![]() Look to partial chords, running melody in octaves and other games that make open tunings fun. However, if you get too involved in making full 6 string chords in an open tuning you pretty much negate the reason for going to an open tuning in the first place. The Tuning DGDGBD is simply adding two bass strings to banjo tuning and if you want to chord them, just finger the same frets on the bass strings as you do on the higher strings with the same open note. Take a look at the two extra strings for guitar in Spanish tuning (which I prefer to call "G tuning" to avoid confusion with Spanish Guitar - which indicates either the music played on the instrument OR the body style of the actual guitar. If you want to learn to play a banjo that sounds like a banjo and not a guitar, then my recommendation would be to get a good beginner book for the type of music you want to play and take it slowly from page 1 and learn the basic chords, rolls and licks (if you're learning bluegrass).Īs an addition to Fathand's description. There are many excellent beginner books you can purchase that will teach you how to do that. If you're interested in bluegrass, then you need to know how to do the 3 finger Scruggs type picking. I'm sure someone on here will have it and will put it on here to help you out.Īs far as what kind of finger picking to do, it's according to what kind of music you want to play. I used to have an URL to show you the 3 basic chord shapes, but I've lost it. One you know those shapes, you can make major chords up and down the neck of the banjo. There are 3 basic shapes for major chords on a banjo. On a guitar you can barre, but you also have to finish the barre with some other fingerings to make the chord correctly. You can barre across the banjo fretboad and make a chord. So you can see that the same fingerings can't be used because the strings are not the same. The guitar is normally tuned EBGDAE (from smallest to largest strings) and the banjo in open G tuning is tuned DBGDg (again, from largest to smallest strings). If the guitar is tuned GBDGBD (smallest to largest), then you have some strings in common - the first 3 and you could make partial banjo chords using the first 3 strings or the last 3 strings. How are you tuning the guitar in open G? I'd have to know what the strings are tuned in before I could answer your question correctly. Chords on banjo and guitar and usually not the same and you can't use the same fingering for banjo and guitar chords as a general rule.
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