Originally Posted by Hydra150

What's your stance on circumcision?

Originally Posted by primusfan

> from louisville
> likes ween
> new favorite poster

Originally Posted by primusfan

if you're talking about five string scruggs style, it's all in the right hand. start learning your rolls now, ya know. just practice on your desk or something. it'll also take a while to get used to the fingerpicks on your fingers. you could play flesh, but it wouldn't sound quite right.

Melodic style is similar to Scruggs style. You can use it to play fiddle tunes verbatim.
It's way cooler than Scruggs style but not as versatile, so it's more for the occasional lead break or fill.

clawhammer is a little less technical and easier to pick up. that's more appalachian/old time music though. Clawhammer is a bit more "all inclusive" I guess you could say. By that I mean that it sounds more complete when playing unaccompanied or as a backup to vocals since it is less syncopated and has a stronger emphasis on a very steady rhythm compared to bluegrass picking, so if you plan on just playing by yourself, it's a cool option.

and then tenor/plectrum is very much like a guitar (meh, not really) but they're generally for irish/dixieland jazz so not quite what you mean. You really can't play the more stereotypical stuff that the banjo is known for in American folk music with one. But you could certainly play a 5 string banjo with a flat pick instead of playing a 4 string. This is commonly done in indie music, alternative rock, and folk rock, but it's pretty immoral to play a 5 string with a flat pick.

6 string banjo is very much like guitar. It's not actually a banjo though. It kind of defeats the purpose of actually learning banjo, since it gives you the sound of a banjo only in terms of timbre. You don't get those cool banjo licks, which really heavily on open tunings and the use of the 5th string, which is really 90% of the sound of traditional banjo playing and 90% of the fun of playing banjo anyway.

and learn this song, because it's the best:

Originally Posted by skylerjames13

inb4 theogonia comes into this thread and she/he/it/ rants about something banjo/bluegrass related

Originally Posted by Gantz92

Originally Posted by theogonia777

I know right? How dare someone that is knowledgeable on the topic come in and actually contribute anything of any value?

Originally Posted by SomeoneYouKnew

Your post was the only bright spot in this disgusting piece of thread.

Originally Posted by lexanirider78

You have balls. I like balls....(awkward silence)

Originally Posted by SeveralSpecies

I waited for the rape.

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...but the rape never came

Originally Posted by theogonia777

I added/fixed some things.



I know right? How dare someone that is knowledgeable on the topic come in and actually contribute anything of any value?

Originally Posted by ryan_nadon

There a difference between being knowledge and being a pedantic prick.

Originally Posted by Hydra150

What's your stance on circumcision?

Originally Posted by ryan_nadon

There a difference between being knowledge and being a pedantic prick.

Originally Posted by Doppelgänger

You could always just sleep beside your refrigerator.

Originally Posted by Deliriumbassist

It really is some Copernicus ahit.