Learning the Art of Clawhammer Guitar - with Molly Tuttle

[@thehammer4]

4 and a half minutes of "I can do that!" followed by 30 seconds of crushing return to reality.

[@johnjenkins2047]

You read my mind

[@Balazak]

Haha, sometimes I can forget just how good she actually is. It never lasts too long though.

[@JeffMTX]

Must. Go. Slow. Uhhh. Slower. Slower. Ah!

[@Luckyrider1958]

I'm thinking the big red "S" is hidden behind the guitar body.. LOL!!

[@GarethFlatlands]

Sounds like me watching the breakdown of Big Love on acoustic by Lindsay Buckingham. I went from "is that all he''s doing?" to "I am so bad on guitar" in under a minute.

[@kec5831]

Heard her play this past May in Asheville, NC. It’s an amazing experience to watch her play! It’s like she has super powers. And such a sweet, humble person!

[@bentackett6299]

How about she's our new favorite super hero, okay? 😃

[@Galivantin]

You made it look easy. I had never heard of clawhammer style but it sounded amazing when I heard you play. Thanks

[@MrParkerman6]

Watch Andy Griffith. It's what Sheriff Andy Taylor plays all the time!

[@MrParkerman6]

m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/eISqZKaeoa16bcU

[@brandonvandelden7972]

She's NOT a musician

[@collinsstudios7098]

Brandon Van Delden - What do you mean? She’s a phenomenal musician

[@brandonvandelden7972]

@MegaStick93 anybody defending a female holding a guitar IS ALSO A FEMALE. That's you.

[@drivenbydemons6537]

Been following Molly for a while. I HIGHLY suggest you search for her flatpicking videos. Trust.

[@stevennieto9898]

I remember first seeing her in a video about her getting a new guitar. She's superb!

[@Duderino1978]

I thought claw hammer was the way Phoebe from friends would play the guitar.

[@MrParkerman6]

m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/eISqZKaeoa16bcU

[@DlmlZ]

Molly Tuttle, probably one of the most talented people on this planet. What she does on her guitar is absolutely jaw dropping! Thanks a lot for sharing this video. Please stay all healthy. God bless!

[@Chadthaniel]

Which 100 idiots disliked this video? The breakdown was extremely helpful, I learned a ton, and she F'n rips. So good!

[@jblah1]

Millennials?

[@grahamwales3249]

Men who don’t like Women who know more than them, I guessing. In other words, idiots.

[@aaroncrosby2173]

Your an idiot for worrying about the idiots.

[@OsbornIOW]

I am convinced there is a group of folk just clicking dislike on every video just for the sake of it.

[@froglifechannel]

@@OsbornIOW Definitely. It's par for KZbin.

[@JohnDoe-vf2yo]

Stephen Stills uses this technique as well. He was my main inspiration to learn acoustic blues and bluegrass.

[@kurthallsman]

The minute she started playing full on, I thought of "Black Queen!"

[@JohnDoe-vf2yo]

@@kurthallsman I was thinking of Toe the Line or Word Game when she started playing.

[@r.k.2000]

Neil Young too, like on "Captain Kennedy" for instance.

[@iyorit1089]

Yes,Stephen Stills ⚡️👍

[@OIP_1]

"the first of her series of monthly lessons" aww yeah! this is great and i can't wait for more. PS: the noise gate is really intense

[@kingrobert1st]

I saw the poster but not the gate.

[@jesselandreth4497]

The gate was driving me insane

[@JohnTWeston]

I cant stand the gate lol... makes me kinda feel sick

[@johndufford5561]

OIP 1, please define a "noise gate". Don't know what you mean. Thanks.

[@OIP_1]

@@johndufford5561 it detects when the audio is below a certain threshold and shuts it off altogether. so rather than any gentle ambient noise in the background when not talking or playing it slams to dead silence and feels like all the air has been sucked out of the room.

[@codyhudman2763]

Interesting video, Molly is amazing. Though Guitar World, please tell your audio engineer to go a little easier on the noise gate. REALLY distracting! Actually thought I had a connection problem, the audio drop was so dramatic.

