I often get the question, “How hard is it to learn to play banjo vs the guitar?” The answer is that every instrument has its different learning curves and...
Some might argue that learning to play your arpeggios is more important than learning your scales. When improvising, the use of arpeggios can make your...
No matter what instrument you play, in order to begin improvising you need to create your own collection of “licks”. What is a “lick”? A lick is a small...
One thing all great musicians do is to constantly aim to get better. The same is true with most things in life, but the correlation is most easily true when...
A couple of the most important scales you should learn when playing the banjo is your major and minor pentatonic scales. As the name suggests, these scales...
A banjo chord is made when you strum or pick more than one string on your banjo. On a 5 string banjo, the standard tuning is an open G tuning. This means...
One of the biggest problems clawhammer banjo players have is how to keep their nails in shape so that they can produce a warm, clear tone out of their...
It might seem like a silly question to someone who has played the banjo before, but almost every time I give banjo picks to someone who has never played...
Modern banjos have standard head sizes. Vintage banjos on the other hand have head sizes that are all over the map. At Deering we use two different head...
Deering is very proud of the fact that all of their banjos have always and always will be built in the United States. Goodtime banjos are no different. The...
