"John Henry" Seeger-Style Banjo
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- Demo/instruction for Banjo 2: Seeger Style class at Madison College, Fall 2013. Tuning gCGBD.
Tabs:
Here's a link to the course packet that I made for that banjo class. It includes a syllabus, lyrics, and tabs for this song an several others.
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Great work. To me this actually sounds real similar to George Pegram's "John Henry."
Oh...my...goodness...
he said “good enough I guess” this phenomenal!!!
Thank you for posting this
Your right hand looks absolutely effortless and I'm jealous.
I finally learned your version and played it for friends at my local Senior Center. They loved it!
That's great! Congratulations! That must have been fun. :)
Hello from Wales. Just wanted to thank you for making these Pete Seeger videos and encourage you to continue making video. Its all really good stuff.
I recently picked up a banjo and a copy of Petes "How to play the 5 string banjo" and having your videos as a reference is honestly beyond words.
If you ever decide to do one on one lessons via zoom or something I would certainly be interested.
Gan ddymuno'n dda i chi.
Thanks for your kind words!
Thanks for your efforts in keeping these songs and Pete's banjo style alive Colin. I saw Pete at a lunch time concert at the University of New South Wales in Sydney Australia in 1963 and his music has stayed with me the past 50 years.
Thank you!
I need you back Colin! Besides pete you are my inspiration! 🙏 🙏 🙏
Thanks for the kind words! I hope to continue the Dock Boggs series with "Country Blues" soon.
Thank you for creating this. It's a track I'd heard since I was a little kid and the banjo playing part has eluded me in my adult years.
Wow--lots of great pointers here on playing clawhammer but making it sound like Scruggs style. Gonna be trying some of these out tonight for sure!
Thanks. I've wondered how Pete played some of these figures. Great job.
Hey colin greetings from ireland! You should post more videos man! I miss them tutorials! I play a longneck goldtone!
Hello to Ireland!
Shit man ! 😯 that was a great performance !!! 💥
Thanks!
I think you have a great singing voice!! :D
Thanks!
Sounds great! I've really been enjoying these videos - translating some to plain ol' clawhammer and taking baby steps into seeger style on others. Thanks Colin.
Thanks! I'm glad you're able to go back and forth between clawhammer and Seeger style. They're pretty similar.
Really good teacher..I am going to retrain myself to learn this style. Thank you Colin
This is great, good work!
thank you for this tutorial, the banjo community is so helpful!
Excellent banjo and singing!! Great job!
Thats pretty cool sound. As a clawhammer player myself having a go at 3 finger picking, what you are doing could be a better way to go for me.
Maybe. It's the same rhythm as clawhammer, but you're up-picking and brushing down using three fingers. Good way to transition.
Thank you for the tutorial. Great job! Very inspiring.
another great lesson thank you
Glad to see you make mistakes and just recover and keep going... trying to learn how to that...
:D Yes, that takes humility and self-forgiveness. And being too lazy to re-record the video.
Man that put a smile on my face!
Colin, this is really great, I'm so nearly there learning this but can't quite seem to make the transition between the fast bottom string bit back to the driving rhythm, it just doesn't sound right when i play it. Don't be hard on yourself about the vocal either man, it's brilliant. Such a great video - thank you.
Don't think of it so much as a transition so much as just a continuation of the bum-ditty rhythm. The last bum-ditty on the bottom string is followed immediately by another one on the third or second string, which happens to be part of the accompaniment.
Colin Bazsali Thanks, Colin, I'm probably trying to run before i can walk so I'm slowing it all down to make it smoother - thanks for your advice!. j
I'm no specialist, so my opinion is totaly subjective. But it just feels so right. You seemto master the banjo and these lovely old folk songs in a delightful way.
Bravo.
Just guess how a 65 y.o. Belgian, living in England, falls onto such music...
Bravo again!
+Michel Moncheur Thank you!
