There are many styles of Old-Time banjo playing. This class will focus on teaching the clawhammer style, a rhythmic, old-time banjo style characterized by a "down-picking" motion, where the back of the fingernail strikes strings and the thumb catches the drone (5th) string, in a “bum-diddy” repeated rhythm. By the end of the week, you will be comfortable with this rhythmic style and know a few tunes.

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