claw hammer guitar - Steve Baughman

Subject: RE: claw hammer guitar - Steve Baughman
From: The Sandman
Date: 03 Nov 10 - 02:14 PM

steve baughman, will the E string go up to high g, SAME AS HIGH G ON A BANJO, what NUMBER gauge do you recommend, I dont want to snap strings.

Subject: RE: claw hammer guitar - Steve Baughman
From: The Sandman
Date: 03 Nov 10 - 06:00 PM

of course the high g string can enable the player to use the high g string as a melody note in the style of clawhammer banjo,clever stuff

Subject: RE: claw hammer guitar - Steve Baughman
From: The Sandman
Date: 05 Nov 10 - 11:11 AM

ok so i tried a e string gauge 07 works perfectly and sounds good.

Subject: RE: claw hammer guitar - Steve Baughman
From: Bobert
Date: 05 Nov 10 - 12:07 PM

Nice youtube... I never really knew what style I pick but it's definitely more on the claw hammer side than the Piedmont but, heck, I never am quite sure what the right hand has in it's mind... lol...

Back when I was a regular at Archie Edwards Barber Shop in Washington, D.C. the folks mainly played Piedmont style and, yeah, I could play it but then they'd want to hear what they called "Delta" and had me do two or three "Delta" songs and that's the kinda pickin' I'd use, along with a bottleneck...

The main difference is in the thumb... You notice that with the claw hammer the thumb goes down somet5imes catchin' two or more strings on the way down... That is a no-no with most Piedmont pickers who tend to be a lot cleaner...

Thanks fir the video...

B~

Subject: RE: claw hammer guitar - Steve Baughman
From: GUEST,steve baughman
Date: 09 Nov 10 - 05:23 PM

Hi Good Soldier. I actually had a RAILROAD SPIKE in my guitar at the 5th fret of the 5th string so I can just tune the High Five strung to a D, "capo" it at the 5th fret and get a high G that way. Make sense? That's what banjo players do, but it's great to know that a .07 E string goes up to a G. You can also tune it to F# and play in Open D.

Loads of things to experiment with clawhammer guitar.

Thanks for the info,

sb

Subject: RE: claw hammer guitar - Steve Baughman
From: The Sandman
Date: 09 Nov 10 - 06:28 PM

last night it[o7string] broke so i put a[E] gauge 10 on.......and tuned it to f.......then i tuned 12345 cafcf and tuned the low6 e string up to f, i figured tuning a string up a semitone would not cause too much stress, SOUNDS GREAT.