Tuning the Irish Tenor Banjo - Traditional Irish Music Tutorial by James Finnegan

In this video, I’ll be going over how to tune your Irish tenor banjo.

Even though our lives are inevitably being very disrupted by this virus, luckily we can continue practicing our banjos everyday! Hopefully this video will help make our banjos sound even nicer !

The Irish tenor tuning - G, D A and E' - is the standard and uses a special set of Irish tenor banjo strings. The famous Irish banjo player Barney McKenna is most often credited with making this tuning popular.

This tuning makes sense, since Irish players are playing a lot of fiddle tunes, and it being the same tuning as a fiddle (but an octave below) makes the tunes layout on the fingerboard much better. It also would give you the same range (an octave below) so every note played on the fiddle is available in this tuning.

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My name is James Finnegan and I’m from Co. Monaghan, Ireland. I'm a tenor banjo, mandolin and guitar player, traditional Irish music teacher and Commerce and Mandarin student in University College Dublin.

Skype Lessons available on request (especially during the summer months). Feel free to message me via email if you’ve any requests, questions or queries. My email is james.finnegan@ucdconnect.ie.

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