Get to Know Your Banjo Fretboard: An Easy Guide to Learning Your Notes!

Looking to learn the banjo fretboard? This video is for you! We'll walk you through the basics of banjo fretboard knowledge, from understanding the strings and frets to getting familiar with chords and scales. With our step-by-step instructions, you'll be playing your favorite tunes in no time. So don't wait any longer - start learning your banjo fretboard today!
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[@ArmedWithMonkeys]

As a teacher and beginner banjo player, I must say that this is one of the most efficient and comprehensive videos I have ever seen on any subject. This is a really brilliant explanation. thank you

[@BanjoAddict]

Wow, thanks!

[@catnutritionorg]

I have been struggling for WEEKS on this very concept - and this is the FIRST video that caused the light bulb to illuminate for me! THANK you for simplifying this and making it understandable and accessible to mere mortals like me. So grateful.

[@ts3871]

My banjo instructor told me it was "Good Dogs Get Bones Daily". 26 years later, I still use that system. To remember the B & E clues, just think "No Breaking & Entering" (No B & E). Nice video. Very helpful.

[@chicksgrowtoo]

I haven’t received my banjo first, but this will help quite a bit!! Thanks! ❤❤❤

[@rayland4053]

Thanks from the UK. Great mini-tutorial! 🪕🎼

[@BanjoAddict]

Glad it was helpful!

[@tonystacey3347]

So the barre / F / D chord shapes are very useful as you’ve explained in this vid. I would recommend folks start with finding 3 ways to play G chord first, then 3 to play D chord then 3 ways to play C chord around the neck. You’ve then got everything to play tunes in the key of G, Learn where F chord is and then you’ve got everything for songs and tunes in key of C.

[@BanjoAddict]

Very good info! Thank you!

[@HNXMedia]

LOL. I'm a dog guy, so I use the saying, "Good Dogs Get Bones Daily." This video is excellent!

[@louispouliot4102]

Tx you Banjo addict, tx you a lot.

[@BanjoAddict]

you are very welcome!

[@tessiemae8569]

Can I tell you how you just helped me piece together a basic concept about chords that teachers and others videos failed to communicate? You are a treasure sir.

[@BanjoAddict]

Thank you! Glad I could help

[@gwendolynkaren5933]

9:00 okay my brain 🤯 has now literally exploded 🤯and I'm putting this time stamp on because I'm going to have to come back here when it heals up and start anew. 🤯 I am very thankful that I understand the concept that you're saying with these three spots if I memorize them then I'll know something without having to count it down each time I can just recognize it by looking at it.

[@danieltanner9289]

I always used gdgbd "god dammit get better dummy" made that one up myself while learning

[@terrymurray9818]

Excellent tutorial make things or shapes allot clearer much obliged

[@BanjoAddict]

Glad you liked it

[@taftphotography]

This is super helpful - thank you!

[@BanjoAddict]

You're so welcome!

[@meachyofficial]

ITs time I finish starting to learn my banjo.

[@catnutritionorg]

So helpful!

[@BanjoAddict]

Glad it was helpful!

[@gwailouh01]

Thank you for explaining the stops and half stops between B & C and E & F. Even though I play tenor banjo tuned GDAE, this is directly applicable. Keep up the awesome work.

[@BanjoAddict]

Thank you! I wonder sometimes if I explain things coherently enough to understand. Lol. Glad it helped thank you for watching

[@pattiedooley9667]

Thank you!!!!!!!!

[@BanjoAddict]

You're welcome!

[@DR1CHECK]

This is incredible !! Thank You !! Just what I needed. Love the channel. I've been a pianist for over 40 years and began playing banjo about 10 years ago with a pro instructor. He never taught me how to understand the banjo. It's been a hard road but I believe this will fix it. I had the same issue with piano in the beginning. I had no idea how to read music, no clue about chord progressions, no intro to the circle of fifths .. noting like that .. all my playing was memory and playing by ear until I met an online instructor who fixed all that in two videos. You have a gift in teaching.

[@BanjoAddict]

Thank you for the kind words!

[@daveheath3728]

I really enjoyed this video , you showed yourself to be an excellent teacher by cutting through the fog of banjo instruction and explaining what is essential to building a solid foundation for advancement in banjo proficiency . I once heard a quote attributed to , I believe it was Leonardo DeVinci - " In order to make things simple , you must understand the comlexities". Thank you my friend .

[@BanjoAddict]

Thank you very much!

[@clergywm]

This lesson is great!! Thank you so much!!

[@BanjoAddict]

You are welcome. I have another video coming out sat that goes into way more detail

[@clergywm]

@@BanjoAddict I’ll be on the lookout for it!

