Last Chance - Brad Kolodner - Clawhammer Banjo

Learn the first part of this tune here: • Last Chance - A Part T...
If I'm ever stranded on a desert island with one banjo tune to play for the rest of time, it would be this one: Last Chance. It has such a groovy, spooky and hypnotizing melody. Charm City Junction recorded this one on our debut album back in 2014. You can learn this tune on my brand new TrueFire Channel Clawhammer Corner! I teach a basic and advanced version of the tune phrase by phrase with all kinds of cool variations and up-the-neck ideas thrown in.
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Tuning: fCFCD

[@carolmccollum9341]

I LOVE this tune... & of course, you do it sooo well! I'm a fiddler. I'm blessed to have banjo players who I can play this awesome tune with!!

[@llamasamara]

omg. that was so fun. :-D

[@Musicalmaggid]

love a video that makes we want to practice and makes me want to quit all at once

[@wills.7626]

Truth👍

[@pelumaad331]

LOL...I have The Banjo Lesson hanging to my left.....and one day I might even get that clawhammer touch...

[@ShellyOB1]

MAD great job on that fabulous tune!! Wonderful!!

[@KennethWilliamElkington]

Yeah, fer sure Brad ... a quintessential clawhammer gem, played very sweetly, sir.

[@abbanjo13]

In the last third of the song my jaw dropped very well done.

[@BanjoBen]

Super duper cool stuff right here. My sister is learning this, what a tune!

[@derfeus]

Banjo Ben - I always wondered if you play clawhammer. At least now I know you dig it!

[@BanjoBen]

@@derfeus I don't play yet, but just had one built by Nashville Banjo Company and I'm excited to start!

[@derfeus]

@@BanjoBen Awesome! I have a feeling you'll get up to speed quickly!

[@vantasnermeridian8674]

Well I ain't never heard me no Last Chance like that! You got right on it Boy-o. That's some mighty fine drop-thumb 👍🏻

[@izzy4el]

Beautiful.

[@justinfrancis669]

So good!

[@hikrose]

Awesome.

[@jimbascom]

Whoa! You've got a lot of cool things going on. Well done, sir!

[@fundybanjos]

damn, that was crazy good

[@MatthewCastro]

So cool! I just found you. Subscribed!

[@rodp7803]

It was cool to see you place your finger as if fretting over the frailing scoop. Awesome version, especially up the neck!

[@Pinkbobapandas]

Hi Brad, thank you for introducing me to this tune. I decided to try and learn it and as soon as I put my banjo into fCFCD it seemed to flow right out! I am sure I will have fun trying to master this for a long time to come and it's one of my favorite songs so far

[@northbouy2625]

Sweet jesus 😯

[@wriplay]

Lovely’s

[@rayclark8919]

Absolutely love it... that’s some nice picking... sandy river belle tuning? Love lows

[@banjofrog08]

When people ask why I prefer clawhammer over scruggs style i usually show them this video.

[@Prajnana]

Wow, how did you keep that double thumbing going while playing that complex melody line? Very nice!

[@zuhairreza]

How hard would it be if I bought a banjo and tried to learn playing the banjo myself? I play guitar (as my channel would show). Do you have any idea on this? By the way, beautiful music! Gonna share now on Facebook. 😍😍😀

[@koalapancakesupreme]

If you're already rhythmically inclined I think the process wouldn't be too hard. The mechanics of removing your upstrokes for playing clawhammer style like masterful mr. Kolodner here would probably be your biggest hurdle. If you've finger picked at all scrugss style banjo would be dead easy with little effort other than learning roll patterns. I'm now learning guitar after starting on banjo. Let me use the old adage "the first instrument is the hardest". Now to learn to sound like beautiful Brad... potentially a lifetime 😉 gl hf

[@zuhairreza]

@@koalapancakesupreme Thanks for the ideas! Good luck to you too.

[@AlisonHeyer]

Wow! How do you do those fast triplets? I'm trying to see, but I don't even know which hand to look at, when!

[@bradkolodnermusic]

Left hand pull-off combined with the 5th string!

[@AlisonHeyer]

@@bradkolodnermusic Thank you! After I wrote this, I remembered I could slow down the video, so I got a little better idea. It's amazing how then the 5th string pluck is kinda swinging for this.

[@banjofrog08]

When people ask

[@maestromusicteacher3922]

Hi Brad do you have Tablature for this tune?