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looking to get a banjo any tips?

Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 5:30 pm
by dezb1
Is there anything I should look out for?

Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 6:16 pm
by Mo Law-ka
Work your right-hand technique like Jack LaLane.
Or...
Get a tenor and play vaudeville and ragtime to your heart's content.

Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 6:18 pm
by dezb1
Ps: was thinking 6 string so I can use guitar chords (cause I'm lazy)

Posted: Sat Oct 19, 2013 10:11 am
by dezb1
The notion of getting a banjo has gone... played one today hideous noise I made not the instrument for the likes of me...

Posted: Sat Oct 19, 2013 6:21 pm
by gusman2x
What's the difference between a banjo and an onion?

No one cries when a banjo is chopped up.


Apart from maybe me, banjo's pretty cool. And steve Martin.

Posted: Sat Oct 19, 2013 7:45 pm
by dezb1
I liked the banjo playing on Low's C'mon and thought it might add a bit of sonic diversity to my recordings... but not it would seem if I'm playing it.

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Posted: Sun Oct 20, 2013 7:45 pm
by Mo Law-ka
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Do an tenor!

Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 12:33 am
by ultratwin
There's a bit of a trend these days with a number of world commercials doing their generic indie-pop laced with banjo that have been making me want to get one myself for a few years now, especially since so many mid-low-tier models are made here.

In the meantime, learning how to do right hand banjo rolls with proper accented "thumb" on a keyboard has been fun, to say the least.