Videos tagged with String Instruments

This YouTube video focuses on music, specifically banjo performance and related resources. The description provides extensive links for tablature, online courses, merchandise, music streaming (Bandcamp, Spotify, iTunes), and donation options. It highlights a Patreon page and SubscribeStar for exclusive content and a Banjo Heritage YouTube membership. The title, 'The last time I seen you walking down the street,' suggests a song title or theme, further reinforcing the musical nature of the content.

This video features Clifton Hicks playing the banjo piece "East Virginia." While the description details the historical migration of settlers that the song represents, the primary focus of the content is a musical performance. Hicks explains his banjo tuning and mentions alternative tunings, while also promoting his various online platforms for music, merchandise, and community engagement, including Patreon, SubscribeStar, Bandcamp, Spotify, and iTunes.

This video features a performance of the song "You Shall Be Free," originally recorded by Bill and Belle Reed in 1928 and later by notable musicians like Sonny Terry, Woody Guthrie, and Lead Belly. The description highlights resources for learning banjo, including online courses, tablature, and merchandise, linking to various platforms like Patreon, Bandcamp, and Spotify. The focus is on traditional American folk music and the banjo instrument, with associated hashtags indicating genres like bluegrass and Americana.

This YouTube video features Clifton Hicks playing a banjo tune titled "Raleigh and Spencer." The description mentions learning the tune from Steve Kruger and playing on an 1888 Thompson & Odell "The Luscomb" banjo, tuned south of gDGCD. The video also promotes various platforms for Clifton Hicks' banjo music and teaching, including Patreon, Banjo Heritage website, Bandcamp, Spotify, iTunes, and YouTube channel memberships, as well as donation links via PayPal and Venmo.

This video challenges the common understanding of the term "Clawhammer" as it relates to banjo playing. The creator argues that the term was not in use before the 1960s and was later popularized by academics and urban folk music enthusiasts from the Northeast. The description also includes numerous links to the creator's Patreon, website, merchandise, streaming platforms, and donation options, all focused on banjo music and heritage.

This YouTube video focuses on the traditional friction pegs found on banjos and fiddles. It provides instructions on how to maintain these pegs, a common task for players of these instruments. The description highlights various ways viewers can support the creator, Clifton Hicks, including through Patreon, SubscribeStar, purchasing merchandise from Banjo Heritage, streaming music on Bandcamp, Spotify, iTunes, and through direct donations via PayPal and Venmo. It also mentions a YouTube membership option for the Banjo Heritage channel.

This YouTube video features Clifton Hicks demonstrating how to string and tune traditional fiddle-style friction tuning pegs using gut or nylon strings. The video also promotes various online platforms and merchandise related to Banjo Heritage, including Patreon exclusive content, an online course, apparel, music streaming, and donation links.

This YouTube video features Clifton Hicks playing the banjo piece "Going Up North" (also known as "No Letter From Home"), learned from John Jackson. Hicks demonstrates a percussive picking style, suggesting it was developed for accompanying dancers. He plays on an 1888 Thompson & Odell "The Luscomb" banjo tuned below gDGBD. The video also promotes Clifton Hicks' Banjo Heritage online course and merchandise.

This video features Clifton Hicks playing "Trouble On My Mind" on a 1920s Vega Tubaphone banjo. The description highlights the banjo's make and model, the tuning used (gDGBD), and the song's origin from Orgus "Gran" Hudson. It also provides numerous links for supporting the artist through Patreon, SubscribeStar, Bandcamp, merch, Spotify, iTunes, PayPal, Venmo, and YouTube channel memberships. The content is focused on traditional banjo music and artist support.

This video explores the Luscomb Banjo, a historical instrument designed by John F. Luscomb and manufactured by Thompson & Odell of Boston. The description details the unique construction of the banjo's rim, featuring three layers of metal and wood. It also provides historical context about Thompson & Odell, their business operations in Boston, and their eventual acquisition by Vega. The content highlights the banjo's heritage and its connection to notable figures in banjo music.

This YouTube video, titled 'Jubilee - Traditional Banjo Lesson,' features Clifton Hicks providing a traditional banjo lesson focused on the song 'Jubilee.' The description includes lyrics to the song, information about its origin from George Gibson, and details about the banjo's tuning. It also provides links to the instructor's Patreon, Bandcamp, merchandise store, Spotify, iTunes, Venmo, and PayPal, indicating multiple ways for viewers to support his music and access his work. The video is geared towards individuals interested in learning to play the banjo and exploring traditional folk music.

This video explores the unique octagonal "mountain" banjo developed in eastern Kentucky around 1900. Historian George Gibson discusses these instruments, viewing them as robust interpretations of earlier gourd banjos. Links are provided for George Gibson's banjo history, the artist Clifton Hicks' Bandcamp, Spotify, iTunes, Venmo, and PayPal.