Tuning the Banjo

When learning bluegrass style banjo, you will tune your banjo to an open "G" chord. Purchasing a tuner will help greatly in this process, but it's even more helpful if someone else will help you get it close before you use your tuner.
Once in tune, the banjo shouldn't change much, so then you will probably not need any assistance other than your tuner.

Listed below is how the banjo strings should be tuned:

5th string - G (the short one at the top)

4th string - D

3rd string - G

2nd string - B

1st string - D

Another helpful hint when tuning is that the 2nd, 3rd and 4th strings of the banjo will sound exactly like the 2nd, 3rd and 4th strings of a guitar.

Keep on pickn'

Angie
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