GDAE tuning
Irish tenor banjo
The tenor banjo is a transposing instrument: written at fiddle pitch, sounding an octave lower. Use the GDAE tuner, chord diagrams and scale charts here to practise Irish traditional music.
Irish tenor banjo tabs2705 tunes as GDAE tablature, each on its own page with playback and the ABC source.TunerA microphone tuner in the page, reference tones for every string, and the tuning explained.GDAE chord chartPrintable major, minor, seventh and suspended chord diagrams for this tuning.Irish tenor banjo scale chartsTwelve keys and modes as charts on one page, with the chords for each and pentatonic shapes.ABC converterPaste ABC notation, choose your instrument and play the tab. Sign in to save it to your account.How to read tabEach number is a fret, each line a string. The whole system explained on one page.
Guides
Written for the questions people actually ask, from "is it hard?" to which strings and which pick.
Where to start
Get in tune first, then pick one easy tune and live with it for a week. The tuner runs in the page, the jigs are the friendliest place to begin, and when a tune fights back, the tab on every tune page slows down and plays along with you.