Hey Clifton! I just discovered your videos a few weeks ago and I've been listening ever since! I picked up the banjo (first instrument) a few months ago and started on bluegrass, but recently I'm more into your traditional playing style and philosophy. I'm from north Alabama and I was wondering if you had done anything on the Sand Mountain frailing style? There are a few videos about it from the late Jim Connor but I wanted to hear your take on it. I'd love to carry on the traditional sound of my neck of the woods. Thanks!
Thanks for writing, Dean. I actually learned the basics of banjo playing from a guy named Ernie Williams. Williams, I think, is from Birmingham, but he learned from an old man up in Sand Mountain. He told me people up there called it "rapping;" he never mentioned "clawhammer" or "frailing."
As almost all lesson videos I tune in for the history that you know and of course to hear your playing. But this one particularly, I really enjoyed the cuts. They made me smile, i guess in large part because it feels very relatable to anytime I try to do a video. I've scrapped almost everything I've tried to do in a month. But anyways, like always, great stuff!
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Hey Clifton! I just discovered your videos a few weeks ago and I've been listening ever since! I picked up the banjo (first instrument) a few months ago and started on bluegrass, but recently I'm more into your traditional playing style and philosophy. I'm from north Alabama and I was wondering if you had done anything on the Sand Mountain frailing style? There are a few videos about it from the late Jim Connor but I wanted to hear your take on it. I'd love to carry on the traditional sound of my neck of the woods. Thanks!
Thanks for writing, Dean. I actually learned the basics of banjo playing from a guy named Ernie Williams. Williams, I think, is from Birmingham, but he learned from an old man up in Sand Mountain. He told me people up there called it "rapping;" he never mentioned "clawhammer" or "frailing."
Locking very Aerodynamic Clifton.
As almost all lesson videos I tune in for the history that you know and of course to hear your playing. But this one particularly, I really enjoyed the cuts. They made me smile, i guess in large part because it feels very relatable to anytime I try to do a video. I've scrapped almost everything I've tried to do in a month. But anyways, like always, great stuff!
This is great! Kinda reminds me of some of the old Norwegian folk music my grandfather played on his fiddle.
I love playing in this tuning now
Appreciate you brother for keeping this mountain music alive & well
That’s the actual tuning in Converse’s book where you’re at. And it sounds excellent
Gonna try to learn and play this tonight. Thanks for all the content over the years, Clif.
ruclips.net/video/OXP3Jw_is-4/видео.html Finally managed my rendition together.
VERY good.
You are absolutely awesome
Thank you, Clifton.
@4:35..."boom chick boom chick...hahahah...ah blah blah blah!" lol The flower/bee cut-scenes were cracking me up! Great video...thank you!
Awesome man.... thanks for getting me squared away on that one. Should of titled this post the bare foot walkaround....Lol
Clifton, thank you so much for this tune.
Thank you
thank you
Just learned this. Put it with Briggs corn shucking jig first. Thanks 👍
great song
Snappy little tune 👍🏻
Good tune, and it sounds like a cousin (or perhaps ancestor) of Old Jimmy Sutton.
You always tune your banjo down. Have you ever tried to play a long-neck banjo?
I have built two fretless long-necks, and yes I've played a Gibson long-neck. Never got into them. I like "standard" scale banjos.
Do you teach in person? Live in Copperhill?
хорошо играешь а я бы на ней котлеты пожарил очень этот инструмент похож на сковородку ковбоя
Спасибо! Боюсь, из нее не получится хорошей сковороды!
@@CliftonHicksbanjo ну как сказать если только струны убрать чтоб котлеты не прилипали тополучиться