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Yesterday I played a Banjo...

kingo

Date: September 5, 2004 @ 9:34 AM

for 15 seconds. It is a much fabled banjo. But I have a question. I have my doubts that anyone will be. but.

So what do you all exprot banjo players do with that one extra string that gets right in the way? To me, and I mean I'm me, but to me, it gets right in the way. It's a string that gets right in the way.

There are these tuning pegs on the headstock and you see four of them and you get all ready to groove with your banjo and you see your fingers right around the first few frets on those four strings and you're all ready and it's great and then you play something with your right hand and "PLING!" there's this string that ISN'T EVEN THERE, except there it is, with its own little post peg and everything just hanging out there halfway up the neck like it didn't even wanted you to see it.

If I could only master that pling-string, man. I'd be Lester Slatts and Phil Skrugg. I'd be virtuific. Man.

gstring

Date: October 1, 2004 @ 4:59 PM

The fifth string is merely a drone..it's a filler string. Playing the banjo requires learning "rolls" or "certain patterns of picking" and the fifth string fits into those rolls, it actually feels very natural when you get used to it.

And in case you weren't joking..it's Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs...Earl is the God of banjo.