Modal Banjo Tuning

Video Transcript

"Every once in a while you come across a song that is in a different tuning rather then G tuning. One of them is called modal tuning which is where instead of the third fret on the G string corresponding to the open neck string, it's the fourth fret. So you fret the fourth fret and tune the next string up like that. This gives you a more, a sound that's not quite a major chord and a little more modal. Another tuning is D minor tuning, the song National Blues which is a pretty popular blue grass tune is in D minor tuning. D minor tuning you start out with your D and you fret the third fret and tune the next string to that. Then tune the next string to the fifth fret on D so, I mean the seventh fret. Seventh fret on D to your second string. And then you tune your high G to the same. Which gives you D minor."