Banjo Amaj7 chord (Sawmill)A major seventh on the 5-string banjo: 7 6 4 6, and 2 more shapes

Amaj7 chord chart for 5-string banjo in Sawmill tuning: 7 6 4 6, from the 4th fret, with the short 5th string marked
Amaj7 (A major seventh) on the 5-string banjo, Sawmill: 7 6 4 6, string 4 to string 1. Fingers are numbered on the dots; copper marks the root; the green ring on the left is the 5th string, solid when it’s in the chord.

Frets, string 4 to string 1: 7 6 4 6 (from the 4th fret)

  1. String 4 (D): 7th fret, little finger, A
  2. String 3 (G): 6th fret, middle finger, C♯
  3. String 2 (C): 4th fret, index finger, E
  4. String 1 (D): 6th fret, ring finger, G♯
  5. String 5, the short g: open, G, not in the chord

Sounds: A C♯ E G♯  ·  Amaj7 is A, C♯, E, G♯ (1 · 3 · 5 · 7)

The 5th string: the short g rubs against the G♯ in this shape, a semitone away: some players let it ring, some skip it.

Sawmill tuning: gDGCD, the short 5th string first, then strings 4 to 1.

Hear it in the app ›

The link can’t set the tuning: the app starts in open G. Choose Sawmill once in its Settings and it remembers.

More Amaj7 shapes

  1. 6fr2143gAC♯G♯A7 6 8 7
    6fr · no 5th
  2. 9fr2413gC♯G♯AC♯11 13 9 11
    9fr · no 5th

Other A chords in Sawmill

AAmA7Am7Amaj7A6Asus4Asus2AdimAaug

Other major seventh chords

Gmaj7Amaj7Dmaj7Cmaj7Bmaj7Emaj7Fmaj7B♭maj7

Amaj7 in other tunings

Open GDouble COpen DC Tuning

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