Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Janna, updated: 5/14/2018
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Notes: This is my original tune for banjo. It reminds me a music of the wind... it's a very windy and airy tune... Hope you'll like to play it ^_^
Tab is in Guitar Pro format.
You can listen the tune here - https://www.reverbnation.com/jannakim/song/15273316-forthcoming-legend-banjo-instrumental
Or you can find it on my banjohangout music page.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Janna, updated: 5/14/2018
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Notes: This is a tab for banjo of my original song named "Western Dream".
I think this song is very easy to play and sing along even for a beginners :)
You'll need a "Guitar Pro" program to open the tab.
You can listen to it here on the forum: https://www.banjohangout.org/topic/342403/#4334034
or on my Banjohangout music page :)
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by dennisonjc, updated: 5/17/2018 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: A lovely hymn. Hope you enjoy my simple arrangement.
Lyrics by: Louisa M. R. Stead, c. 1850-1917
Tune by: William J. Kirkpatrick, 1838-1921
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/9/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by rmlong, updated: 8/10/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Larry Banjo, updated: 9/25/2013
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 6/6/2020 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: 19 Mile Overhead is a tune I wrote in the 1970s, and you can find a recording of it, from a practice tape of that era, on the Media section of my BHO page. The tune is structured AABB, and you should capo up 2 to play it in the key of A. Note that in British Columbia “overheads” are highway bridges over railroad right-of-way, and 19 Mile Overhead is somewhere near Revelstoke, B.C. I’ll take a wild stab in the dark and guess that it is 19 miles from the town.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by twothphry, updated: 8/17/2010 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A#/Bb Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dpetervan, updated: 3/31/2012 - 6 Member Comments
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Notes: Based on playing of Carson McKee (guitar) and Josh Turner (banjo) from their Youtube version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQK2xFOAxrI&feature=g-hist&context=G224e38fAHT20pXQAAAA
Banjo tuned down one whole step, guitar capoed at 3rd fret. Key of Bb.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by JAH, updated: 3/15/2012 - 3 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Cm Tuning: Cm (gCGCEb) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by larrytanner, updated: 12/14/2009 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Title cut from Butch Robbins album - 40 Years Late
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 8/2/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum) Key: G Tuning: Tenor G (DGdg) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Mirek Tim Patek, updated: 2/24/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by mikemoyes2, updated: 8/27/2014 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is my attempt at transcribing Noam's solo break from this Punch Bros youtube video...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8JA8AUnRxc
The solo comes in at 3:00 or so. I don't have Tabledit and did this in Sibelius so the slides/bends/etc. aren't as polished but you get the idea! Capo up to B to play with the video.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by RadMuz, updated: 8/8/2022
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Notes: Noam Pikelny https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8JA8AUnRxc
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/20/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjofrog, updated: 9/7/2010
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Notes: A simple version of a good bluegrass gospel song. The tempo for the midi should be 80% or 96 beats/minute.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by briar32, updated: 9/16/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jbs325is, updated: 3/10/2012
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Notes: Get the Backing Track, MP3 and Chord Chart at LaynePublications.com.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 10/25/2015 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: In addition to creating melodic style, IMHO in parallel to and independently of Carroll Best and Bobby Thompson, Bill Keith introduced to basic Scruggs style layers of elegance, complexity, and subtlety that had not been heard before he appeared on the stage. Here is one simple example that says it all, the first few measures of the first break in the song “Livin’ on the Mountain,” from Keith and Rooney’s album of the same name. Keith took one of Scruggs’s standard licks, employing a forward-backward roll with a pull-off on the third string, and threw in a subtle twist by pulling off to the fifth string and pivoting to the open third. Compare Keith’s version to Scruggs’s in the tab, and you will get my drift. When I heard this in 1963 or 1964, I realized that Bill Keith had opened new horizons on the banjo.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjopiet, updated: 7/17/2013
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Notes: Nice medium tempo David Grier tune arranged for banjo
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/31/2007
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/31/2007
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Slapstick_inc, updated: 2/12/2026
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Notes: Colors indicate alternative licks.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/20/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Gm Tuning: Open Gm (gDGBbD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Stu D Baker-Hawk, updated: 9/28/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Am Tuning: Open Gm (gDGBbD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoistic, updated: 3/10/2020
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Notes: Capo at 2nd fret. Capo 5th string at its 2nd fret, also.
