C on the Banjo

All 62 qualities on the root C, in 10 families, drawn for this chair. Most country songs use three or four of them; the rest are here for the turnaround that reaches further.

The banjo chair carries a three-finger roll behind the singer — a steady stream of picked notes through the chord, filling the eighths a two-feel leaves empty. The left hand holds the shape below and the right hand never strums it: thumb, index and middle pick through its strings one at a time, which is why a banjo chord reads as motion rather than as a block.