How hard is it to learn to play the banjo?

It clearly lays out the simple bare bones melody of 22 popular bluegrass songs that you can play with a thumb-pinch. For each song, it provides additional simple rolls you can go back and substitute for your thumb-pinch. This book makes it so easy, you'll be kicking yourself for putting off learning to banjo for so long. read more

Some sports analogies come to mind. For instance it is easy to learn to do a “push up” but hard to do 100 of them. That takes exercise, conditioning and some commitment. Another analogy to learning to play banjo could be with learning and improving at the game of Golf. read more

Banjo is not incredibly difficult to learn, but requires a lot of patience to become comfortable with (even more so than guitar in my opinion). The reason for this is because the muscle memory that you develop while learning banjo fingering rhythms is more vast than the average technique a beginner guitar player uses. read more