Clawhammer Guitar
Ever heard of Steve Baughman? He is a very, very melodic guitar picker. Uses tunings like C-G-D-G-C-D, he calls it "Orkney-Tuning". As I find the "normal" guitar tuning sort of special enough for me and there´s work enough to get to know the fingerboard in normal tuning, I´m not going to risk a nervous breakdown with DADGAD or Orkney-Tuning - although hearing him kind of makes me anxious to play such pieces too...
But what made him even more interesting for me was his "clawhammer guitar" style which he often uses with celtic tunes. I stumbled over this while browsing through the latest edition of the German magazine "Akustik Gitarre". They put a video clip with Steve Baughman on their website here. He shows his clawhammer technique from minute 3:38 onwards. As he tells on the clip, his guitar for this is tuned in D-A-D-G-B-D, very banjoesque. And it´s bump ditty!
Should give it a try sometime.
But what made him even more interesting for me was his "clawhammer guitar" style which he often uses with celtic tunes. I stumbled over this while browsing through the latest edition of the German magazine "Akustik Gitarre". They put a video clip with Steve Baughman on their website here. He shows his clawhammer technique from minute 3:38 onwards. As he tells on the clip, his guitar for this is tuned in D-A-D-G-B-D, very banjoesque. And it´s bump ditty!
Should give it a try sometime.
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