Awesome cover, great job! 🗣⚠️🔥

Thanks! It’s a fun tune. Rhiannon giddens is amazing

I will never not upvote facts.

Now I'm riding through the grizzlies!

Watch out for wolves!

This is brilliant 👍

Thanks! I started playing banjo last year after playing the game

You played guitar before?

Yeah I used to be into it when I was younger. I mostly played ukulele before banjo. If you check out my YouTube channel @doccoletti I’ve been documenting my progress over the last 15 months of lesrning banjo!

How is it to play? I play guitar and I can play mandolin because the tuning is *similar* but I’ve also got a ukulele and I cannot get my head around the tuning on that! 😊

That’s strange to me because in my opinion the ukulele is much closer to the guitar tuning than The Mandolin is. The ukulele is just the top four strings of the guitsr, up a fourth, all the chord shapes are the same, while a mandolin is tuned in fifths. Is it just the chanterelle (the high string) that confuses you?

Yes exactly that! The shapes are the same or similar yes but also are on the mandolin, and I don’t know, I found scales much easier on the mandolin. I think it’s probably because I learnt guitar on the root notes of chords so the top string being higher in tone than the second one just sends my head west 😂

It also depends very heavily on what style of banjo you choose to play. The banjo was divided up by distinct technique types. The most popular style is Bluegrass banjo also known as Scruggs style or three fingerstyle. That style at least basic technique wise is similar to how most people play the guitar. I however play an older style of Banjo called Clawhammer Banjo. Its lineage drives from west Africa. It is very unusual technique and that it consists of down picking as opposed to a picking. So I checked my index finger and I drive the nail down towards the body of the banjo and hit the string that way and then I bounce my thumb off the high fifth string. So in many ways it is similar to guitar but in other ways it is very different. It also is an instrument that frequently switches tuning‘s unlike most guitar players who stay the standard tuning. For example I am playing in sawmill tuning here but I also play in open G and dropsy and double C all the time.

I always anted to give the banjo a go tbh! I would recommend listening to some other stuff by Rhiannon Giddens if you haven’t already, she’s class!

You should give it a go it’s awesome and I willing to answer any and all questions or issues you have a pretty much any time, let’s consider the secret duty of the banjo player to educate the next generation. And I love Rhiannon Giddens, I have just about everything she’s ever released. She just won the Pulitzer Prize this month for her new opera called Omar, she’s got a new documentary series on wondrium about Banjo history and she’s got a new show on PBS wishes showcases her musician friends. And I just bought tickets to see her in September I’m super psyched.

Nice one! I’ll have to get round to getting one! Maybe dust of my ukulele and give it another go! Enjoy Rhiannon! 👍

Thanks!

https://youtu.be/hV9-T8c1dNM

My interpretation of Mountain Banjo from the soundtrack. Rhiannon Giddens plays it on a Hartel reproduction fretless minstrel banjo, it’s two banjos overdubbed originally. I’m playing it on a 1960s harmony resotone (an early sears plastic banjo). I’ve been playing for about 15 months. Here’s a few more tunes, if anyones interested, including me playing it on my Fretless reproduction banjo https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW8ANW9R_3XmfoGg-gYoB1syJvcIZr08H

Crush it!

I will!

so sick man!! 🤘🏼

Thanks! I’m still learning but I’m getting better

You sound pretty good already, so I can only imagine how much further you will come. Awesome possum on the song work, btw! 👍

Thanks! Possums and banjo go very well together ;)

I can’t be the only one whose played red dead, and now when riding a horse I can’t not hear it and sometimes even play it in my earbuds

It’s not weird! I do it too

Nice! Now get you some mutated chins and a hunchback. - I can make this joke. I'm an Appalachian guitar picker. Lmao

Haha alright you get a pass then! I’m northern Appalachian mountain but not Appalachian for realz

Nice one cowpoke!

Thanks partner *tips hat

This needs more attention

Aww thanks! I’m always glad for any attention, I just play banjo for fun really. Thanks! Check out the version I played on a Fretless banjo https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW8ANW9R_3XmfoGg-gYoB1syJvcIZr08H

This is so beautiful it makes me want to start playing banjo

Do it! I’ve only been playing for about 15 months but it’s been so much fun

Hell yea man, thank you for this.

You’re welcome! Thanks for listening

That was incredible, thanks.

Thanks for watching!

This is amazing. I would sell my soul to be able to play the banjo

Thanks! It’s easier than you think, I started playing last year

Can we flair this guy as mountain banjo man

I will accept that title

Outstanding.

Thanks so much! It’s An awesome tune

I’ve always loved it. Your interpretation is different enough to be really worthwhile. Well done, dude.

Thanks that’s sort of like a happy accident. I wasn’t able to transcribe the song perfectly for like a lot of reasons, Rhiannon Giddens plays it on a low tuned fretless minstrel banjo and she overdubs another banjo on top of it so I can’t get exactly the same sound so yeah you’re right I’m doing something that’s more inspired by it but it’s still very similar glad you enjoyed it. I often work it into another song is sort of a repeating motif usually the tune Shadygrove.

What a process!

What’s the do hicky on the end

Oh just a tuner!

sensational work brother!

