10 Banjo Styles (other than Bluegrass) 

Banjo, the instrument only limited by musicians who play it. Thank you for showing some of the diversity this instrument has and staying away from any claw hammer we can see and hear in every other video on the U. Flexibe, yet stifled.

Beautiful, for a beginner I needed to see this.

I feel like the Irish folk really works with the banjo. so upbeat and full of happy-go-lucky spirit.

Important thing to note about the banjo in the Irish folk clip is that hes playing a tenor banjo. Tenors have a shorter scale and 4 strings instead of 5, and is played with a pick. You could probably play irish folk on a regular banjo, but tenors are more suited to the style.

In the 1920s in the USA the banjo was the #1 instrument. Whole orchestras of just banjos Bass, cello, tener, alto and soprano.

Several of these styles or genres are often played in bluegrass, particularly jazz, blues and polka but I agree the banjo is more versatile than a lot of people think. I also agree that you missed mountain/appalachian folk usually played clawhammer or 2 finger picked.

surprised you didn't have any old time banjo in there considering alongside bluegrass and irish folk, that's like the other most common use of the banjo today. Klezmer banjo would have been fun to see, though that's understandable not to have (it's a really cool thing actually, suits the genre surprisingly well)

It just goes to show you how versatile the banjo is.

Ive been.a guitarist for 30+ years and have played in open g tuning a good bit... picked up the banjo yesterday .. looked at a chord chart a few times and have already transcribed atleast 10 songs I know on the guitar for banjo.. I am an alternate finger style picker on the guitar and I imagine I'll be the same with the banjo.. fun instrument.. very addictive.

Missing Dixieland Jazz, featuring Chris Barber with "Icecream"

For rock music, the 5-string is shown being played with a plectrum; and for Irish music, the tenor banjo is shown played with a plectrum. It would have been good to see a plectrum banjo (4-string, same length neck as a regular 5-string) being played with a plectrum. Spectacular things have been done on those.

Thats it! Im gonna buy a Banjo.

Love the Classical ( he’s a great banjoist) and the Blues one is for me :-)

So cool!!! Thank you!

As a metal head who's been playin guitar for 13 years I'm so excited to have finally just grabbed a banjo. Getting it set up now at a shop so still gotta wait til Tuesday. Any suggestions for a beginner banjo player but good guitar player to learn first ?

awesome video 👏

Fantastic

This is so cool! I wondered about banjo styles other than bluegrass. Thank you for this 😊

I'm thinking I'll make a tenor banjo for myself

No old time frailing, no 2 finger thumb lead, no Pete Seeger folk up-picking ...

3:01....now this I did know!!!, having similar tones, the banjo is easily substituted for bagpipes in Celtic music!!!!

You should add links to the referenced videos. I really wanted to watch the full versions of all of these.

Wow 👍

Check out John Bullard for some top shelf classical banjo.

This is just a sampling. For one other, Steve Levy has experimented with adapting music composed for the akonting (a three-stringed Gambian banjo relative) to the banjo.

Two banjo styles playing several different types of music

I play metal songs I write for banjo, very fun if anybody wants something to goof off with, just play in a minor key most of the time and hit a few spooky brown notes.

There's a huge stylistic chunk missing here: the contribution of the plectrum banjo and tenor banjo as early jazz age departures from the traditional five-string. There's no real solid representation of that whole era.

Where can I learn to play raga on banjo??

2:06 sounds like dreamtheater a change of seasons

no old time clawhammer ?

I only like the first and last ones!

Very cool, but no clawhammer??

Anyone interested in this video should check out TIMBR ZEAL.

Odd selection, it includes things which are not really 'styles' in their own right, and neglects things which most certainly are -- stroke-style, old-time frailing and 2/3-finger picking, classic banjo, ragtime/dixieland (primarily 4-string), country blues (a la Dock Boggs, Charlie Poole), etc

Only one open back banjo.

Melodic style?

3:38....(call me a "purist"/ "fanboy" /"racist", but I agree with my father....."strummlin'" has it's place....but, I prefer the 3 finger "pickin" method, it just seems to expand on an already expressive method.) 《APOLOGIES to anyone who prefers the strumming style, I get why you like it, I just wish to display my nostalgia here, and invite you to respond in kind!!》

None of these are really styles of playing, really just playing different ways within the bluegrass style. Didn’t include clawhammer, two finger, of anything like that

Everytime I see the thumbnail of Rob Scallion holding that 5 string banjo and playing it with a flat pick, I lose hope in humanity. He has to stop. Lol

I prefer paying Techno Banjo and EDM banjo

Painful to watch the raga guy smack the banjo head like that. Seems like an easy way to tear it

Get an electric banjo. Get a distortion pedal. Get any pedals honestly.

These are 10 different music genres, not styles? There are only two styles of banjo, frailing and fingerstyle; which some may errantly characterize as clawhammer and bluegrass style, respectively......both of which are marketing terms originally created by the commercial music industry.

Let's face the truth. Bluegrass banjo picking that Scruggs and Snuffy Smith and Reno started along with Fairchild and Crowe are the best styles. Yes Krueger can do it all up and down the neck and is the best. But that's only because most of the best I mentioned have passed away.