My New Banjo

[Hello Goodbye]

1997 Gibson Earl Scruggs Standard



Now I got to learn me to pick it like Earl...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8wZ8U5wQi0#
Foggy Mountain Breakdown



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91NIkCyti10#
Cripple Creek



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=084AtmrF2kQ#
Petticoat Junction

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7r2rxtkSMo#
The Ballad Of Jed Clampett


Y'all come back, y'hear?  Much obliged.

[Moogmodule]

Lovely instrument HG. You'll have fun with that. .

[nimrod]

Nice.
Have you mastered that Bass yet?

[nimrod]

This should be easy

https://youtu.be/V_HW_2nve2w

[Hello Goodbye]

Nice.
Have you mastered that Bass yet?

I'm getting there, Kev.  I love that Hofner!

I've learned a number of Beatles songs.  This young lady's videos have been helpful...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr1uETXI24k#


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWngPsldFhM#

[Hello Goodbye]

This should be easy

https://youtu.be/V_HW_2nve2w

Neil Young is playing a 6-string banjo tuned like a guitar.

My Earl Scruggs Standard is a 5-string banjo...















Standard tuning is this...





Fretting, hammer-ons, bends, etc. I know.  I'm good at two-finger Delta Blues picking.  Now I have to learn three-finger Scruggs picking.  Earl Scruggs could pick 12 notes per second.  It'll take me a lot of time to even get close!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0jdoBDNGoA#


He made one mistake in that performance and Lester Flatt caught it and commented at the end of the video.  At 0:55 he was about to do a run down the neck but did a different roll instead.  He did the run at 1:09 and smiled widely as the camera panned out.  Even his error sounded great!

[Hello Goodbye]

These here young'uns been playing since they's babies...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA-HgKhA-uE#
Earl's Breakdown



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MB_ojx6Ibg#

[nimrod]

That's a beauty Baz  icon_love

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It is, Kev.  I was lucky to find it.  Gibson isn't making banjos anymore ever since floods destroyed their Nashville factory ten years ago.  It was made at a time Gibson went back to making banjos the way they did prior to WWII using higher grades of maple and specially designed tone rings.  The workmanship on the instrument is magnificent and the tone is great after 23 years of aging.

[Moogmodule]

What a lovely instrument. 

[Hello Goodbye]

Thanks, Moog.  It's a nice one alright.

I think this young lady was inspired by Paul McCartney to do this...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMHMMlT_RDU#

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d_Wv-gkHts#

[KelMar]

That is absolutely gorgeous, Barry!

[Hello Goodbye]

Yes it is!  Thanks Kelley.

So, you saw Earl Scruggs play Cripple Creek with Doc Watson.  Here's Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs playing it...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4sqishGuYw#



Buck Owens and Roy Clark were always pickin' an' grinnin' to Cripple Creek on Hee Haw...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu_5rp_Z3Jg#



Several years before Hee Haw I saw Tracy Newman play,and sing, Cripple Creek on WNET (PBS)...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew6DS2bXYmk#

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Tracy Newman is Laraine Newman's (Saturday Night Live) older sister.

[nimrod]

I'm getting there, Kev.  I love that Hofner!

I've learned a number of Beatles songs.  This young lady's videos have been helpful...



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWngPsldFhM#

Actually she's playing Day Tripper wrong, their is no slide up in the chorus riff.