This tune is © Gary DiGiovanni.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/20/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/21/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Dm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Banjoker, updated: 10/11/2010 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: A Bluesy tune with a bit of a haunting melody.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Blackjaxe47, updated: 10/25/2014
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Slapstick_inc, updated: 2/14/2026
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Notes: Colors indicate alternative licks.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C
Posted by Tono, updated: 9/17/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjohn2, updated: 7/23/2016
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Notes: This contains both fiddle and banjo parts along with guitar and bass and should be quite close to the recording with Tom Adams
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Exercises and Licks Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by adkDavid, updated: 5/6/2016 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Just a simple, yet big sounding lick - standard GCGDG pattern. Use anywhere playing over a G chord. My first lick creation! COMMENTS WELCOME!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by drew-gurbach, updated: 6/11/2011
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Notes: Written using primarily a forward roll, and a forward backward roll, this is a simpler version with the beginner in mind.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 3/29/2021
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Notes: The Foggies recorded this song in the studio and also performed it on their WSM tv show. You can find the video version on Netflix. Earl played simple but nifty breaks in both versions, at a pretty good clip. Here I provide the tablature of my interpretation of his break from the video. It is in drop C tuning, which takes good advantage of the deep growl of his Granada’s 4th string.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/24/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by larrytanner, updated: 6/14/2010
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Notes: Bela Fleck arrangement, recorded while playing with Tasty Licks.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 9/12/2022 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: It is instructive to compare the differences as well as the similarities in the versions by 3 banjo masters.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 10/14/2011
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Notes: Here's a traditional bluegrass tune with mournful, self-pitying, and nonsensical lyrics. But it is great fun to play on the banjo. My arrangement comprises four breaks, including a high break, and
is full of stuff that can be used in other tunes as well.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Buxton, updated: 9/26/2010
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Notes: Banjo break. Timing might be off a touch but the notes are pretty accurate. You can see the source here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBZ64W7URoE&feature=related
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by KI4PRK, updated: 1/2/2010
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Notes: An old pop song from the 'teens, Alabama Jubilee. This is great fun to play, and an excellent tune to jam on as the chord progression lends itself well to improvisation. The two breaks presented here are the melody and a variation closely based on the melody. It has some rolls that are kinda difficult to pull off at higher speeds, mainly the "Dixie Breakdown Roll", so practice, of course, is in order. A rarely played gem; teach it to your local jam and you'll have a blast! Has a Rhythm Guitar & Bass rhythm track. Have fun!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Alberto Ruatta, updated: 11/20/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/20/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Banjowen, updated: 2/22/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: A self penned composition that I wrote for my wife some years ago.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Slapstick_inc, updated: 2/14/2026
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Notes: Based on Aaron McDaris's recordings
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 8/31/2014
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Notes: Vince Gill capo 5
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Slapstick_inc, updated: 2/14/2026
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Notes: 3/4 timing
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by HOWDYDOODY, updated: 1/21/2017 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by n1wr, updated: 7/17/2015 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Thanks go to Jason Skinner - for his TAB published in Banjo Newsletter, which is the source for this TablEdit version of Don Reno's tune.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Slapstick_inc, updated: 2/14/2026
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Notes: Based on Jim Mills' break with Ricky Skaggs
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/20/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/21/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by VickiLynn, updated: 11/19/2009 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: also interested in what the expert looks like
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by rossnickerson, updated: 10/11/2012 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: This is one of the songs in my Gospel Songs for Banjo Book/CD/DVD at BanjoTeacher.com. Thanks, Ross Nickerson
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by jbs325is, updated: 3/10/2012
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Notes: Comes with TAB, Chord Chart, MP3 and Backing Track MP3. From LaynePublications.com
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by eagleisland, updated: 3/30/2013 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: I was pondering good songs to introduce my students to 3/4 timing. I asked Ira Gitlin, a fabulous teacher and wonderful contributor to the Hangout, and he suggested Amazing Grace. There weren't any tabs here that I liked very much, so I came up with this. The first time through is super simple, and has mostly melody notes with a few fills. The second time through is a little more complicated and incorporates some melodic elements. The third includes a simple vamping backup using closed chord positions.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by chuckv97, updated: 2/12/2025
