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var wbPrefix = "/web/";਀瘀愀爀 眀戀䌀甀爀爀攀渀琀唀爀氀 㴀 ∀栀琀琀瀀㨀尀⼀尀⼀眀眀眀⸀椀爀椀猀栀ⴀ戀愀渀樀漀⸀挀漀洀尀⼀琀攀挀栀渀椀焀甀攀尀⼀猀漀氀漀ⴀ瀀氀愀礀椀渀最尀⼀戀愀猀椀挀ⴀ氀攀昀琀ⴀ栀愀渀搀ⴀ琀攀挀栀渀椀焀甀攀⸀栀琀洀氀∀㬀 
਀瘀愀爀 挀甀爀夀攀愀爀 㴀 ⴀ㄀㬀 
var curMonth = -1;਀瘀愀爀 礀攀愀爀䌀漀甀渀琀 㴀 ㄀㠀㬀 
var firstYear = 1996;਀瘀愀爀 椀洀最圀椀搀琀栀 㴀 㐀㜀㔀㬀 
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var displayMonth = "Dec";਀瘀愀爀 搀椀猀瀀氀愀礀夀攀愀爀 㴀 ∀㈀　　㐀∀㬀 
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		document.getElementById("displayYearEl").style.color = "#ff0";਀ऀऀ搀漀挀甀洀攀渀琀⸀最攀琀䔀氀攀洀攀渀琀䈀礀䤀搀⠀∀搀椀猀瀀氀愀礀䴀漀渀琀栀䔀氀∀⤀⸀椀渀渀攀爀䠀吀䴀䰀 㴀 搀椀猀瀀氀愀礀䴀漀渀琀栀㬀 
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		document.getElementById("displayDayEl").style.color = "#ff0";਀ऀ紀 
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}਀昀甀渀挀琀椀漀渀 琀爀愀挀欀䴀漀甀猀攀䴀漀瘀攀⠀攀瘀攀渀琀Ⰰ攀氀攀洀攀渀琀⤀ 笀 
਀   瘀愀爀 攀瘀攀渀琀堀 㴀 最攀琀䔀瘀攀渀琀堀⠀攀瘀攀渀琀⤀㬀 
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	if(xOff < 0) {਀ऀऀ砀伀昀昀 㴀 　㬀 
	} else if(xOff > imgWidth) {਀ऀऀ砀伀昀昀 㴀 椀洀最圀椀搀琀栀㬀 
	}਀   瘀愀爀 洀漀渀琀栀伀昀昀 㴀 砀伀昀昀 ─ 礀攀愀爀䤀洀最圀椀搀琀栀㬀 
਀   瘀愀爀 礀攀愀爀 㴀 䴀愀琀栀⸀昀氀漀漀爀⠀砀伀昀昀 ⼀ 礀攀愀爀䤀洀最圀椀搀琀栀⤀㬀 
	var yearStart = year * yearImgWidth;਀   瘀愀爀 洀漀渀琀栀伀昀夀攀愀爀 㴀 䴀愀琀栀⸀昀氀漀漀爀⠀洀漀渀琀栀伀昀昀 ⼀ 洀漀渀琀栀䤀洀最圀椀搀琀栀⤀㬀 
   if(monthOfYear > 11) {਀       洀漀渀琀栀伀昀夀攀愀爀 㴀 ㄀㄀㬀 
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   var month = (year * 12) + monthOfYear;਀   瘀愀爀 搀愀礀 㴀 ㄀㬀 
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	var monthString = prettyMonths[monthOfYear];਀ऀ搀漀挀甀洀攀渀琀⸀最攀琀䔀氀攀洀攀渀琀䈀礀䤀搀⠀∀搀椀猀瀀氀愀礀夀攀愀爀䔀氀∀⤀⸀椀渀渀攀爀䠀吀䴀䰀 㴀 礀攀愀爀 ⬀ ㄀㤀㤀㘀㬀 
	document.getElementById("displayMonthEl").innerHTML = monthString;਀ऀ⼀⼀ 氀漀漀欀猀 琀漀漀 樀愀爀爀椀渀最 眀栀攀渀 椀琀 挀栀愀渀最攀猀⸀⸀ 
	//document.getElementById("displayDayEl").innerHTML = zeroPad(day,2);਀ 
	var url = wbPrefix + dateString + '/' +  wbCurrentUrl;਀ऀ搀漀挀甀洀攀渀琀⸀最攀琀䔀氀攀洀攀渀琀䈀礀䤀搀⠀✀眀洀ⴀ最爀愀瀀栀ⴀ愀渀挀栀漀爀✀⤀⸀栀爀攀昀 㴀 甀爀氀㬀 
਀   ⼀⼀搀漀挀甀洀攀渀琀⸀最攀琀䔀氀攀洀攀渀琀䈀礀䤀搀⠀∀眀洀琀戀唀刀䰀∀⤀⸀瘀愀氀甀攀㴀∀攀瘀堀⠀∀⬀攀瘀攀渀琀堀⬀∀⤀ 攀氀堀⠀∀⬀攀氀攀洀攀渀琀堀⬀∀⤀ 砀伀⠀∀⬀砀伀昀昀⬀∀⤀ 礀⠀∀⬀礀攀愀爀⬀∀⤀ 洀⠀∀⬀洀漀渀琀栀⬀∀⤀ 洀漀渀琀栀伀昀昀⠀∀⬀洀漀渀琀栀伀昀昀⬀∀⤀ 䐀匀⠀∀⬀搀愀琀攀匀琀爀椀渀最⬀∀⤀ 䴀漀礀⠀∀⬀洀漀渀琀栀伀昀夀攀愀爀⬀∀⤀ 洀猀⠀∀⬀洀漀渀琀栀匀琀爀椀渀最⬀∀⤀∀㬀 
   if(curYear != year) {਀       瘀愀爀 礀爀伀昀昀 㴀 礀攀愀爀 ⨀ 礀攀愀爀䤀洀最圀椀搀琀栀㬀 
       document.getElementById("wbMouseTrackYearImg").style.left = yrOff + "px";਀       挀甀爀夀攀愀爀 㴀 礀攀愀爀㬀 
   }਀   椀昀⠀挀甀爀䴀漀渀琀栀 ℀㴀 洀漀渀琀栀⤀ 笀 
       var mtOff = year + (month * monthImgWidth) + 1;਀       搀漀挀甀洀攀渀琀⸀最攀琀䔀氀攀洀攀渀琀䈀礀䤀搀⠀∀眀戀䴀漀甀猀攀吀爀愀挀欀䴀漀渀琀栀䤀洀最∀⤀⸀猀琀礀氀攀⸀氀攀昀琀 㴀 洀琀伀昀昀 ⬀ ∀瀀砀∀㬀 
       curMonth = month;਀   紀 
}਀⼀⼀崀崀㸀 
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   <td style="padding:10px;vertical-align:top;min-width:110px;">਀   㰀愀 栀爀攀昀㴀∀⼀眀攀戀⼀∀ 琀椀琀氀攀㴀∀圀愀礀戀愀挀欀 䴀愀挀栀椀渀攀 栀漀洀攀 瀀愀最攀∀ 猀琀礀氀攀㴀∀戀愀挀欀最爀漀甀渀搀ⴀ挀漀氀漀爀㨀琀爀愀渀猀瀀愀爀攀渀琀㬀戀漀爀搀攀爀㨀渀漀渀攀㬀∀㸀㰀椀洀最 猀爀挀㴀∀⼀猀琀愀琀椀挀⼀椀洀愀最攀猀⼀琀漀漀氀戀愀爀⼀眀愀礀戀愀挀欀ⴀ琀漀漀氀戀愀爀ⴀ氀漀最漀⸀瀀渀最∀ 愀氀琀㴀∀圀愀礀戀愀挀欀 䴀愀挀栀椀渀攀∀ 眀椀搀琀栀㴀∀㄀㄀　∀ 栀攀椀最栀琀㴀∀㌀㤀∀ 戀漀爀搀攀爀㴀∀　∀⼀㸀㰀⼀愀㸀 
   </td>਀   㰀琀搀 猀琀礀氀攀㴀∀瀀愀搀搀椀渀最㨀　℀椀洀瀀漀爀琀愀渀琀㬀琀攀砀琀ⴀ愀氀椀最渀㨀挀攀渀琀攀爀㬀瘀攀爀琀椀挀愀氀ⴀ愀氀椀最渀㨀琀漀瀀㬀眀椀搀琀栀㨀㄀　　─㬀∀㸀 
਀       㰀琀愀戀氀攀 猀琀礀氀攀㴀∀戀漀爀搀攀爀ⴀ挀漀氀氀愀瀀猀攀㨀挀漀氀氀愀瀀猀攀㬀洀愀爀最椀渀㨀　 愀甀琀漀㬀瀀愀搀搀椀渀最㨀　㬀眀椀搀琀栀㨀㔀㜀　瀀砀㬀∀㸀㰀琀戀漀搀礀㸀㰀琀爀㸀 
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		                <a href="/web/20060831025740/http://irish-banjo.com/technique/solo-playing/basic-left-hand-technique.html" style="text-decoration:none;color:#33f;font-weight:bold;background-color:transparent;border:none;" title="31 Aug 2006"><strong>2006</strong></a>਀ऀऀ                 
