Standard Shapes

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The core closed shapes for CGDA tenor banjo. No open and no muted strings, so every one of them slides along the neck: one fret up raises the chord by a semitone. Each shape is named after the note on the top string, which is the quickest way to tell them apart. Pick a root to see where the same shape sits for other chords.

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