The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #118039 Message #2628164
Posted By: Mooh
10-May-09 - 06:26 AM
Thread Name: Banjoists, what style
Subject: RE: Banjoists, what style
Not sure I have any style on the banjo, just a weird and spastic "comp" (accompaniment) thing. For example, last night at an infrequent sort of country/rock/blues gig I used the five string (GoldTone BG250) on a song using an improvised slightly bluegrass slow roll. Since I never manage to completely change my classical guitar/fingerstyle right hand, it ends up playing and sounding a little weird. The attraction of five string was that open G tuning was very familiar from guitar.
On 4 string (another GoldTone, IT250) I play some hymns, some celtoidish, some jamming stuff, in GDAE because I'm too lazy to learn yet another tuning. I don't like this banjo for chording as it doesn't sound as smooth as a guitar-shaped bouzouki/octave mandolin thing I have....though Copperhead Road does sound pretty wicked-funky on Irish Tenor banjo.