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Is there a part 2 available?

Great lesson. Have u published any books?

Just wonderful

Can you put a long skirt tone ring on on that currently has a short skirt?

Great!

Does the weight of your banjo rest on the chair, or or is the strap heavy on your shoulder? I have been learning, and struggling with back/shoulder fatigue, looking for a better way to support the instrument. Thanks for any wisdom!

Thanks for showcasing some tonal variety playing closer to the neck like Bela Fleck does. Everyone's after that super twangy bluegrass tone right up near the bridge.

Greeting from Dublin Ireland - great video John, really helpful thanks for sharing 👏👏👏👏👏🙏🏿

You didn't have feeler gauges?

Thank you.

A random offhand comment about trees being a mafia and having a Godfather brought me to this video and it was PERFECT

I have a Cox style tailpiece (from Clareen) and that thing is heavy duty! Like the Presto and any other tailpiece, you can adjust the hanger bolt, but like the Kershner, you can also adjust the down pressure. My question is, how does the hanger bolt tension or height effect tone? Although I'm a Ralph Stanley fan, I still don't like my tailpiece crunk way down next to the head.

John just to let you know, 8 years later, your video still helping us out here. Thank you

Good work identifying the usefulness of Drop C tuning. C is used in plenty of bluegrass jams, called for by singers and guitarists. It was used by many professional banjoists in the late nineteenth century, partly because of its relaxed sound. When the tango and jazz fads hit and a loud instrument was needed, Drop C became the tuning of choice for banjo players playing that repertoire, which was often in C or F. (Guitar players who picked up the banjo for that purpose often chose Chicago tuning, like the top four strings of a guitar, and mandolin players chose the smaller tenor banjo, tuned like a mandola and instantly playable by mandolinists who needed more volume. It’s quite possible to use a five string as a plectrum banjo, using Drop C with the 5th string kept in G.

I can do a pull-off okay, but when I try push-off I always hit the other string by mistake a mute it. Also it becomes more "letting off" rather plucking the string. How to solve?

I'm thinking of casting my own bronze tone ring for my deering sierra. If I cast it from the one on my banjo is it hard to remove my current one?

Thank you, John.. good info.

What's the roll?

Where in NC are you? Do you give lessons?

That was great! Play it again Sam!!

You obviously know what you’re doing but I have knocked covers off even with your advice to gently use the “Rump” of your hand and not even contacting the cover. Thus I do not do it any more. I use a controlled steady pressure to direct the little guy to mate with the tension hoop. Knock a cover off on a job and the guy will not be happy and possibly demand a replacement at 65US from MAC if it has Presto written on it. These tail pieces do change shape themselves quite often and as the cover hinge is just two small pressed dimples on the cover that mates with holes on the super structure. So as the main body of the pieces distorts with the hoop the covers become loose and fragile and even fall off themselves. Even light taps not directed at the covers themselves can send covers flying. I advise Using controlled force not kinetic whacks if you wish to keep the cover ( also known as buzz traps lol) You know your stuff well and I do not mean to rain on your truth. I have just lived this a few times and some folks don’t like the cover coming off. You have to tiptoe around them if this is the case. People wish to emulate Earl but Earl himself was not beyond experimenting and there are infinitely better quality tail pieces. In fact the industry is just screaming for decent tensile strength metals and not old pot metal tinkers mix % all the time.

Enjoyed this ta

Excellent arrangement and playing!

Really nice video and review!

My 4th RK 35 came w a plastic nut and pip....? Did they not realize this was not a good thing to do....? Is not a hard thing to change but they must have realized was a mistake because my later RKs came w a bone nut. The tension hoop also appears not to be brass( pot metal ) A brass hoop is way better sounding.

That was beautiful!!

What metronome are you using?

Excellent teaching, thanks John!

11:56

Still loving it.

Great work John. Now can I learn that song by tomorrow for a gig. Why not, I have all night/mornibg😀

John I really appreciate this video. I learned so much. Can you direct me to the second part?

Wonderful!!

Appreciate you watching he says as he hands you all you need for musical survival! I couldn’t say thank you enough John but thank you! A thousand times 👍

Hi John. I would like to ask if you could help me with my Banjo with some info on it and it looks like you are the expert in this aspect. It is a Epiphone Recording Artist, it has lights built in made for Charlie Jeib (?).

Do you have a tutorial? This is my favorite song and I'd love to play it for my boyfriend ♡

John, I thought you were going to break out into a Scruggs style version of 'American Woman!' for a second there! You planning on remaking these videos also? Thanks for all you do.

Hey John, do you happen to know what batch this ring was poured from? I just bought a Sloan Ring and it was 222L…

John, which RK banjo 🪕 is this one.. sounds great... New beginner here...

Thanks John for your knowledge ... That is awesome Tone and Volume ...

Learning just now

This never gets old ! 👏

Most epic. Thanks for a fantastic overview of D tuning.

Thank you john for this magnificent piece of music! Almost made my stick stand😅

I love it! Great lesson.

This is going to help me a ton! Thanks so much, and God bless!

So I'm about halfway through my own arrangement of this song (cause it's my favorite song) and I've only been playing just uner a year and I found this and hope you don't mind that I've borrowed a few elements from you. It won't be on an album ever, but I absolutely will credit you. Thank you so much! This is fantastic!

So is it the bottom rod that can be adjusted to tighten neck snug to rim/ body?

Yes! This is a big help with basic music concepts that must be related to banjo music! It's not as obvious as some might think. Thanks, John

this my friend has made you a banjo virtouso