Dock Boggs Banjo #2: The Rudiments
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- Опубликовано: 2 авг 2018
- In this video I demonstrate the essential licks and patterns that Dock Boggs used in most of his early recordings. These are the rudiments that you need to master in order to play his songs.
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Thank you so much Colin. You're a wonderful fantastic teacher. I first got an idea of how good you are having heard your rendition of "John Henry" . From that video I learned Seger style. Now, listening to you explain Doc Boggs style is great. I'm confident that I'll catch on to it. Thanks again - so exciting!!
This is awesome! You are a great teacher. Love how you break things into easy to digest chunks first/rolls and picking patterns before getting into the actual songs. Makes things easier to grasp. Huge thanks!
Thanks so much for breaking down Dock's style - very well taught. As someone who plays country blues/ragtime fingerstyle guitar this makes old time banjo playing so much more accessible than straight clawhammer (which is awesome too), would love to see some vids on guitar playing. Cheers.
This is fantastic, thank you so much for this great course on Dock Boggs and his playing style. I'm learning so much from it. Excellent stuff!
I can’t thank you enough for making these videos!!
Thank you so very much! I appreciate you taking the time to figure this out and teach the rest of us!
Thank you sir. Such a clear breakdown. I’m looking forward to working on this.
Very informative and helpful vids... Seems easier for me to grasp than clawhammer, and love Dock Boggs music anyway. Thanks for posting these.
Amazing!
You are a great teacher for the Doc. I am so glad to have your lessons on Doc Boggs. I am on it now.
But the thumb is on the down beat.
Superb tuition - thank you!
such a good teacher!!
Thank you so much! Great instructions!!!
This video is awesome. Thank you so much!
Thank you!
Great lesson!
Hey Colin love your vids learnt lot great stuff and tunes from you. Just wanted to say thankyou
Thanks, Paul!
Awesome tutorial man!
Wow nice roll,thanks
Thanks so much for doing this series! Besides your course and the out-of-print book by Blake Bamford (who offers a PDF of the book, thankfully!), there really isn't much on Dock Boggs's style. Very appreciated! These videos also always make me nylon-curious.
Heh...nylon-curious. I never considered nylon strings until I starting playing with an antique banjo that went out of tune all the time with steel strings. When I put the nylons on, it just sang. I suppose it was designed for gut strings.
hi colin fantastic I`ve been trying to work this out.......great follow on from the seeger stuff. Just one question, how about that brush that punctuates down south blues? The timing is stuffing me up.....
It's actually pretty similar to the Seeger-style brush down. I'll show how it's done when I get to that song.
That thumbing on the fifth string after a hammer-on is an odd thing to get used to. Still, sounds beatiful and as always with banjo is worth the extra practice.
Any particular reason you opt for the two leather straps for your instruments over something with a bit more support? Thanks for the video.
It's a really light banjo, so I don't need anything more than the leather bootlace that I use. :)
do metal pots like that make a difference to the sound? I love how the banjo looks. wish i could get it left handed.
It’s actually a wooden pot covered with metal. You can only see the wood through the open back. As for sound, I’m sure it is different, but I wouldn’t know how to describe it. Maybe tinnier, less robust a tone than you’d get from a thick wooden pot. Presumably, it was cheaper to use thin wood and rolled steel for strength in those old mail-order banjos. I’ve never seen a lefty. 😕
Thanks for going slow, letting us see right and left hand. Are you working on more Dock Boggs songs?
I'll probably do "Sammie, Where You Been So Long" next, and that'll be it for his 1920s recordings.
Good video, what model banjo are you playing?
Thanks. My question is what banjo are you using and which strings? Doc Boggs is my favorite Banjo player followed closely by Wade Mainer. Thanks again.
I'm playing.a vintage mail-order banjo with wooden pot covered with a spun-metal rim. It could be a Sears-Roebuck Supertone, but there are no brand markings on it. It's probably from the 19-teens, and is probably very similar to the Supertone that Dock Boggs used in his 20s recordings. The strings are Aquila nylon.
@@ColinBazsali Thanks for your reply. About 1 month ago I put on nylon strings from La Bella , but the 1st and 2nd string don't sound right. The third and 4th string sound great. I will take them off and replace them with metal ones. The nylon strings sound ok with claw hammer style, but just no bite on the 1st and second with picking . I have no idea why.
@@DougieLink Do those strings sound better when fretted than open? If so, perhaps you need a new nut or to reshape those two slots.
@@ColinBazsali They are better fretted yes. Thank you I will check the points you mentioned that is very helpful.
What kind of strings do you have on your banjo? Thank you sir!
Those are nylon strings. In that video they are probably Chris Sands. But now I prefer Aquila Nylgut.
Thanks! By the way when you play your thumb thats a down stroke, your fingers are playing up so that's the upstroke.
I always think of plucking with the thumb as an "up pick" because you're sounding the string by plucking upwards on the string, as opposed to a brush or downward stroke that would use the back of the fingernail. Now that I think of it, I don't know how you can do any kind of down-pick with a thumb. I use "up-pick" to distinguish between clawhammer styles and any kind of plucking stroke.
Did Doc Boggs use picks of just nails?
As far as I can tell he didn’t use picks.
Sure is a different method .
Most people dont know that theee were black people in Appalachia.
This is pretty sweet, but I don’t like what you did with the Star Wars and Star Trek reboots.
It took me a minute to get this.... :D