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Claw-hammer

Claw-hammer is a method of playing the five-string banjo. Unlike Scruggs style, in which strings are picked individually using the thumb, index and middle fingers, in clawhammer playing the melody string is picked with the index finger, followed by a strum using the second, third and fourth fingers, after which the fifth (upper G) string is picked using the thumb.



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