Thanksgiving morning has arrived here in our house and I wanted to stop and thank you for visiting our site. I’m very grateful to have the opportunity to get to know you along your journey to becoming a better banjo picker. It’s my hope that you’ll find some very useful lessons and will be inspired to new heights with your banjo.
Here’s some Thanksgiving banjo tips.
1. Invest in a good hard shell case for your banjo when traveling.
2. Work up one or two songs at a time through to completion.
3. Keep a stock of banjo strings to change out as needed to eliminate procrastination.
4. Watch the pros to get new ideas. J.D. Crowe, Ron Stewart, Sammy Shelor, etc…
5. Try taking apart your banjo (if you’ve never done it). You’ll learn something.
6. Play your tunes for your family. They’re the most critical audience.
7. Practice in front of a mic at your house. It sounds good and you’ll learn mic positioning.
8. Buy some ProPik picks and try them out (the angled blades).
9. Keep your eye out for the vintage National picks.
10. Find a good banjo teacher whether it’s here, or somewhere else. You’ll learn much quicker.
Enjoy your Thanksgiving day! Go eat some turkey.
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Dear Ryan, My folks bought a Kay banjo for me when I was ten years old, over the past three decades I havent picked it up more than about one hundred times. I recently became interested again and that is how I found you. I must say, I am very impressed with your ability to slow things down without goofing up; that is a quality that only a well versed expert can demonstrate. I found your sample lessons to be quite inspireing, helpful, challenging, and last but not least perfomable. I consider myself to be a novice that is ready to graduate to the next level, and that is why I signed up for lessons today. I don’t know any way to articulate how very much I appriciate you for shareing your knowledge other than to simply say Thank You.