looking to get a banjo any tips?

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looking to get a banjo any tips?

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Is there anything I should look out for?
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Work your right-hand technique like Jack LaLane.
Or...
Get a tenor and play vaudeville and ragtime to your heart's content.
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Ps: was thinking 6 string so I can use guitar chords (cause I'm lazy)
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The notion of getting a banjo has gone... played one today hideous noise I made not the instrument for the likes of me...
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Post by gusman2x »

What's the difference between a banjo and an onion?

No one cries when a banjo is chopped up.


Apart from maybe me, banjo's pretty cool. And steve Martin.
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I liked the banjo playing on Low's C'mon and thought it might add a bit of sonic diversity to my recordings... but not it would seem if I'm playing it.

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Do an tenor!
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There's a bit of a trend these days with a number of world commercials doing their generic indie-pop laced with banjo that have been making me want to get one myself for a few years now, especially since so many mid-low-tier models are made here.

In the meantime, learning how to do right hand banjo rolls with proper accented "thumb" on a keyboard has been fun, to say the least.