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Thread #63506 Message #1031992
Posted By: Phil Cooper
08-Oct-03 - 06:13 PM
Thread Name: Tim Hart's banjo style.
Subject: RE: Tim Hart's banjo style.
Celeste,
Perhaps someone else will know for sure. I have the recording with the song you mentioned. It sounds to me like he's playing the banjo in a slow guitar style picking pattern on that song. Definitely not clawhammer style. Guitar is my main instrument. I never could get the hang to clawhammer style. Someone fairly adept at that style said my banjo playing sounded like a guitar player playing a banjo. Anyway, what Tim Hart is playing there, sounds a lot like that to me. He sounded like he was playing a more clawhammering style when he did the playing of Skewball on an early Steeleye Span album, also his playing in the background on Edmund on a later Steeleye album sound real good. Sorry I can't be of more help as far as his specific style goes. I hope someone can answer that for you.