High on a Mountain. Clawhammer Banjo. Left hand close up. Instructions below too.....
4/6/2020 by Andyrhydycreuau
Posted in Banjo Lessons and Instruction
Genre: Old Time
Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Flowers of Edinburgh. Clawhammer. Tuned to open C. gCGCE
4/3/2020 by Andyrhydycreuau
Posted in Live Playing (Personal Videos)
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish
Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Flowers of Edinburgh. Tenor banjo. GDAE.
4/2/2020 by Andyrhydycreuau
Posted in Live Playing (Personal Videos)
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish
Playing Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum)
High on a Mountain. Fretless Buckbee banjo. Standard G tuning but down low.
3/28/2020 by Andyrhydycreuau
Posted in Live Playing (Personal Videos)
Genre: Old Time
Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
High on a Mountain. Ola-belle Reed tune. gDGBD but lower.
3/26/2020 by Andyrhydycreuau
Posted in Live Playing (Personal Videos)
Genre: Old Time
Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Take a whiff on me. Woody Guthrie cover. On my 1909 Weymann, with talon tailpiece.
3/25/2020 by Andyrhydycreuau
Posted in Live Playing (Personal Videos)
Genre: Old Time
Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
"Nobody cares for me." Mississippi John Hurt. Standard G tuning. Clawhammer with some up-picking.
3/24/2020 by Andyrhydycreuau
Posted in Live Playing (Personal Videos)
Genre: Country
Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Take These Chains Away From Me. Written by OCMS. Clawhammer banjo, double c tuning.
3/15/2020 by Andyrhydycreuau
Posted in Live Playing (Personal Videos)
Genre: Country
Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Little Black Train. gCGCD#. But capo on the 2nd fret.
3/14/2020 by Andyrhydycreuau
Posted in Live Playing (Personal Videos)
Genre: Old Time
Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Come all ye fair and tender ladies. Clawhammer banjo, based on Laurel Premo / red tail ring version.
3/10/2020 by Andyrhydycreuau
Posted in Live Playing (Personal Videos)
Genre: Old Time
Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
"Hang Me, Oh Hang Me" or "Been All Around This World". On my 1890 HC Nelson.
3/2/2020 by Andyrhydycreuau
Posted in Live Playing (Personal Videos)
Genre: Old Time
Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Moreton Bay. Australian transport ballad. Ludwig tenor banjo, tuned GDAE.
2/26/2020 by Andyrhydycreuau
Posted in Live Playing (Personal Videos)
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish
Playing Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum)
The Wild Colonial Boy. Australian outlaw folk song. Clawhammer banjo.
2/25/2020 by Andyrhydycreuau
Posted in Live Playing (Personal Videos)
Genre: Other
Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Old Joe Clark. Clawhammer banjo, tuned in sawmill.
2/25/2020 by Andyrhydycreuau
Posted in Live Playing (Personal Videos)
Genre: Old Time
Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
"Big Bowel Breakdown" written by me, just after my ileostomy surgery. Haven't written lyrics yet.
2/25/2020 by Andyrhydycreuau
Posted in Live Playing (Personal Videos)
Genre: Bluegrass
Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
The Wind That Shakes The Barley. Fiddle tune, played on clawhammer banjo.
2/22/2020 by Andyrhydycreuau
Posted in Live Playing (Personal Videos)
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish
Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Acres of clams. Clawhammer banjo tuned eCGCD.
2/19/2020 by Andyrhydycreuau
Posted in Live Playing (Personal Videos)
Genre: Old Time
Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Reel d'eboulement. Ludwig tenor banjo. Tuned GDAE. Musique Traditionelle Quebecois
2/17/2020 by Andyrhydycreuau
Posted in Live Playing (Personal Videos)
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish
Playing Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum)
Rosin the Bow. Old Rosin the Beau. Lincoln and Liberty.
2/12/2020 by Andyrhydycreuau
Posted in Live Playing (Personal Videos)
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish
Playing Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum)
I'm a Believer. Neil Diamond / The Monkees. Non banjo music played clawhammer. Tuning is gCGCD
2/11/2020 by Andyrhydycreuau
Posted in Live Playing (Personal Videos)
Genre: Popular
Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Ashokan Farewell. Tenor banjo. GDAE.
2/2/2020 by Andyrhydycreuau
Posted in Live Playing (Personal Videos)
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish
Playing Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum)
A new skin head on an old Ludwig tenor banjo. "Four pence a day"
2/2/2020 by Andyrhydycreuau
Posted in Banjo Building/Setup/Repair
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish
Playing Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum)
Fitting a new skin head to an old Ludwig banjo. Time lapse.
2/2/2020 by Andyrhydycreuau
Posted in Banjo Building/Setup/Repair
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish
Playing Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum)
She's Like The Swallow. Newfoundland Folk Tune. Clawhammer, tuned low.
