u/EmuComfortable6837

As a Scruggs Style Banjo player, I think it's weird that everyone thinks you strum banjo.

Sure, there is clawhammer banjo and jazz banjo, and tenor and plectrum banjo. So historically, you do strum a banjo. But the more traditional way is Scruggs style where you finger a banjo. But I guess some Banjo players that came farther down the line, Like Stringbean, did keep a significant popularity to the clawhammer style of banjo. So, one could argue that the people who say that you strum a banjo are right.

But, over the past few decades, Bluegrass Banjo style has been the more "traditional" Way of playing banjo. People could argue Bluegrass musicians like Earl Scruggs, and Bill Monroe pretty much set the standards of Bluegrass Banjo being the more traditional way to play banjo.

As someone who has a kick for bluegrass banjo and bluegrass music. As someone who Plays banjo, of course I would want to go to a bluegrass jam. but the problem is When you try to look up bluegrass jam spots in an area like mine, there almost always is not an official one.

Now, not to point fingers but I feel like the rise of pop music is to blame. Everything now is super autotune. It's never real voices or instruments. But for some stupid reason, People like this kind of crap. In my opinion, Pop music is the junk food of music.