Banjo Hangout Top 100 Classical Songs

Baroquen

rickhayes — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 13:45:00 CST

Composed this years ago but just decided to record it. Added some guitar backup to fill out the sound a bit. It's not bluegrassy or Old-Timey, but it sounded a bit classical to me so at the risk of offending the purists out there that's how I classified it, and that's how I settled on the title, which may be pronounced Broken if you so desire. :>) In G tuning.

Turlough O'Carolan Medley (Sheebeg and Sheemore, Planxty Irwin)

Turlough O'Carolan — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 12:16:00 CST

Ric Hollander - My arrangement of two Turlough O'Carolan tunes - Sheebeg and Sheemore, Planxty Irwin. Recorded using the Romero strung with steel strings. Tuning: eCGCD, capo 5th fret. Arrangement and performance copyright 2014 Ric Hollander - All Rights Reserved

big mud

jimh269b — Sun, 1 May 2011 14:02:00 CST

molly sue

jimh269b — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 14:20:00 CST

a tune i made

Skye Boat Song

Paul Roberts — Tue, 6 Mar 2012 19:19:00 CST

One of the tunes I grew up on. 5-string cello banjo in gCGCD.

Consonance ~ on "The Wood"

Paul Roberts — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 18:02:00 CST

Wooden banjo: gCGCD Original Recorded without EQ or effects

Andantino in G Major

Ferdinando Carulli — Mon, 15 May 2017 09:05:00 CST

Andantino in G Major, composed by Ferdinando Carulli and published in 1825. Performed on guitar, banjo and bass banjo. "Classical" parlor guitar based on 19th century design by the La Patrie Guitar Company. Early Banjo based on the Joel Sweeney banjo circa 1840, built by James Hartel. Fretless Bass Banjo by Goldtone

hunters special

jimh269b — Wed, 8 Dec 2010 18:41:00 CST

for rick hunter

gill town

jimh269b — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 11:20:00 CST

a tune i made up

chris muriels tune

jimh269b — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 13:49:00 CST

tune for chris

Sheebeg, Sheemore (CH)

Turlough O'Carolan — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:21:00 CST

When I originally learned this I used clawhammer tuned to double D. Then I learned it in open G 3-finger picking style. Now I'm trying it again with clawhammer after more than 30 years. It's coming back to me and I still think it's amongst the prettiest tunes ever written. The story goes that Sheebeg, Sheemore was the blind harpist's first composition in 1691. It's meaning is "Little Mountain, Big Mountain" and was named for a location where a battle between fairy peoples allegedly took place.

Bonaparte crossing the rhine

joemac — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:03:00 CST

Bonaparte crossing the Rhine as played by "The Old Grey Dogs" I chose to play this out of double C tuning as i love the bottom end of the banjo in this tuning. Hope you all enjoy i.t

DIEHI,S CREEK

jimh269b — Tue, 1 Mar 2011 15:38:00 CST

this tune is for larence,been a long time coming,i hope you enjoy it

Bach Cello Ste. #1 in G Major Prelude

J.S. Bach — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 10:42:00 CST

Here's the audio track from the youtube video I posted of myself playing this. Thanks for listening! I've also posted a pdf of the tab and notation here.

etude 1

pearcemusic — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 13:52:00 CST

I wrote this yesterday ... recorded the demo this morning ... MEASURE 8 starts a direct rip off of the famous J.S. Bach cello-lute suite ... for 8 measures or so ... the rest is "in the style of" ....... My daughter, Molly needed something "classical" to play for her "juries" at college ... Pat Cloud is helping her with Chick Corea's "Spain", and she's learning my rendition of Joe Zawinul's "Birdland" ... we were weak in the classical category ...

tennesee stud

jimh269b — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 16:57:00 CST

clifftop theme song

jimh269b — Sun, 7 Nov 2010 10:02:00 CST

reeds hornpipes

jimh269b — Fri, 4 Feb 2011 13:49:00 CST

a tune i just made up

souped maple blossum

jimh269b — Fri, 27 May 2011 18:13:00 CST

im going to send this tune to joe,he likes this kinda tunes

Baroque Style Banjo

Shilohbanjoman — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:12:00 CST

The is a piece that I wrote for the banjo with a baroque flavor to it. The guitar is somewhat hard to hear since it is being played by Sibelius music software. I have this version on sibeliusmusic.com in sheet music but have not posted the tabs to it yet. The tableture would be crucial to learning this piece since it has a lot of melodic and single string picking. Thanks for listening, enjoy!

Consonance

Paul Roberts — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 22:23:00 CST

Original 3-finger picking melody on Gold Tone BC-350+ in double C, capoed at 2nd fret; 5th string tuned to A. Please post comments on Sound Off thread:

13 - Classical Gas

Janna — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:16:00 CST

Finally! I've just recorded this classical tune played by me on 5-string banjo and now I can share it with you! This is the second song I played on my new Athena banjo :) And I wish you a Happy Christmas Holydays!

Teddy Bear's Picnic

John Walter Bratton, 1907P.D. — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:43:00 CST

An old favorite children's march from 1913, played in the Classical style. I used my B&D Silver Bell #1 on this one, with the resonator taken off the banjo. Just bare fingers- no picks!

The Gentle Sound of Falling Leaves

joemac — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:30:00 CST

By Jens Kruger, one of my favourite tunes by Jens, hope you enjoy it.

Hatikva La Mantovana

Giuseppe Cenci — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:36:00 CST

a Mantovana is a sixteenth century song composed by the Italian tenor Giuseppe Cenci, also known as Giuseppino del Biado, (d. 1616). Its earliest known appearance in print is in del Biado's 1600 collection of madrigals. The melody, later also known as "Ballo di Mantova" or "Aria di Mantova" gained wide currency in Renaissance Europe, being recorded variously as the Scottish “My mistress is prettie,” the Polish “Pod Krakowem,” Spanish "Virgen de la Cueva" and the Ukrainian “Kateryna Kucheryava." It is best-known as the melody of Bedřich Smetana's The Moldau and of the Israeli national anthem Hatikvah. I added the third part, in case old Giuseppe lifted the original riff from a raga, which I - of course - suspect:)

St Patrick's Day

Rob MacKillop — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:13:00 CST

From an edition I'm puuting to together for Mel Bay called The Early Irish-American Banjo. Will include tab.

Hark the Herald Angels Sing

salvatone — Tue, 8 Dec 2009 13:36:00 CST

The music is from the second chorus of a contata by Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) written in 1840 to commemorate Johann Gutenberg and the invention of printing. The words are from a hundred years earlier, written in 1739 by Charles Wesley. In 1855, after both Wesley and Mendelssohn were dead, Dr. William Cummings put the words and music together in spite of evidence that neither author nor composer would have approved, and voila, we have a Christmas Carol. I play it here on my Nechville Classic Eclipse.

Berkeley March

Jim Pankey — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:11:00 CST

Classic Banjo tune played on a Geo. C. Dobson Victor A.

J.S. Bach Cello Suite 1 Allemande

tmoneygetpaid — Sun, 22 May 2011 18:50:00 CST

Reference recording for the tab posted--view my tabs here.

Bach Cello Suite #1 in G Major Prelude

tmoneygetpaid — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:24:00 CST

Reference recording for the tab posted--view my tabs here.