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Notes: Easy TAB for first or second year players. Tutorial video is in the video library and under media on my home page which includes the TAB
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Slapstick_inc, updated: 2/14/2026
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Notes: 3/4 timing
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by hoser, updated: 1/25/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Slapstick_inc, updated: 2/14/2026
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Notes: No capo needed
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Peter Vipulis, updated: 7/1/2021
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Notes: One of my favorite pieces. Video for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV0fLwDiIKg
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Mike Rowe, updated: 3/15/2017 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Andy Campbell, updated: 10/20/2015 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This was a free download from the Jay Buckey site. www.jaybuckey.com I got it probably 7 or 8 years ago not long after I started. I can heartily recommend Jay's work as I have bought a few of his books over the years.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Bluegrass Banjo Dude, updated: 8/23/2020
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Notes: Here's another classic Bluegrass Gospel tune! This version I put together doesn't have a whole lot of razzle dazzle but it will surely get the job done in a jam situation! Hope you all enjoy, and thanks for stopping by!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Slapstick_inc, updated: 2/14/2026
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Notes: 3/4 version
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Slapstick_inc, updated: 2/14/2026
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Notes: 4/4 version
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Am Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by willplaybanjoforfood, updated: 5/2/2019
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Notes: Just the Am run
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by MattMahan, updated: 10/5/2020 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is the Banjo Break for this song. I needed to fix a few things and I think I pinned it out pretty accurately. There is some string bending in the last measure on the third string, but I didn't know how to put that into the program.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by crishergirl, updated: 5/9/2012
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 11/15/2023
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Notes: Written by Stephen Foster and published in 1850, it is an oldie but goodie. After fooling with different tunings, I settled on drop C, capoed up 2 to D. Thus you get the nice resonate sound of that low 4th string. Note that many people play it with the B part first, whereas my tab is based on the arrangement by the Nashville Bluegrass Band.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Tim Purcell, updated: 12/7/2013
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Notes: This is a very simple version of Angeline The Baker. I've always liked Sammy Shelor's version so I came up with this, which incorporates some hammer-on's and pull-off's. It's double C tuning capo at 2nd fret. Thanks Tim
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 11/10/2018
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Notes: Capo 2nd fret for D
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BenGran, updated: 2/2/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by BenGran, updated: 2/2/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by BenGran, updated: 2/2/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Expert
Posted by BenGran, updated: 2/2/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Tom Hanway, updated: 1/21/2010
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Notes: Here's a bluegrassy version of this old-time tune, in standard G tuning, a fiery melodic version based loosely on fiddler Stuart Duncan's variations with the Nashville Bluegrass Band. I have tried to keep the melody flowing at all times, adding fill notes while keeping the main notes in the usual places, using slides, syncopation, pinches and pull-offs to keep it in the bluegrass camp.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Slapstick_inc, updated: 2/14/2026
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Notes: Capo 2nd fret
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Slapstick_inc, updated: 2/14/2026
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Notes: No capo needed
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Slapstick_inc, updated: 2/14/2026
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Slapstick_inc, updated: 2/14/2026
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/20/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 8/2/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: D Difficulty: Expert
Posted by GeoMatt22, updated: 8/4/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: I don't play banjo, but I made a solo guitar arrangement of the Bela Fleck banjo (/Jerry Douglas dobro) tune Another Morning. I had seen requests for 'Another Morning Part B' on the forums here, so I thought I'd post the TEF file. ( I'm hoping some kind and more experienced member could easily use Tabledit to cut and paste over to appropriately tuned banjo and clean up, since I'd have no idea! )
For "part B" of this tune, Bela does a variety of counter-melodies/rhythms behind the dobro, which carries the main melody +/- 'chords'. I made a solo guitar practice arrangement
~ capturing the total effect, most of the banjo, and the dobro accent/sustain where needed. I think I captured all the main melodic/rhythmic motifs Bela uses, which can be combined in endless ways over the basic chords/rhythm. I think my arrangement is essentially 'Scruggs-style' rolls, mostly w/a low-profile bassline below, and occasionally more typical 'guitar strum' chords (kind of approximating banjo/bass/'chop' trio).
