reaches deep down in me.
We get a dozen cottontails in our yard every night. One of then shook his fist at our dog and he ran back in the house. Them Desert rabbit are not to be messed with.
My dogs won't mess with no full-grown rabbit either.
That last few minutes you to talk about open chords was music to my ears. I am so struggling with trying to have a nice sound and this helps a lot.
Love it.
Love it! So good. Bravo!
Hi Clifton,
I played the violin at one time (not very well lol) and these fretless banjos really fascinate me. I'm going to save up this coming year to get enough money to buy one.
Hopefully in 2021 you may have one for sale. I just love how you can slide those sweet notes, I'm just an old banger, but I sure like making noise on the banjo - keeps me going (I'm 79)
My Dad just started playing, he’s 72 love to hear that
@@rodshop1969 That's really oo
ol....say hello to your Dad for me.
awsome 🇺🇲🇺🇲🤠🤙🏻
Hi Clifton, got the tabs from your Patreon on this one, don’t usually bother with tabs, but nice to play a better structured 2 finger picking, mine tends to be a bit random.
Need to get me a traditional fretless banjo
Grand lesson there mate
Almost looks like it's a combination of both thumb-lead and index-lead on the two-finger part of the vid.
This would work for fretted banjo right?
Yes, sir. Same thing, I just like to play this tune on a fretless.
@@CliftonHicksbanjo I see why sounds great
Excuse me sir I've been posting comments on your videos pretty regularly for a few months and I'm really going to join your videos and I'm not sure if you noticed them but TH-cam of juice me some Very Bad Things which I did not post and we is my account so this is my new one
Great song Clif ,Nice lookin banjo I like how the hooks are mounted what kind of head Ya have on it I need to sing that song in church ! I know it's not a church song But Our Pastor loves to hunt lol
Just a plastic "renaissance" head. Works nicely. Turns out the chorus to this song, "Rock in a weary land, rock in a weary land," actually is in the Bible...
When will you do a woodie guthrie cover
Do you know "little brown jug" ifso could you do a tutorial tha is cliff.
🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤must have fretless 🤤🤤🤤🤤