[@jasonwright285]

3:51. See also Lungs by Townes Van Zandt, which uses the same melody as this traditional song. The version of that song on his Live at the Old Quarter album is the best.

[@cszollinger]

@m riggs I think he was just saying that song borrows the melody.

[@Tasmanaut]

@@cszollinger interesting enough, the origin for the alternate version of cocaine blues (the version most are familiar with via Johnny Cash) borrows its lyrical content from little Sadie

[@JAKENMK]

New sub here, would love to see more molly tuttle stuff she’s incredible !

[@paulschauerman2052]

Really interesting. I just like Molly's delivery too; not complicated and not showy.

[@jeremeyholland1876]

Especially for how great a player she is too. Check out white freightliner blues that she covered.

[@JoeGPERY]

2:07 ... “it’s been a hard days night

[@julianschulz1620]

Wow, her voice sounded so beautiful in unison with the guitar part. I really like the sound of that tuning.

[@resourcedragon]

I was very impressed by her singing, too.

[@400_billion_suns]

She is an *extraordinary* talent (and by talent, I mean of course that she put in tons of work and practice to become who she is). Check out this video of her if you want to hear something else amazing!!! kzbin.info/www/bejne/l6iplneDg85-jpY

[@muchelleeaton6131]

Not the same, but a lot like Mother Maybelle Carter's style. She was amazing. I love to show her playing style to my son. A great teaching tool to up and coming players. This was really good too, I will show this vid to him, he will love it

[@PlanetRockJesus]

Saw her band a bit over a year ago in Baraboo, Wisconsin for $20! My wife, son, daughter and son-in-law all had fifth row seats. We knew she was an up-and-coming star, and that she would eventually become a household name, at least in bluegrass circles. What a great concert it was. She's an amazing guitarist and rivals Alison Krauss with her angelic voice.

[@JulienMENARD]

I felt in love with Molly Tuttle's music one year ago, i highly recommend this first (and only) album "when you're ready" and the ep " rise ". Just great songs, great vocal, great guitar, great arrangement. Traditional and fresh at the same time. And of course an amazing guitar player ... !!! By the way this technique is really interesting, let's work now.

[@TheAsdsdswww]

In 2019 she released another album

[@skwrttj]

I’ve followed her for over 10 years.... amazing talent!... but so are her Dad and brothers.

[@Wanielyo]

I like the style when you tune to open D and capo up to G. Then end your “bum-dity” with index finger up pick on 1st string instead of a thumb note. The 1st string becomes the short/high G string on a banjo and strings 2-5 are tuned open G similar to a banjo. From there you can change 2-4 to any banjo tuning you like.

[@einarabelc5]

One of the BEST pickers I've ever seen. Saw her first on the picking channel: Troy Grady.

[@CalmedByNature]

As a old-time banjo player I love this!

[@hazujh7]

Awesome! :D I've heard that kind of sound so many times before but had no idea how they did it; this was very helpful

[@deanfeldman2505]

Awesome, a Molly Tuttle lesson. Rich!

[@kayeninetwo3585]

I'd never heard of that style of guitar playing before, which is amazing being that it's a logical extension of a well known banjo style. And it suits Molly's open and less rigid virtuosity. Cool video.

[@merqury5]

That sounds purely American!

[@MrParkerman6]

m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/eISqZKaeoa16bcU

[@JohnyG29]

Actually the technique originates in Africa. It's a well known banjo playing style.

[@JohannesLabusch]

Congratulations, you took me from "hey, I could learn this" all the way to "aw, forget it", in less than 5 minutes!

[@pillepalle3614]

Jep same here 😂

[@kipponi]

Yeah way too fast.

[@elliecollis4845]

me too ... :-)

[@skwrttj]

It’s doable... just takes “stick-att’em-ness”!!! 😁

[@atlgator1928]

Yup. That’s exactly what that sounds like when you speed it up! :)

[@taunteratwill1787]

You talk much and play little. :-))

[@Heavywall70]

“Make your hand look like a claw” Phoebe Buffay was right!

