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Posted by KHOWARD on 03-31-2015 09:23 PM:

Any Banjo Players???

ANY BANJO PLAYING COONHUNTERS OUT THERE? IF SO HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN PLAYING AND WHAT STYLE DO YOU PLAY.....3 FINGER SCRUGGS BLUEGRASS....2 FINGER OLD TIME OR CLAWHAMMER?


Posted by Jim Frederick on 04-06-2015 03:41 AM:

No one wants to admit it ha


Posted by msinc on 04-06-2015 01:14 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by Jim Frederick
No one wants to admit it ha


It's not that no one wants to admit it, it's that he's asking all wrong....remember in "Deliverance" when the guy walks out of the house and one eye is looking one direction and the other eye is looking about 180 from that??? and he asks, "Who's a pickin' the banjy here!!!!!!!"

Kidding aside, it aint me...I got about as much musical talent as a snapping turtle, but I always did like the banjo. I just read the other day that it was an African instrument brought to America by slaves.


Posted by Jrkb2012 on 04-07-2015 02:41 AM:

Re: Any Banjo Players???

quote:
Originally posted by KHOWARD
ANY BANJO PLAYING COONHUNTERS OUT THERE? IF SO HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN PLAYING AND WHAT STYLE DO YOU PLAY.....3 FINGER SCRUGGS BLUEGRASS....2 FINGER OLD TIME OR CLAWHAMMER?
I can't play any instrument but I can sure listen to the banjo any time of day,,or night,,lol,,the banjo is my favorite


Posted by skeets on 04-07-2015 07:14 AM:

i can play guitar a little,tried the banjo and couldnt get the roll down.my youngest boy picked up the banjo and was playing the fire out of that thing in a few days, he didnt get his talent from me.lol


Posted by Riverbottom Ron on 04-07-2015 11:40 PM:

BANJO PICKERS

MY HERO WAS AND STILL IS GRANPA JONES ALONG WITH ROY CLARK,THOUGH I KNOW HOW TO PICK A GUITAR I CAN PLAY A BANJO AND I DO IN MY CHURCH BAND WE PLAY NOTHIN BUT OLD COUNTRY GOSPEL MUSIC THE OLD STUFF..I TELL YA WHAT I DID ,IM NOT A GOOD BANJO PICKER SO I WENT WITH THE NEXT BEST THING,, I BOUGHT A 6 STRING BANJO IT SOUNDS GOOD I PUT HIGHER STRINGS ON IT AND MAN ITS GOT THE BANJO TWANG SOUND EVERY ONE THAT HEARS IT LIKES IT ,I DO RUNS AND OTHER THINGS ON IT JUST LIKE A GUITAR AND ITS GOT THE BANJO SOUND ,,, OLE GRAMPA JONES AND OLE ROY WOULD BE PROUD,,[ "IM A PICKIN " AND "THERE A GRINNIN '} HAVE A BLESSED ONE ,,,RON

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Posted by MIKE CARDER on 04-09-2015 01:13 AM:

Post Billy Redden

That was the Deliverance banjo player. Actually plays like 10 instruments.

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Posted by msinc on 04-09-2015 02:54 AM:

Re: Billy Redden

quote:
Originally posted by MIKE CARDER
That was the Deliverance banjo player. Actually plays like 10 instruments.


Billy Redden might play ten instruments now, but at the time "Deliverance" was filmed the banjo wasn't one of them...when they filmed the movie "Deliverance" Billy Redden sat on the swing with his arms somehow hidden. The actual banjo player was behind him and reached under his arms and played the banjo for that famous scene. I can't remember the guys name, but at the time I believe he was regarded as the best banjo player in the world.


Posted by hillbilly56 on 04-09-2015 04:33 PM:

my dad and 2 of his brother's plus my grandma on his side could all play music i never was intersted in playing but i do love ta hear somebody that can play a banjo


Posted by msinc on 04-09-2015 08:44 PM:

Could someone please explain the two finger, three finger and claw hammer methods of playing??? What's the difference or why would you play/learn one over the other??? Is it just preference????
Like it or love it, the banjo truly has a sound all it's own and there's nothing else like it.


Posted by trsizemore on 04-11-2015 02:38 AM:

msinc

the best banjo player in the world MR EARL SCRUGGS ALWAYS HAS BEN ALWAYS WILL BE thanks tim


Posted by larryfox on 04-19-2015 03:55 PM:

I can't play and never liked the banjo until my nephew learned how to play. He started at age ten and just made noise that was almost unbearable. Didn't take him long to take hold of it though. I love listeneng to him now. He has been playing around six years now and can flat tear that thing up. He has 5 banjos now and 3 were won in competition. He can't read music but he listens and can play anything With almost anybody. He has played on stage with a couple of bigger names in music around here such as Raymond Fairchild etc. If your interested check out you tube hillbilly Chris sexton or shindig on the green 2013 in Asheville nc with his grandfather. At age 16 He now plays with a group that travels to from GA to PA and pays him well. I'm very proud of him and admire his talent.


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