Look at Mumford and Sons.
What non-Bluegrass/Country Music you play
Yep, that is my wife and son about a year or so ago. We still play gigs together as much as possible (though we all work full time at separate jobs). I’m hoping we get a few jobs playing out together this summer.
Speaking of summer, here comes the sun…
Fantastic version of the Boxer. What a CLASSIC SONG - I only wish I could contribute to an ensemble like that. GREAT JOB!
Beautiful family…You’re blessed. Great segue into the video.
Love playing acoustic crowd pleasers… Zac Brown, Jimmy Buffet, etc… Also play a ton of old timey stuff like from Norman Blake for example.
Beyond that - I was a metal head in the 80’s…a great time to grow up! I have an old early 80’s Charvel, an 88’ BC Rich and a Mesa Boogie Mark IIc that I love to rock out on. Also have a Strat and Fender Blues Deluxe I like to play some SRV, Buddy Guy and the like…
Growing up I would always try to play Skynyrd, ZZ Top, SRV, Hendrix, David Allen Coe, Hank Jr, etc. I still love blues electric and acoustic guitar.
This is one that I really like. Too bad I can not play either part yet.
Dan Walsh & John Dowling from the UK. I had the pleasure of meeting and listening to Dan playing a few years back at the Edinburgh Banjo Club.
Brilliant. I really like his claw hammer style more than most. This is the best combination of three finger and claw hammer that I have heard. It seems the two do not go together easily but John and Dan really made this fantastic especially un-accompanied by any other instruments. Congrats on meeting Dan. Do you have any of his albums?
Hi Cliff
No I don’t buy many albums these days.
Dan is a phenomenal clawhammer banjoist check out his website https://www.danwalshbanjo.co.uk/
The guy on the right is “in the zone”. Bigtime!
I used to play stuff like this:
Yeah man!
Love it! What is the chord progression? Are you using the major scale with the lead?
The tune is in the key of A minor, so the first choice scale is A natural minor (aka Aeolian). However, I like to work around adding the blue note b5, and also play around with the B diminished arpeggio and throw in the G# note when the progression hits the V chord.
That is basically what I am thinking. Past that, I like to layer arpeggios of chord extensions over other chords sometimes (like Cmaj7 over Am) just for fun while trying to keep the melody in my ears.
I guess that was more than you asked… sorry.
Thanks Jerry, though I must confess, the vast majority of that went right over my head.
Uh, my name is Mike. But in all fairness, I have been called much worse than Jerry…
Sorry Mike. I’ll remember that.
No problem at all. There was a time when I was regularly called Paul by folks. I figured that I must look like someone named Paul and often wondered what guitars Paul owned.
Check out this wonderful Mozart banjo by Gold Pick member in Guatemala, @seventeen.tons (Julian Root)