Banjo Chords: How To Play D, G And A7
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Banjo Chords: How To Play D, G And A7
Patrick Achtelik will explain to you the finger positions for banjo chords in D Major including the way to produce a bar chord. D Major is a main player in many popular styles of music including both blue grass or country. By watching this video you should have little or no trouble with how to perfect your playing of these chords on banjo.
The next key I'm going to show you is D Major, which is always often used in country and blue grass music. The first chord of that key is D Major, for which I put my little finger on the fourth thread of the first string, my middle finger on the third thread of the second string, my first finger on the second thread of the third string and play the fourth string open. The next chord of that key would be G Major, which is again, just the open strings of the banjo.
And, the next chord is going to be A Major which involves a bar, which means that you lay a finger across all the strings at a certain thread. In this case we are going to do it on the second thread to get A Major. At the beginning you might find it hard to get a clean bar chord in which case you can support the finger you are barring with another finger.
In this case I'm using my first finger. I'm going to support it with the middle finger. Now, to get A7, for example, we could involve the fifth string which will then give it a nice resolution to D Major. .