How to Play Cripple Creek on Banjo, Plus Timing Theory Lesson!

[@MjrMjr-tt3kn]

Ben thank you for this lesson, please ignore the immature losers who post negative and unkind remarks in this comment section. They are jealous that there lives are quite unremarkable. Your teaching effort goes far beyond the other online teachers and since I'm a gold pick member I can say that the value of your teaching program is excellent. Keep up the fine work you do!!

[@jerryspianobar]

Otherwise known as "You get what you pay for" ...... agreed.

[@BanjoBen]

@magicman2001 It's a device invented by the Normans in 1070 to be used as a torture tool in their conquests. Later, in the 1900's, bluegrass adopted it as its signature sound. I use it for both purposes.

[@iaingill4879]

Thanks for the lesson Ben! Always appreciate your efforts - top class

[@timlgalliher]

Ben I started playing claw hammer this Christmas and just a couple weeks ago started playing the Scruggs style . I want to start learning the standards and began with Cripple Creek .. Everyone else's videos just confused the hell out of it but yours nailed it man thanks a bunch ! What would you suggest I tackle next ? Granted ill keep working this one till I get it exactly the way it should be but I'm thinking Flint Hill special may be a bit much to soon ? Lol thanks again for doing what you do man !

[@perrybucsdad]

Thank you... I am only a few weeks in, and I can't nearly play as fast as you, but I know I have been doing that galloping pattern I think. The one thing I can't seem to do well though is that hammer on. I just can't get the volume even though I am hitting it hard. near the fret and with the tip of my finger. If I play is crazy slow, I can do fine, but when I pick up the pace just a little (again, nothing like your pace), the hammer on volume dies.

[@andrewbeattieRAB]

DUDE, and to think not a 1/2 hour ago I posted this on another banjo channel I came across: “I had a fraternity brother at Texas A&M in the early 80s who played the banjo. That is back when fraternities were outlawed/unrecognized at A&M. After a party, he would get it out and tear it up - Foggy Mountain, Sleepy Man,… You would think a bunch of college kids would be too cool to like the banjo. Hell no, we loved it!!”

[@BanjoBen]

Gig 'em!

[@BanjoBen]

I appreciate your use of the word "Please" to state your request. Thank you!

[@BanjoBen]

@2LateIWon Awesome! Thanks so much! Yeah, there is room in our playing for both kinds, and we definitely need to be able to play both at will.

[@sweetp104]

Who else is playing banjo in 2019

[@keithleatherwood5581]

I’m pickn

[@blainestewart592]

How bout 2020

[@alexking5086]

@@blainestewart592 lol same

[@nicovaneenennaam5065]

I'm pickin greetings from the Netherlands....Nico

[@ManifestBestLife7]

Soon in sat I’m picking like crazy in 2020

[@johncarrick9611]

Need to get a banjo and follow these tutorials. Ben is so awesome. Want to try and actually play the banjo. Thank you so very much Ben. You are awesome.

[@BanjoBen]

You can do it!

[@TheLastKilroyFilms]

Dude thank you! I was trying to play the Cripple Creek tab in the Scruggs book and he interchanges the 8th sand 16th note ornaments, but on the recording it kinda sounds like he's doing mostly 8th notes.. Appreciate the explanation.

[@BarryPennock]

Difference is enormous

[@BanjoBen]

Howdy Brenda! It's there :) Just click on the banjo, then click on the basic category under tabs...it's the 4th one down. Thanks!

[@brainlesswonder]

I watched a video where a guy told me to play with that chat-a-NOOG-a galloping swing. Now you tell me not too?!?!?!?! My head exploded, my keyboard is covered in brains, and my newly orphaned child is typing this comment for me as requested in my last will and testament.

[@JimB73C]

Good straight forward simplistic explanation! Thanks Ben!

[@trevordavis2760]

Thanks for being there. I just started lessons, in my fourth week (at age 51). I find my fingers being rather large and finding it difficult to only press one string. Any hints?

[@BanjoBen]

Come to my forum and post a video of your left hand position and I'll help you out!

[@peterowl8144]

It was over before it began!!!

