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Banjo or drums

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

I've set myself a challenge to learn banjo or drums for 2017.

Anyone play either instrument? How difficult are they to learn?

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham

I always seem to fancy drummers

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I can play drums, it's not the easiest thing but its doable

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The only instrument I can play is a midi keyboard on fruityloops haha

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Id say banjo though

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Depends on you coordination, I'd imagine, keeping that Base drum on a beat with your foot whilst your hands are simultaneously doing different things, would make my brain ache!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Drums. Drums are cool.

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By *amissCouple
over a year ago

chelmsford

Love banjo, my nephew plays,but also plays slap base, so he found banjo easy

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Banjo is easier than drums

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You can carry a banjo easily and play/practice anywhere. Not so easy with a drum kit.

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

Learn to bang the triangle?

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

Mangle the piano?

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

Abuse the euphonium

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Banjo! And then find someone else who also plays banjo, and you can re-enact Deliverance!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

No one ever said.... "I fancy the banjo player, you can have the drummer"

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham


"Banjo! And then find someone else who also plays banjo, and you can re-enact Deliverance! "

Nooooooooo

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham


"No one ever said.... "I fancy the banjo player, you can have the drummer""

Correct

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Banjo! And then find someone else who also plays banjo, and you can re-enact Deliverance!

Nooooooooo "

Oh yes!!

https://youtu.be/myhnAZFR1po

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham


"Banjo! And then find someone else who also plays banjo, and you can re-enact Deliverance!

Nooooooooo

Oh yes!!

https://youtu.be/myhnAZFR1po"

I couldn't even look, that film gave me nightmares

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Banjo! And then find someone else who also plays banjo, and you can re-enact Deliverance!

Nooooooooo

Oh yes!!

https://youtu.be/myhnAZFR1po

I couldn't even look, that film gave me nightmares "

Oink.

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham


"Banjo! And then find someone else who also plays banjo, and you can re-enact Deliverance!

Nooooooooo

Oh yes!!

https://youtu.be/myhnAZFR1po

I couldn't even look, that film gave me nightmares

Oink."

Yes that bit

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

For the drums I'd say it was all down to rhythm ..

and the banjo is finger picking..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Banjo! And then find someone else who also plays banjo, and you can re-enact Deliverance! "

Someone with a purdy mouth?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Banjo! And then find someone else who also plays banjo, and you can re-enact Deliverance!

Someone with a purdy mouth? "

Bwahahaha!!

(Obviously I'd forgotten although it's called "duelling banjos", it's actually guitar and banjo in the film -- ooops)

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By *uzy444Woman
over a year ago

in the suffolk countryside

play the djembe drum xx

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By *iSTARessWoman
over a year ago

London

Drums!!

I live in Dalston and every other beard trotting around carries a bloody banjo

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm married to a drummer.

I say banjo. They're a lot easier to store, transport, move, drown out the noise xx

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Banjo! And then find someone else who also plays banjo, and you can re-enact Deliverance! "

A mate has lent me his banjo over Christmas. I was learning the opening bar of Duelling banjos last night!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Banjo, banjo players are akin to bass players, and everyone knows bass players are the best, we bridge the gap between the caged animal (drummer) and the prima donna (lead guitar) without the bass player, its just chaos.

Yes the drummer gets the sexually vivacious groupies, who are mind blowing in bed, and the guitarist gets the hotest groupies, but the bass player gets the groupies who have it all, we are gods, that don't need to prove it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ukulele seems to be the instrument of the moment. Cheap and easy ish to learn.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

In a social environment the ability to whip out a banjo and diddle a merry tune is an infinitely preferable situation to instigating an clumsily inept conversation canvasing peoples opinion about who was their all time favourite drummer ......

Ya catch my drift ...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Do you like your neighbors?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Deffo the banjo

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By *uckOfTheBayMan
over a year ago

Mold

Just think of your neighbours

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Banjo, banjo players are akin to bass players, and everyone knows bass players are the best, we bridge the gap between the caged animal (drummer) and the prima donna (lead guitar) without the bass player, its just chaos.

Yes the drummer gets the sexually vivacious groupies, who are mind blowing in bed, and the guitarist gets the hotest groupies, but the bass player gets the groupies who have it all, we are gods, that don't need to prove it "

Love your logic!

