Falls of Richmond - old time banjo
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- I first heard this tune on a recording by Dwight Diller. This is a fine modal tune which I like to take at an easy pace. It's a bit fast here since I wanted to fit three repeats into a file size acceptable by youtube!
Still the best version around! Regards, Jimp
fantastic, lovely, one of the best I've ever heard. as a West Virginian whose grandfather played banjo I applaud you for keeping our music alive.
I keep comin' back to this tune every time, don't know why, it's magic, my favorite on youtube for sure, thanks frosty!
I’m learning this right now such a great melody..mad cool..🪕🪕🪕
Your playing is so balanced, really makes the melody stand out. So many players play everything loud. Thanks, very enjoyable listening! Regards
Great version - love the way you swing the rhythm slightly.
I'm still just a beginner at clawhammer, but your videos are quickly becoming not only the source for new songs for me to try but the musical standard to which i'm aspiring. Real clean and easy, soulful but precise. I think I also share your taste for modal and minor tunes. Thanks for the great videos!
I just working on this tune and discovered this excellent performance. It has a great lilt to it, is really elegantly played. I'm so happy to find it.
Thanks for your videos 👏 !
Just beautiful Michael. Thanks.
Delightful listening!
Hi Janet, thanks for the kind words. As you likely know, I borrowed heavily from Adam's recording of the tune.
It is great having this clip out on the web .. I loose the small defining stuff of many tunes and it is great to have a referance to go back to ... Good reason for the 94+K hits on this one .. Micheal :)
Sir, you are a fine musician. I get great enjoyment playing along with you.
@FrostyMorn That was me, oldsoulify and I'm still working on the banjo. Thanks again for posting such great videos.
Just love that version, you have really captured the mournful feeling. Jimp
Wonderful. I adore this tune, it's really caught my interest and you play it very well indeed. Thanks for sharing.
Love it!....learned it... play it now. Thanks. You do a nice job. Larry
Timing n' technique are stellar... very tastefully done.
much respect! i grew up bout 5 mins from dwight diller! thanks for posting this
Beware! The banjo is infectious. I watched a few of your videos and before I knew what was going on I got a banjo and I cant put it down.
Goodjob men 🤠 great song!! Saludos from Spain.
top notch, love your banjo playing
A fine fine version! Clapping loudly.......
Beautiful.
Some people mistakenly call it 'Fall of Richmond', thinking that the song refers to the events of the American Civil War. In point of fact, it refers to the falls of the James River.
Thanks for the information.
Beautiful. Thanks. My friend Peter says he'll learn it, and I'll back him on guitar.
Bruce Thomson, Wellington, New Zealand.
Lovely playing! I'd give my right arm to be able to play the banjo like that.
Beautifully done!
Incredible playing! It sounds like you're playing 2 banjos at once. Thank you.
smooth pickin there, i like the drop thumb and the way you seem to keep time with a percussive thumb. amazing all around sound!
Really nice. I'm going to try and learn this.
Very good work.
Superb!!
Love thatsound!
Love your version of Falls OD Richmond. Would you consider a tutorial Video to help beginners like me?
Perfection.
Great job.Thats worth an Attaboy.
Bravo! Played a bit fast perhaps (as you've readily acknowledged), but very, nicely, done! As a beginning claw-hammer player myself, this particular tune caught my ear very early-on in the learning process, largely because of its haunting, almost foreboding sound, and personally, I much prefer this piece in Sawmill tuning (F#, D, F#, A, D), but kudos to you Michael, you've done the tune great justice.
I thought Sawmill tuning was gDGCD ? G-modal is the same tuning isn't it?
Popoaggie . . . you are absolutely right, sir! Strictly 'my bad'! Sawmill tuning is in-fact gDGCD as you've correctly stated here, and the tuning I cited (F#DF#AD) is of course standard D tuning. Don't know just what it was that I was thinking or writing on that day?@#%&? Too much (or too little) of something, I suppose! ;-) Anyway, again, great job!
*** You did a fine job on this tune ! I have an A-scale Galax made by Bart Reiter coming by spring. I can't wait !
awesome
wow awesome!!!
This tune bears a very strong resemblance to the Irish tune Musical Priest. Not sure which one came first but as we all know "borrowing" from different genres and changing names is quite common in folk music.
Beautifull
do you have tablatures for your tunes? all your versions are just amaizing!
Great Banjo'n
amazing
Thanks for answering. No problem. I'll try to copycat your playing without a tab. I love your style and continue to work at my claw hammer style. I take lessons from a guy named Steve Rosen at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago. He's a pretty good banjo man himself. Keep up the good work.
Gary Cole Oh, yes... Steve Rosen is well known as the first to nail a catfish to a tree. 8-) Great tune!
Michael Neverisky Love how the folk process works. I've taken fiddle and banjo classes from Steve, and never once did he mention the Catfish. UA-cam people taught me that one!
Fantastic tune! And such fine rythm and approach with the banjo. I love it! Is it sawmill tuning? (gDGCD)? I really must (try to)learn your version of this tune!
Like it
Very nice! Clean playing, right-on intonation & timing. Have you tried to sharp the C on the 3rd part?
the tuning seems to be (high string) Aflat, then F, Aflat, Eflat, F
Sounds like a Scottish fiddle reel
What is the banjo that you are playing? I would like to buy a good clawhammer banjo and really like the sound of yours.
Is this a short scale tuned up to standard tuning?
I am looking at an A scale but want to switch back and forth between G & Double C to A & Double D without a capo. Cant decide what is a good scale length for that.
i remember his reply to this very question. Its mountain minor on a short scale neck, 12" in. pot i think. so its gDGCD, only a whole step up.
Great music. Also you look like a young man dressed as an old timey banjo player
14 years ago, when this video was recorded, I was a younger man!
What tuning is it in?
Could you give the tuning for this please ?
Legerdemain
I have a tab of this song but it lacks some of the little twists of your playing. Any way to get a tab of your version?
Gary Cole Hi Gary. I don't have tab available, sorry.
+Michael Neverisky Gary might try the railroad crossing approach -- "Stop, Look, and Listen".
You're leaving one part out.....
1 person has no soul.
What tuning is this played in?
sawmill tuning