Interview with Scot Avet (pictured on the cover)
To tell about the journey of learning to play the banjo and some insight into playing it both professionally and in the pure joy of making music we had the chance to interview Scot Avet of the ever growing Folk-Rock band Te Avet Brothers.
Was the banjo your first instrument that you learned to play?
It was not, I did not start playing it at all until I was 19 or 20 years old. I didn’t even really think about it a lot growing up. Tough the presence of the banjo was around me being in North Carolina. We started with piano, my brother, sister and I we all started with piano and moved onto guitar.
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When I did begin inquiring about playing the banjo, and thinking of it as something I might want to play, I instantly felt connected. I think I started playing it because it was reflective of my voice and my need to write songs and find an instrument that was reflective to my voice. Tere was a presence that’s undeniable about the volume and shape of the sound that comes out of a banjo, and that presence being so potent and so solid. It was almost like the sound of the banjo was possibly something that I longed for my voice to be like, abrasive at times but also dynamic enough to be prety, and also very childlike at times and also it would be very strong and big. It was an instrument that’s very self-sustaining. I don’t need any electricity, I don’t need any extra anything, if you want to entertain someone with a voice and a banjo that’s all you need. Te banjo has the ability to be so primitive or complex and technologically awesome, both ways are just terrific. Something that also amazes me… it might be you can’t have too many banjos.
What was it like switching from piano and guitar over to the banjo?
It was strange as it was something that I didn’t have to be told to practice, I didn’t have to be told that I need to meet certain goals. It was something that I enjoyed siting down and playing to this day. I’m finding new things to learn on the banjo and finding new discoveries with it, it was something that was very different. Piano and guitar were a means to an end for me, I loved what I did and figured I had to play something, but it took a lot more work to discipline myself to do it and a lot less effort or discipline to play the banjo. It was almost more effort not to want to pick it up.
Read the full interview at
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