EDIT (8/04/2011): updated w/better approximation of dobro slide @ end of intro.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Slapstick_inc, updated: 2/14/2026
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Notes: Based on Alan Jackson's vocals
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Gm Tuning: Open Gm (gDGBbD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by larrytanner, updated: 12/16/2009
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Notes: Ben Eldridge recorded this with the Seldom Scene, Old Train - 1974. Original transcription by Dave Bunch.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/22/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/24/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/24/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jbs325is, updated: 3/10/2012
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 6/20/2020
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Notes: One of Jimmy Martin's tunes, with a rumba rhythm in the B part. Jimmy Martin, the King of Bluegrass Calypso. Who knew?
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Slapstick_inc, updated: 2/14/2026
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Notes: Pronounced stressing the first 'a' long, as in Arab, Alabama, wher the author was born
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoy, updated: 10/25/2019
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Notes: This is my version of the fun instrumental by Vernon Derrick. I came up with a lead part which pretty much mimics the triplet runs you'll hear fiddlers play for this tune. Then I came up with a note for note part for a twin banjo or that you can play with a fiddler who's playing lead.
This is my first attempt at tabbing a tune. This is tabbed at 1/2 speed basically so I could more clearly convey the triplets, etc. I hope you enjoy!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/24/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Jacob Underwood, updated: 1/15/2015
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Notes: This is my banjo solo for the song "Are You Missing Me." It's fairly straight forward, but it does occasionally depart from the typical Scruggs style licks in favor of more melodic lines. When I was making this solo, I tried to think about how I would play if I was playing it with Jim & Jesse. I have never done much with tablature, so I would love to hear what you all think.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 4/3/2021 - 4 Member Comments
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Notes: Are You Missing Me is a fine bluegrass standard, written by Ira Louvin and associated with Jim and Jesse. I have tabbed 3 breaks. Note the long tag at the end of the first break; I think I first heard it (or something like it) played by Bobby Thompson. The final D measures at the end of the second break feature one of my original D runs, and you might find it useful. The third break includes some melodic sequences that you can plug into a variety of tunes. Note added in April 2021: I originally posted this tablature several years ago, and I have now modified it slightly.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Slapstick_inc, updated: 2/14/2026
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stan, updated: 8/25/2012 - 3 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by speedbump, updated: 5/2/2010 - 4 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by davedude, updated: 11/30/2020
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Notes: This is a PDF export of speedbump's post.
https://www.banjohangout.org/tab/browse.asp?m=detail&v=13323
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/13/2023
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Notes: This gospel number has a straightforward melody, and the trick is to capture the melody without defaulting to formulaic rolls that obscure it. I first heard the song on the 1964 Folkways recording by Red Allen and Frank Wakefield. and it sounded to me as though Allen was singing "are you warshed ..." Incidentally, the banjo player on the track was Pete Roberts (Pete Kuykendall), who soon became the founding editor of Bluegrass Unlimited magazine. You can also find a version by Flatt and Scruggs on volume 2 of their tv show videos, with tasty guitar work by Earl.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by bango, updated: 10/3/2023
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 6/12/2024
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Notes: Key of D capo 2
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by RB3, updated: 9/8/2025
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Notes: The arrangement is played in the key of C, in G-tuning. Typically, the song is played in the key of D with a fiddle or mandolin, so capo the banjo at the second fret to play in the key of D.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Slapstick_inc, updated: 2/14/2026
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Notes: Capo 7th fret
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by flyakfish, updated: 2/24/2021
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Notes: This is a melodic tab in G tuning but with the 5th string tuned down one fret to F# for the key of "D". This tuning works great for many songs in the key of "D" played in the melodic style. I will post more.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Devon Wells, updated: 6/4/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jbs325is, updated: 3/11/2012
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 7/1/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: the guitar player can give you some nice base runs if you don't play this song at the speed of light :) Enjoy...Lynn
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Slapstick_inc, updated: 2/14/2026
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Notes: Based on Pete Wernick's
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/20/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman0254, updated: 11/22/2009 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Here is an example of what I offer from my site at http://www.leemarcusmusic.webs.com/
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 9/16/2025 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: A bluegrass and country classic. When the C note in measures 4 and 12 is played, some people accompany by staying in the G chord leading into the D chord, whereas others play the C and then G chord leading into the D. The first part of the tab follows the first progression, and the second part of the tab follows the other.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Slapstick_inc, updated: 2/14/2026
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by blugras77, updated: 8/14/2018
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Notes: An exact transcription of Noam Pikelny's first solo off his album "Noam Pikelny plays Kenny Baker plays Bill Monroe."