[@internetsummoner]

I love Molly !!! Please do more lessons with her

[@OverlandOne]

Never heard of this before. Thanks for educating us.

[@cadehagen7981]

Every guitarist at 4:28 - “Well shit, now I have to dedicate my life to learning this style.”

[@BWalter032]

I am now a claw hammer guitar player.

[@angelofmusic477]

You have to change to adaptive open strings tuning. Claw hammer don't sound great or right on standard guitar tuning.

[@rainblaze.]

Im trying to get back into guitar after about 5 years away. Never knew you could drop off so fast

[@2girls1coop]

Trust when the monotony comes back that will be when the real progress happens

[@khatdragon7694]

After long breaks it takes me a day or two to get back into it. It's amazing how much the hands remember.

[@400_billion_suns]

I love Molly, she’s amazing! So happy to see lessons from her. Thanks!!!

[@merak0044]

NIce! I'm still trying to figure out RL Burnside s strumming. I'll give this a try but cant promise anything. Love your playing Molly!

[@ILoveMagic15]

You may want to look at the sound and stop it from cutting out all the parts in between speech. I don't know what it's called but it's quite annoying hearing all those completely blank pauses in between the words.

[@brandoncalloway8779]

Cool. The tuning Jimmy Page used on The Rain Song.

[@ge45gecalled39]

that tune would be great in a western, the slow part imagine a horse walking alone and the fast part is running after a bank robbery

[@RobMacKendrick]

You hear a lot of that in Firefly, often paired with bottleneck.

[@proculusjulius7035]

Red Dead Redemption 2 😂

[@jdhed1]

Hush

[@jamesrumbaugh3283]

Went out last night to take a look around, Met Little Sadie and I pulled her down, Went right home, went to bed, .44 smokin' under my head.... Woke up next morning bout a half past nine, horses and the buggies all standing in line, Gents and gamblers standing around, They was takin Little Sadie to the buryin' ground I couldnt believe what a deed I'd done, Grabbed my hat, and away I run, Made a good run, but a little too slow, They overtook me in Jericho.... I's standing on the corner reading on a bill Along come a sherrif from Thomasville, Said "Young man is your name Brown.. Remember the night you blowed Sadie down" Well they took me downtown all dressed in black, Put me on a train to send me back, Send me back to the county jail, Had nobody for ta' go my bail. Well the judge and the jury they took the stand, Judge a held the paper in his right hand... 41 days, 41 nights, plus 41 years to wear the ball and stripes.....

[@gybx4094]

Some of the lyrics to those old traditional songs are like Jeffrey Dahmer stories. Probably Not Safe For Work in some businesses.

[@benjaminquick4750]

She looks just like Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Great playing!!!!

[@kingcobrajfssepaboosterclub]

Apparently I've been playi g claw hammer guitar for a while. Great lesson ty Molly

[@JerelTeh]

Wow, this looks hard and weird, makes me wanna try it. Damn I like it!

[@Belman5]

First sentence, thumbs up. Love your playing.

[@nixternal]

Definitely need more lessons by Molly. One of my favorite guitarists & musicians out there now. I would kill to play 1/1000000th of that :D

[@jimmymarchisotto8152]

Thank you for my first introduction to the Claw Hammer method. I will be working on it!

[@pickinanddiggin9128]

Molly is so incredibly talented and a truly good soul through and through.

[@willstorm8331]

Good to hear good folk saying good things about other good folk.

[@Michiel1972]

Started playing guitar because of Mark Knopfler. Started of with a plectrum, because of my guitar teacher made me. Said it was better to play guitar with a pick. But never could get the Dire Straits stuff right with a plectrum. So threw the plectrum away and soon I was a happy man with the Mark Knopfler styleclaw hammer technique.

[@mbsnyderc]

But she's a real star with a plectrum.kzbin.info/www/bejne/l6iplneDg85-jpY

[@skwrttj]

Michiel1972... Lindsay Buckingham doesn’t use a pick that I’ve seen.... either.

