I have been on my banjo journey for less than 6 months. I have been learning clawhammer style and really enjoying learning chords and songs as I go. I usually can find an answer to any questions that have popped up either here in the archives or somewhere on the web. (With all the information that is out there in this new brave digital world, at your fingertips, at any given time, 24/7, this is a great time to learn banjo!) However, now I have a question I can't find an answer to......My daughter and I are learning a song to play together for an upcoming family get-together.
In this song one of the phrases is to play the following chords: F, D7 G C then CM and back to G. My question is how do I correctly finger the CM coming from the C chord? I have never had a song that had the CM chord in it, so this is also a new chord to me. (Of course it is easy to go from the CM to the G !) And since I am new to banjo and I don't know if there is more than one way to finger the CM, I am using this chord: all the fingering is on the first fret, fretting strings #1, 2 & 4 leaving # 3 to ring open. It just seems awkward to me to get my fingers from the C chord to jump flawlessly to the CM not being sure which fingers should go where.
I hope all this makes sense!
Thanks everyone in advacne;
Ellen