How important is drop thumbing?
I've been playing for close to a year now, and this is one thing that I've yet to tackle, and I'm not going to lie, it intimidates me a little bit. Is it really that important to learn how to drop...
View ArticleTruss Rod
i own a Deering Goodtime banjo which doesn't have a truss rod. I sorta thought that it was a bad (cheap) banjo, but, after looking at Deerings on the Internet and in my catalog, I notice that a lot of...
View ArticleUsing fingers to pick
I was wondering if its common to use just your fingers to pick. Coming from guitar it feels natural and easy. I plan on growing my nails out and using them eventually, but picks just feel akward and...
View ArticleBart Reiter Standard Scooped
I just ordered a Bart Reiter Standard Banjo, looking for advice on spikes for the neck. Should I go with spikes on 7th thru 10th. Any advice is appreciated.I hope i put this in the right place.
View ArticleWho or what are you listening to?
I have just started learning clawhammer after discovering the Brainjo Breakthrough Banjo lesson series. What does someone who likes listening to CH by itself listen to that is more in a band setting? I...
View ArticleTOTW (OT) 29 July 2016: Little Whiskey
Here's a Missouri tune called Little Whiskey. Not sure if it's a suggestive reference, like, "hey, how 'bout a little whiskey?" Or literally a diminutive whiskey, much like those small tacky containers...
View ArticleHammer on and pull offs for Am in G-tuning
Hi all, I've been playing the banjo for the better part of a year with minimal guitar background from years ago. I've come across banjohangout and finally decided to make an account. When playing in...
View ArticleAnother star BG picker does Drop Thumb CH
I was looking up this Si Kahn song because my wife has taken to singing it. To my delight, I was left in awe by BG banjo picker Jens Kruger's brilliant CH backup.Another opinioned comment: Si Kahn's...
View ArticleRight Hand Techniques to begin with
Hello all. Just picked up my first banjo yesterday after ten years of just playing the drums. In the process of trying to tune it, I broke strings 1 and 5. So while I wait for new strings to arrive...
View ArticleSome thoughts on speed and OT banjo/music
Someone posted on another thread here about admiring the playing of Tim Bing, who I had never listened to. As I listened to some of his stuff on YouTube I was alarmed at the speed: I actually clocked...
View ArticleQuestion GoodTime Open Back for Clawhammer
I have been using a light maple plain 11" rim open back GoodTime without the scoop for clawhammer. This is what I've done so far: Loosened tension in the head to roughly an A chord. I could get a...
View ArticleNylgut on a Goodtime?
I've been playing two finger thumb-lead for just about two years, on a Deering Goodtime. I recently got a second banjo -- a Prust tackhead, fretless -- with Nylgut strings. I love the feel and the...
View ArticleBanjo Techtonics:Where Oldtime & Bluegrass Collide
About fifteen years ago I attended what is still my favorite OT concert. Tom, Brad and Alice in Fayetteville, AR. Beyond the great renditions of the songs and tunes performed by these living legends...
View ArticleClawhammer in a Bluegrass Band
I used to play banjo in a bluegrass band years ago and did mostly Scruggs style. Now years have passed and I've been blessed with rheumatoid arthritis and have been leaning more toward CH, which I love...
View ArticleTOTW - 5 August 2016: Rochester Schottische
For this week's TOTW, I've picked "Rochester Schottische", a tune from the Round Peak area. A schottische (pronounced shotish)is a widely popular dance, supposedly somewhat like a slow polka, that...
View ArticleSlides on fretless banjo
I recently converted a Goodtime open back to a fretless. It's opened up a new world of opportunities, but also many questions. Sliding into notes has come to the forefront in my playing, but I don't...
View ArticleWhich way's best?
Self-taught, semi-competent player wonders... I'm learning a tune by ear with the aid of a BHO video of the song. The player in the video plays a portion of the song on the first string only. He...
View ArticleLong neck banjo tuned to DOUBLE G tuning
Anybody else?Never done before, but it worked good for the song I AM, by David Crowder.Personally I like to double C tuning for open backs.But then the singer of our group proposed to sing the song I...
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