What is Tenor Banjo?

Tenor Banjo is a banjo with four short neck chains. The once popular instrument in Swing, Ragtime and Dance Club bands is now most common in dixieland jazz music. This type Banjo is usually played with the selection and often common guitar selection, but it can also be your fingers. Tenor Banjos is often up to 9 inches shorter than the standard Banjo length. When used in standard tuning, this banjo can be known as Banjo Alto. Its range goes from one octave below the middle C to above the middle C. The piano is medium C Note C in the center of the piano. Although it used to be common in Tango and other dance bands 20 and 30 years, tenor banjo is now most often heard in Jazz in the style of Dixieland, the style of jazz music, which came from New Orleans.

Banjos comes in several sizes and forms, but they all have a circular TV, a body similar to a drum. Banjo is generally a four- or five-grain instrument with sleepers. Some banjos rarely have six chains. Tenor Banjo has four.

Banjo chains are stretched from the pins on the banjo head through the neck and through the circular body of the tool. The sleepers are elevated metal bars that help the stringed instrument player, description notes in the melody. Modern banjos most often have five strings and the player usually plays with fingers, especially twinkling or strumming, rather than by means of pocket selection.

tenor banjo is used in several types of tuning. Standard tuning for tenor Banjo is C, D, G, then, and, counts from the lowest chain to the highest chain. In popular music, Banjo is commonly tuned to match the violin, instead using G, D, A, and E. Other popular tuning, called Chicago Tuning, parallelizes Banjo Tenor Winajad chain on guitar that uses notes D, G, B and E.

This type Banjo is a medium -sized tool. There are two lower banjos than Tenor Banjo: Violoncello Banjo and bass banjo. Deeper violoncEllo Banjo sounds less than Tenor Banjo.