Today, Keith Urban developed a beautiful cross-picking technique which brought the sparkling Deering six string banjo to millions of country and pop music fans. The great Django Reinhardt, guitarist of the вЂњHot Club of FranceвЂќ played a six string banjo on many occasions and his powerful and fluid technique thrilled audiences all over Europe. His jazz chords and strong rhythm added a bounce and power to this world famous group. Johnny StCyr played a six string banjo in the Louis Armstrong band. Six string banjos have a glorious history. DeeringвЂ™s six string banjos are the perfect tool for the guitarist and for banjoists who are looking for a new sound. While the 6 string guitar is the most popular instrument in the western world, there are many guitarists who are fascinated with the banjo, but want to apply their existing guitar techniques to a banjo and get a whole new sound. It has 19 frets, still tuned to G and is a handy short banjo great for traveling or smaller framed players and children. The deep sounding long neck banjo became popular with the Kingston Trio and many folk bands that followed.Дeering also makes a Goodtime five string banjo called the вЂњParlorвЂќ which is a short scale five string. So, the open chord tuning of the long neck banjo pitches the banjo in E instead of standard neck key of G.

Seeger wanted a banjo that would support his baritone voice and he liked singing in the key of E a lot. The invention of this banjo is credited to the late Pete Seeger.

(the standard five string banjos have 22 frets and a 26 Вј inch scale length and are generally tuned to an open G chord.) The five string is also available in a вЂњlong neckвЂќ style which has 25 frets and about a 32 inch scale length. He creates wonderful effects with this technique. There is a young player in the band вЂњTrampled by TurtlesвЂќ who uses a jazz guitar approach of holding the flatpick and using his other fingers to both flat pick and create a finger pick sound. Some folk players and pop/rock players do beautiful work with flatpicking techniques. While this looks like it would вЂњget in the wayвЂќ players become accustomed to moving their thumb out of the way and now the fifth peg is a beautiful part of the aesthetic of a five string banjo.ДЇive string banjos are generally played fingerstyle and clawhammer style. The fifth string begins at the fifth fret on the fingerboard with a tuning peg that is mounted in the side of the neck. The fifth string is also called the вЂњthumb stringвЂќ or вЂњdrone stringвЂќ because the early вЂњclawhammerвЂќ banjo technique involved the thumb picking the fifth string often creating the syncopated sound that is associated with the banjo.

Five string banjos are used for virtually every kind of music in the world and are prominently used in Bluegrass, Country, Folk, Jazz, Irish and more and more becoming popular in the new Indie category.В The short fifth string is what makes the banjo unique. 5 StringДЇive string banjos are the original banjos and were invented around the early 1800s. Folks who are thinking about buying a banjo often ask us the question, вЂњ how many strings on a banjo? вЂќДЇor Deering, there are many answers.

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