Subject: Another banjitar video question
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 12:10:39 -0600

Folk of the Wood,
Thank you for your swift E-mail response to my inquiry a couple of weeks ago about using the "Introduction to the 6 & 12 String Banjo" video for use with a guitar. Your positive response that the methods presented on the video can be easily adapted to the guitar are very encouraging. I still have some concerns, though. Banjitars generally have 21 to 22 frets with easy fingering access to all of these frets. My guitar is a typical 20 fret acoustic with the standard dreadnaught body (no cutaway) which means, of course, that access to the higher frets is very restricted, and there is simply no 21st or 22cnd fret available at all. Could this present a problem in adapting the video's techniques to use with my guitar?
Thanx!
>Rick Entrekin

Greetings Rick,

Glad to assist if I can:

This video can be adapted to a regular acoustic guitar very effectively.

Your question is valid: On this video, any frets above the 12th would be non-relative...the video does not teach beyond the upper register...I believe there may be two references above the 12th fret...

This video does cover flatpicking and fingerpicking techniques...only, keep in mind, it's an advanced video; it's not designed for beginning guitar techniques. We do have another video soon to be released which does cover the basic fundamentals...

The "Introduction to the 6 & 12 String Banjo" teaches many relative techniques that are invaluable for acoustic guitar...on an intermediate and mostly advanced level:

1. Alternating Bass Techniques
2. Monotonic Bass Technuques
3. Adapting arrangements in open-tuning for fingerstyle guitar.
4. Playing with a flatpick...learning proper timing and fiddle-tune, bluegrass techniques...


Hope this helps, FOTW