[@robertcallaghan4029]

fuckin love it sounds just like that Gillian Welch song, One Morning

[@billherbert4961]

Oh, so it's easy. Phew, thought it'd take years. Yes, yes it will.

[@johnnytmcq]

Especially coming from playing guitar normally. I've been trying to get the hang of claw hammer for years but it's just always felt so awkward. I actually think even this brief video might have gotten me further than many other lessons I've had. Just got to start slow, lol.

[@inkjob12]

Love you Molly ! Saw you on the Nashville Covid series play a song with this style of playing...loved it. Im in the San Fran Bay Are also...you should v]come back and play at the Freight and Salvage.....after Covid is cleared up..

[@davidzamora9973]

Man, Fig. 5 is the cold hard truth. This should've been a "betcha can't play this." She done hurt my soul and she didn't even use a pick

[@jdub5644]

Nice! Been learning finger picking for a while now and this is fresh. Check out Joey Eppard if you wanna check out more finger picking

[@ericjam6346]

More Molly Lessons Please!

[@Quikostdreggs]

I play claw hammer guitar in DADGAD or DADF#AD. Mine seems to get a fuller sound than in the standard claw hammer guitar tuning.

[@richardstanley1331]

Still awesome! I picked up claw hammer banjo over the past year, and am much more of a roots guitar player. This is a very cool style with lots of possibilities. My advice (I didn’t come up with this): any time your lost in the pattern (typically bum ditty, but there’s more comin’!), just slow it down to a crawl (even 60-70 bpm) and regain your control, then slowly work it back up to your target. Many patterns sound like nothing until you get it going faster. Then it magically reveals its nature. Real magic!! It’s a fantastic moment of victory! A metronome is your friend.

[@hetjamesfield4473]

Sounds Celtic...

[@dennisrocker]

Well young Lady, That was a fine idea. Ive never heard of doing that. I play in a loud garage rock band. Im glad for it. Ive written songs since the mid 70's but I really, really enjoy cave creating. That would me in my place with my guitars and sound, recording stuff. I cant stay away from using the drop D on 6th. It just sound so good. With my unskilled hybrid flat picking style, I am taken back into the old days of folk, bluegrass early American music that I love., and heck throw in a capo and old Dennis starts losing sleep. Im excited to try your hammer style on a guitar. The hammer style on banjo is what I like. Not the E.S. picking rolls. I know the old timers played claw style banjo but doesnt Rhianon Gibbons with Carolina Ch. Drops do a fine job of it. Honestly speaking some more,,,I personally enjoy the sounds that our instruments award us with as we redeem the talents that folks originated before industrialism or back when everyone was a farmer. Simple solid words can be sang with pride and remembered. To me,, I think that creating some new songs that are built like the old ones and using techniques such as yours that isnt a fabrication of new science ,but its uniqueness could grab the no-word listeners However making nice clear recordings to enjoy would be the improvement. A format for more relaxed living. Thank you for having the ambition to show others one of your lifes discoveries that can change lives. dC fayette Ga.

[@i_am_ray]

This is the best clawhammer explained quickly and shortly

[@julianraiders1112]

I was actually expecting to see you play the guitar with a claw hammer..... disappointed!

[@leerobbo92]

Fantastic lesson, but the audio is really weird... Every time she stops speaking all the sound just cuts off, it's really distracting...

[@benzuckerman]

JUSTIFIED! I'm hooked! Will try!

[@scottkrempel3005]

thanks...i broke all my nails. guess i'll go back to metal til my nails grow back.love your style.

[@MrMusicguyma]

Neat. Good teaching style from Molly.

[@engleharddinglefester4285]

Dark! Whenever I hear this music it puts me in a mood of visualizing an ancient graveyard and lovers long dead. An ancient graveyard lovers long dead, ancient graveyard lovers long dead.

[@Aristarkhos31]

I thought this was a kung fu lesson. Darn. But hey, the speedy clawhammer riff was super cool. Can't imagine relearning fret placements after tuning the guitar differently. :((

[@jerrylanglois7892]

Good video, Molly, do you play with your natural nails or use some kind of hardener ?

