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| Author: | paulrace [ Wed May 20, 2015 1:35 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Cord Charts |
As part of our free online tutorials, we'll be putting together free downloadable chord charts for the three most useful 5-string banjo tunings. They won't list every possible chord, just the 15 or so you're MOST likely to encounter on any song you can reasonably play on banjo in the key that the chart features. Here's our G Tuning, Key of G chart: Attachment: chord_chart_g_tuning.gif [ 31.77 KiB | Viewed 12428 times ] To download a printable PDF version, click the following line: Attachment:
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| Author: | paulrace [ Fri May 22, 2015 10:01 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cord Charts |
Here's one for Standard (C) tuning: DBGCg. We highlight the tonic, dominant, and subdominant for playing in C and G both, because prior to 1967, many banjo players used this tuning when they played in the key of G as well as C - it saved them retuning when they went back and forth. Attachment: chord_chart_c_tuning.gif [ 52.01 KiB | Viewed 12430 times ] To get a downloadable PDF version you can print out easily, click on the following link: Attachment:
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| Author: | paulrace [ Sat May 23, 2015 8:34 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cord Charts |
I keep discovering minor glitches. The G Chord chart at the top of this thread has been updated to fix the ones I have found so far. So if you downloaded the PDF for the G chart already, please go back and download it again. Sorry about that. |
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| Author: | paulrace [ Sat May 23, 2015 8:36 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Cord Charts |
I'm also working on the DBGDa Raised Fifth tuning chord chart. Right now it has some typeface issues, but you can take a look if you want. I've decided I like DBGDa tuning a lot. It allows you to play accompaniments in D or A easily without retuning anything but that pesky 5th string. If you're playing in D, you have the option of playing a D WITHOUT a third. The open fifth gives a sort of modal feel like you get on some Appalachian dulcimer songs. Also, nobody can tell if your song is major or minor unless other parts come in, a characteristic not only of three-century-old Appalachian ballads, but also of several Fleetwood Mac songs. And whether you're playing in A OR D, that Dno3rd chord helps you get through really fast chord changes. If you're playing in D and you go up to G but leave the fifth string open, you're really playing a G9 chord. You'll discover that it sounds pretty nice. It makes an easy substitute for a straight G chord. (Acoustic guitar players playing in G substitute C9 for C all the time and you never noticed. This is the same principle.) If you're playing in A, you'll discover that it's easy to substitute E7sus4 for E7 in most songs. This is the same principle as when we were playing in G and substituted D7sus4 for D7. This tuning also makes it a piece of cake to play songs in Am or Dm. Several solos in this tuning have been tabbed in the BanjoHangout.org site. I use it mostly for playing folks-style songs in D or for playing in Dm or Am. When I'm playing in D or Dm, that low tonic gives a gutsy kick to the part that you just don't get when you're playing in G. Attachment: raised_5th_chord_chart.gif [ 49.02 KiB | Viewed 12428 times ] To see the PDF of the version I'm working on, click the following link: Attachment:
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