Scott did not start playing the banjo until he was about 19 or 20 years old. As Scott put it:. I think I started playing it because it was reflective of my voice and my need to write songs. Ultimately, The Avett Brothers joined together to present songs about experiences that they as humans have known.
Subject matters are tragic, joyful and inexhaustible. Blues has been played on the banjo before, and they've been played with a pick before. I just don't think its "out there" enough to be groundbreaking.
I like listening to what other banjo players are doing both in and outside of the bluegrass and old time genres. It seems to me that almost every other country song being played today has a banjo in it, and they aren't always playing it in a bluegrass style. You can hear banjos now in every genre out there. Sometimes it's just used as a sort of melodic background filler, sometimes as a rhythmic accompaniment and sometimes as a main instrument.
Seems you can pretty much do what you want with it, pick it, pluck it, strum it, in whatever way will add something to the song being played. I haven't heard of Whitmore or Trampled by Turtles, but I'll go check them out now.
I wanted to learn to play without fingerpicks so I took off the fifth string on my old Harmony and have been playing it like that for a couple of months now. It has caused to me play with an entirely different style and you get a complete different sound out of it. I've now gotten so good at it I think I actually prefer to play without the picks.
Now the trick is teaching myself to play with no picks and the fifth string. It's all good, but not everybody has to like it. There's no accounting for taste. Likewise, there's no accounting for other people's bad taste. Nobody has all the tunes, but everybody has a piece of the tradition.
Saw an interesting band last Saturday. Railroad Earth. All acoustic instruments, all use amps, plus a drummer. Banjo player also plays mandolin, sax, dobro, flatpicked guitar, and some kind of flute thing. Very talented guys. Great fiddle player. Definitely not your average bluegrass band.
No banjo til about in song 5 because he was playing that flute type thing. Not everyone's cup of tea, but we had a great time at the show Many people in bands end up playing guitar on the banjo, flatpicks and such. I don't demean this, I call it cargo banjo, it fits the airplane it is riding in. When I first started with the band I would play banjo on banjo songs, and then play guitar on guitar songs.
Oh my what a hassle. I got cool comments on the banjo, but never any on guitar. Everybody plays guitar like wearing socks. I ditched the guitar for full time banjo, making it a point to not to play it like guitar, but make it fit all the songs we play in a banjo sort of way. It's quite a challange, but it's sure fun.
The payback is that we get comments that our band it different than the many guitar bands, and we have a unique sound. As only a trio RIP Tim, we miss you since our bass player died, I get to carry a lot more rhythm, hooks, and play very precussively at times and fill more empty spaces. I couldn't think of any more suitable instrument for the job. I love bluegrass, tradition and E. Scruggs but I get so bummed to hear myself along with the 3 other banjoist at a jam or on a CD string together 9 memorized Scruggy licks love them too and call it a banjo break.
It's a copycat session-it's time to rethink it all, make it more musical-and I'm as guilty as anyone. Just thought a shout out to Pete Seeger was relevant to this discussion. Pete was playing all styles of music on the banjo decades ago. Pretty cool then, still cool today. Well, here is my take after watching countless hours of video footage on the Indigo Girls-particularly Emily Saliers who is pretty darn good with a banjo in a variety of picking styles.
She 3 fingers bluegrass style when needed, she also strums it "guitar style" when needed and uses a different sort of picking-sort of a half strum and half up picking style when needed. What ever it is, I as a fan am thrilled. Ireland will be playing for pride ….
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