Re: Any Closet Banjo Players Here?
- From: "Tony Done" <tonydone@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:04:23 GMT
"Charmed Snark" <snark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Tony Done expounded in
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Sean expounded in nRLkl.11153$Db2.6051@edtnps83:">news:nRLkl.11153$Db2.6051@edtnps83:
Charmed Snark wrote:
I just acquired a used Marlin Banjo fairly cheap last
week. I'm taking it into a luthier this weekend to
get the fifth peg replaced with a geared peg (the
current one has a busted friction peg knob).
It looks like a lot of fun. I am looking forward to
getting it back and learning some banjo rolls and
tunes.
A friend of mine said his wife made him sell his (she
said "are you going to practice THAT? ..it's too loud").
Anyone here doing some closet banjo picken?
Snark.
A guy gave me a cheap old tenor banjo. I've been having a lot of fun
with it, but I just can't keep the thing in tune. It has these
stupid old friction tuning pegs that probably never worked even when
they worked. Even if they "worked", without the gears the thing
changes about 4 semitones when you move the peg a micron. I've
ordered some different tuners for it.
The Marlin banjo I picked up has geared tuners on the head, but the
5th peg is that same crappy friction tuner. I am having that replaced
immedately with a geared one, since this is the sort of thing that
everyone complains about. So I'm spending a few bucks up front to do
away with this. All this hassle because the manuf wants to save a
couple of bucks.
I know this type of banjo is the sort for strumming in a Dixieland
band and stuff like that, but I finger pick the thing. I really like
that twangy old sound. It makes me want to start misspelling my
taunts.
Apparently there are at least three styles of picking, AFAIK:
1) Frailing technique (a kind of middle fingernail strum/pick)
2) Earl Scruggs(?) fingerpicking with thumb and finger picks
3) A classical technique, presumably finger picked.
Snark.
There's another one that sounds like quasi-frailing or guitar
flatpicking that uses thumb and finger-brush. The trick is to then get
the fingers to catch the strings on their upstroke, making bum-titty.
I've tried frailing with virtually no success at all, but this one
isn't that tricky, and works on both banjo and guitar.
Tony D
The frailing types of approaches are out for me I think. Both from an
interest pov and from the fact that my hands are developing stiffening
problems because of the diebetes. I've always liked the sound of a picked
banjo, though I may just end up using the classical finger style on it.
This is what I am used to on the guitar.
I will give finger picks a try and see if I can adjust to that or not.
Snark.
If you have classical leanings, then I think the backstroke/brush is worth
learning. Flamenco players use it all the time, and it is very versatile. As
I said, you can use it to emulate flatpicking, or for pseudo-frailing, and
I also use it to do fast triplets like drum lot. - You see
flatpickers/plectrum players working up a lot of sweat trying to do that.
Doesn't work with fingerpicks though, which is the main reason I have never
adopted them.
Tony D
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