How To Play Banjo
Learning to play banjo has three general stages (I know, it’s complicated): Head: The first stage is the intellectual understanding of musical structures (scales, chords), tonal relationships, and tablature. At the simplest level, these concepts apply to all styles of music, whether bluegrass, rock, jazz, or classical. This conceptual stage of learning, which is the [...]
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Last week after playing my electric banjo at church someone came up to me afterwards and said that he’d never seen an electric banjo before. It’s true, they are not nearly as common as the regular acoustic banjo, but as banjo players play more and more outside of the bluegrass tradition which has nurtured its [...]
So you wanna play the banjo? Congratulations! Learning how to play banjo has been one of the best things I’ve ever done. I’ve been playing banjo for thirty years, and I can highly recommend it as a way to get happy, real fast. Before starting to learn, the first thing you need to decide is [...]
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