Happy New Year!

Here are the first of the banjo diagrams. The banjo is ordinarily tuned to an open g chord (gDGBD).

This tuning makes the related modes of G major fall very naturally on the open strings, and the modes of D are also pretty easy, as are those of C major and F major. Depending on what tonality the song is in, the short 5th string can be tuned to anything that sounds good.