Patek style tenor banjo

Bluegrass

Updated 18. May 2020

The DGdg tuning of the tenor banjo has exactly the same strings as 5-string banjo, just the B string is missing and the high g string is on the treble side - so on the tenor banjo 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 almost exactly, sometimes close to bluegrass 5-string banjo.

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

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