Accompanying On The Banjo Using Simple Chords

I'm going to try to show you how to accompany other musicians in a band when you're playing the banjo. In a bluegrass band, for example, (which would most commonly consist of a double bass player, a mandolin player, a banjo player, and a fiddle player) when the other musicians are taking their solos, the banjo player would often step back a bit and just play chords on the second and fourth beat of every bar. Often these chords are not sustained for very long, but are kept short to have a percussive element in the sound.

For example, if I was going to play a simple chord progression in G major using these chord shapes that I'e shown you for G, C, D, and G, I could play something like. I'll count you in for it slowly.

Now throughout a song, this would add a rhythm to the overall sound, whilst the bass player is keeping a steady rhythm going and the mandolin is also having a percussive sound. This would add to the impact to the second and the fourth beat, which are often emphasized in bluegrass music.
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