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Matt, I love your book. Is there not a beginners version of Wayfaring stranger?

Nice feel to a great tune I really like Matt’s playing Very tasteful and great initiation

Yes love my fretless! thank you!

2 5 1 2 Pinch

What banjo is that? She’s beautiful

Wow! What a great interview Matt and thank you Paul for such lovely insights in addition to the great playing. You both made me want to pick up my banjo right away! Jamie

Very nice!

This was so worth the wait! Beautiful playing. His comments about the freedom to experiment and mess up are so freeing. I also love how Matt had almost childlike wonder at times in hearing his hero and mentor play. I loved every minute of this video.

Melody, Rythym and Drone - the trinity of banjo playing.

Pls play “wildwood flower”; Tu!

Thanks both. I loved hearing about how he started to learn the banjo. I'm a little older than Paul and well remember learning guitar by trying to work out what people like Woody Guthrie and the young Bob Dylan were doing. And later Mississippi John Hurt. Really listening and ruining my dad's record player stylus. By the time I fell for banjo about 10 years ago there was so much help and inspiration available on the web. So thanks Paul and Matt and a big shout out to Tom Collins' clawhammer help.

thank you matt - this guy is so cool - really enjoy this !

Great discussion and banjo. Would have liked to hear about North Carolina index lead two finger used by Doc Watson, Arnold Watson and Wade Mainer.

Paul Brown, Banjo Action Figure.

My favorite interview to date, Matt! So grateful for this! Loved all of the different tunings, but loved most how Mr. Brown gives us permission to be fluid and make tunes our own❣️🪕

Really enjoyed hearing Paul play and his insights. What was the tuning Paul used for "Cacklin' Hen"? Thanks!

Thanks for sharing this. I only "discovered" the banjo this year, and I now own two of them. I want to learn a little clawhammer eventually, but for now, even though I'm not a very good musician, two finger style seems the most intuitive to me. I have enjoyed watching several of your other interview videos, so keep up the good work.

I started on frailing the banjo, then came double thumbing or drop thumb frailing, and maybe a year or two later I got started on two finger picking, which Art Rosenbaum called "two finger Kentuckey thumb lead". Nowadays, many a time I'll start a tune in one style and then lapse into the other style without really thinking about it. That's frailing/clawhammer and two finger style, they seem at least to me to be very complimentary to each other.

I`ll be watching this again, as soon as I can get my jaw off the floor

Awesome interview Matt! Thanks Bill+

Thanks to you both

Muito bom!!! 😃

❤ thank you for this!

Another fine arrangement and performance that captures the sparseness of this lament.

Thanks Mr Brown and I shall try soon from France

Great sound quality on the clip, for an outdoor setting! Beautiful playing as always! Glad you hooked up with DB! He’s fantastic on the mando❣️ Seems like you guys had a great time❣️

So beautiful, Matt! You caught the achiness of this gorgeous song. So nice to see you and hear you!❤

Very good!

This is beautiful. I picked up Banjo about two weeks ago and i'm finding it really hard, but seeing songs played beautifully like this is great motivation.

Beautiful, as always. Nice haircut new look it seems.

Great video Matt!

Beautiful arrangement! I love the double stops harmonizing this beautiful melody. Nice haircut as well.

I like the sound of your banjo. Is that a standard gDGBD tuning?

With clawhammer most people prefer higher action and a scooped neck, what features make a banjo good for two-finger thumb lead?

Nice!

Hi Matt I'd love the 2FTL tabs for song performed at Swananoa and Banjo Week, 'I'm Thinking Tonight of my Blue Eyes' First time I've heard this. I did purchase your last 2FTL book thanks. Also I love some guidance with mando double stops.

Matt do you have the 2FTL tabs for this please. Love this beautiful song, first time Ive heard it.

Matt, in your upcoming video can you talk about what setup(s) you use for thumb lead that might differ from a clawhammer setup? Thanks, Mike Keyes

Is there an instrument you don't play that you'd love to learn if you had the time?

Well done!

Wish Id be there joining in❤Sounds wonderful.

Isn't this the same melody as Great Speckled Bird?

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From somewhere on high, Mother Maybelle Carter surely smiles down on you 🕊

great

Can I get these tabs for free?

Well done man.