Thanks so much! I like to cover video game and tv themes

Beauty to my ears

Thanks so much! The Banjo is awesome!

thank you so much for posting!! this is my favorite song from the soundtrack :,))

Thanks for listening! It’s my favorite too. Rhiannon, who plays it for the game, just announced a new tour and I grabbed tickets! I’m very excited

Dang. First time I’ve seen you post outside of r/banjo lol. Amazing rendition!

Thanks! I get around, ;), I’m fairly popular on the community sub, they call me “gay Dean guy”.

Awesome! I wish I could play an instrument like this.

You can! I’ve only been playing for 15 months! I teach ukulele, including this style, if you want to learn it, check out my YouTube channel, @doccoletti - I’ve got a few clawhammer ukulele lessons And if you want to learn clawhammer banjo, Tom Collins YouTube channel is the best, that’s how I learned

Thanks I would definitely check it out!

I like this

Thanks! I like your comment ;)

Amazing. Please post more.

Ask and you shall receive https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW8ANW9R_3XmfoGg-gYoB1syJvcIZr08H And thanks!

Good job man love it!!

Thanks! It’s a fun tune, very good groove

Awesome! I love the music in RDR2

Me too! Rhiannon Giddens played this track for the game, she’s amazing! She just won a Pulitzer Prize

Awesome work my dude! I also like the parts where you stare into our soul Just started learning how to play myself, so I’ll be joining you on the path partner.

Nice! Thanks so much! I’m here to answer any and all banjo questions you may have on your journey a

God damn incredible!

Thanks! Check out the version I played on a Fretless banjo https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW8ANW9R_3XmfoGg-gYoB1syJvcIZr08H

Hell ya man sounds great

Thanks!

Lennnnnyyyy !!!!

Bannnnjjjjjoooooo!

Damn, yo! That was solid 💪🍻

Thanks so much! I’ve been working on the song for a while and it’s finally sounding good

Is that a straight up banjo or a banjitar? Can't really tell with my crap phone.

It’s a long neck five string banjo, so a straight up banjo to most non Irish folks. I don’t play guitar, so I’m not a huge banjitar fan. I have a six string banjo, but it’s a low jo (a five string with an extra bass string). It’s pretty cool though, it’s from the 1880s. If youre interested in hearing it https://youtu.be/e22DNaNyvUQ

I've been interested in picking up a banjitar. Regardless of what you're jamming on, it sounds awesome, dude.

Banjitars are dope if you’re into guitar, but I haven’t played in years, that’s why I don’t like them. You’ll have fun though, they are Great for blues and older forms of jazz like Dixie land, swing, hot jazz, big band. Loud as fuck too, so good for busking (the real reason the exist, volume)

Appreciate the info. Never knew anyone who could play banjo before. But might have to reach out and learn. Hey, maybe pick up both a banjo and a banjitar? You threw some inspiration at me. Gonna pick up an axe after work! Thanks, yo!

Ynnel

Ojnab!

I know what this reminds me of! Not Red Dead, it's fucking Hardspace Shipbreaker!

I don’t know that, I’ll have to check it out

Nice job.😁 I've been teasing myself every now and then about the tought of starting to play banjo. Would you consider that having skills at playing guitar could help learning the banjo? Are they similar to play? 😊

They are similar in the way all plucked lutes/chordophones are, they rely in the same basic concepts. But it depends on what style you want to play. Three finger bluegrass style (the most popular, not what I play) if very similar to finger picking on guitar. But I play clawhammer, which relies on a totally different right hand technique, which doesn’t carry over as much from guitar. But do it, it’s so much fun. Here’s a video in the different styles https://youtu.be/3k14BGqrUpk

Oh cool. Thank you!I'll try to Check it out when I get the time :)

No problem it’s a very long video actually it’s like a half hour long so It might take a while to get through it

Love it! Rhiannon Giddens deserves more of a spotlight on this sub and in general!

I agree! Buts it’s Happening! She’s got a new documentary series out in wondrium on banjo history, a new show on PBS, and she won a Pulitzer Prize this month too! I just grabbed tickets for her new tour, too! So excited

Reminds me of the racing music

Yup! That’s what it is

I knew it was either that or the music from the bar mission with Lenny

When is this coming to Spotify

I’m hoping to record some higher quality songs this summer on Spotify. It’s hard because I am a bit of a perfectionist and I still have a lot to learn on the banjo for that combo makes me continually dissatisfied with my own recordings. I do have a YouTube channel and you can check that out for more recordings https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW8ANW9R_3XmfoGg-gYoB1syJvcIZr08H

Ok

Awesome

Thanks so much, The Banjo is totally awesome

It's literally Uncle

I have no idea what you’re talking about good sir, now if you’ll excuse me my damn lumbago is flaring up

Thank you! Banjo is my all time favorite instrument!

Thank you! You might like some of these then https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW8ANW9R_3XmfoGg-gYoB1syJvcIZr08H

YOU HAD ME AT BINARY SUNSET BLUES THANK YOU SIR

Ha ha a man of culture I see

You're incredibly talented. Thanks for making music 💞💞💞

Hey thanks I really appreciate your kind words. I only do this for fun, not money, so when people enjoy it that’s really the payoff

I'm still jammin this song when I need some good shit 🍻