I'm struggling to grok exactly which strings are being hit in that "rolling bum ditty" around the C chord. Is that the 3rd string hammered into the 2nd fret to form the shape of an Am chord for a moment?
Yes, that’s an accurate description of it.
Brilliant, thank you! I've been practicing the solo and I'm proper beside myself to hear something so recognizably Seeger coming out of this new banjo. Am I right in thinking that you aren't actually strumming the Am and that your finger is back up for a C chord by the time you strum?
@@thomasd4234 I know, isn't that a great feeling? - Regarding the Am form, I think I am actually strumming the Am. I leave my middle finger there for the whole strum and lift it for the next strum or hammer-on.
Dear Colin, Thanks so much for your instructions. The are so great and very helpful. Where can I find the tabs for the John Henry verses? Thanks, Michael
Thanks! I don't have tabs for the verse. It's just the standard Seeger basic strum most of the time.
TWANG THAT OL BANJER BROTHER!!!!!!
That's mighty good claw-hammer banjo there! I like it.
Thank you! But it's actually not clawhammer: it's an up-picking and brush down style sometimes called Seeger-style, although Seeger didn't invent it. But it sounds a lot like clawhammer.
What is the model and brand of the Banjo in the video? Tani
Is there significance to the fact that capo is up 3 frets? versus open tuning gcgbd? I ask because I get so darn much noise from hitting the skin when I try to speed up, seems a down-tuned could soften that? btw, I have steel strings, should I try nylon?
In this video, I'm playing a long-necked banjo, which has 3 extra frets on it. As such, without a capo, the instrument is 3 half-steps lower than a standard-sized banjo. Therefore, in order to play in the key of G, I have to always have a capo at the third fret. Pete Seeger himself invented this kind of banjo to fit his vocal range. So if you have a standard-sized banjo, as I think you probably do, then you don't need to use a capo at all.
The sound of hitting the skin when you play is, in my opinion, part of what makes the banjo sound like a banjo. You should glory in it! :) Of course, it's louder if you're doing clawhammer vs. up-picking Seeger style like I'm doing here. If you're playing Seeger-style you must be hitting the head with your thumb, which is natural. Look at where the coating on my 30-year-old Remo head wore off completely where the thumb has hit it thousands of times!
I don't think that sound would change depending on where you have your capo, nor should it change depending on the composition of your strings. However, nylon strings are typically quieter than steel strings, so if you're hitting the strings harder to play louder, you'd naturally hit the head harder, making a louder sound.
@@ColinBazsali Thanks for sharing your knowledge and expertise Colin, much appreciated. The spirit of🙂 Pete is proud of you.
This video actually inspired me to give up-picking another try. I messed around with it for a little while when I was first learning to play the banjo, but have pretty much been a strict frailer and fingerpicker for a long time. I have his book, but this makes it much easier. You're not using your thumb on the inside strings, right?
Right, the way I played it, the thumb only picks the fifth string. Good luck!
Not on this song but Seeger style picking uses droptumb just like clawhammer does.
Very nice !
Bravo!
Song starts at 1:31
Instruction starts at 5:40
hi colin, is it a rythm with 2 or 3 finger?
3 fingers. Index up-pick, middle brush down, thumb.
Is this like the exact version played in Petes book? I got the book and everything I'm just dumb. Getting the hang of the hammer on strum thumb motion though.
dwc311 I haven't compared it to the book...I learned it from his recording of it on Favorite American Ballads. (Listen to it here: ruclips.net/video/A9Zt0O2lyhk/видео.html)
My performance is not exact; it's my best attempt. Here are tabs for the solo part:
drive.google.com/file/d/0B8KdjTZa9i5ORmFKbXFXMjBYLW8/view?usp=sharing
Good luck!
Please do more videos Colin You are an amazing teacher! I play the bum ditty style on a gold tone long neck! Please come back! I miss you man! I'm here in ireland!🇱🇷🇨🇮🪕PLEASE
I envy you banjo people
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