hey this is Peter retrofret in Brooklyn New York talking a little bit about how you play a banj ukulele how you what the chord forms are on it basically it's exactly the same as a ukulele so if you're ukulele player all you have to do is pick it up and all of the forms you already know are exactly the same if you're a guitar player gets a little more complicated but think of it as a guitar capoed at the fifth fret and your two Basse strings are missing so what you know is a d chord works perfectly well here as a G chord because again you're a fourth up higher on the neck your Capo up the neck so a 145 in the key of G would look like this it's a ukulele scale neck with what would have originally been gut strings a mounted to a small banjo Rim you got to get the strum going if you're not used to that looks like this get all your fingers moving and go except the sound is much louder and more obnoxious so for ukulele players if you're tired of getting drowned out by your band This Could Be Your solution but uh most of these were pretty cheap this is actually a very expensive very fancy one this cost about 50 bucks uh 1925 so that was a pretty serious banjo ukulele but people would take them away to Camp or take them away uh you know on trips that it was considered the novelty instrument everyone had to have one in college if you went way to college you had to have a banjo yuk often they show up with signatures of everyone in the Frat on the head um but they're still fun today you can still find uh find a lot of them and if you're ukulele player even guitar player it's a it's an entertaining way to annoy your neighbors and or bandmates this little introduction on playing the banj ukulele it's a lot of fun you can't play sad music on this kids you have to be happy it's about the only way it works you can be a little Winsome but that's about it otherwise music to enjoy
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