While this covers the very basic five string banjo chords and will allow you to play many, many songs, you definitely want to keep add chords slowly but surely to increase your versatility! This will enforce the habit of independently using both hands. Make sure as you practice these chords you either strum the strings or perform a basic finger picking pattern. With these chords at your arsenal, you can start to play a few simple songs. You’ll likely want to play around with different hand shapes for this chord to see which is best for you! There are a few other ways to finger this chord, by barring the 2nd fret the 7th chord of A becomes really easy to learn and add to your repertoire, but the Am chord is much more difficult and requires a different fingering shape. By holding down all four main strings on the 2nd fret with your index finger you get an “A”. The A chord is a little more difficult of a chord for many to play, but introduces barre chords to banjo players.
The 5 string banjo is such a versatile instrument that once you know the basics you can simply start adding layers and complexity to your playing!
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While you are learning you can play the full chords, but as you get better you can slowly start adding the 7th chords to your playing for a edgy, blues feel. In our above example, this would mean you would play the C, G, and A7 chords in your song. The G chord would be corresponding to the 4 since it is four away, while the A chord will be the last chord as it’s five away from C.Īs you learn more and more chords you can often add a 7th chord into the mix, often in place of the 5. If the song is in the key of C than the first chord is also a C chord. In this arrangement you will have 1 correspond with the key of the song. The 1,4, and 5 is basic music theory and is something you will often see in many forms of western music including folk, country, blues and rock n’ roll. The chord fingerings that are included in this group include 1,4,5 and 7ths. Standard G Tuning on a five string banjo includes 7 keys: A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. If you want to know more about banjo tuning check out our Ultimate Guide to Banjo Tuning. Many people prefer this sound and will play the banjo in this configuration. The C chord that will will show later in the article sounds much better in this configuration because the bottom of the chord gets a low C. The only difference between the two configurations is that the 4th string is lowered from a D to a C in open position.
We wanted to mention it specifically because we have seen many chord charts written for this tuning of the 5 string banjo. This is actually a predecessor of the g tuning setup. A tuning that often gets confused with open G is standard C. This is true of open G tuning and most other tuning configurations you’ll find on the 5-string banjo! For a very detailed discussion on why the 5th string is attached where it is, and what effect it has see Music – Practice and Theory.Īn interesting byproduct of the shortened g string is that banjo chords are normally made up of four notes (one for each string). Similarly, the peg string and the 3rd string are both “G” notes. Notice that the first and 4th strings are both tuned to the “D” note, just an octave apart. The most common tuning you’ll find is a g D G B d.
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