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Taking up banjo Hi folks, I know this isn’t r/banjo but I was looking to expand to different instruments and was wondering if anyone could tell me their experiences of switching from guitar to banjo or vice versa. I have been playing guitar for 10+ years (both acoustic and electric) 🎸

https://open.spotify.com/track/0w7BCUTTchwcwVgrMhgrS1?si=ZRoYvv2wSXyR4O3In3Q9uA&utm_source=native-share-menu I like the tone of the guitar in this song, but I’m not sure which type of strings make this sound. Phosphore Bronze? Or maybe 80/20 Bronze? I appreciate any help. Feel free to recommend a specific model / brand as well 🙂 submitted by /u/iliketoparty02 [link] [comments]

Trying to do a solo for The Doors’ Light My Fire. It goes Am and Bm continuously. I’m so used to playing pentatonic scales in one single key that I am pretty useless when I can’t. Playing in either Am or Bm sounds horrible. submitted by /u/Pleasethelions [link] [comments]

Recently setup my Kramer pacer with a non recessed Floyd rose special and got it to stay in tune perfectly after a Gary Holt style whammy bar abuse session, decided to set up my Jackson Adrian Smith Sdx exactly the same but it won’t hold tuning, found out that the 🎸

So, I’ve inherited a guitar, it’s a 1973 Gretsch 7594 white Falcon, I don’t know anything about guitar, but my grandfather was a songwriter and a record shop owner, music was everything to him and he played literally until the day he died, he had 2 guitar, this and an 🎸

I’ve been playing Guitar for a month now. Before that, I was playing Bass. But it always felt like something was missing. Whenever I was improvising, I’d always play the same stuff. I felt like I was just going up and down the scale and I wasn’t really “feeling” what 🎸