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BigglesSWE posted:My wife is gonna buy me a banjo for my birthday. We'll go to town tomorrow and take a look at what we can find for a thick-skulled non-musician like myself. Wish us luck! Didja get something? Do tell!
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I want an electric banjo. I own no banjos, just 4 guitars for strings right now, also I can't really play anything that's not a saxophone with even mild proficiency, despite the growing number of stringed instruments and keybeds I seem to be acquiring. After reading all the reddit reasons not to get an electric banjo (often bad pickups, "why do you want an electric pickup on a banjo?!", "it doesn't reeeeally sound like a banjo, even nice ones") I still want one but also I am generally cheap and trying to spend all my money on video synths. Assuming I am looking at used stuff on Reverb what are my best options at $300 or $500 and also am I better off just getting a normal banjo and putting a pickup on it? This whole room is so wired up it glows in the dark and even my loving kazoo has an electric pickup, I don't want to start with an acoustic banjo since I am mostly just looking to abuse the gently caress out of it and then feed it into granular synth workflows, hosed/distorted harmonics and all (especially those)
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Dec 31, 2023 19:06
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Cabbages and Kings posted:I want an electric banjo. Electric banjos are pretty niche so your best option on reverb is likely whatever you see for sale that day. Gold tone has a couple models but I think they will be above that price range. As far as banjo with a pickup, there are different pickups for different purposes/budgets and some will sound more "like a banjo" than others. Is there a characteristic of the banjo sound you want to reproduce, or do you just want something that look/feels like a banjo? If you have an example of the sound you're going for that might help.
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Jan 18, 2024 02:54
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What about an old Deering starfire? I saw one a while back at a store and I kick myself now for not picking it up
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Jan 18, 2024 03:32
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I'm thinking about picking up a Goldtone OB-3RF Twanger with the radiused fretboard. I've been playing my CC100 for close to a year. Locally, there's a new looking Twanger with spikes and a few other upgrades for ~$400 less than new. The guy has had it up for sale for at least a few months now. He's got a standard OB-3 but I think I want the spikes and radiused fb
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Mar 18, 2024 21:20
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You want the spikes. I had more put in my main banjo than came stock and also had spikes installed in my goodtime.
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Mar 19, 2024 00:08
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I have a 5th string capo now and I definitely don't want to be doing that long term
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Mar 19, 2024 00:16
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Spikes are also suuuper easy to install yourself
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Mar 19, 2024 00:35
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Don't really have the money for a Twanger or RK35/36 right now so I installed spikes on my CC100. Way better
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May 20, 2024 02:17
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Oh cool, there’s a banjo thread? Of course there’s a banjo thread. So last fall I was on a road trip and bought a banjo kind of on a whim, I mean, I’d thought about doing it for a while but I’d bounced off enough other instruments to generally figure it wasn’t a good idea. Did it anyhow. Very very slow progress but I would pick it up once or twice most days between meetings and work at it a bit as time allowed. Certainly I’ve enjoyed it more than any other instrument so that kept me coming back. Anyhow, I don’t know what happened today but suddenly it clicked and I found myself over the initiation hump, I guess I just drilled Cripple Creek and Black Eyed Susie enough times that my brain finally got the basics locked in and now I’m able to pick up new tunes instead of having to actually think about the basic basics. I mean I’m very much a level 1 beginner but yesterday I was level 0 and all of a sudden it only takes a half hour to learn a new basic song, absolutely over the moon here and spent several hours today having a blast. Newest addition is Sandy River Bell and I love all the pull offs and hammer ons. I’m doing clawhammer and I think my favorite thing is that it seems like there are too drat many notes coming off the thing for what I’m doing to it. Bad Munki fucked around with this message at 15:20 on Jun 4, 2024 |
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Jun 4, 2024 05:51
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Banjo is hard. I've been playing for a year now and it kicks my rear end daily.
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Jun 4, 2024 18:11
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I totally remember that same 'things are easier now' feeling with clawhammer. Sadly I've never gotten there with 3-finger, but I also haven't put near the time into it. Then you start loving around with different tunings and everything sounds so cool but your left hand doesn't work right anymore. And then you try to learn a tune with triplets or one in waltz time and your right hand doesn't work.
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Jun 4, 2024 18:22
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I picked my banjo up again to take in-person lessons starting a few months ago (I did the Brainjo course a year and a half a go to sort of get started, and it was good but I need some kind of external motivation to keep my momentum up apparently). I also just recently got to that "oh I can sort of just play new stuff now!" point. I'm not playing it well or fast yet, but I'm not stopping every two notes while my fingers flail around being lost either. I'm mostly doing 2-finger thumb lead and Scruggs right now and I have such a love for those melancholy, waltz-time, double C-tuned murder ballads. Hopefully I'll learn clawhammer or maybe Seeger style some day too.
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Jun 4, 2024 18:41
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Yeah I can't do anything fast but, like, that's not really a goal for me. I just want to sit on the dock at my pond and play chill poo poo. Sandy River Bell is a perfect song to slowly play in the morning on the porch while it drizzles, which is how I started my day. That's 100000% what I'm after, love it. Fingertips are a bit sore after my extended session(s) yesterday but not enough to hold me back.
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Jun 4, 2024 18:45
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I've been playing for a year and my rolls and hand coordination have improved greatly. But it's almost mechanical playing, which I'm told is what you want for effortlessly playing rolls without thinking about it. I can't really pick out the melody notes listening to myself play, though. When I listen to other players, there's distinct melody present that you can pick out. Not so much with my playing. I've tried a few things and I feel it's getting better. I started with playing melody notes only to get a better feel for it. Played rolls really slowly, trying to accentuate melody notes and de-emphasize others. Lastly, I started playing melody notes with my thumb even if it doesn't fit a prescribed picking pattern. I seem to have the most improvement with this but maybe it's all working together.
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Jun 4, 2024 21:20
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Melody notes are hard.
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