Re: Ring vs Pinky, again?
I am curious as to what the scale length is for a typical tenor banjo. For mandolin, I use two frets per finger. Pinkie gets frets 7 and 8 duty. With my 22 3/4" octave mandolin, I go with one finger per fret. For the ITM I play, this is a hard and fast rule.
When moving up the neck and out of first position, I still stick to the x number of frets per finger rules, even if I can manage stretching further. A good example is Dawg's Opus 38. After getting this tune under my fingers on the OM with a fingering that initially worked, I realized that I couldn't get the tempo up and play cleanly. Changing the fingering and sticking to the fret per finger rule is allowing me to play it faster.
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