I just bought this banjo on Craigslist. It appears to be a decent instrument, and sounds pretty good. But it doesn’t have any identifying marks on it that I can find. The guy I bought it from couldn’t really tell me anything about it, just that he had had it for about five years. It […]
So, I’m in San Diego for work. I started looking for banjos for sale, and I found that the Deering Factory is in San Diego, not 15 miles from me. I decided to take a tour, which was cool. But what I wasn’t expecting was that Deering had made a batch of Goodtime banjos with […]
I’ve been practicing my rolls since I started playing, and I had a bit of a break through yesterday. I was watching my seven hundredth intstructional video, and doing a roll at the same time. I realized after a minute that I was doing a forward-backward roll (3-2-1-5-1-2-3-1) without even thinking about it. I had […]
This is my first time recording myself, so I can go back and check my progress. I’m playing Cripple Creek, basically the first song I learned (if you don’t count a lick from Duelling Banjos and a bit of Ode To Joy).