Although I am largely a proponent of trying to learn the banjo as much as you can using your ear, there are times when tablature is extremely useful. If you...
I was in a conversation the other day where a musician said to me, “I decided not to play banjo in our band because we don’t want to ‘look like’ we’re...
As most of us know, standard tuning for a 5-string banjo is an open G tuning (G,D,G,B,D). Open G tuning means that if we strum all the strings without fretting...
The next Gentlemen of The Road Stopover this summer in the idyllic Midwestern town of Waverly, Iowa is upon us. Happening this Friday and Saturday June...
New Orleans guitarist John Rankin plays and talks about his new Deering Goodtime Solana 6 banjo and why it is the perfect 6-string banjo for him.
I don’t think over fretting is a commonly used term, but what it essentially means is: Pushing strings harder than necessary on fretted instruments.
Deering Banjos is thrilled to announce the launch of the 2015 Gentlemen of the Road Banjo Charity Auctions. In 2012 Mumford & Sons began the Gentlemen of the...
A customer who plays an inexpensive Chinese made banjo called me and was confounded by not getting it to sound the way he wanted.
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