Its on my bucket list of instruments. Picked one up a couple of times and piddled but haven't spent that much time with it. I've played guitar for 13 years and have been playing the mandolin a lot lately which is very easy to pick up. Big thing about banjo is learning rolls, i'm not as good of a picker as i'd like as i'm more of a rhythm guitarist, but you can strum a banjo as well. Deering makes a good entry level banjo called goodtime that i've looked at and heard its a good deal.