Hooks & Nuts

Single string playing on the 5 string banjo is a style that was originally popularized by players such as Don Reno and Eddie Adcock. This style of banjo...

At Deering, we fully encourage and welcome our customers to call us with any questions they may have. Here’s one that has been an interesting topic of...

Jens Kruger presents the basics of the Melodic Style of banjo playing on this video from the American Banjo Museum's Learning Lounge interactive touch screen....

Banjo has been lucky in the past 10 years to be going on the road with more types of musicians than it has in all the previous decades of its life. As an...

Drop thumb banjo playing is a technique used in the clawhammer style of playing the 5 string banjo. This technique will give you the ability to play more...

Let David Holt guide you through 5 of Deering's most popular openback banjos! David talks briefly about the differences in each model and plays the same thing...

Greg and I met Eric Shi at the China Music Trade Show in Shanghai in 2016. I had realized that to get banjo interest in China we need a banjo book printed in...

The tenor banjo is seeing a revival of sorts. Traditionally tuned in intervals of 5ths (C, G, D, A - standard tuning, G, D, A, E - Irish tenor tuning), many...