Patek style tenor banjo

Bluegrass

Updated 29. Oct 2011

The DGdg tuning of the tenor banjo has exactly the same strings as 5-string banjo, except of the B string. And of course their high g string is on the treble side - so it is no longer played by thumb, but by middle finger. If you rework the 5-string banjo rolls (I did it for you, see the articles), you can sound sometimes exactly, sometimes near exactly like bluegrass 5-string banjo.

Of course you will meet some people who would say "That's not the way Earl has played it". But here you are creating the style and you may become the "Earl" of fingerstyle tenor banjo...

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