Clawhammer Acoustic Guitar Lesson with Steve Baughman.

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How to play CLAWHAMMER Guitar. It's new! It's hot! It's easy! Here's Steve Baughman with the world's first Internet Clawhammer Guitar Lesson EVER! A great technique for blues, folk, country, funk. Get on board with this cool guitar technique. And come on down to our brand new site for more music, fun, and education.We teach it, and then we'll practice it WITH you. ;)
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[@everythingis2495]

You have simply revolutionized the way I play guitar. I saw this lesson a couple years ago and put the time in to learn it. It HAS changed my life. It HAS made my world a better place at the very least. Thank you so much!!!! I went on to learn Shiloh Town, a cover By Mark Lanegan. Such a fun song to play.

[@hadams3666]

"It'll change your life. It'll make your life better. It'll make the world a better place." I love it

[@Cynic58]

I plan to work hard at this.. I'm an old bluegrass flat picker who's hands are beat up from industry.. I think that this, if learned, can extend my playing years. Thank you Steve Baughman!

[@banacek60chord43]

I've waited the thick end of sixty years for this explanation; I'm English. Thanks Steve!

[@skwarepeg1068]

Ohhhhh! I really got the *why* of it when you brought that left hand in! ❤ Thank you!!!

[@petegalloway2466]

Steve, we need more lessons, your great mate!!

[@wesleylenssen4072]

Thank you so much. You have helped me greatly with the guitar.

[@danmoth5126]

I play clawhammer banjo and this is a really excellent demonstration of the right hand technique.

[@williamtsanders]

same, also a claw picker. the description of the right hand as motor is fantastic. you can really be free when you've got that down. also the way he says the thumb is the pick up is super useful for transcription

[@MrFluitenier]

Hi Dave, greetings from Belgium, ... I'll start paying my dues to learn the technique, excellent lesson, thanks!

[@zeevogel]

I'm a reasonable guitar player, but I wanted to learn this. I needed a simple beginning. This is it. Thanks.

[@graemethorne4540]

Been looking for this method of strumming for sometime glad I came across this..looking forward to practicing it.subscribed & liked.cheers Gr8 lesson.

[@lukeb5584]

Great lesson. When you started playing in the lesson intro, a Mark Knopfler song "I'm Done With Bonaparte" came to mind. :)

[@kimnenninger7226]

So, so helpful. Thank you for sharing.

[@joq702]

Really great to the point lesson. I'm going to try this.

[@spoonbender123]

Great explanation and demonstration. Thank you!

[@larrymogen6943]

What a great cool lesson. Now I know what to practice when I recover from my stroke, any suggestions there. A little help from friends

[@jerocmusic]

Thank you so much.. You make my day. So perfectly explain. I subscribe, i ll spend a lot of time with you, thank you

[@JohnSteins]

Love it! Great lesson. Thank you.

[@luismarino9057]

this is a very educated and special human being

[@prandallwright1]

You have motivated me!

[@annajones2165]

That's so true many hours I've tried to learn from different women and other men players but I think you teach the best I don't know what it is that you can't see their hands as well as you can yours on the movement that is what I like so I do play a banjo ukulele and a guitar acoustic but I don't know about the the hamstrumming I still got to practice that I'm an old woman old woman

[@liberatedhippything]

I started out with Travis picking and I blame it on Justin furstenfeld and the Beatles for first time in my life favorites. I'm TERRIBLE with pickin And I had a hand injury. But I LOVE bluegrass. Flat picking is my ultimate. But I would be happy with a proper clawhammer

[@Kreln1221]

*Great video! Besides guitar, I also play bass, and I use a variation of the clawhammer technique while playing bass. While I use other techniques, such as slap n' pop, plectrum, etc..., my main technique is to anchor my thumb on the side of the neck, pickup, or thumb rest, and to use my 1st, 2nd, & 3rd fingers to play fingerstyle, while adding thumb slaps and finger pops in as might be needed, but also throwing in the aforementioned clawhammer variation... For example..., I could be doing a fairly standard one note at a time bassline in the lower registers, but adding accent chords and melodies in the higher registers by frailing the strings clawhammer style... It's a really great contrast, as you have the deeper darker more rounded traditional tone of the pads of your fingers for the standard bassline on the bottom, but when you hit those high melodies and chords, you get the contrasting brightness of your fingernails, adding a plectrum like clarity and articulation as well, so you not only have a low register/high register counterpoint thing going, you also have a darker/brighter counterpoint thing going as well..., and with your picking hand in the clawhammer "claw" shape, your thumb is perfectly positioned for thumb slapping the low strings, and your fingertips are perfectly positioned to reach under the strings to pop them... And at any time, you can instantly re-anchor your thumbtip and straighten out your fingers for the traditional fingerstyle bass technique...*

[@sandipchatterjee7746]

Hi Steve, I feel excited at this new way. Many thanks! Just a question: When my thumb hits the 1st string (low E), do the next three fingers also brush down the 2nd, 3rd etc. strings? Then does my index finger pick the 4th string up as the end of the movement (E maj chord)?

