I've been frailing the banjo some 16 or so years now & sometimes when I start working up a tune that I usually play on the guitar I'll flat pick it to get the flow of it & figure it out. I don't find the fith string a problem cause I simply ignore it. Any way it got me to thinking why not give it a go once in a while. The flat picked banjo on "King of the Faires" sounds cool & I figure, why do I need a 4 string to capture that sound when I can get it with my five string. If you just listen you'd be hard pressed to know any different. But I guess there are probably folks who say I'm messing with tradition, but frankly I ain't trying to impress them any way
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