Tenor Banjo (and tenor guitar) From Scratch - Lesson 2

[@samanthafox5719]

one of the best lessons I've come across for tenor banjo. your teaching style really resonates with me-so calm and easy going! thank you so much!

[@ГригорийЖилин]

Огромное вам спасибо.

[@bsb4038]

Finally! A quality teacher and for jazz! Yippeeeee! Thank you

[@stiang5342]

Thank you, not too many tenor lessons out there ;)

[@davebarber3827]

Your a very interesting happy cheerful teacher making it worth while cheers phil.

[@AnBerfelo]

that's very cool ❤. I play ukulele, baritone and a little mandolin and I was trying to decide which banjo to buy when I found you. Now I know I want a tenor banjo. I subscribed to the channel and I hope to have a lot of fun learning new music. When my banjo arrives, I will also sign up for Patreon.❤️🎶🌷

[@PhilDoleman]

That's great, if you already play mandolin, you might want to try tenor banjo in GDAE tuning (commonly called Irish tuning), it's just an octave below mandolin, so the fingering is identical!

[@AnBerfelo]

Which tune do you use in the lessons?

[@PhilDoleman]

I use CGDA which is the same as a tenor mandola.

[@AnBerfelo]

Thanks❤️🎶🌷

[@pw1979]

Very good 👍

[@lynnglidewell7367]

Fantastic. Great instructor. I can learn by this method.

[@PhilDoleman]

Thanks you!

[@neilstubbs4575]

Very good. I'm trying to get back to tenor banjo again after being without one for several yrs. aftter the neck suddenly warped badly on my first one. I now have a restored antique one and hope to be using it in song arrangements where I've been using a 6 string banjo.

[@giselazunino781]

You're the best!

[@zacpiya]

These lessons are awesome! Thank you so much!

[@SethSchoenfeld]

Have you seen Mike Leigh "Nuts in May"?

[@stanleyloh-wcb5770]

enjoying your lessons so far...am a beginner

[@gobstoppa1633]

TOP MAN PHIL,MINT"

[@greenwendal5056]

Thanks for this very simple and easy to understand instructions. Helping me a lot.

[@bohe99]

Hi Phil, You have really inspired me to start playing the tenor banjo, but I dont have the fastest fingers in the world so I wonder if there are many slower songs for me to play?

[@PhilDoleman]

Oh yes, the jazz repertoire has lots of great slow tunes. A good one to start with would be St. James Infirmary. I'll have to do a lesson on it!

[@bohe99]

@@PhilDoleman Thank you Phil! Now to choose the banjo.

[@PhilDoleman]

@@bohe99 I've just filmed a short lesson for St. James Infirmary, should be up inside the hour 🙂 If you don't have a tenor banjo yet, I can highly recommend the Deering Goodtime 17 fret. Sounds good, light, easy to play.

[@PhilDoleman]

@ilovetinytim Here you go! kzbin.info/www/bejne/qYmxaqmmlqxkabM

[@willie2333]

Would it be posable to use this tuning CGEA on a kmise banjolele if I change the strings from GCEA.

[@PhilDoleman]

You couldn't just switch the regular strings as the C in this tuning is a whole octave lower than the C in GCEA tuning. You could move the low G across and replace the low string with a thicker wound string from a classical guitar set, but you might be better of getting the string set that Aquila make specifically for this tuning on uke.

[@briarroot]

You and I are in several of the same Facebook groups. Have you encountered a group for tenor banjo enthusiasts?

[@PhilDoleman]

There is this one facebook.com/groups/JazzBanjo

[@ised-5239]

So this lesson is for tenor banjo, tenor guitar and also mandola.

[@PhilDoleman]

Yes, (though in the UK 'mandola' often means 'octave mandolin', which is confusing!)

[@joyceknake8168]

I’m trying my mandolin with this tuning.

[@PhilDoleman]

It's a common tuning for mandola (in the US, in the UK, 'mandola' usually means an octave below mandolin, for some reason!)