absolutely delightful, keep it up only wish it was much longer, I was enjoying it! There's no youtube law against playing the same thing a couple of times you know ;)
Don't forget dynamics and learn more complex things. It takes time but you will get better the more you play. Maybe get a better recording system if you can as it sounds quite muted(not sure if you are choking the head or not. It's helpful not to always play one way. So, even though the strings are much harder to play near the bridge, learn to play as close to the bridge as possible. Do not default to some position or technique because that is all you practiced. Remember, it is one thing to play the notes and another thing to feel them. The feeling gets more intense with age but if you learn to understand it more like love or a meal or a battle or vacation rather than just playing notes you will put more feeling in to it. Without "feeling" music is just sound. Variety is the spice of life, it's true. Get some finger picks and use them, seriously. They will make all the difference in the world(and don't use them backwards or they won't work ;)) as they will allow you much finger articulations and to achieve more variation. You play bass with your fingers because the strings are very thick... but if you do that with banjo strings they tend to be too rough to play very smoothly as the fingers will bind on the strings. It's not impossible and obviously fingernails help a lot but you don't seem to have any. The finger picks help you get those very fast banjo rolls and that sound that is traditionally associated with Skruggs(which everyone copied so...). Put on a metronome and get that tempo up too, it will have more energy and feel better. You could also learn the violin or some other instrument and that will help get you more excitement and learn new things.
This is 'clawhammer' banjo style and is an entirely different style of playing from the hard-driving Scruggs three finger playing. This is a much older style she is playing, it has a soft tone and is almost never played using fingerpicks. The hand position is much further from the bridge in this style, often right over the end of fingerboard - many banjos have a scoop cut out of the fingerboard especially for this. This girl's playing is very good indeed.
@@Muzikman127 I explained it. The recording is dull and with a banjo in particular you need to have a brighter sound to capture it on distant micing or mics that are of low quality. If you insist that it is "stylistic" just because you want to follow the crowed then you will end up with a poor recording. The banjo simply does not sound that well played up on to the fretboard. Maybe a few banjos but most don't. If you persist that it is "correct" rather than compensating for the issues then your musical expression will suffer. You do not do an entire tune(not that his was really a tune but if you want to call it that so be it) to be played in one narrow finger picking style that, when the time comes, sounds weak, unexciting, etc. If you want to play your music that way, go ahead, your choice... just note that it's a choice in which you are limiting the musical expression rather than amplifying it. To claim "Well, it is a style and that is what they do" is non-sense. First it's not a banjo style as the banjo itself is a style. Second, if you choose one "style" and only play that you likely will "suck"(for various reasons) even if you can "play", third, music is about expressiveness and if you limit your ability to express yourself(such as increasing the brightness of your sound when it is required to compensate for issues from other places or simply to add variety) then your music will suffer... again, your choice. So many make those choices and get no where(well, they get somewhere but never where they want).
@@kodfkdleepd2876 the recording here is lacking treble, probably an issue of mic placement or a dodgy phone mic. My gues would be a phone propped up against something that's obstructing the mic, so the treble is muffled. As for the rest of your comment; just look up some other clawhammer / old time banjo videos. I don't know what to say; it's a different type of playing and I dig it, not everyone has to play scruggs. It sounds great, recorded or live. If you prefer jingly jangly steel picked diddly diddly banjo you're well within your rights to do so, there's no law against having a preference. Claiming that "banjo in itself is a style" and therefore everyone should don fingerpicks and start playing rolls though is just ignorance? Guess every banjo player from Suriname to Tennessee playing in the traditional styles for hundreds of years was just wasting their time too huh? Thank God hundreds of years of West Africans and African Americans finally had the white man to come along and tell them how to play banjo properly huh? ;)
@@kodfkdleepd2876 Personally, Scruggs banjo doesn't interest me all that much, and I like clawhammer playing. Nothing against that king of banjo playing, it just isn't something that particularly appeals to me. Not that I'd actively avoid it if a decent bluegrass player crossed my path of course! You may feel completely differently and prefer that style of playing; that's okay, it's allowed. Getting mad at a girl for playing clawhammer instead of scruggs is just bizarre though, it's like going to see a jazz guitar player and being like WHY AREN'T YOU PLAYING MEGADETH. Like, bruh, they're different things. Technique is one thing, but saying "play a different style" is not constructive feedback, it's just enforcing your personal preference on someone else. And if you think this is mellow, check out some gourd banjo playing. They play clawhammer, no steel picks, and on an instrument with no frets and no drumhead. Personally, I love it
Really lovely playing with such nice skills…mad cool..🪕🪕🪕
Possibly the most unlikely thing that the algorithm has ever put in getting of me, but I'm not complaining. Your rhythm sounds extremely precise.
Love the tune. Keep up the hard work!!!! God bless you all fro Alabama!!!
Listening to you play is such a pleasure:)
Beautiful!
Hey quite nice really.
Had my guitar in my lap so I jammed along and it was the funnest jam I’ve had all year!
Awesome!
Thanks! Molly 🎶🪕
Play it for ten more minutes and I won’t have to put it on repeat. Nice tune, excellent playing.
Great!
just never stop.
so good!
Your clawhammer is top-notch. Very nicely done.
