Eight Months of Banjo

Next week, I'll be coming up on about eight months of banjo playing. In that eight months, I've learned simple songs in five separate instrument tunings - Standard G (gDGBD), G Modal, which is also called Sawmill Tuning or Mountain Minor (gDGCD), Double C (gCGCD), Cumberland Gap Tuning (fDGCD) and now, C Minor (gCGCD#). My favorites being G Modal and C Minor. I like the dark and moody tone of them.

I mostly got into playing the banjo in order to just plink out something around a fire on camp trips, but the more I mess with it, the more I'm loving it and I want to take it more seriously. I started actual lessons two Saturdays ago and I hope to be able to maybe play out places in a couple of years or maybe hook up with a guitarist or some other type of musician to play in a more band-like setting. It really is a fun instrument to learn and unlike when I attempted to learn the guitar in my early 30s, this time I'm seeing some real progress.

A bit more practice, a handful of days later.