1/21/2020 by Andyrhydycreuau
Posted in Live Playing (Personal Videos)
Genre: Old Time
Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Syrop d'erable / maple sugar. GDAE Vegaphone Professional Tenor Banjo.
1/19/2020 by Andyrhydycreuau
Posted in Live Playing (Personal Videos)
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish
Playing Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum)
The Glasgow Reel or Tam Lin or The Howling Winds. Tenor banjo. GDAE.
1/12/2020 by Andyrhydycreuau
Posted in Live Playing (Personal Videos)
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish
Playing Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum)
Big Eyed Rabbit - Matokie Slaughter tune.
1/5/2020 by Andyrhydycreuau
Posted in Live Playing (Personal Videos)
Genre: Old Time
Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Chase me Charlie / Cock of the North on my Vegaphone Professional Tenor.
1/4/2020 by Andyrhydycreuau
Posted in Live Playing (Personal Videos)
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish
Playing Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum)
Daisy, Daisy, or "a bicycle made for two". Clawhammer banjo. Standard G tuning.
1/2/2020 by Andyrhydycreuau
Posted in Live Playing (Personal Videos)
Genre: Other
Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
The Old Lady and the Devil / The Curst Farmer's Wife. Standard G tuning. Traditional ballad.
12/29/2019 by Andyrhydycreuau
Posted in Live Playing (Personal Videos)
Genre: Old Time
Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Going across the mountain. Frank Proffit, Anna and Elizabeth, Pete Seeger etc.
12/29/2019 by Andyrhydycreuau
Posted in Live Playing (Personal Videos)
Genre: Old Time
Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Swallowtail Jig. Vegaphone Professional Tenor Banjo.
12/26/2019 by Andyrhydycreuau
Posted in Live Playing (Personal Videos)
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish
Playing Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum)
"The Cuckoo". Some tips to help with this old-time banjo tune.
12/18/2019 by Andyrhydycreuau
Posted in Banjo Lessons and Instruction
Genre: Old Time
Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
The Cuckoo. Old-time, Clawhammer Banjo tune, on my 1890 HC Nelsen banjo.
12/18/2019 by Andyrhydycreuau
Posted in Live Playing (Personal Videos)
Genre: Old Time
Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
The Mist Covered Mountains. Vegaphone Professional Tenor Banjo
12/18/2019 by Andyrhydycreuau
Posted in Live Playing (Personal Videos)
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish
Playing Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum)
Jesse James. Old time / clawhammer banjo
12/8/2019 by Andyrhydycreuau
Posted in Live Playing (Personal Videos)
Genre: Old Time
Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
The song of a lost hunter / Love Henry. Frank Proffit / traditional.
11/24/2019 by Andyrhydycreuau
Posted in Live Playing (Personal Videos)
Genre: Old Time
Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Missouri Borderlands. Joe Newberry / Mandolin Orange. Clawhammer banjo. Tuning is double B flat.
11/23/2019 by Andyrhydycreuau
Posted in Live Playing (Personal Videos)
Genre: Country
Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Wild Mountain Thyme. (Will ye go, lassie, go?) Clawhammer banjo, double C tuning.
11/16/2019 by Andyrhydycreuau
Posted in Live Playing (Personal Videos)
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish
Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
The Ballad of Hiram Hubbard. Played clawhammer on my 1890 HC Nelson. Doc Watson lyrics. Tuned low!
11/12/2019 by Andyrhydycreuau
Posted in Live Playing (Personal Videos)
Genre: Old Time
Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Campeltown Loch. (I wish you were whisky.) Tenor banjo instrumental.
11/8/2019 by Andyrhydycreuau
Posted in Live Playing (Personal Videos)
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish
Playing Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum)
The Green Fields of France. 5 string banjo. Eric Bogle / The Fureys / Drop Kick Murphys etc.
11/8/2019 by Andyrhydycreuau
Posted in Live Playing (Personal Videos)
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish
Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
The Parting Glass. On a Vegaphone Professional tenor banjo from around 1927.
11/7/2019 by Andyrhydycreuau
Posted in Live Playing (Personal Videos)
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish
Playing Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum)
German War
11/4/2019 by Andyrhydycreuau
Posted in Live Playing (Personal Videos)
Genre: Old Time
Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Bury Me Beneath the Willow. Carter family. And everyone else.
11/1/2019 by Andyrhydycreuau
Posted in Live Playing (Personal Videos)
Genre: Country
Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
No Depression in Heaven. Carter family, Please y Self etc. Old time banjo.
10/30/2019 by Andyrhydycreuau
Posted in Live Playing (Personal Videos)
Genre: Country
Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
The Creggan White Hare. With one verse this time, and the short version of the lyrics..
10/20/2019 by Andyrhydycreuau
Posted in Music Videos
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish
Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time