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Category Archives: 4-Finger Style
Playing Banjo 4-Finger Style – Applying it to a Song
Intro | Background | Observations | Benefits & Challenges | Getting Started | More Getting Started | Applying it to a Song Finally, here’s a concrete example of how I’m approaching the whole four-finger banjo process. This is a four-finger … Continue reading
Posted in 4-Finger Style, Reno & Single-String Style
Tagged Buffalo Gals, Four Finger Style Banjo, Single String
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Playing Banjo 4-Finger Style – Getting Started Yet More
Intro | Background | Observations | Benefits & Challenges | Getting Started | More Getting Started | Applying it to a Song Now let’s try some exercises such as the following, which are simply four-finger equivalents of some well-known three-finger … Continue reading
Playing Banjo 4-Finger Style – Getting Started
Intro | Background | Observations | Benefits & Challenges | Getting Started | More Getting Started | Applying it to a Song For starting starters (apologies to Dr. Seuss), it is best to make use of a little-known fact about … Continue reading
Playing Banjo 4-Finger Style – Benefits & Challenges
Intro | Background | Observations | Benefits & Challenges | Getting Started | More Getting Started | Applying it to a Song Benefits A new sound. Skillfully playing a four-finger roll can give you a completely new cadence to add … Continue reading
Playing Banjo 4-Finger Style – Some Observations
Intro | Background | Observations | Benefits & Challenges | Getting Started | More Getting Started | Applying it to a Song Now move forward in time to today. A few banjo players, seeking new boundaries to push, have started … Continue reading
Playing Banjo 4-Finger Style – Background
Intro | Background | Observations | Benefits & Challenges | Getting Started | More Getting Started | Applying it to a Song Last blog, I gave a brief introduction to the topic of playing bluegrass banjo with four (right hand) … Continue reading
Playing Banjo 4-Finger Style – Introduction
Intro | Background | Observations | Benefits & Challenges | Getting Started | More Getting Started | Applying it to a Song Have you heard of this yet? Picking a 5-string banjo with 4 fingers instead of the usual 3, … Continue reading
A Taxonomy of Banjos
This is just a fun excursion into different types of banjos. Some of you know all of these variants already, but here they are for all to see: all the different types of banjos that I am aware of. I’ve … Continue reading
Posted in 2-Finger Style, 4-Finger Style, Banjos in General, Dulcimers, Mandolins
Tagged 5 String Banjo, Banjos, Dulcimer Banjo, Mandolin Banjo, Mountain Banjo, Old Time Banjo, Plectrum Banjo, Tenor Banjo, Ukelele Banjo
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When New Skills are Like a Magnet
When you learn repetitious musical techniques, it can also be human nature to resist things that are very close to what you already know. Continue reading
Posted in 2-Finger Style, 4-Finger Style
Tagged Banjo, Bugs Bunny, Determination, Guitar, Learning, Mandolin, New Skills, Perseverance, Play, Yosemite Sam
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