![]() It works very well and these are not the typical jazz tenor banjo chords you would see in a Dixieland band. I don’t think you will be seeing very many banjo players using chords a lot, but at a recent class with john Carty he used a lot of two and three string chords in passing as part of his variations. My example of the Brock-McGuire band is a good one for small groups and it works very well, so well that a lot of listeners don’t even know it is happening (unless they are banjo players stunned by Enda Scahill the way I am.) In a session group they generally just add to the muddy chordal mess. I need a mandolin in my hands when I think of these chords - I just do them and not think about them nowadays.Īs for using chords, they work best in a small group or on stage where you are trying to achieve a certain effect. You are correct, the 4s should be 5s and the G is 0053. It is a new instrument to him and he will have to learn new techniques. While this is possible on the banjo, the double courses of a mandolin make the tonality and dynamics of the instrument sound different and more pleasing to my ear, at least. ![]() Mandolins sound very good with power chords (a chord without a third) such as the 2004 (from GDAE) for a D chord, 2204 for an A chord, 0042 for a G chord, all of which give nice drones and can be used in both major and minor situations. 20”-23"), and an entirely different voice. Mandolins have more sustain, many more chord possibilities because of the scale (13“ vs. ![]() A mandolin is not a small banjo, no matter how it is tuned. ![]() That being said, your banjo player has no idea what he is talking about. But it can be done and it can add to the music. There is no reason not to play chords on the tenor banjo, it’s just not done very often because there are usually too many chord instruments in a session as it is. And now there is at least one band (Brock-McGuire) whose banjo player has played chords on stage and on CDs. OK, here is a little controversy: Early Irish banjoists used chords, especially in dance bands. ![]()
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