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<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" TYPE="text/javascript"><!-- if (top.location != self.location) top.location.replace(self.location) //--></SCRIPT></HEAD><BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFAF4"><A NAME="top"></A><H1 ALIGN="center">Basic left hand technique</FONT></H1><BR><BR><TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="4" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%"><TR><TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center" WIDTH="90" ROWSPAN="2"><TABLE BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="2" CELPPADDING="4" WIDTH="100%"><TR BGCOLOR="beige"><TD ALIGN="center"><A HREF="/web/20041217111536/http://irish-banjo.com/index.html"><BIG><B>Main page</B></BIG></A></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><TABLE BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="2" CELPPADDING="4" WIDTH="100%"><TR BGCOLOR="beige"><TD ALIGN="center"><A HREF="/web/20041217111536/http://irish-banjo.com/new-visitors.html"><BIG><B>New visitors</B></BIG></A></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><TABLE BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="2" CELPPADDING="4" WIDTH="100%"><TR BGCOLOR="beige"><TD ALIGN="center"><A HREF="/web/20041217111536/http://irish-banjo.com/buyers-guide/index.html"><BIG><B>Buyer's&nbsp;guide</B></BIG></A></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><TABLE BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="2" CELPPADDING="4" WIDTH="100%"><TR BGCOLOR="beige"><TD ALIGN="center"><A HREF="/web/20041217111536/http://irish-banjo.com/instruments/index.html"><BIG><B>The&nbsp;instruments</B></BIG></A></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><TABLE BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="2" CELPPADDING="4" WIDTH="100%"><TR BGCOLOR="beige"><TD ALIGN="center"><A HREF="/web/20041217111536/http://irish-banjo.com/technique/index.html"><BIG><B>Technique</B></BIG></A></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><TABLE BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="2" CELPPADDING="4" WIDTH="100%"><TR BGCOLOR="beige"><TD ALIGN="center"><A HREF="/web/20041217111536/http://irish-banjo.com/lessons/index.html"><BIG><B>Lessons</B></BIG></A></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><TABLE BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="2" CELPPADDING="4" WIDTH="100%"><TR BGCOLOR="beige"><TD ALIGN="center"><A HREF="/web/20041217111536/http://irish-banjo.com/performers/index.html"><BIG><B>Performers</B></BIG></A></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><TABLE BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="2" CELPPADDING="4" WIDTH="100%"><TR BGCOLOR="beige"><TD ALIGN="center"><A HREF="/web/20041217111536/http://irish-banjo.com/recordings/index.html"><BIG><B>Recordings</B></BIG></A></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><TABLE BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="2" CELPPADDING="4" WIDTH="100%"><TR BGCOLOR="beige"><TD ALIGN="center"><A HREF="/web/20041217111536/http://irish-banjo.com/books/index.html"><BIG><B>Books</B></BIG></A></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><TABLE BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="2" CELPPADDING="4" WIDTH="100%"><TR BGCOLOR="beige"><TD