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What Gauge Banjo Strings Should I Use?
Banjo Strings come in many gauges, light, medium, medium light and heavy gauge.
I use a medium light set but there a...
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What is the Easiest Banjo to Play?
You might be asking yourself what style or what type of banjo is easiest to play. Since all the styles have their...
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Traveling with a banjo, what’s the best way to fly?
I am asked for advice on the best way to fly with a banjo a lot especially by students in conjunction with our annual...
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How do I know where the banjo melody notes are?
His question was a good one or common one but the way he pictured how this all comes together needed better...
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Ross
when i first learned to play i was taught to push off from 3-2 (third string) and have always done that but...
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Pull-off and Push-off tips/follow up
A featured email question from a student and answer by me, or some advice I have given someone who has requested it....
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Playing the Melody by Ear on Banjo
Playing the Melody on Banjo
A question on how to learn to pick out the melody notes.
So you have any suggestions...
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Advice in the picking and fretting hand
I started learning the banjo several weeks ago and so far progress is pretty much stalled at the beginning. I realize...
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