Social Distancing for Musicians!

[matonanjin]

This just adds a little to @Eracer_Team-DougH's post to include other musician's.  😁    Banjo players. Accordion players.  It's just a joke!  😉

 

[K9kaos]

Lol!  I'm learning banjo, and honestly I would double that distance! There is no quiet way to play the banjo.... just ask my very patient hubby, lol!  😆

 

[Eracer_Team-DougH]

@K9kaos you'd play a banjo same way my wife wishes I played guitar... with no strings

[Nutty 1]

On 4/13/2020 at 4:08 AM, K9kaos said:

Lol!  I'm learning banjo, and honestly I would double that distance! There is no quiet way to play the banjo

I am also learning banjo, I bought an open backed one without a resonator, it is a bit quieter than the standard closed back ones but I am also social distancing with it over 4 metres!🤣

[K9kaos]

15 hours ago, Nutty 1 said:

I am also learning banjo, I bought an open backed one without a resonator, it is a bit quieter than the standard closed back ones but I am also social distancing with it over 4 metres!🤣

I should have looked for an open back.... Are you having as much fun as I am with it?

This one just looked so lonely sitting in the pawn shop. All alone in the corner.  I just had to get it and clean it up! 

And its one more thing I checked off my to-do list: ✔️ Buy a used banjo at a pawn shop - Done!  

I must say, it seems impossible to be unhappy while playing the banjo! My neighbors and my hubby may disagree though! Lol! 🤣 

[Nutty 1]

@K9kaosI love it Barbara! Especially the claw hammer technique,

Truefire have some great courses on banjo. The blue grass technique with the finger picks is hard but I am getting it slowly.  Banjo is addictive.

I saw mine in my local guitar shop when I went to part exchange a guitar for another guitar. I went home and kept on thinking about the banjo. It was so beautiful. So I started looking in to how to play a 5 string banjo and it looked like it was going to be fun. The banjo was calling out to me, it was meant for me.

He is a Barnes and Mullins Albert https://www.bandm.co.uk/traditional-instruments/banjos/barnes-and-mullins-banjo-albert-open-back-5-string.html

Edited April 15, 2020 by Nutty 1

[K9kaos]

22 hours ago, Nutty 1 said:

@K9kaosI love it Barbara! Especially the claw hammer technique,

Truefire have some great courses on banjo. The blue grass technique with the finger picks is hard but I am getting it slowly.  Banjo is addictive.

I saw mine in my local guitar shop when I went to part exchange a guitar for another guitar. I went home and kept on thinking about the banjo. It was so beautiful. So I started looking in to how to play a 5 string banjo and it looked like it was going to be fun. The banjo was calling out to me, it was meant for me.

He is a Barnes and Mullins Albert https://www.bandm.co.uk/traditional-instruments/banjos/barnes-and-mullins-banjo-albert-open-back-5-string.html

Very nice!!! Mine is a Johnson JB-100, and the action was so high when I got it I could actually fit my fingers between the strings and the fretboard! Its a resonator so it is pretty loud, even with the banjo mute.  I have not tried playing clawhammer style, only with fingerpicks and thumb pick. It really is quite fun!!  

 

[Nutty 1]

1 hour ago, K9kaos said:

Very nice!!! Mine is a Johnson JB-100, and the action was so high when I got it I could actually fit my fingers between the strings and the fretboard! Its a resonator so it is pretty loud, even with the banjo mute.  I have not tried playing clawhammer style, only with fingerpicks and thumb pick. It really is quite fun!!  

Lovely banjo. That was high action. It really did need rescuing by you. There is something romantic about finding an abandoned one and making it playable again.

I highly recommend claw hammer it is quite weird/fun as you pop the 5th string with your thumb and pick notes with your first finger and brush the strings with the nails and all with a bent hand,it sounds great.

[pkotof]

Thanks Ladies. THis is what we need. Let's add BASS with GASS. :-) Sounds fun.

[Nutty 1]

9 hours ago, pkotof said:

Thanks Ladies. THis is what we need. Let's add BASS with GASS. 🙂 Sounds fun.

Oh yes Phil!