[@12stringblues]

Cool technique! I will give it a try. I love Doc Watson's Little Sadie great song!

[@TNTTruth1]

Very kool technique, Thank you for sharing!

[@dmsanct]

*plays it normal speed* "well that can't get any cooler" *speeds it up* YES

[@ericmesser1]

Molly rocks......such a talented, classy person.........well done🇦🇺

[@skwrttj]

Eric Messer... Yep!!

[@jacobwright4653]

Why is her voice going through a gate pedal?

[@R_Thomp]

Excellent, excellent playing! Great job!

[@pappyfiddle]

Thanks Molly, this is a lot more clear than Pete Seeger's book

[@jimjoiner]

Most beautiful, most talented, most interesting artist currently on the scene.

[@Axenicsecond]

That’s bad ass.

[@IgorHatesEverything]

This is what happens when an actual intelligent person offers a guitar lesson on a technique. Let this be a lesson to many others out there.

[@DezMarivette]

That was super cool! Even has an Irish sound to it! Thanks for sharing!

[@cheesegyoza]

This is so easy to play, I take a hammer and use the claw side to destroy my guitar!

[@Bikewer]

I recall playing with a similar technique years ago, just doing a sort of fingers-only strum on the guitar. Now that I’m learning to play clawhammer banjo… I’ll have to give this a try….

[@rudygracia5573]

Bum diddy's Bum..Yep,fore sure I AM bummed😢.Kinda like trying to learn alternate speed picking or string skipping,or...

[@nonnoinsandiego8303]

Brains, talent, and beauty. I think I'm in love.

[@mcollins1401]

Good golly miss Molly that's cool...thanks

[@chrisgraham887]

This is excellent!! Great instruction! Thanks for sharing this.

[@kujo5998]

Im expecting a lesson like Phoebe’s “Old Lady” and “Turkey Leg” techniques….

[@IamGulzow]

Wow, that sounds great. I had never even heard of claw hammer before. Thanks Molly!

[@skwrttj]

IamGulzow I’ve followed Molly for over 10 years... she has always been totally amazing, no matter what she does. Downloaded and saved all her videos... and brothers, Dad and AJ. are incredible as well. Look up all her stuff... you won’t be sorry! She’s written some good stuff as well.

[@MrParkerman6]

m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/eISqZKaeoa16bcU

[@F1UX5AM4]

That is amazing

[@jonmaclennan]

So cool! Love this clawhammer style

[@bwedwards67]

I love that technique. I want to explore it further. Thank you for the lesson.

[@leroyyoakam]

Yep

[@angelofmusic477]

Thank you for sharing. However in my humble opinion, thumbing the notes on the 6th string sound weird and blurry. I though removing the 6th and even the 5th string sound better in claw hammer style on guitar.

[@kenzeier2943]

Very interesting and a good instructor

[@NoOne-kr4jc]

Love this. She's always been a highly regarded player imo. Love that she got insight into this. Its basically the bass note at the last note before starting all over agsin.

[@RVH-io3dr]

Bruce Cockburn uses this style in a song called Mighty Trucks of Midnight.

[@dadman7933]

Oh yeah. That's getting learned. Thank you

[@sturdeehouse]

retuned my guitar ok, good so far, did the bum didy bit ok, then.....that was disappointing, I just saw someone showing off rather than teaching.

[@vasocreta]

forget the melody, I'm probavly going to spend the next year just figuring out the "bum-diddy" thing 😂

[@AnthonyWabo]

That was soo amazing! MORE of these, please!

[@wheninroamful]

What kind of guitar is that? Nothing on the headstock, that i can see... but maybe vintage Martin D-18 with logo worn off? Molly is incredible btw.ds

[@matthewwhite4761]

Molly is incredible! Dig it!

[@skwrttj]

matthew white... Always!

[@GarnettM]

I Love it , I play Banjo Never thought of using the guitar that way .

[@GarnettM]

@Marco Deo Ya that's a tune to work on with the guitar, I tuned my smaller trainer guitar to banjo Shady Grove is so easy to play on it.