Sweet! Glad it popped up. More people need to see this .
Nice
Very well done
Sweet tune! Love the background!
absolutely delightful, keep it up
only wish it was much longer, I was enjoying it! There's no youtube law against playing the same thing a couple of times you know ;)
Sounds great!
Dope
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Super clean! Nice double C tune.
Beautiful sound.
Hey Molly, that was beautiful! Subscribed. Keep on keeping on!
Love this!! ❤
Excellent
Nice work!
Wow
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Well done!
Thank you!
Steve Martin loves you! (He told me so...)
Lovely! Subscribed and can't wait to hear more :)
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Great skills! Have you thought about singing as well?
Thank you! I do sing some but I haven't posted much of anything yet
Don't forget dynamics and learn more complex things. It takes time but you will get better the more you play. Maybe get a better recording system if you can as it sounds quite muted(not sure if you are choking the head or not.
It's helpful not to always play one way. So, even though the strings are much harder to play near the bridge, learn to play as close to the bridge as possible. Do not default to some position or technique because that is all you practiced. Remember, it is one thing to play the notes and another thing to feel them. The feeling gets more intense with age but if you learn to understand it more like love or a meal or a battle or vacation rather than just playing notes you will put more feeling in to it. Without "feeling" music is just sound. Variety is the spice of life, it's true.
Get some finger picks and use them, seriously. They will make all the difference in the world(and don't use them backwards or they won't work ;)) as they will allow you much finger articulations and to achieve more variation. You play bass with your fingers because the strings are very thick... but if you do that with banjo strings they tend to be too rough to play very smoothly as the fingers will bind on the strings. It's not impossible and obviously fingernails help a lot but you don't seem to have any. The finger picks help you get those very fast banjo rolls and that sound that is traditionally associated with Skruggs(which everyone copied so...). Put on a metronome and get that tempo up too, it will have more energy and feel better.
You could also learn the violin or some other instrument and that will help get you more excitement and learn new things.
This is 'clawhammer' banjo style and is an entirely different style of playing from the hard-driving Scruggs three finger playing. This is a much older style she is playing, it has a soft tone and is almost never played using fingerpicks. The hand position is much further from the bridge in this style, often right over the end of fingerboard - many banjos have a scoop cut out of the fingerboard especially for this. This girl's playing is very good indeed.
why would you want to use fingerpicks for this??
@@Muzikman127 I explained it. The recording is dull and with a banjo in particular you need to have a brighter sound to capture it on distant micing or mics that are of low quality. If you insist that it is "stylistic" just because you want to follow the crowed then you will end up with a poor recording.
The banjo simply does not sound that well played up on to the fretboard. Maybe a few banjos but most don't. If you persist that it is "correct" rather than compensating for the issues then your musical expression will suffer.
You do not do an entire tune(not that his was really a tune but if you want to call it that so be it) to be played in one narrow finger picking style that, when the time comes, sounds weak, unexciting, etc.
If you want to play your music that way, go ahead, your choice... just note that it's a choice in which you are limiting the musical expression rather than amplifying it.
To claim "Well, it is a style and that is what they do" is non-sense. First it's not a banjo style as the banjo itself is a style. Second, if you choose one "style" and only play that you likely will "suck"(for various reasons) even if you can "play", third, music is about expressiveness and if you limit your ability to express yourself(such as increasing the brightness of your sound when it is required to compensate for issues from other places or simply to add variety) then your music will suffer... again, your choice. So many make those choices and get no where(well, they get somewhere but never where they want).
@@kodfkdleepd2876 the recording here is lacking treble, probably an issue of mic placement or a dodgy phone mic. My gues would be a phone propped up against something that's obstructing the mic, so the treble is muffled.
As for the rest of your comment; just look up some other clawhammer / old time banjo videos. I don't know what to say; it's a different type of playing and I dig it, not everyone has to play scruggs. It sounds great, recorded or live. If you prefer jingly jangly steel picked diddly diddly banjo you're well within your rights to do so, there's no law against having a preference. Claiming that "banjo in itself is a style" and therefore everyone should don fingerpicks and start playing rolls though is just ignorance? Guess every banjo player from Suriname to Tennessee playing in the traditional styles for hundreds of years was just wasting their time too huh? Thank God hundreds of years of West Africans and African Americans finally had the white man to come along and tell them how to play banjo properly huh? ;)
@@kodfkdleepd2876 Personally, Scruggs banjo doesn't interest me all that much, and I like clawhammer playing. Nothing against that king of banjo playing, it just isn't something that particularly appeals to me. Not that I'd actively avoid it if a decent bluegrass player crossed my path of course!
You may feel completely differently and prefer that style of playing; that's okay, it's allowed. Getting mad at a girl for playing clawhammer instead of scruggs is just bizarre though, it's like going to see a jazz guitar player and being like WHY AREN'T YOU PLAYING MEGADETH. Like, bruh, they're different things. Technique is one thing, but saying "play a different style" is not constructive feedback, it's just enforcing your personal preference on someone else.
And if you think this is mellow, check out some gourd banjo playing. They play clawhammer, no steel picks, and on an instrument with no frets and no drumhead. Personally, I love it
Wow great work, you just earned yourself a subscriber! You got hands faster than lightning 🫡