Who's your fav bass player. I loved John Entwistle

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Do you like your neighbors?"

Not overly!

Got a detached house, with an oldie on one side, and a family with a noisy dog on the other

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ


"Who's your fav bass player. I loved John Entwistle"

I went to boarding school in the Cotswolds, not far from his mansion. He used to invite some of us up for a tour occasionally and let us have a play on some of his guitars. Guy Pratt who was in my year and later went on to replace Roger Waters in Pink Floyd, came on the tour and strummed a few tunes. Mr Entwistle was well impressed

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By *uckOfTheBayMan
over a year ago

Mold


"Do you like your neighbors?

Not overly!

Got a detached house, with an oldie on one side, and a family with a noisy dog on the other "

Drums it is, then

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Drums is a lot easier than it looks. I advise getting a teacher, even if it's to learn the basics. Technique makes a huge difference and there's a lot you won't be able to do without it. Give it a go, annoy your neighbours and relieve some stress, it's great fun

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By *oodmessMan
over a year ago

yumsville

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By *oodmessMan
over a year ago

yumsville

You have a stumbling block in price. £250 for 6 strings or several hundred for maple and cymbals. Teaching methods will differ and in expense too, where picking up a screeching piece of tin and playing some chords could be found on utube. Playing the tubs you need technique, timing and coordination or it'll be difficult from the off. Lessons will be slow, long and expensive (I was paying £40ph some 30 odd yrs ago). An electric kit will cut down on noise 100%, but don't have the resonance or clash of maple.

As a thought too on the social aspect - a wailing piece of firewood might enable you to join a group faster than the melodies of drums, as any group needs timing, rhythms and accents which are hard to develop any time soon though you can bang out anything given regular practice

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"You have a stumbling block in price. £250 for 6 strings or several hundred for maple and cymbals. Teaching methods will differ and in expense too, where picking up a screeching piece of tin and playing some chords could be found on utube. Playing the tubs you need technique, timing and coordination or it'll be difficult from the off. Lessons will be slow, long and expensive (I was paying £40ph some 30 odd yrs ago). An electric kit will cut down on noise 100%, but don't have the resonance or clash of maple.

As a thought too on the social aspect - a wailing piece of firewood might enable you to join a group faster than the melodies of drums, as any group needs timing, rhythms and accents which are hard to develop any time soon though you can bang out anything given regular practice"

Money's not a worry. It's about having fun and learning an instrument. I've always loved music, and I've always wanted to learn to play something, just never got around to it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I've been playing the drums 13 years now.

Started properly building my kit at 16 and it consumed every bit of cash I had from an apprentice wage!

Pearl and zildjian if you do go for drums!

Pearl forum series are great entry level kits. Fit Remo skins and they sound great...had mine over 10 years now

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By *oodmessMan
over a year ago

yumsville

You can pick up some great second hand kits quite cheaply. Some fusion, jazz type kits are smaller set ups that don't take up as much room and aren't as loud and have great tone with the right skins. 3/4hr regular practice a day on a knee pad will prove dividend.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Banjo! And then find someone else who also plays banjo, and you can re-enact Deliverance!

A mate has lent me his banjo over Christmas. I was learning the opening bar of Duelling banjos last night! "

Yikes!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I class the banjo as a skill like being good at darts or bowling.

Yeah it's cool and you'll be the only one in the room who's any good....but it's all a bit pointless really

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By *oodmessMan
over a year ago

yumsville

Don't buy pearl :P Sonor is top of your list, Yamaha, Gretch, Evans / Remo heads are good

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Do you like your neighbors?

Not overly!

Got a detached house, with an oldie on one side, and a family with a noisy dog on the other "

Drums it is then! Of course, there is always the electronic drum kit option. Relatively affordable, smaller profile typically, and you can plug your headphones in too.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Do you like your neighbors?

Not overly!

Got a detached house, with an oldie on one side, and a family with a noisy dog on the other

Drums it is then! Of course, there is always the electronic drum kit option. Relatively affordable, smaller profile typically, and you can plug your headphones in too.

"

Saying that, I've just bought somebody a ukulele for Christmas!

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By *idewillyMan
44 weeks ago

jersey

I play drums bass and guitar…

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