The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #31879   Message #682908
Posted By: Mark Clark
04-Apr-02 - 12:59 PM
Thread Name: Our Friend the movable B7 chord.
Subject: RE: Our Friend the movable B7 chord.
I'm guessing that I am the one beachcomber referred to as “Matt Clarke” since it was I who posted a few bars of the requested tune. Sorry Beach, I don't have any banjo tabs. I don't know whether he ever recorded the tune but I can just hear Don Reno playing that one.

Marion, Nice call on the fingering. I use that fingering too sometimes. I didn't mean to leave the treble E string unaccounted for, that was just an oversight. When I use the four-note chord you saw, I actually damp out the treble E with the root joint of my index finger. The four-note version of the chord is mean to be used with similar four-note fingerings I've posted elsewhere. One can move from a 6th to a 7th to a Maj-7th while holding two fingers and swapping the other two (but not the same two).

      - Mark