![]() Note that the tab for this song is Brainjo Level 4, meaning it’s on the advanced side of things. And lots of opportunities for syncopation.Īnd I enjoy trying to adapt songs I’ve first learned for fingerstyle guitar to clawhammer banjo (including some prior MJH classics like Corrina, Stocktime, and Let the Mermaids Flirt With Me, all of which are available in the Breakthrough Banjo Vault). ![]() ![]() It turns out there are a lot of similarities between country blues fingerpicking and clawhammer.īoth provide a rich and complete musical texture, with rhythm and melody all wrapped into a single package. It was even better than flatpicking (it would be several years before I cracked the code of country blues fingerpicking). I had no idea how he did it, but I loved it. It sounded like a full band was playing, yet I knew it was just Doc and his guitar. Perfection.īut “Deep River Blues” clearly wasn’t flatpicking! And it was incredible. Every fiddle tune he played on guitar became the definitive version in my mind. Up to that point, I was already a fan of Doc’s flatpicking. I remember the first time I heard Doc Watson play “Deep River Blues” on guitar.
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