Ragtime music has a character all its own. While it lends itself ideally to a variety of settings and moods it always maintains its unique joyful feeling. The banjo is an instrument ideally suited for ragtime. The bright crispbanjo sound truly adds a new dimension to the ragtime feeling. Mel Bay and Roy Smeck have teamed together in arranging a variety of Scott Joplin and some original rags. All of the music contained herein can be played by tenor plectrum or 5-string banjo. It is with great pleasure that we present the joyful sound of Ragtime Banjo! Standard notation only.

This chart shows essential chords and secondary minor chord relationships in all 12 keys for the tenor banjo in C-G-D-A tuning. The chords shown for each root note are major seventh minor diminished and augmented withrelative minor I IV and V7 chords al fingerboard with all the frets numbered and the corresponding notes shown in standard notation. This chart is also applicable to the tenor mandola which uses the same tuning. Unfolds to17.5' by 11.75'. Also suitable for mandola.