i felt very lost with sawmill and modal tunings in general, you cleared it up a lot for me here actually so thank you :) hopefully i can learn more from yah
great video! i love sawmill tuning. i am a year into clawhammer. i have the same Deering Vega Vintage Star banjo and i love it. keep the videos coming!
Noone seems to be exploring what, sawmill? What are you on about, bruz? Sawmill is so ubiquitous it has its own name. If you want to play damn near anything Dorian on an open tuning and do a bunch of claw-hammery open pull offs and whatnot, chances are you're looking at Sawmill.
Thanks. Good luck with your new channel. I'm on board. FYI I love traditional clawhammer, but I am also very interested in playing contemporary music using clawhammer style.
I play “Sweet Dreams” by the Eurhythmics and “Enjoy the Silence” by Depeche Mode on my fretless banjo using clawhammer style. I think they both sound pretty cool.
Hey Jack thanks so much for bringing us all this useful content. As a novice I appreciate all the help and advice I can get, love the explanation of Dorian scale. Thanks.😊
Honestly, I love watching clawhammer content. I started on banjo and eventuality started playing clawhammer guitar too. Thank you for making clawhammer content and I really enjoyed the video as well. Liked and subscribed in case you have any techniques or tips to improve my clawhammer playing. Good luck with the channel.
London, England? Are you a graphics guy? Enjoying your videos. I have the same Vega Vintage Star as you. Just learning clawhammer, been a three finger guy for years. Good luck!
Yup London, England, and I’m trying to learn! Love the vintage star banjo, such a joy to play! I want to make it out to a showroom one of these days and try them all out.
What tuning does Bella Fleck use in the song Bloomin Rose? I love that scale pattern. I had to watch it to figure out that the deep notes came from Abigail Washburn's unique banjo.
@@BanjoSkills There's a monthly bluegrass night there hosted by Foghorn Leghorn called My Grass Is Blue and a fortnightly Sunday afternoon gig called Come Down and Meet the Folks. The Lantern Society a singer songwriter night every other Thursday and a lot of good vibs. The landlord Raz is lovely.
There is something I don’t understand about the three main chords in Sawmill Tuning. If the tonic is a G sus 4 chord, wouldn’t the other two chords be the sub dominate, (i.e. C) and a dominate (i.e. D) as is also the case in Ionian mode? Instead of a C, you are using the 7th of the scale, a F. I’m not saying it sounds bad. I was playing around with it on my fretless banjo and the 3 chords sound pretty neat when played together. Nevertheless, when I asked my AI app what the 3 most prominent chords were for Sawmill Tuning it said it was G, C, and D.
Hey thanks for the question! You could definitely include C in the most important chords for sawmill tuning. My thinking on the video is that the F chord is a bit more common than the C in old time songs played out of sawmill. So I wanted to limit the number of chords here to 3, and the F chord narrowly won out over the C. I think it gives you a few more songs that way.
