Ken Perlman Fingerstyle Guitar Video How To Fret The

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I just finished learning Dorrigo ( youtube.comwatchvV3rBJULjEMA ) with Brad Kolodner, and Im pleased with how thats going, so Im turning my attention to Ken Perlmans Everything You Wanted to Know About Clawhammer Banjo, specifically Beaumont Rag.

What Im having trouble with is the B section (see attached photo), where he has us fret the drone string on the seventh fret.

Not only is this the devil to finger, but it doesnt sound right to me.

Both the left hand and right hand are asked to do some unusual things.

In the first measure you highlight, the thumb plays the 5th string while it is fretted at the 7th fret by the pinky() perhaps.

Then an open-string pull-off is needed to be performed by the left-hand at the 4th fret of the 3rd string.

In the next measure the thumb plays the 5th string at the 7th fret and then drops to play the 3rd string at the 4th fret after a skipped (or tied) note.

He discusses some of these licks earlier in the book (pp.

David P.S. Perlman has a good column on syncopation using m-skips and other techniques in the September 2020 Banjo Newsletter.

He is a great player on both banjo and guitar and his books Id highly recommend.

Ken is a top notch person and player to me.Jack p.s.

I have lots of my clawhammer students look at your tabs and posts.

I was behaving as though that wouldnt have any effect on the fifth string, but of course it does.

Ill give your fingering advice some thought, because that was my next question.

He mentions indirect thumb crossover at one point, which sounds like voodoo to me (and I cant find any instruction online about it).

Jack Baker I havent had the pleasure of meeting Ken, but hes a monster player and clearly knows his stuff.

Announcing a Series of Clawhammer Banjo Clinics Taught Online by Ken Perlman Clawhammer Instruction from One of Todays Foremost Players Teachers of the Style.

Heres the First Couple of Topics with Dates Times Syncopation in Clawhammer: a Systematic Approach ( Monday, Oct.

PM Eastern Time) Based on a very simple element I call a skip-stroke (others refer to it as a ghost brush) heres a step-by-step method that covers everything from shuffle endings and pushing the beat to complex rhythmic patterns, the Turkey in the Straw lick, and full-fledged ragtime.

If you already own or have an interest in Kens new book Appalachian Fiddle Tunes for Clawhammer Banjo, this is the clinic for you Price: 20 per computer.

Level: Intermediate Up Prerequisites: drop-thumbing, hammer-ons pull-offs Sign Up for Kens Syncopation Clinic Strategies for Playing Up the Neck in Clawhammer (Monday, Oct.

PM Eastern Time) Have you been in league till now with David Stringbean Aikman, who notoriously told Bill Monroe, There aint no money above the 5th fret Here are some strategies for getting comfortable venturing up the neck with impunity, including position playing, understanding the fingerboard, trick fingering strategies, movable chord shapes, and melodic fingering shapes.

Ken Perlman Fingerstyle Guitar Video How To Fret The

And of course, learning how to fret the 5th string, and how to use movable shapes incorporating the fretted 5th string will be front and center.

By the way, Monroe would soon replace Aikman by a then little known banjo picker named Earl Scruggs.