the same way.
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FIGURE 3-8: The chord diagram for a C chord.
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FIGURE 3-9: Chord diagrams for G, D7, and C chords.
Interpreting up-the-neck chord diagrams
As you become more proficient, you can fret chords all up and down the neck of your banjo. To represent a chord that's played above the 5th fret, a chord diagram includes a number that usually appears to the right of the diagram — either next to the top fret line or adjacent to the uppermost fretted note in the chord. This number indicates exactly where you need to position your left hand on the banjo neck (see Figure 3-10).
If you need to fret the 5th string as part of a chord, a fifth vertical line is added to the left side of the chord diagram to represent this string. The 5th string is often fretted up the neck with the left-hand thumb, which is represented with the letter T in a chord diagram.
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FIGURE 3-10: Up-the-neck chord diagram for a D7 chord, featuring a fretted 5th string.
Chord Progressions: Playing Your First Song
The chord progression of a song is the part of your musical road map that indicates what chords you play, in what sequence these chords occur, and how long each chord lasts before you move on to play the next one as you play a song. Although you can find about as many different chord progressions as you can songs, you can count on some predictability in how chords follow one another in most songs you play on the banjo. This makes figuring out and remembering new chord progressions much easier as you encounter them in new songs.
Many songs use only the G, C, and D7 chords (which are covered in the earlier section “Fingering G, D7, and C Chords”). However, the more chords you know, the more quickly you can play along with new songs.
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FIGURE 3-11: Strum along to “She'll Be Comin'Round the Mountain.”
Most new players find that the trickiest part of strumming along to a song like “She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain” is going from the G to the C chords smoothly without interrupting the steady flow of the right-hand strums. If you run into this same problem, try switching back and forth over and over again between the G and C chords until you've mastered this transition.
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