[@brendacrews588]

thanks been playing banjo for about 4 months now still a lot to learn I went to your site pretty cool but did not see the music for cripple creek

[@Karl2070]

how did you play the very first riff in this lesson. just as the video starts. Thanks

[@2LateIWon]

I think I like the 8th note version a little better. Great lesson!!!

[@Adri1.G]

Hello Ben, what's model of your banjo because i love it.i love the sound.thank you.

[@BanjoBen]

+Adrien Giannini Thanks! That's a Gibson RB-3 Wreath. I now primarily play a Huber Lexington, however.

[@floofytown]

Some songs are swing, some aren't. And some can be either. Cripple Creek, in fact, played slowly sounds best with that swing, and played at speed sounds best straight. So if you play only one way or the other, you're selling yourself short! Learn both is the point. Master both!

[@floofytown]

This is obviously a preview of a longer, more Cripple-Creek-centric video on his website. The title hints at what can be had if the whole video is purchased. MARKETING, MY GOOD MAN

[@Dxpert26]

Great vid

[@guitaromontalban6841]

You American comments confuse me but Ben you you are awesome

[@tomkelly00]

what's the tune that they sample in the game Tower Madness?

[@ptalbany]

I think when one plays they need to rely on there ears too thats how I have to do it as I can't read a lick of music and tab ain't much better but a lil!!! but Ben when you show us how to play it all makes it come together so easy and I'm not even banjer player but this makes me one to go get one and start torturing people

[@XDHNoisePollution]

Amazing!!!

[@evokestudiosbrighton]

to me it has a 6/8 feel - is this right?

[@BanjoBen]

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[@BanjoBen]

Hey bud, visit my site that's in the description in the video. Teaching people to play is what I do :)

[@JimAdams_banjo]

Yep...worth every penny!

[@themadclown94]

What's the instrument on the far right

[@joshuatate5671]

themadclown94 mandolin

[@eduardoretardo2828]

Intro reminded me of medal of honor allied assault on pc

[@Joecoleman84]

Excellent lesson. Except, as a teacher I resent the fact your first whiteboard marker worked. We all know that this is clearly impossible. Witchcraft, trickery.

[@BanjoBen]

Hahaha, no joke!

[@mikewood3487]

Wdya mean didnt learn anything,Duh!!! the theory lesson is very good for a beginner.

[@Cryo_Gen]

Lol my galloping and swinging is awful. I gotta find a way to push6 years of jazz band out of my head

[@BanjoBen]

Dueling Banjos...check. Accept PayPal....check. See you soon on the site!

[@perryvallee994]

After 0ne a half years, one to two hours a day of practist very day I bought 10 book I have invested $ 3,000 in all all I can play is one Roll with the right hand Im frustrated I think everything is going to go in the wood stove.

[@BanjoBen]

+perry vallee Have you tried my site? Don't burn the banjo before you give me a try :)

[@perryvallee994]

+Banjo Ben Clark Everything is gone I tried & I tried hard but what I needed was a teacher beside me &; the close,s is 200 miles away well I figure there other things in life then get flustered with a dam Banjo Im even getting bad at my friends its time to move on. All I ever wanted is play one simple song not 5 & not 10 ,ONE & only ONE.

[@BanjoBen]

+perry vallee If I was there with you I'd give you a hug.

[@koshar44]

+perry vallee dont give up. just play it your way then move to somn more structured.

[@dvdfrnzwbr]

Please re title this video as a ten minute 4th grade music theory lesson and less than a minute of playing instruction.

[@BanjoBanjo1017]

I didn't learn

[@Holmstien]

Misleading title and fishing for money. Nice.

[@mattb8818]

Come on man, don't say Cripple Creek lesson then not teach the song!

[@dvdfrnzwbr]

This spam shit doesn't belong on youtube.

[@niqueth]

Hey Ben, your stems-down eighth note flags are looking a little limp there, buddy! I think they maybe drank a little too much moonshine. Also when you connect them together, call that beaming. If you call it tying, people will get confused between "beaming" and "tied notes," two totally different things.