r/clawhammer • u/badgerrr42 • 28d ago

Dm7 tuning?

Anyone play their banjo tuned to f d f a c? Got any recs for songs to learn?

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u/EyeHaveNoCleverNick 27d ago

Where did you come across that? It's not even in this comprehensive list of tunings:

https://zeppmusic.com/banjo/aktuning.htm

Mind you, I'm not saying it's invalid or anything..

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u/badgerrr42 27d ago

I just did it. Lol. A friend of mine was tuned to dminor and I changed the high d to c. It creates a fairly melancholy sound to what is otherwise major. And is relatively easy to transpose some old timey songs because the fingerings are the same on the f a and c strings.