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Some of you may know who I am , but if not let me introduce myself. I have been playing banjo for about 40 years- have done recordings with Chris Coole, Erynn Marshall, Ragged But Right, The...

from two of my favorite players

Old Dog, by Chris Coole

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=218tAJxg-jA

and a nice version of Old Dog from the gentle soul of Cathy Cress(check out her videos,...

The Banjo Cafe presents, through the unabashed theft of source code from, ahem, some mandolin web site, the following instructions:

Two ways to post videos:

Step 1 - Go to Advanced Posting...

Two ways to post:

1) If you use the YouTube icon, only insert the part of the address after the v= part. So for v=qo0cy0REMY8, you'd insert just qo0cy0REMY8

2) Or just take the entire YouTube...

My father and I have been teaching on YouTube since '06. With 4,393,134 views we must be doing something right. https://www.youtube.com/user/Dobro33H

There are almost 700 videos on my channel. In...

I've used the Shubb sliding capos, the Reagan, the modified pen cap and about everything else and always come back to spikes. I've had spikes in my OME Columbine III since it was made in 1984 and...

Mark << ... Do they interfere with your fingers when playing up the neck? I'm new to banjo but played guitar for decades so based on my experience sliding barre chords I imagine ripping a finger open...

I'd never seen one of those Reagan capos before I came back to this thread to post this:

http://www.frets.com/FretsPages/Musician/Banjo/PenCapCapo/pencapcapo.html

I typically only ever capo up...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42RVG4NlzmE


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNaRadKjSqY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5mcRSPSbPg


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0y1H3weizA


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1ziByYgPqs

For the clawhammer players out there, these are the ones that got me going. This is Josh Turknett who runs clawhammerbanjo.net and the "Brainjo" series. Aside from being a flat-out nice guy, he's...

I prefer spikes as well. I don't play a style that frets the 5th string, though, and they can indeed get in the way if you do. But I just haven't found any easier or faster way to tune up to a...

I use spikes on all my banjos except 1. I love them! They don't get in the way and I've had no problems with string wear when using them. I have been using them for 20 years and have never cut a...

Here is another great video for beginners that addresses this question:


https://youtu.be/31nEdAw9LGM

Here are the final two videos in the series:


https://youtu.be/XzrdZ48Et9U


https://youtu.be/Ul4AzEcDwWk

I thought I would start a thread for the best of banjo instructional videos on YouTube. There are hundreds of videos out there and it can be overwhelming for beginners, but maybe the collective...