Welcome!

Welcome to the message board. Please no vulgarity or putting other people down or I will have to ban you.

I didnt ban you LOL. I'm only banning people who break the rules.

VUlgur language, putting people down, etc.

ohhh i get it now lol wow so who is the new ppl ion this site man

I haven't got a lot of new joiners yet, but after the message gets out to the fellow pickers I know there will probably be more.

i'm real new to banjos and i keep seeing that word clawhammer.
what is that about?
stan

I think this video described it well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo0cy0REMY8

If not, there is also a Wikipedia page on it at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clawhammer

Hope that helps!

excellent

Ralph Stanley plays a lot of clawhammer too.

hi carter,
that is a nice video on the clawhammer style. at this point of my banjo playing i'm interested in anything banjo. i got my banjo a week ago from the banjo hut. its a morgan monroe mgb-1c and im really impressed with it. i took it to my luthier buddy to have him put light gauge strings on it and he played it for about an hour and he said for the money its a sweet banjo.
right now im working on getting the rolls down and working on boil the cabbage down. i have a natural reverse but the forward is giving me alittle trouble. if i try playing it fast all of the sudden im in the reverse roll. i dont know what it is though but man i just cant get enough of the banjo. thanks, stan

Well, thats it. Youre hooked! Nothing you can do now but play banjo! LOL

Unless you try to copy Earl's guitar style to, LOL.

Been there done that! LOL

lolol