Learning the Art of Clawhammer Guitar – with Molly Tuttle
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Acoustic Journey by Molly Tuttle
THE CLAW
In the first of her series of monthly lessons, Molly Tuttle demonstrates a style of fingerpicking known as clawhammer guitar, in a tuning that is similar to a banjo tuning, sometimes referred to as “mountain minor tuning.”
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… Very original idea what you are doing… but why did you choose the DGDGcd tuning (inspired as you say by the tuning of the 5-string banjo), when it would have been possible to keep as for banjo's tuning : DGDGbd ?…
Please enlighten me on the relevance of your decision to choose the DGDGcd ?
Thank You by advance… Regards
The challenge for me is the reverse timing rolls of chuck, and boom.
Its a shuffle jazz
Claw hammer is a lame idea. I’ve played clawhammer for 30 years but there’s too much tension on guitar to make it relevant. !
Thank you Molly ????
Recently saw Molly in person. I've never seen someone's hand move so fast while she was playing. So much fun to watch and one of the best shows I've been to.
Very, very cool!
its like blues and hill country at the same time
Beautiful. It's Molly "Tom" Tuttle!
I started playing banjo a week ago I love you so much ????
I recall playing with a similar technique years ago, just doing a sort of fingers-only strum on the guitar. Now that I’m learning to play clawhammer banjo… I’ll have to give this a try….
amazing
I learned this in 1970 from Stefan Grossman's first major booklet on guitar solo. Same tuning. Also had Miss McLeod's Reel and Pigtown Fling in modified tunings.
<3 Molly Tuttle. She's just fun to watch and hear.
Bruce Cockburn uses this style in a song called Mighty Trucks of Midnight.
dylan does a great Little Sadie, if i recall on that acoustic double album around 1971 or so
Been going to Transatlantic Sessions in London for ever Loved it the time you were there xx
Im expecting a lesson like Phoebe’s “Old Lady” and “Turkey Leg” techniques….
Such a great technique/style, and Molly is a master who makes it sound effortless.
Mountain minor tuning!
Oh, "save the salmon" are gonna be pissed! Mountain mining!
retuned my guitar ok, good so far, did the bum didy bit ok, then…..that was disappointing, I just saw someone showing off rather than teaching.
Such a great player.
but she's bald tho
Roscoe Holcomb played the guitar like a banjo in that same 'mountain minor' tuning…check him out …he is an American treasure!! So is Molly Tuttle!
I have used that tuning on both guitar and banjo, but usually play 3-finger style rather than frailing. It can evoke spooky and mysterious feelings,
forget the melody, I'm probavly going to spend the next year just figuring out the "bum-diddy" thing ????
I was wondering if you could do clawhammer on guitar tried before and it didn't sound great
Edit: i thought you might have to tune to an open tuning which is partially why i assumed it didn't sound good and also why i just stick to my banjo for clawhammer lol
First 3 minutes: oh ok not too hard
Last minute: brain implodes
Love this. She's always been a highly regarded player imo. Love that she got insight into this. Its basically the bass note at the last note before starting all over agsin.
Haha wow i cant believe i didnt know about this till now! It sounds so good! I'm definitely going to be adding this to my arsenal 😉
Sounds close to my style…clutch & hope.
Brill!
Noise gating? Nah, this video is a whole ass noise gated community. This shit is so aggressive that it sounds like it alternates between ASMR and punching in your eardrums with cotton. Tune it down, you did Molly dirty on this one.
Are there tabs to this version anywhere
Amazing!
I don't like that low G bass string, why not swap it for a light high E string and tune it up the G?
how to draw a horse. you make a horizontal line like this… a vertical line like so… then you draw a horse and erase the lines.
the name of the video reminded me of Phoebe teaching Joey play guitar
I'd never heard of that style of guitar playing before, which is amazing being that it's a logical extension of a well known banjo style. And it suits Molly's open and less rigid virtuosity. Cool video.
That was awesome
Oh, so it's easy. Phew, thought it'd take years. Yes, yes it will.
Oh my!!!! Thanks, Molly!