[@davidturner7040]

Man I thank you . Now I'm taking it to my ukulele

[@debbiejohn8492]

Yes Steve ! Love this!!

[@slimdusty6328]

Cheers m8. Breakthrough. Great lesson

[@GenAndBradPlusOne]

Thank you! Great lesson.

[@jamesalanott9638]

What a great instructor!

[@DeborahK.Spencer37]

Nice do you think this would be ok for playing 16th notes at say 140 on one note for an extended time? I see alot of switching strings sounds great but seldom see people utilize this on one string

[@Roman-is4jj]

Thank you. Learned something new.

[@claudiasbarra1044]

Waow. Great. Thank you

[@erolgermannemmanuel5637]

Thank you for the friendly claw hammer tutorial ..!! Really need to make my world better....(!)

[@gnawbabygnaw]

Awesome! 🤙🤙

[@SnyderChips07]

I will learn it

[@ElMcMeen1a]

Gret stuff, amigo!

[@andytaylor6781]

I love it

[@kennikuhlmann-clark9860]

In a distant way, I suppose it's kinda like a hurdy-gurdy with the constant spinning of the rosin wheel as the 'driving force'?

[@wtsgnon]

I can really dig it!!!!

[@mcshafty1]

I don't think we'd agree on anything, man. But this is a great tute

[@caramel9600]

so are you always using the index finger? and how much tension in the hand?

[@sadie376]

I don't think it's a British thing, calling other styles 'Clawhammer' by mistake. I've seen loads of Americans do it too. I've always understood that Merle Travis only picked with his thumb & first finger, meaning what you (& many others) call 'Travis Picking' is also a mistake. I would call what you did there to demonstrate 'Fingerstyle', rather than 'Travis Picking', tho' I'm aware these techniques can evolve & blend into each other somewhat. That said, cheers for the upload, there's some good info in there!

[@mcclousky1197]

Great video. A lot of people call Travis picking for clawhammer (including Americans). Either way your clawhammer style is really cool. Do you have more videos on the technique to build on this video? Your webpage does not seem to work.

[@zenbanjo2533]

Hi, thanks for the comment. Yes, I am doing claw instruction over at Peghead Nation. Thanks for asking,

[@victorjcano]

Great lesson, thanks much

[@rodolfolarrea8493]

Awesome

[@rogerkunkel1920]

Thank you!

[@EliasGosseye]

Do you need a difrent tuning?

[@Sean-qt8sj]

So glad Elliot Smith took a break from touring to teach some guitar

[@keithhatton7761]

Thanks Steve for the claw lesson, i'm internalizing....

[@jeffnorris7789]

Now I know why I fight with learning Little Martha

[@vajraloka1]

Standard tuning?

[@Guardiola075]

Merci.

[@paulkelly5227]

Make the world a better place

[@asilearnguitar]

Do you have to have long fingernails for this? Can we just use a thumbpick?

[@ephraimwarrior6766]

sick time f0r blues fun

[@nathanmayo7101]

I'm on a roll...........been a guitar OWNER for 50 years and NOW I'm taking the time to learn how to play them Stuff like this make me feel sorry for rock n roller noise makers.

[@johnjarmsen9754]

lol are we in the 50s? wtf is a rock n roller noise maker exactly

[@nathanmayo7101]

@@johnjarmsen9754 That's a guy who can shred a guitar with a lot of distortion and cause himself and others to want to kill themselves while they go deaf. I can take that stuff for brief periods, but mostly I want a guitar to sound nice.f

[@johnjarmsen9754]

@@nathanmayo7101 different strokes for different folks

[@andrepereira744]

Without wanting to sound rude,i feel sorry for you if you think music in that way. Oranges and hamburgers.

[@corkbour7708]

That’s one lucky farmer!

[@bassweapon]

Thank you Elliott Smith

[@davidmacleod9313]

I just watched a video and that guy Donavan was going on about teaching John Lennon “clawhammer” and I’m thinking huh? That’s NOT clawhammer it’s what you said…”Travis picking”. Thank you! Okay, that said, I just want to say that I just ca;’t seem to get this clawhammer thing. (Maybe I should finish your video? Lol I will. Okay….get yer motor goin’….bum diddy

[@richardharrisonsmith-pt4998]

Hey Steve remember me? Rick from Taiwan days?

