Polle Flaunoe - Posted - 11/05/2009:  05:53:59

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I´m shortly going to set up a new chart - a little like my one-page chord chart for 5th tuned 4-stringers:

acoustudio.dk/TENOR%20BANJO%20CHORDS.htm

The new chart will focuse on chord settings using the thumb also - partly with added colorations, small scales within a chord etc., which will be possible due to the "extra" finger.

However I may have a problem - LOL!

I know, that US citiziens are naming their fingers T-1-2-3-4 (on both hands).

In an all metric country like Denmark we name them 1-2-3-4-5 (on left hand plus 6-7-8-9-10 on right hand - starting with the thumbs).

All non-US players,

How do you name/count fingers in your countries? LOL!

Regards

Polle

Polle Flaunoe - Posted - 11/05/2009:  07:51:12

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PS!

I forgot to mention, that I in the new chart will point out which finger will have to go where. LOL!

An example - many tenor players have a problem forming a Dim-chord with their maybe fat 4 fingers - especially at the uppper end of the fretboard (Up means near the pot - aggree?).

Let the example be a Bbo in basic position - the chord setting will be 10-9-11-10 (fret number for 4th to 1st string) - a standard finger setting (in non-Danish terms) for this will be 2-1-4-3.

In the new chart the finger setting will be T-1-3-2 - try it - and once you master the grip, try letting your pinky make a roll on 1st string from 12th down to 10th fret, while holding the grip and playing a steady rhythm.

Oh - do you maybe now get my point about a relaxed grip plus a possibility for adding f.ex. an inside scale? Only by using your otherwise lazy thumb! LOL!

Polle

Dogface - Posted - 11/05/2009:  11:40:40

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Polle:

Using the thumb to fret strings it total heresy (grin) But we've been there before ;-)

Thanks,
Mark

If there are no dogs in heaven then when I die I want to go where they went...

Will Rogers

Mirek Patek - Posted - 11/07/2009:  05:41:26

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Originally posted by Dogface

Using the thumb to fret strings it total heresy (grin) But we've been there before ;-)

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One heresy more, or less - I do not care. In my heretical DGdg tuning I fret the root of my F chord (3532) by thumb too: youtube.com/watch?v=O14LbX83gU8

Mirek

P.S. I do not know about the official way of counting left hand fingers (among classical guitar players), the right hand are named p,i,m,a. I think we just adopted the US system of T1234.

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Conversion of 5-string banjo tunings to fingerstyle tenor banjo (omit 2nd string):
Open G tuning gDGBD or Sawmill tuning gDGCD => DGdg tuning of tenor banjo
Classic C tuning gCGBD or Double C tuning gCGCD => CGdg tuning of tenor banjo
mirekpatek.com youtube.com/user/mirekpatek
Handout for workshops at Johnny Keenan Banjo Festival:
banjohangout.org/forum/topic.a...ID=157944

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Edited by - Mirek Patek on 11/07/2009 06:03:41

NYCJazz - Posted - 11/07/2009:  05:56:48

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Django used his thumb.

Dogface - Posted - 11/07/2009:  08:48:09

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Originally posted by NYCJazz

Django used his thumb.

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Django didn't have much to work with after his train accident ! I'd give him a pass on that :))

Thanks,
Mark

If there are no dogs in heaven then when I die I want to go where they went...

Will Rogers

Polle Flaunoe - Posted - 11/07/2009:  09:50:30

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Mark,

Believe it or not - but some BHO members plus many domestic players have asked me about this fantastic and extremely usable playing style.

That´s why I´ll put up a "chart" for it - only I had to know how to number the fingers used - for most people on a global basis to understand.

I think, that I´ll go for the idiotic T-1-2-3-4 numbering - otherwise I forsee a WW III coming closer. LOL!

Regards

Polle

beezaboy - Posted - 11/07/2009:  17:00:18

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"Off with his thumb", cried the King!

Beezaboy

Polle Flaunoe - Posted - 11/08/2009:  02:10:15

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Roman Emperors did for sure use their thumb with great effect.

Polle

diarmaid - Posted - 11/08/2009:  05:30:23

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Chuck Norris used his thumb unwisely in the Coliseum, in Way Of The Dragon

Mirek Patek - Posted - 11/08/2009:  05:45:20

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Originally posted by Dogface

Django didn't have much to work with after his train accident !

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The words "train" and "caravan" are not synonymous for me. (At the age of 18, Reinhardt was injured in a fire that ravaged the caravan he shared with Florine "Bella" Mayer, his first wife. - says Wikipedia)

Mirek

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Conversion of 5-string banjo tunings to fingerstyle tenor banjo (omit 2nd string):
Open G tuning gDGBD or Sawmill tuning gDGCD => DGdg tuning of tenor banjo
Classic C tuning gCGBD or Double C tuning gCGCD => CGdg tuning of tenor banjo
mirekpatek.com youtube.com/user/mirekpatek
Handout for workshops at Johnny Keenan Banjo Festival:
banjohangout.org/forum/topic.a...ID=157944