FolkScore Tenor Banjo Chords

Choose the key you are playing in and the chords that suit it are picked out

Key Only show chords that fit the key

Most used in this key, with its number (I, IV, V…) Also fits the key Outside the key

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Lowest string on the left. ○ open, × not played, a bar across means one finger holds those strings down. In a session the tenor banjo mostly plays the tune, but these shapes are good for backing a song or a slow air.

First, how is your tenor banjo tuned?

Choose the key you are playing in and the chords that suit it are picked out

Chord types tap to show or hide