I’m hoping that you’ll take a few minutes to read this blog post and then join the discussion by leaving your thoughts and opinions to this informal banjo poll. I’m quite curious how my blog readers have gone about learning their instrument. What works for you and what doesn’t? Click into the article to read and then join the conversation!
It’s here! Part 6 of the Foggy Mountain Banjo series! The world rejoices! Well…alright, that’s a bit melodramatic, but I hope that you at least got a little excited, oh faithful blog reader!
Ready for the great song Sally Ann? For tablature and some picking pointesr, click on into the article. Ready? Go!!
Join Banjo Paul as he waxes poetic about the joys of playing banjo and how it might not always feel right to get your banjo out and play, but never let that stop you. The world is counting on you to spread a little joy and happiness through this most unique of all stringed instruments. Take your job as the Banjo Ambassador seriously and click in to the article to read more.
Please click into this article and give a listen to a little recording by my blog reader, friend, and fan George Preiss. My readers always have an open invitation to submit recording of themselves so that we can all hear how you are doing, and George took that offer to heart by recording himself picking the song that I taught in my Banjos Rule 12 Days of Christmas blog series. Give a listen and then leave some comments for George at the bottom of the article!
Banjo tablature is a wonderful tool that can really aid your learning, but tablature too often can be frustrating. Sometimes, it’s hard to make the song sound like the song as you play what’s in the tablature. It might be because the tablature wasn’t written well, or it might be that you aren’t interpreting something right.
No matter what, I have some thoughts on learning with tablature in general, and one song specifically. It’s a song I taught during my Banjos Rule 12 Days of Christmas, and my good friend and blog reader George Preiss struggled with it a bit in one little section. Click into the article to learn more.
Christmas has come and gone. The presents are opened…or in my case, the coal has been dumped out of the stocking…the food is eaten, the Christmas carols are sung, the Christmas music is being put away, and grandma got run over by a reindeer. With the end of the holiday comes the end of the Banjos Rule 12 Days of Christmas blog series. You are sad; you are weeping. I know. But the blog will march on into the new year! Click in to the article to read my final thoughts in the blog series.
‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the garage, not a creature was stirring; not even a Dodge. The tires were hung by the windows with care, in hopes that St. Nicholas would fill them with air.
Oops, wait…that’s not how that story goes! Sorry. I’m going to go consult my Night Before Christmas Book. In the meantime, please click into this article to read the 11th post in the Banjos Rule 12 Days of Christmas blog series. You’ll get to hear my friend and student George Preiss’s recordings of himself playing two standard Christmas songs on his banjo. Now let’s see…where did I leave that book…
Have you ever seen a tie-in between the movie Deliverance and Christmas? Well, you are about to. Only Banjo Paul can bring together two such diametrically opposed ideas in a blog post.
By the way…welcome to day 10 of the Banjos Rule 12 Days of Christmas! Click in to the article for a little light-hearted fun. I promise it’ll make you smile.
We started a classic Christmas carol a few blog posts ago, and so now it’s time to finish it off just in time for our Christmas recitals this year!
Click into the article to learn how to play the song and be the envy of your family, friends, and neighbors.
Happy 8th day of Christmas! Hope your holiday is both joyful AND triumphant so far this year. For day 8, I thought I would bring you a guest post by the world famous Tim Slanczka. You may remember Tim as the subject of two of my past video blog posts.
Tim has some FANTASTIC insight on setting up a banjo. Banjo setup can be a mystery and it can seem like a daunting topic to some, but Tim shows how it doesn’t have to be. Click into the article to read all about Tim’s experiences.