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Thanks, mate!

Thanks Adrian!

Thanks Stephen! Would love to see this on mountain dulcimer, sounds really cool

I've been playing dulcimers since 1996! Got an old style banjo 2 yrs ago! I love clawhammer banjo I'm working on it! Saw you posted cuckoo bird imma try to learn that as well! Do a lesson on John Hardy!! My favorite Carter family tune! Have a good day!!

This is the A part for Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss.

Happy to help!

You bet! Glad you liked it.

Noted! This was one of my earlier videos, still working out things like camera angles!

Hey thanks Christopher! I'm playing the Deering Vega Vintage Star. I have a video where I talk about my thoughts on starter banjos here that should help ruclips.net/video/s7YHC5W0nK4/видео.html and make sure you check out the comments - there's tons of great recommendations in there. We got some really good discussion going. Personally, I like the Deering Goodtime, but there were some other really solid looking recs in a similar or slightly cheaper price range in those comments.

@@BanjoSkills Thank you!

Thanks! Is the issue you're running into that the song is pretty slow? So the melody notes are not sustaining long enough to maintain the song? IF that's the case, I'm actually working on a similar very slow modern song right now I'm hoping to post in the next month or so. Hopefull can give you some ideas!

@@BanjoSkills that's exactly what I'm running into. It'll sound great once I get a Gold Tone Dojo Deluxe

@@BanjoSkills I'll take any ideas you're willing to share.

I dont' feel like it would be super different - bluegrass with finger picks is such a different sound from clawhammer. I would probably go a little heavier on the brush strokes and maybe add a bit of syncopation to lessen the single string strikes. As I write this comment, I'm getting ideas! I may make a video about this soon 😀

@@BanjoSkills my wife plays clawhammer and I play bluegrass. When I back her leads I go up the neck and try to avoid the 3rd. When we play fiddle tunes I’m playing melodic and use the entire neck. When I’m down the neck there’s a lot of unison notes coming from the clawhammer that sometimes dilute the lead.

Yeah I was going to say, you could consider moving the clawhammer chords up the neck during those parts, and possibly lightly muting the strings. .You might try a light syncopated pattern like 1 2 (3) & 4 & where 1 is a single string, 2 and 4 are brush strokes and the &s are thumb plucks.

Yeah playing with others was what finally made me get it done A good guitar luthier shoudl be able to do it pretty cheap if you order the spikes from Deering.

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks STP! Always appreciate your support

I'm not sure which part you're asking about - but I am terrible at saying finger + fret + string 🤣 so if it looks like I did something other than what I said, you're probably right

My pleasure!

Thanks!

I hear that tick in my sleep! So useful

I’m so glad to hear that! Some good tricks in this one

Love that! So much good banjo advice boils down to "just practice". Can be hard advice to take 🤣

Awesome thank you! And Jolene will make her RUclips premiere soon!

Thanks so much. I'm working hard on these!

Glad it was helpful!

Interesting! Personally, I dig my thumb in on the inner strings as well. I find that helps my rhythm and accuracy. But I don't have 60 years of experience, that's pretty cool! Someone pointed me towards this video which shows a few different approaches ruclips.net/video/yXV4nt1Psck/видео.html and is really good.

Once you get used to playing the wrong notes lots of times, it gets easier 🤣

Could be! Thanks for watching!

Thanks STP!

I had no idea about that trade up program, that's pretty amazing! That said, I stuck with my goodtime for many years and still play it pretty regularly.

You are welcome!

Too fancy for me! Honestly, I use harmonics so rarely, that these are the only ones I really reach for.

@@BanjoSkills aww, you gotta do a short of the master of puppets main riff please

Absolutely! And I'm glad this helped !