How to Play Bones with Dom Flemons
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- Опубликовано: 4 сен 2010
- Dom Flemons shows us how to play the bones! He first came to public attention as a founding member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, but this multi-instrumentalist has evolved into a walking encyclopedia of American music.
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This man is so authentically southern it’s so pure I can’t handle it.
U might be Inlove
This is the coolest man in existence.
Just saw him perform....purely captivating!
Rattlesnake Whispers. I take it you don't get out much. lol
Agreed
Yes
Yup
"Once you get a handle on one set of bones, it's nice to throw in another set of bones."
That made me laugh so hard for some reason, this video is just great.
I litteraly read this as he said it in the vido
We all know the reason haha
Can't even have neighbours in Ohio 💀
Love musicians who teach and do not try to mystify. A plain and simple starter lesson. Well done!
The trick is to clarify. It's very easy to explain something in music that's not all that complex and have it sound like calculous just threw up all over your trigonometry. You can see their eyes glazing over and if you look hard enough, you can see a big old question mark forming over the top of their head. It can be difficult to explain things in simple terms. I'm not a legit music teacher but my boy seems to think I'd be good at it. I taught him. And a few friends a few things. I'd like to do a music channel eventually. But yeah. Dom's great.
"I'm just gonna show you some of the basics" *uses one pair*
"It's nice to put in two sets of bones" *brings up another pair*
"Once you get the basics on how to play the bones" *pulls up a harmonica*
Dude had me thinking he was gonna grab a banjo and play it with his feet too!
Know folks once you have you Banjo it’s always good to pull out. Your piano
DJ Figliola always good to play a fiddle with the backside of your leg too
Once u have the fiddle, u might wanna bring in the drum set and play it pyschokinetically.
.... I wanted to join in on the joke 😅🤣🤣
Well, now that I've got two sets of bones clacking, a harmonica growling, piano plunking, fiddle snarling...it's time to tune up the whoopie cushion (".)
Seriously, the Chocolate Drops were one of the most talented group of musicians in this country's history.
Sir, I could never fantasize rivaling your level of 1) cool 2) dexterity 3) skill 4) developed talent!
Thank you for keeping unique musical heritage alive! I will never forget, as little boy (now 65) seeing a guy playing the bones in Rome, GA. I was mesmerized and have loved the bones ever since. I hope there will always be young people that will want to follow keeping old traditions alive.
Bones have been around 40,000 years, so I don't think they're going away anytime soon :)
Don Flemons is an American folk legend and true music treasure.
I wish all my teachers expressed themselves so well. He's like listening to poetry.
Thank you! My grandma Theda (I called her TD”) played a black & white set. She was a beauty who was crippled & in pain, on morphine, but still had that spark of a young girl who loved music & was once a flapper in New Orleans who drove men wild. I loved her, loved to see her play them & never knew anybody else who did, til I met a white minister in a bar in Essex CT, who carried em in his breast pocket at all times. A friend told me that, so I approached him....a rather uptight silver-haired guy in a blue suit. Sadly, the night I met him, he declined my request to hear him play. Can you imagine?🙄 My TD was way more fun than THAT guy. ♥️🎶♥️ So are YOU.
Saw the chocolate drops live... probably the best live show I have ever been to.
Finally someone out there making music creative and fun again. Love CCD!!!
What a treat! My brother-in law taught me to play the bones in my early teens (1950s) & he learnt from his dad. Great play-anywhere instrument but haven't done so for years; looking for a set online RIGHT NOW!
My grandpa played bones, it was wonderful to hear them clakety clack.. I have those beauties now! Thank you best grandpa in the world!
We had an old man used to stop in on my Nan every now and then. He played the bones. It was awesome to watch. Thank You Sir.🤟😎💚🇦🇺
Finally someone out there making music creative and fun again. Thanks for sharing this with us .
WHO DISLIKED THIS VIDEO?! Smh! This is true talent and yall should be ashamed of yourselves for disrespecting this old & beautiful musical tradition!!!
I love your group Carolina Chocolate Drops. More music, more music, more music.
I like that you can tell he's done this so much that it's so fluid.
1:04 that little smile there, he know how cool he looks :)
This man is a true american treasure. I hope he gets the recognition he deserves for being authenticly himself.
Could not wipe the grin off my face. A jolly good chuckle at the end. Just love this fellow and the rest of the CCDs too.
keeping beautiful musical traditions alive
My grandfather played bones and harmonica at the same time too. I've got to learn! Thanks.
Simply awesome.
This was super rad! And you're an AMAZING teacher. Thank you Dom! :)
Thank you so much for this video, my granfather would play these for me everytime time I visited but would never teach me how. He always said he'd tell me before hed die but he recently passed and never got the chance to share due to covid. I'm still very new to the instrument but actually learning helps me feel a bit better about my grandpa's passing.
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oh my golly it was just getting over and i realized i've heard of you guys. i have family in NC Jacksonville area and Raleigh they like your group and now i can see why.
Simply wonderful!
This guy is really talented !!
I saw these guys last weekend at House of Blues in Boston...this guy is the man! I was in the front row and he was right in front of me! He's just so genuine and a quality person. It was a surreal experience!
