Notes on the Banjo Fretboard // Music Theory For Banjo Players, Part 2

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[@nategraham8883]

I got a banjo a couple of months ago. I’ve gotten pretty quick at playing it and have memorized a couple of songs but I’m realizing I have real trouble jamming with my buddies, because I have zero knowledge of music theory. Your lessons are so very helpful!!

[@joebuckhoff]

I learned more in this video about notes than my brain has absorbed playing guitar for 20 years. I've always relied on tabs but now I understand so much more. I never knew sharps and flats were the same lol

[@silverlagomorpha3177]

Leave it to you, I can search anything banjo and your videos come up at the top!

[@RiseOrRelinquish]

Thanks so much. New banjo player here and I'm a bit rusty on my theory to say the least.

[@davidcrighton7822]

Thanks!

[@markglore7196]

Well said Eli!👍 Sharing to a friend.

[@Isaiah_46_4-5]

Just for this topic and the way you explained it, I could not find anywhere else. I subscribing right now. Thanks!

[@EliGilbertBanjo]

Glad to help!

[@Jackjonesis]

Clearly presented with 3 straightforward graphics. I have not been able to figure this out for myself and it will make a great difference to me as a beginner. THANKS I also appreciate that you keep your videos relatively short so they do not overwhelm -- well, not totally overwhelming at least!!

[@theshortfilmmaker]

Great lesson

[@mackinbox]

Thanks Eli! Your videos always help.

[@kendrapark3488]

Thank you for teaching us Banjo! I’m so excited to learn from you!

[@audrybella6405]

Superb explanation. Thank you!!

[@semosancus5506]

There is a book called "Fretboard Roadmaps" which is very good and covers this same subject.

[@danhodkinson2615]

I just want to say. Thank you Eli

[@Sarah-lv9vx]

You are THE BEST! This made sense for the first time in my life. Thanks for making these videos!

[@conradbennett3251]

Good stuff, Eli. You explained it very well for my newbie brain. Love your content!

[@bobbylachellehildebrandt3685]

Thanks Eli! Just became a patron! so grateful for these lessons! Youre such a good teacher!

[@josefdetzer8717]

Thank you,you have given importend informationes to us to go on ...

[@garethforeman1175]

Wow....mind blown. This short video has given me a great understanding and will really help my playing move on, cheers Eli

[@dustensnyder5936]

Great video!!

[@doesleapfarm]

Great stuff. Thank you.

[@davidcrighton7822]

Got a Banjo last night. Found your video today. You've got talent as a teacher. Thanks for sharing!

[@bomark2002]

Good lesson, I’m trying to make my moves up the neck just trying to increase my knowledge of the music theory, not trying to be a smokin gun banjo picker or real smart person, but just here to have some fun on a Goldtone BG-250F

[@cindychristensen5894]

I just came across your channel. Awesome! My banjo teacher tried to teach me this and I wasn't getting it. Once through this video and it made sense! I notice you haven't posted in a long time. Are you still doing this? I'd be happy to become a patron if you are. Keep up the great work!

[@josefdetzer3260]

Love it is, isn'it?🪕🥰

[@mikefinley4367]

Great vid. Looking at endless options for a banjo but especially like the pedboard headstock shape of the one posted in this video could you kindly disclose what make and model it is?

[@EliGilbertBanjo]

It's actually just a photoshopped image, not a real banjo, sorry!

[@mikefinley4367]

@@EliGilbertBanjo Tons of em out there, looking for one with a headstock more old time? Not lso rounded and USA made if possible. Feeding, may be king but Not to my taste and realize I may have to just figure out if I can get a custom builder to make the neck and consult about a parts list, put it together myself. Prices are insane and building may not be cheaper but I like tinkering with things, saw Justin Johnson on KZbin with a shovel guitar he wants $400.00 for, got the same parts, grabbed my tools and made it for 110.00. My eyesight isn't do good at present so having the neck made is a better choice. Any suggestions appreciated. You r a good teacher and when I get up and going I will look up your website.

[@jasonk876]

My opinion of this is that this information can increase your understanding vastly, but it doesn't really have direct application in bluegrass banjo. I also play piano. A piano player would just play scales, to learn this information. The piano starts with scale of C, but the banjo is a G Scale machine, in bluegrass. This information is highly useful on a piano, but bluegrass banjo is different. Licks and rolls are important. My advice, on teaching banjo, is that its good to convey information and then give direct examples showing how you can use the information.

[@EliGilbertBanjo]

Don’t worry, this is just one part of a series about music theory. If I wasn’t planning to tie this all in to real world bluegrass banjo skills then I wouldn’t have started it at all!

[@jasonk876]

@@EliGilbertBanjo Thanks, I hope I didn't sound rude. It took me a long time to learn to play banjo. I think that I should have learned faster. About a year after I played a piano for the first time, I played a wedding. I wish I had learned the banjo differently. It took me years to be able to play on stage, because I really didn't know what I needed to learn and why.

[@blubberbooty]

Do you know what note you would get if you dropped a piano down a mine shaft??? A flat minor! LOL! Get it?