I have now officially borrowed a banjo from Eric Pritz and am ready to play! He also lent me a great book which has a lot of basic information about the structure and history of the banjo as well as techniques, but mainly is instructional with basic chords and progressions. Naturally, being very excited to jump right in, I skipped all the background information and went straight for the chords. I am happy to say I have learned 3 this weekend! I was so excited that when I picked it up from Molly on Friday I bright it into my track team room and started strumming away for my team, who were very confused but a great audience.
My next step is to actually read (I know, shocker) the first part of the banjo book and do some other research. My Mentor told me there are two main kinds of playing and alas I know nothing about either so time to hit the research component! Overall I am really excited to have started playing and I can't wait to make more progress.
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