Is the banjo more difficult to learn than guitar? Are there any sites for beginners?
For me, seriously, the 5-banjo was easier for me to learn because there are less strings to worry about, and it is tuned to an open G chord, which makes chord positions much easier than with the guitar. The hardest thing about learning to play the banjo is the right hand movements. Whether you are learning clawhammer style or threefinger style, it might take a little while learn the technique, but once get it down, then you won’t even have to think about it. And if you are going to play traditional bluegrass, you will catch on very quickly because that is a very easy style to play. As you progress and if you want to learn more complicated banjo styles, you will want to look up Bela Fleck. He is sooooo awesome. The stuff he plays with his band, The Flecktones, is more like jazz, but he has a lot of contempoary bluegrass out there, too. Check out his Drive album-very awesome stuff. I learned to play the guitar after I learned to play the banjo and it seemed like it took forever to learn