ALIGN="center"><A HREF="/web/20041217111536/http://irish-banjo.com/forum/index.html"><BIG><B>Forum</B></BIG></A></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><TABLE BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="2" CELPPADDING="4" WIDTH="100%"><TR BGCOLOR="beige"><TD ALIGN="center"><A HREF="/web/20041217111536/http://irish-banjo.com/links/index.html"><BIG><B>Links</B></BIG></A></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><TABLE BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="2" CELPPADDING="4" WIDTH="100%"><TR BGCOLOR="beige"><TD ALIGN="center"><A HREF="/web/20041217111536/http://irish-banjo.com/sitemap.html"><BIG><B>Site map</B></BIG></A></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><BR><BR><TABLE BORDER="1" BGCOLOR="beige"><TR><TD><SMALL>Site last updated <FONT COLOR="green">12/09/2004</FONT>.<BR>This particular page was created <FONT COLOR="red">11/23/2003</FONT> and last updated <FONT COLOR="red">11/28/2004</FONT><HR><A HREF="/web/20041217111536/http://irish-banjo.com/sitemap-updated.html">Site updates</A></SMALL></TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD VALIGN="top" WIDTH="16" ROWSPAN="2">&nbsp;</TD><TD VALIGN="top" WIDTH="*"><TABLE WIDTH="130" ALIGN="left" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0"><TR><TD ALIGN="center"><TABLE ALIGN="left" CELLPADDING="4"><TR><TD><A HREF="/web/20041217111536/http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=ga0HTYQuMzA&offerid=55265.125982&type=2&subid=0" TARGET="_blank"><IMG SRC="/web/20041217111536im_/http://images.misupply.com/products/thumbs/Goldtone/125982T.jpg" BORDER="0"></A><IMG BORDER=0 WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=1 SRC="/web/20041217111536im_/http://ad.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/show?id=ga0HTYQuMzA&bids=55265.125982&type=2&subid=0"><BR><SMALL>Picture from <A HREF="/web/20041217111536/http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=ga0HTYQuMzA&offerid=55265.10000041&type=4&subid=0" TARGET="_blank">Music123</a><IMG border="0" width="1" height="1" src="/web/20041217111536im_/http://ad.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/show?id=ga0HTYQuMzA&bids=55265.10000041&type=4&subid=0"></SMALL></TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD>&nbsp;</TD></TR></TABLE>Irish dance tunes are often quite fast with lots and lots of notes. That means you need a fixed fingering system (which finger fingers which note) to be able to play confidentally.<P>There are two differnet fingering systems used for the irish banjo, chromatic (or "guitar") fingering and diatonic ("fiddle" or "mandolin") fingering. Both have their advantages and disadvantages. In the end it's all a question of the <A HREF=javascript:NCyc('scale-length')><FONT COLOR="#660000">scale length</FONT></A> of your banjo and the size and dexterity of your fretting hand.<P>We have to make a choice at once:<BR>Take a measuring tape and measure the scale of your banjo (that's the length of the <U>sounding</U> part of the string, from the nut to the bridge). If it's<UL><LI><B>54.5 cm (21.5") or less</B>, you should go for <A HREF="/web/20041217111536/http://irish-banjo.com/technique/solo-playing/basic-left-hand-technique.html#diatonic-fingering">diatonic fingering</A> unless you have unusually small hands.