If you know how to play guitar, then will you know how to play a banjo, or anoth

Question: If you know how to play guitar, then will you know how to play a banjo, or another similar instrument!?
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Banjo and guitar aren't the same -- the strings are tuned differently, the chord shapes are different, the right hand picking is different -- but if you already play guitar, you already understand chords and picking and music theory and such, so it will be easier for you to learn banjo than if you had NO previous fretted string instrument background!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I play the mandolin, my dad and little brother play the guitar!. Anyone who is familiar with playing a fretted, stringed instrument can usually do a few things on other fretted, stringed instruments!. This is because the way they are played is very similar or at least the theory is similar!. You press down the strings at a certain fret and you make a certain note, but instruments are usually tuned differently so the right string-fret combination for a guitar will be different for a mandolin or banjo!. Even though my dad had been playing the guitar for 25-30 yrs before I bought my mandolin, he did not know how to play my mandolin!. He could pick out a few songs but that was it!. This is because both instruments are similar, but they are played differently!.

So the answer would be, one might be able to do a few things; but until one learns the specific way of playing that instrument, they will not be able to do much!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

It would be easier to pick up a fretted stringed instrument than if you did not know how to play the guitar!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

YES
BASED ON THE SAME SCALE OF NOTATIONWww@QuestionHome@Com