
Intermediate Posted by Yohansenupdated: Play while riding a unicycle. This is the way that I play it in concert, and you might find some ideas here that.īear in mind that there are quite a few other tunings which can be used in clawhammer style. Well, I find Cripple Creek to be an effective tune in jams, and always fun to play. You can choose from these 3 Cripple Creek Banjo tabs: Cripple Creek scruggs style, Cripple Creek melodic style. Learn how to play the Cripple Creek on Banjo. Big Rock Candy Mountain Cripple Creek ( Level 1). Bluegrass Banjo Tablature List (Alphabetical Order). Play through the first and second versions of Sourwood mountain, slowly and get the feel of leading with your index.Free tablature and instruction for acoustic folk guitar.

Since clawhammer is actually a finger lead, 2-finger way of playing, an easy exercise is to take a clawhammer tab with which you are familiar, rest your trailing fingers on the head, and play it in the index lead, 2-finger style. If you’re most comfortable with playing the melody with your index, then you should probably focus on the index lead style, at least at first. Most of my tabs are for Index lead and I use both thumb and index on all five strings, though my thumb usually stays just on strings two, three, four and five. Many 2-finger players mingle both styles in a tune. With index lead, the index finger plays the downbeat/melody notes while the thumb either drones on the 5th string (this is how the first 2-finger players I heard, played) or drops to the inside strings for melodic and rhythmic variety, just like dropthumbing in clawhammer style.

Most thumb lead players don’t limit the finger to the first string however, but use the finger on all four long strings to add melodic and rhythmic variety to the tune. In the simplest form of Thumb lead, 2-finger style, the index plays only the first string as a drone. Essentially, this means that depending on the style, either the thumb or the index will be playing the downbeat and therefore, most of the melody notes. Hi, There are two basic 2-finger methods.
