The Daily Frail 3/30/09
March 30, 2009
Over the next couple of days we are going to be moving the three major and minor chord forms up and down the fretboard.
We will use chord diagrams to illustrate the chord forms. The diagrams show the first four strings of your banjo neck and the first four frets. The strings are laid out 4-3-2-1, left to right, with 1 being your first string. Each string will be numbered to tell you what fret to play.
0 tells you to play an open string.
1 tells you to play a string at the first fret.
Minor Chord Form 1:
Cm: 1-0-1-1
C#m/Dbm: 2-1-2-2
Dm: 3-2-3-3
D#m/Ebm: 4-3-4-4
Em: 5-4-5-5
Fm: 6-5-6-6
F#m/Gbm: 7-6-7-7
Gm:8-7-8-8
G#m/Abm: 9-8-9-9
Am: 10-9-10-10
A#m/Bbm: 11-10-11-11
Bm: 12-11-12-12
Cm: 13-12-13-13
Fingering tips:
Fingering for Cm: i-x-m-m
Fingering for C#m: m-i-r-r
What I want you to do is strum each chord and say its name.
See you all tomorrow. Goodbye and God bless!
-Patrick
March 30, 2009 at 4:04 pm
I think there is a song that was made for this particular Daily Frail.
It’s a Tom Waits song called Chocolate Jesus, written for those who don’t get up and go to church on Sunday.
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/t/tom_waits/chocolate_jesus_crd.htm
It uses all minor chords, I suggest finding his performance on The Late show on Youtube and trying to copy the Tenor Banjo player, that’s what I did. For the intro all I do is grab a Dm then:
4/4 – slow
—3—3—|—3—3—|—3—3—-|——–|
—3—–3-|—3—–3-|—3—–3–|——–|
—2——-|—2——-|—2——–|-2(bend)|
-3-3——-|-3-3——-|-3-3——–|——–|
—–0—–|—–0–0–|—–0——|——–|
then from there you could go into a slow alternating bass frail.
March 30, 2009 at 4:18 pm
Looks like my makeshift tablature got all jumbled here with the – signs.. so I used the tildes ~ and put it on my blog.
http://whendeywudnocrawfish.blogspot.com/2009/03/its-got-to-be-chocolate-jesus.html