10 Banjo Styles (other than Bluegrass)
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- čas přidán 23. 04. 2020
- From Raga to Rock to Classical the banjo can be used to play them all. Highlighting 10 other musical styles, besides bluegrass, on the banjo.
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I feel like the Irish folk really works with the banjo. so upbeat and full of happy-go-lucky spirit.
Instantly something ima going to try once my banjo gets out the shop just got it today but it's a beater so needed to get strings put on an see what's up. Been playing guitar for 13 to 14 years but wasnt comfortable trying to set up a banjo haha
Like Steve Martin said, you can't have a banjo and stay sad, ( plays banjo and sings death , destruction, flood... I don't care... I feel so happy...it must be the banjo! [Paraphrased]).
They all work. Taste is subjective.
Banjo, the instrument only limited by musicians who play it.
Thank you for showing some of the diversity this instrument has and staying away from any claw hammer we can see and hear in every other video on the U.
Flexibe, yet stifled.
Beautiful, for a beginner I needed to see this.
Glad it was helpful!
Those of us who "can't", but can also "see" every lick can agree!!!
Important thing to note about the banjo in the Irish folk clip is that hes playing a tenor banjo. Tenors have a shorter scale and 4 strings instead of 5, and is played with a pick. You could probably play irish folk on a regular banjo, but tenors are more suited to the style.
In the 1920s in the USA the banjo was the #1 instrument.
Whole orchestras of just banjos
Bass, cello, tener, alto and soprano.
It just goes to show you how versatile the banjo is.
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Several of these styles or genres are often played in bluegrass, particularly jazz, blues and polka but I agree the banjo is more versatile than a lot of people think. I also agree that you missed mountain/appalachian folk usually played clawhammer or 2 finger picked.
Do you play?
Ive been.a guitarist for 30+ years and have played in open g tuning a good bit... picked up the banjo yesterday .. looked at a chord chart a few times and have already transcribed atleast 10 songs I know on the guitar for banjo.. I am an alternate finger style picker on the guitar and I imagine I'll be the same with the banjo.. fun instrument.. very addictive.
Thats it! Im gonna buy a Banjo.
surprised you didn't have any old time banjo in there considering alongside bluegrass and irish folk, that's like the other most common use of the banjo today. Klezmer banjo would have been fun to see, though that's understandable not to have (it's a really cool thing actually, suits the genre surprisingly well)
For rock music, the 5-string is shown being played with a plectrum; and for Irish music, the tenor banjo is shown played with a plectrum. It would have been good to see a plectrum banjo (4-string, same length neck as a regular 5-string) being played with a plectrum. Spectacular things have been done on those.
Missing Dixieland Jazz, featuring Chris Barber with "Icecream"
Love the Classical ( he’s a great banjoist) and the Blues one is for me :-)
So cool!!! Thank you!
This is so cool! I wondered about banjo styles other than bluegrass. Thank you for this 😊
awesome video 👏
Fantastic
As a metal head who's been playin guitar for 13 years I'm so excited to have finally just grabbed a banjo. Getting it set up now at a shop so still gotta wait til Tuesday. Any suggestions for a beginner banjo player but good guitar player to learn first ?
What style of banjo playing are you looking to do?
Two banjo styles playing several different types of music
I'm thinking I'll make a tenor banjo for myself
No old time frailing, no 2 finger thumb lead, no Pete Seeger folk up-picking ...
3:01....now this I did know!!!, having similar tones, the banjo is easily substituted for bagpipes in Celtic music!!!!
Wow 👍
You should add links to the referenced videos. I really wanted to watch the full versions of all of these.
Odd selection, it includes things which are not really 'styles' in their own right, and neglects things which most certainly are -- stroke-style, old-time frailing and 2/3-finger picking, classic banjo, ragtime/dixieland (primarily 4-string), country blues (a la Dock Boggs, Charlie Poole), etc
Time to research you tube! The musical adventure continues! As the road goes on forever!
really, dude? get a grip on your own banjo
Whoa, there, Mr. Pretentious
@@stevenrafter3069 Hes right though
Agreed genres is more like it
Check out John Bullard for some top shelf classical banjo.
Where can I learn to play raga on banjo??
I play metal songs I write for banjo, very fun if anybody wants something to goof off with, just play in a minor key most of the time and hit a few spooky brown notes.
This is just a sampling. For one other, Steve Levy has experimented with adapting music composed for the akonting (a three-stringed Gambian banjo relative) to the banjo.
There's a huge stylistic chunk missing here: the contribution of the plectrum banjo and tenor banjo as early jazz age departures from the traditional five-string. There's no real solid representation of that whole era.
Anyone interested in this video should check out TIMBR ZEAL (aka Space Banjo).
I only like the first and last ones!
2:06 sounds like dreamtheater a change of seasons
Very cool, but no clawhammer??
I think the reggae guy might have been playing clawhammer, looked liked his thumb was catching the 5th at least part of the time.
no old time clawhammer ?
Melodic style?
3:38....(call me a "purist"/ "fanboy" /"racist", but I agree with my father....."strummlin'" has it's place....but, I prefer the 3 finger "pickin" method, it just seems to expand on an already expressive method.) 《APOLOGIES to anyone who prefers the strumming style, I get why you like it, I just wish to display my nostalgia here, and invite you to respond in kind!!》
Only one open back banjo.
Everytime I see the thumbnail of Rob Scallion holding that 5 string banjo and playing it with a flat pick, I lose hope in humanity. He has to stop. Lol
None of these are really styles of playing, really just playing different ways within the bluegrass style. Didn’t include clawhammer, two finger, of anything like that
I prefer paying Techno Banjo and EDM banjo
Painful to watch the raga guy smack the banjo head like that. Seems like an easy way to tear it
I play "banjo drumset" with drum sticks and all kinds of weird stuff. Haven't cracked a head yet!
These are 10 different music genres, not styles? There are only two styles of banjo, frailing and fingerstyle; which some may errantly characterize as clawhammer and bluegrass style, respectively......both of which are marketing terms originally created by the commercial music industry.
Don't forget plectrum style, the dominant banjo sound of the 1920s-30s. I agree with you otherwise.
Get an electric banjo. Get a distortion pedal. Get any pedals honestly.
Let's face the truth. Bluegrass banjo picking that Scruggs and Snuffy Smith and Reno started along with Fairchild and Crowe are the best styles. Yes Krueger can do it all up and down the neck and is the best. But that's only because most of the best I mentioned have passed away.
I gotta disagree there. Clawhammer (in my opinion) will almost always be more expressive. Playing faster isn’t always better, and sometimes Scruggs style bluegrass banjo can just sound like a endless stream of notes without meaningful dynamics, articulation, or rhythm. Once again this is just my personal opinion.
Для моих целей (аккомпанемент пению в стиле поп-музыка, а не фолк) больше подходит clawhammer. Он более ритмичный, точнее - лучше акцентирует сильные доли, задаёт более интересную пульсацию, что может важно для меня.