How have I missed this until now! Genius.
Thank you for keeping us connected to our past.
Just love you guys and thoroughly enjoyed the bone basics. Thank you!
Love it!
What a legend
Awesome! Thanks for sharing!
I love the internet. I first heard about this instrument 2 minutes ago and now I get to watch some kind of old-timey wizard making music with kitchen leftovers.
Absolutely Amazing!!!
Mr. Flemons, you are a very talented man.
You are so entertaining!! This is so interesting. I've never heard of these until I seen the interview with you and Rhiannon Giddens.
Awesome!
My father played these. In Cornwall England. I grew up with him playing them I am 50 now. Great video.
Such a great sound!!
Great beginning lesson that anyone can use. Simple techniques from a master musician. Thank you!
Awesome skills, great style too!
Amazing Talent!
I freakin love this dude! I wanna give him a big ol' hug!
Thanks Dom, loving the hat!
Thank you Don Flemmons!
A charming and fascinating video. Thanks
Still smiling. Awesome presentation.
I got CCD to autograph my minstrel banjo. Mr Flemons was extremely friendly and approachable. One of the nicest "professional" musicians I ever met.
They had great video/sound quality back in the 1800"s
Very clear and nicely done. Thanks!
Love all your video’s
Amazing!!! 👍👍👍
Love this! You make it look so easy!
great lesson, great music. thank you
I always wanted to know how, and you were so kind to share!!!
Thanks a LOT!
Sooo cool! 😊
Finally the recommended vids brought me something good
Man! So much of this kind of music has wandered away from me over the years. I actually studied old Folk and Blues in high school. Where did that all go? Even got the feel when I first heard the Carolina Chocolate Drops, but lost it all to the day to day nonsense of getting nowhere. Now that I'm old and got the future to myself, I'm finding the special stuff again.
So a half-hour ago I'm fixing dinner and bones pop into my head. That's a thing, you can play the bones! Like the spoons, or the hand jive, and those simple wooden dancers hanging over a bouncing piece of wood. Anyway... I sit down at the computer with my feed and look up playing the bones, with my handful of clean, dry, polished turkey leg bones... Man! Watta fool! Looks like I'm starting from scratch all over! What a great video! Someday I'll try it out, but I gotta save up to buy a rack of ribs that big!
I saw the Carolina Chocolate Drops In Gettysburg, PA. It was an awesome, top-quality group with loads of talent! Love them!!!
Amazing ! Thanks for the demo. You are certainly a talented young man. Also thank you and the group for preserving the music.
AWESOME ARTIST
Thanks for showing me. My Mamma had a pair, not of bone, but of wood. They were called "kleppers" and she played them just like mr. Flemons played those bones. And she sang a song to it, that had the same rhythm Mr. Flemons was playing: "Klepper-de-klepper-de-klep-klep-klep..."
Found it: ruclips.net/video/dHsc6MZfRjA/видео.html
This is the best, most informative, and funniest video you will ever watch on the bones, and it is the only one you need. Dom I love you, but I still can't do this shit so could you maybe smile little less :) Superb! BOOOOOOOONES!
i love you dom flemons!
I thought my Grandpa was good at bones until I found this guy. I'm truly inspired. Thank you.
speechless! just wonderful to watch and enjoy
You’re awesome Dude! I love to listen to you playin’ dem bones!
Absolutely Excellent!!
Thank you so much!
My daddy played the bones, and I still have them and didn't know how to play them. I vaguely remembered, but he's not here to ask any more. So I'm glad to find you!!!
Our youth may not have enjoyed seeing and listening to someone “knocking bones.” I remember an elderly man when I was growing up who we called Uncle Jim Allen. He was very good at it and I loved watching him. People in the Della Green community near Brookhaven, MS knew this man and loved him. I believe he was over 100 years old when he died.
very well explained - great attitude brother - Thanks Dom!!!!!!!!!
Insanely great. Thank you!
Dom is the MAN!
Thank you Don!!!
Very cool! Glad you're keeping this art form alive.
DOM you totally ROCK
A true artist!
Fantastic, thank you for the video.
Btw I first saw/discovered and favored Carolina Chocolate Drops last summer at the Blue Grass Festival Upstate NY - you were all so amazing.
fun vid! enjoyed his energy. that looks a lot like the seating area next to the bagelry in santa cruz. the second the video began i recognized it.
Dom's a charmer. How he manages those complex bone rhythms while also concentrating on the harmonica is beyond me. His head looks better with his hat on......
Made me smile....
AWESOME !! Thank You !
It's 2019, Saturday morning, just woke up.. how did I get here?
Its 4.30am and I was doing crochet. How on earth did I get here??!! Nice to meet you 🤣
Its 3:34 am, I was browsing the internet and had a sudden urge for calcium and am a musician
That was fun. Thanks!
awesome!
Dude that was awesome!
Dude, you and your band are awesome.
Great video, great person
Fascinating
Thank you!
Thank you young man. You are very talented. Very informative too.
Dom of the Bones !
and harmonica
and dancing
and banjer
and guitar