<LI><B>57 cm (22.5") or more</B>, go for <A HREF="/web/20041217111536/http://irish-banjo.com/technique/solo-playing/basic-left-hand-technique.html#chromatic-fingering">chromatic fingering</A> unless you have very big hands.<LI><B>somewhere in between</B>, you probably should use <A HREF="/web/20041217111536/http://irish-banjo.com/technique/solo-playing/basic-left-hand-technique.html#chromatic-fingering">chromatic fingering</A>, but you could try the alternative too.</UL>If you don't have a measuring tape at hand, or can't figure out how to measru the scale length, there's another method: count the number of frets. If your banjo has 17 frets or less, it's a short scale tenor banjo suitable for <A HREF="/web/20041217111536/http://irish-banjo.com/technique/solo-playing/basic-left-hand-technique.html#diatonic-fingering">diatonic fingering</A>. If it has 19 or 20 frets it's a long scale tenor banjo and you should probably go for <A HREF="/web/20041217111536/http://irish-banjo.com/technique/solo-playing/basic-left-hand-technique.html#chromatic-fingering">chromatic fingering</A>. If it's got 22 frets or more, it's a <A HREF="/web/20041217111536/http://irish-banjo.com/instruments/plectrum-banjo.html">plectrum banjo</A> and you definitely should use <A HREF="/web/20041217111536/http://irish-banjo.com/technique/solo-playing/basic-left-hand-technique.html#chromatic-fingering">chromatic fingering</A>. <BR><BR><HR><A NAME="diatonic-fingering"><H3 ALIGN="center">Diatonic fingering</H3>Diatonic fingring means we use one finger for each note in the scale. This is the system used by smaller instruments like the fiddle and the mandolin. On larger instruments like the guitar it simply isn't practical since it requires some serious stretches. The tenor banjo is a border case.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;The system is:<UL><LI>The first (index) finger plays all the notes on the first and second fret<LI>The second (middle) finger plays the notes on the third and fourth fret<LI>The third (ring) finger takes care of the fifth and sixth fret<LI>The fourth (little) finger plays the seventh fret (although there rarely are any)</UL>That's all there's to it! <BR><BR><HR><A NAME="chromatic-fingering"><H3 ALIGN="center">Chromatic fingering</H3>Chrmatic fingering is for the bigger instruments where you can't expect each finger to reach over two frets. The principle is even simpler than diatonic fingering: each finger takes care of one fret. On the tenor banjo we nearly always play in "second position," that is:<UL><LI>The first (index) finger plays all the notes on the second fret<LI>The second (middle) finger plays the notes on the third fret<LI>The third (ring) finger takes care of the fourth fret<LI>The fourth (little) finger plays the fifth fret.</UL>How about the first and sixth fret? Well, we have to cheat a little and stretch out the first and fourth finger for those notes. Don't worry, you won't see these notes for a while and there'll never be many of them.<P>This should sort out the left hand's work for now. Time to look at <A HREF="/web/20041217111536/http://irish-banjo.com/technique/solo-playing/basic-right-hand-technique.html">the right hand</A>.਀㰀䌀䔀一吀䔀刀㸀㰀䈀刀㸀㰀℀ⴀⴀ 匀椀琀攀匀攀愀爀挀栀 䜀漀漀最氀攀 ⴀⴀ㸀 
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