Banjo Gaug chord (Sawmill)G augmented on the 5-string banjo: 5 4 3 5, and 5 more shapes

Gaug chord chart for 5-string banjo in Sawmill tuning: 5 4 3 5, from the 3rd fret, with the short 5th string marked
Gaug (G augmented) on the 5-string banjo, Sawmill: 5 4 3 5, 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: 5 4 3 5 (from the 3rd fret)

  1. String 4 (D): 5th fret, ring finger, G
  2. String 3 (G): 4th fret, middle finger, B
  3. String 2 (C): 3rd fret, index finger, D♯
  4. String 1 (D): 5th fret, little finger, G
  5. String 5, the short g: open, G, in the chord

Sounds: G B D♯ G  ·  Gaug is G, B, D♯ (1 · 3 · ♯5)

The 5th string: the short g is the root of Gaug, so let it ring.

With a capo: on the 5th fret it’s 0 3 2 4 (frets counted from the capo), an open Daug shape. Spike the 5th string at the 10th fret to keep it in tune with the capo.

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 Gaug shapes

  1. 1431gD♯BD♯D♯1 4 3 1
    at the nut · 5th string completes it
  2. 5fr1324gGD♯GB5 8 7 9
    5fr
  3. 7fr3214gBD♯GB9 8 7 9
    7fr
  4. 9fr1324gBGBD♯9 12 11 13
    9fr
  5. 11fr3214gD♯GBD♯13 12 11 13
    11fr

Other G chords in Sawmill

GGmG7Gm7Gmaj7G6Gsus4Gsus2GdimGaug

Other augmented chords

GaugAaugDaugCaugEaugFaugB♭aug

Gaug in other tunings

Open GDouble COpen DC Tuning

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