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Steve 2020 McKnight Grand Recording - Cedar Top 2005 McKnight SS Dred 2001 Michael Keller Koa Baby 2014 Godin Inuk 2012 Deering B6 Openback Banjo 2012 Emerald Acoustic Doubleneck 2012 Rainsong JM1000 Black Ice 2009 Wechter Pathmaker 9600 LTD 1982 Yairi D-87 Doubleneck 1987 Ovation Collectors 1993 Ovation Collectors 1967 J-45 Gibson 1974 20th Annivers. Les Paul Custom |
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Steve,
Just curious.... Are you playing your banjo with picks or with bare fingers? For decades, I only either did frailing (just a bit really) or I played with a thumb pick and two finger picks. Last year though I had to come up with some music for a play that was set in the early 1900's, and my three-finger picking playing styles were not going to sound right (they are all more modern playing styles). In my effort to come up with something that would have more of an early 1900's sound (at least for a fairly naive audience who was even less versed in banjo styles from that era than I was) I sort of reinvented my playing style for my performance in this play. I came up with arrangements (some of which I have posted on YouTube) that basically used classical guitar right hand technique (good nails, no picks) on my 5-string banjo. I really liked the sound I was getting. Over 30 years of banjo playing and I had never made any serious efforts to play without picks and see how that would sound! It is really interesting when you move between different instruments. Each instrument helps you to develop in certain ways, and this ends up enhancing and enriching your playing on other instruments. Many years of playing banjo gave me much better right hand capabilities on guitar than most of my guitar playing acquaintances, but now close to ten years of obsession with guitar changes what I do, and what I imagine doing, when I go back to banjo. I still play a lot of things with picks on banjo, but I am now a more versatile banjo player and like to sometimes play with just my fingertips/nails now too.
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Over the years my guitar playing developed into a hybrid style used alot by Glen Campbell. Holding flatpick between thumb and index and picking at times with the middle and ring. Thus as I went to the banjo I could naturally do three finger rolls with my flat pick alternating the bass like a thumb pick. The rolls I have been using in Praise Band at church. "Here comes the sun" is straight flat picking. Dylan songs, started to combine all the styles and also flick with my fingernails at times semi flailing? That is a work in progress, love what the banjo does to "Just Like A Woman". Only had the Banjo a month so everything right now is a experiment. But I am self taught so I just keep experimenting on a song for months till it develops into what I like. Not very efficient cause I really don't know what I am doing but I know what I like when I hear it.
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I think that might be one of the most important qualities (along with persistence) in getting to sound good on any instrument.
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If you have a 5-string banjo, I don't think you'll like a 6-string banjo.
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If you start with a 5 string and like it probably no reason to go to a six. But I had a 5 and never really got into it. Very easy for me to get into the 6.
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Steve 2020 McKnight Grand Recording - Cedar Top 2005 McKnight SS Dred 2001 Michael Keller Koa Baby 2014 Godin Inuk 2012 Deering B6 Openback Banjo 2012 Emerald Acoustic Doubleneck 2012 Rainsong JM1000 Black Ice 2009 Wechter Pathmaker 9600 LTD 1982 Yairi D-87 Doubleneck 1987 Ovation Collectors 1993 Ovation Collectors 1967 J-45 Gibson 1974 20th Annivers. Les Paul Custom Last edited by Doubleneck; 01-20-2013 at 03:20 PM. |