[@clergywm]

By any chance, do you have a list of your videos in the order a new banjo player should look at them? I’m interested in building my skills, one step at a time, in the order I need to know them. Again, thank you so much! Blessings, Patrice

[@davidruscoe4261]

Wow.. that lesson really opened up a banjo neck for me. I'm looking at as many KZbin videos as I can whilst I wait for my first banjo to arrive. I've ordered an RK 75 Elite and can't wait to start learning. Your videos are well put together and very informative in a way which simplifies it all. Thank you!

[@BanjoAddict]

Glad it was helpful!

[@ee222]

WOW! great video! i've heard a lot of explanations from different people/books, and this is the 1st time i think that i am grasping this. can't wait to go home and start reviewing this on my banjo! thanks again! .... oh, and for what's it's worth, this video is making me a subscriber!

[@BanjoAddict]

Fantastic, it always makes me happy that my videos help. Thank you for subscribing and hopefully i can continue to post videos that help! have a awesome day!

[@nathanlester5054]

Thank you! This is very helpful information for us novice banjo players.

[@BanjoAddict]

No problem! Glad I can help

[@danhodkinson2615]

And I also say Thank you. Greatly appreciated.

[@BanjoAddict]

No problem! Thank you for watching !!

[@luciansamosata5977]

Thanks so much for the explanations and for sharing your passion for banjo.

[@BanjoAddict]

No problem! Thank you for watching!!

[@user-wu5oy8pf6n]

Thats the best and easiest way of learning the chord shapes, you made it so simple and memorable. Thank you so much.

[@BanjoAddict]

Glad it was helpful!

[@senojekim579]

Thanks for the enlightenment. Much needed.

[@BanjoAddict]

You are so welcome

[@markreuter3274]

Awsome explanation! Very helpful

[@BanjoAddict]

thank you for watching!

[@kyleboller540]

This was very handy. Loved it!

[@BanjoAddict]

That is awesome! Thank you 🙏

[@robingaynor9911]

I finally get it! Thank you, re chord shapes.

[@BanjoAddict]

You're welcome!

[@user-hw3ky8ic3j]

Thank you, this was very helpful.

[@BanjoAddict]

You're welcome!

[@jeffevans4663]

Hi it's good to see that you've been where I am right now trying to learn the fretboard

[@BanjoAddict]

You can do it!

[@tintruck2885]

Great video Excellent teaching

[@BanjoAddict]

Thank you

[@georgiawells865]

I love the technical diagram of the banjo behind you. Where did you get it? Thanks

[@BanjoAddict]

Can't remember exactly where that one came from. But i have since made them in a program called "Neck Diagrams"

[@markusbartell9611]

Great video!

[@BanjoAddict]

thank you for watching!

[@markusbartell9611]

@@BanjoAddict always learn good stuff from your video's

[@Steve-jf3hf]

I think you win the prize for how many times you can say 'neck' in a video haha !

[@BanjoAddict]

Ha ha!!!!

[@kevincameron8437]

Quick question…wile learning chords/fret board like this, do you suggest just breaking up your practice time into segments….warm ups, learning songs/technique and then chords/theory? And make it baby steps for each? As a beginner, this makes since to me in my mind. Thanks for the information on more stuff to learn. Theory is a big part of banjo.

[@BanjoAddict]

you are absolutely correct. or at least thats how i would recommend doing it!

[@gwendolynkaren5933]

03:54 oh Lord here we go. Three movable chord shapes my brain is almost fried. This junk won't sink in yet.

[@SwissBanjo]

The T-Shirts have the 5th peg on the wrong side of the banjo! 😢

[@gwendolynkaren5933]

You knew what it meant but you didn't really know what it meant I understood that that's what scared me. 😁 Now let's learn my neck and know my neck

[@BanjoAddict]

Ha ha I know what I need to know but also I don’t know what I need to know 😂

[@gwendolynkaren5933]

With the half steps I remember b to c is bake cookies and e to f is eat fudge. That being said I have no idea what A chord is I think you're putting your whole finger down across the fret but I'm going to keep watching.

[@BanjoAddict]

The “A” chord can be barred at the 2nd fret or the “F” chord shape at the 5th fret or the “D” chord shape at the 9th fret

[@gwendolynkaren5933]

@@BanjoAddict ♥️

[@gwendolynkaren5933]

04:28. Uh-oh Lord of Mercy I'm starting to get it. I don't consider myself completely stupid but my head begins to swim and I have to stop the video and I almost can't go on sometimes. Because I don't want to lose what little bit did go into my brain if that makes any sense.

[@BanjoAddict]

It takes time.. it took me longer than I like to admit for it to sink in! 😂

[@susanmiller9596]

Regarding the bees for b-c e-f. I made up......... bubble bees have knobby knees

[@gwendolynkaren5933]

My pneumonic device for knowing the five strings is x-rated so I won't share it. That's an exaggeration. But the string after the short one is damn. the short one is God So I'm thinking I have them backwards and should have been counting from the floor up toward me I don't know I got to rewatch this

[@BanjoAddict]

Ha ha ha