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- Martin honed his expertise of various banjo styles, such as "three-finger" picking, made famous by Scruggs, and "clawhammer" - also known as "frailing" - a style known for its syncopated rhythms and distinct melodic phrasing that employs the back of the fingernails to strike or strum the strings, and a thumb technique that alternates between the strings. NPR Topics: News
- The banjo is played in the more rhythmic "clawhammer" style, which has a sound not dissimilar from a chicken clucking. Phawker
- Burn Through Bring Me My Queen City of Refuge The mix works, with Ms. Washburn's voice and plucky "clawhammer"-style banjo holding the center. This Is Not Your Usual Pop R
- They all come down in a rain of clamoring tambourines and bottleneck slide guitars, clawhammer banjo picking, booming jug band blowing and barrelhouse piano rolls. FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER
- He prefers to use the "clawhammer" method of banjo playing. Marshall Independent
- clawhammer" blue broadcloth and gold buttons, and to which I shall have occasion to refer again. Reminiscences of a soldier of the Orphan brigade,
- I've been learning clawhammer, which is a much different left-hand pattern than anything I was used to from guitar. Ask MetaFilter
- The cut of the "clawhammer" dress-coat does not differ from that of to-day, but it was often of blue cloth with brass buttons; shirts were frilled, and waistcoats of gold-sprigged Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857
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- Martin is regarded by aficionados as a master of a complicated five-fingered playing style known as clawhammer, or frailing, in which the instrument's strings are pushed down by fingernails rather than pulled up with picks. Film | guardian.co.uk