[@zenbanjo2533]

Rick!!!!!! of docurse. Si Ma Qi

[@tomoleary7935]

Yeah Stevey lad - ya got it right first time ..... you OBVIOUSLY do love these English and are intimately knowledgable about their cultural pursuits and traditions - me too .... Crumpet and Tea, Prince Charles and that "GAL" Camilla...... well Lordy Me !!!! Thanks for the Clawhammer lesson .... Not American really eh ?? Clawhammer I believe was brought from Western Africa as a precursor to Banjo Playing.... Thanks anyway.

[@PunkCuSith]

Next time visit Scotland

[@oddsocks2428]

Is that Joel Edgerton?

[@vannigio6234]

uah! 💥🎸💥🐻👍

[@stevel6943]

Steve, nice instruction but you generalise about the English understanding of the technique. We don't all fall in with the stereotype. Guitarists are guitarists the world over, we've got to stick together man...much love from the UK.

[@Hundenminhelmer]

Everytime I try this it sounds like 3/4 and a f.. waltz

[@jamesrodriquez2863]

"Say you're a farmer and you just spent the last few hours with a hoe. THIS kind of hoe!" Nice save! 😂😂😂

[@AuroCords]

4:52

[@noclu4u384]

Ahh Donovan style .? Donovan taught it to John , Paul, George and Ringo

[@Kyrelel]

"If you do an internet search you will get to a lot of sites in England that tell you that Clawhammer is this ... " No. No you won't. Total lie.

[@neildesperandum6114]

“...this kind of a hoe” 🤣 Great starter vid for clawhammer. I’m on my way.

[@sergius28]

🎼👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🎼

[@Zeebopbudoobop]

I swear to god there’s an upstroke in that

[@JeffMTX]

Itll make the world a better place! Im doin it.

[@brendancoburn427]

Aw man, at 5.35 , I wish you had of kept with the concept of counting rather than 'bum diddy', can't take to that at all, plus I found it difficult hear the guitar at that point as you kept talking over it!

[@asdfjklol]

1:46 "Say you're a farmer and you've just spent a few hours with a hoe ...... this kind of a hoe (makes hoe motion)".

[@infinityknivess]

I thought you were Elliott Smith !

[@lucagiuberti682]

Prince Charles is an accomplished guitar player, who took Trevis pickin to a higher level..

[@rebguitar1]

There’s also American sites that get it wrong!, ,

[@greggrimer1428]

Is this the same Baughman who investigated Ravi Zacharias?

[@clintkile3470]

Please just teach my a.d.d can’t handle you

[@godd226]

Hahaha Relax mahnn! Truth is truth. The English ain't gonn come crucify for for this..

[@potholedcactus]

Great lesson but for a guy that says he loves England, and he’s been there, he sure makes a lot of stereotypical comments about the place.

[@stevel6943]

I agree. Also, so far as I know, Prince Charles doesn't play guitar.

[@ScarlettTheViewer]

I'd say it was a bit tongue in cheek

[@distrustfulmonkey2832]

Also I've literally never heard Travis picking called anything but Travis picking....

[@NotHarpoGroucho]

Who cares?

[@123123baztard]

A lot of people don’t know that King Charles the third was initially in the Yardbirds, he left when Steve Wonder also left to form Zeppelin. After that Charles became a roadie for the Average White Band. An amazing career really!

[@khem_kid5299]

I thought this was Elliot smith

[@mattsteinfeld]

Is this script ripped off of kzbin.info/www/bejne/p2qwlmdomNiasLc You literally say the exact jokes and examples of UK, Prince Charles, 'hoe hand'. If so, you need to cite Power of Claw's page. Please correct me if I am mistaken.

[@SirDamned]

doubt king charles is playing much with them sausage fingers

[@wiscgaloot]

Calling Travis picking "English" and throwing in the Prince Charles nonsense pretty much ruined this video. It is utterly idiotic. You should re-record this video without that nonsense, and try to save your reputation.

[@DG5466]

Huh, Kelly?

[@wiscgaloot]

@@DG5466 watch the video. He blabbed for several minutes about Prince Charles and travis picking.

[@davidpeightal4918]

Thanks for the good laugh. Hopefully it’s a joke. If not, I guess it’s even more funny. Hopefully you can find someone to help you through this trauma.

[@wiscgaloot]

@@davidpeightal4918 good job proving you're a complete m0ron.

[@helminenjuha]

Superb lesson! Thank you!