From Britain, dedicated to 5-string banjos and music before Bluegrass. I wish more "pickers" would get into this.
Banjo is no more difficult to learn than any other stringed instrument. Practise every chance you get. The main difference is the 5th string that helps play scales (or a pounding drone rhythm). Here's a vid that may fire you up or scare you away:
As long as you're already tuning a stringed instrument to open G...
And, since open G is a slack key and slide tuning on a guitar and ukulele...
All the scales you learn on the banjo, can be useful on other instruments.
You might as well buy a slide, and make a conscious decision to practice playing slack key guitar and slack key ukulele, while your learning to play your banjo.
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