man, I wish I had known this 500,000 Cripple Creeks ago

Russ, Thank you so much for this lesson I just started Playing Banjo and I just cant put it down I love the sound soooooo much every day I have to play and this wil be someting I will work on the rest of my Life and remember Your video. From the back woods of ALASKA thank you again.

This trick changed my life

I'm glued to it sir I've been at this for a couple of days thanks so much I'm learning on a tenor but that's ok it's the practice on the bends n pull off n alernate picking n I'll learn it thanks to u n a couple of other teachers

It's a great thing that you share this type of thing thanks Russ. It also keeps alive the folk music tradition of passing on stuff. I wish you a very happy Christmas and all the peace you need 🙂

Whoa! Never seen this before anywhere, thanks for sharing. This is a game changer for me

Thank you very much. You inform and entertain!

Yep, this is the sound I have been striving to achieve. Thank you for posting this lesson, it's awesome!

Very nice detail!

Great lesson, thanks!

Thank you, kindly. I appreciate the lesson

Great video,thanks !

Ok that was funny ... Glorious frozen Pennsylvania. Excellent video and I agree 100%

Son-Of-A-Gun... THAT'S what was Going On-It was So Subtle, I'd Never Caught It! Thanks for the Heads Up! : )

This is exceptional. What I needed when I was playing . . . (er, I mean attempting to learn. . . .) a lot. And what helps too is the camera on your hat. Seeing your work from the same perspective as you're seeing it. Man. I appreciate this.

Halfway through your video and I already like my sound better. :D

Russ is one of my idols Rocking a Morgan Monroe banjo atm trying to make stuff sound as good as he does isn’t working yet lol

Hey thanks man, some good info there, already making me sound better

Great video Russ. Your a class act and a great talent!!

Thank you Sir. Please keep up the good work. We greatly appreciate it. Hope to meet you some day.

NICE and AWESOME!

Brilliant!!!

made me smile

Thanks so much! Ive been trying to get that double hammer on down, but it never sounded righ. Now I know why

Thanks my brother, keep playing

The first type of slide you showed is great for a beginner like myself. I'm 58 just this March 2020 and am enjoying some practice time. But I do believe with time I can learn the bends and pulloffs you are teaching here. Thank you Sir

Master class

Learn this 42 years ago and now you let it out to where everyone's knows now.... Thanks...... 😁

So good

I'm just starting out on the banjo ... a great demonstration . Thanks for sharing . 🎸 Peace and Blessings

Just started playing banjo. Thanks for the tip that I can teach myself now and not have to retrain later!

Good stuff

So this is where twang comes from

I have played guitar and bass for many years. Brand new to banjo. Very helpful information! Thanks, I do intend to practice it. :-)

So glad I found this video GREAT thank you so much for posting. Look forward to more.

Nice! thanks for going through it with such precision

Holy smokes Russ, after playing AT the banjo all these years never seen this before. Thank you sir! Cheers!

Please more of these

Did anyone notice the nut on the banjo??? The second string is lengthened..... Very cool... I did this to a Gibson banjo years ago and worked great...wasn't my idea, came from Stelling, but still did a great job with intonation....

Wow you just blew my mind. I felt like I was watching Stevie Ray play banjo!

Wow! This is amazing!!! Definitely going to incorporate this!

It'll take me years to do that LOL

Thank you fer posting! i kno these licks n thats how i play pertnear🎶 Yes gotta practice alot! Are you pickin the last tune in Yer vid.? if so, You sound Awesome!!🎵

That sounds so different and so much better....great 👍

Great video Russ! Any chance we could get you to do Devil's Dream? I've been working on that sucker for a while and just can't seem to get it right.

Whats weird is in Earl Scruggs book th tab shows it with the 2 fret slide.

Im still a beginner. I play guitar and im very good ... but not amazing. I have stubby fingers and got great sustain and power. But its hard for me to play certain fret positions due to the alien style fingertips.. Do you have more lesson videos. I want to be great at banjo

Just learned to play this sounds nothing like yours, just cannot get the speed. Great video, wish I could play at your level.i would be satisfied with your slow.

Great lesson. Thanks for sharing!

I like this guy's style. I've already learned from this video. My 'Crippled Creek' just got well.

Is it best to do the slide or the hammer for Cripple Creek?

Wish we could see the right hand too

Thanks! Subscibed. How come ya to keep your truss rod cover off (just brand anonymity probably?) -- well anyway THANK because it's SO hard for me to STOP and change something I've formed muscle memory for. People may say Join the Club but seriously I am a bit "on the spectrum" and seriously rely on habit, so it's important ingrain this sooner than later! BAD Bennett Sullivan keeping that for later BAD!! Just kidding, but thanks.

What was it that you played at 7:00?

Do you play with light gauge strings?

Whats with the nail by the nut?

You’re dead right! I didn’t even notice that as a relatively new banjo player but played guitar over 50 years I was doing this unconsciously while working through Earls book. It’s just doesn’t sound like him unless you do it. But to find I was intentionally doing it but completely unconsciously blew me out. Groundspeed, all of them have the microtone blue note additions. It amazes but then after 50 years fretting it amazes me that my hand remembers song my brain had long forgotten, like a bunch ragtime solos that came back I learned in 1977 in the art of ragtime guitar. I just happened to voice a G7 chord in the same idiosyncratic manner as the solo while messing about and my hand went off into the Ragtime Ramble alternating bass with the syncopated counterpoint like I learned it yesterday. Music is very subconscious come to think of it really. Still an interesting observation.

Nope, I ain't the least bit intimidated

More teaching videos please, man

Scruggs style picking is a curse on society. Give me old-time mountain picking every time.

You blew my mind. Thank you for explaining this! I’ve got practicing to do. 🪕

HI ,Yes I can p[ay faster when I play cripple creek because my nand has a shorter way to go I think it sunds the same but will speed your playing up so thanks for showing us another way to the slide. 🪕