![]() but know it is still a little different approach but similar. "John Hardy" you can take a third of what you know on it from banjo and apply it to the dobro. If you know a few things on a banjo for instance a song like. and Im sure that helped in me "seeing" the structure of music on the dobro. dont get me wrong now it was different but I also play a little guitar. you never quit learning!) I found that my first tunes I found on it where just about straight of the banjo. Nothing is a cakewalk now mind you! but the concepts and knowing where the notes is at on the banjo will defintely help out on dobro.īack when I was teaching myself dobro (still am really. If you learn a banjo really good then dobro rolls over fairly easy. i'd much rather be pickin' than blabbin':-) How do they do that? Oh and by the way, speaking as one of those "multi-instrumentalists", I always prefer to put my fingers where my mouth is. ![]() So don't let that steel bar scare you away. I spent many, many enjoyable hours playing the same tablatures over and over from my Peter Wernick Bluegrass Banjo book and my Tony Trischka Melodic Banjo book, not to mention the Earl Scruggs book before it started to pay off. But I learned to listen with my ear very carefully to get that intonation right and learned to add a little vibrato and just like any instrument, with lots of practice you can do it. I just slid the bar around and it didn't really sound like a pedal steel. I probably play pedal steel better than anything and I can tell you that I was on the bandstand playing it the first week I bought it. Okay, banjo is not my main instrument but that doesn't keep me from making some pretty good music with one when I am in the mood for it. You can always upgrade as you talent progresses. If you can buy a decent Dobro for a good price, get one and enjoy it. If you want to become a great musician, discipline yourself with one instrument, but you want to have fun, expand your horizons with other instruments like a Dobro. It is still fun to experiment with though. I could bring a lot of knowledge from the banjo to help me as a beginning Dobro player, but they are entirely different instruments with different objectives to achieve in bluegrass music requiring a certain amount of dedication to become proficient on. I require other musicians that I can just add little fill notes/licks behind and an occasional simple solo. Mainly because I cannot just sit down with a Dobro like I can the banjo and play all afternoon by myself. ![]() However, I’m careful not to call myself a Dobro player. My first instrument was banjo, but I enjoy the challenge of tinkering with a Dobro from time to time. There is nothing nicer than listening to a great fiddle or Dobro player, but there is nothing worst than listening to a sour fiddle or Dobro player. ![]() Like a fiddle, a Dobro requires careful note placement to stay in key. However getting proficient on either instrument for me would require a great deal of practice. Both usually tuned in an open G (although there are many other tuning used from time to time) both usually uses fingerpicks both are usually played in bluegrass music and both are loud. There are many similarities between the Dobro and Banjo. I am certainly no “expert” on the Dobro nor any other instrument, but here’s my 2 cents worth. ![]()
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