I used this video to help me see what position he was in: https://youtu.be/VAMomBW9mbw
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jbs325is, updated: 3/10/2012
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Notes: Comes with TAB, Chord Chart, MP3 and Backing Track MP3. From LaynePublications.com
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Slapstick_inc, updated: 2/14/2026
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Notes: Capo 7th fret; 3/4 timing
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/21/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jbs325is, updated: 3/11/2012
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by pno, updated: 2/3/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by gesj5, updated: 8/17/2015
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Slapstick_inc, updated: 2/14/2026
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by kingofboise, updated: 12/23/2018 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is as simple as it gets--perfect for beginners or laid-back noodlers. Enjoy!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Stu D Baker-Hawk, updated: 11/29/2014
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Notes: Based on the playing of John McEuen. Recorded Source: The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band 'Will The Circle Be Unbroken'
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by jbs325is, updated: 3/11/2012
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Freddie.D.Holt, updated: 1/23/2010 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 8/4/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Slapstick_inc, updated: 2/14/2026
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Notes: Capo 4th fret
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 1/17/2021 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: BtFM is a neat tune by Johnny Warren and Charlie Cushman, from their album "Purely Instrumental." Charlie Cushman is one of the foremost current practitioners of driving Scruggs-style banjo, and in my opinion he captures Scruggs’s nuances, touch, and tone as well as anybody (and better than most). The tab is not strictly faithful to his version, although I did try to render parts of it note-for-note.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/6/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: F Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Slapstick_inc, updated: 2/14/2026
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Notes: Capo 5th fret; play in C position
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: F Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Slapstick_inc, updated: 2/14/2026
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Notes: No capo; play in F position
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/6/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Exercises and Licks Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 4/17/2015
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Exercises and Licks Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 4/1/2015
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ianhobba1, updated: 11/27/2019 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: I heard this on an LP 'Fingers on Fire' from the Country Gentlemen, sounds like it could have been Eddie Adcock; this tab is not exactly off record, it is closer to how I played it in amongst the mp3's collection posted today 28/11/2019 ….I loved his version and I guess I don't mind mine, coz it's as near as I could get to the original.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Open Gm (gDGBbD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by majku77, updated: 7/18/2018
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 11/10/2018
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/6/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/6/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD)
Posted by Slapstick_inc, updated: 2/14/2026
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Notes: 3 versions
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by fingerbuster, updated: 9/18/2011 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: A Somewhat easier version for beginners.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/6/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jbs325is, updated: 3/11/2012
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/6/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by seanray, updated: 1/17/2026
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Notes: Here are some basic ideas for using scale harmony to develop hand coordination.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/6/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/7/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum) Key: G Tuning: Tenor G (DGdg) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Mirek Tim Patek, updated: 2/24/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by NumberIII, updated: 1/5/2012
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Notes: Drop the Thumb!!!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by NotABanjoYoda, updated: 12/24/2022
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Notes: I tabbed this as part of a video lesson and then made it my own with an intro.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Logan l banjo, updated: 9/11/2023
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/7/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/7/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Slapstick_inc, updated: 2/14/2026
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ReinstateHank, updated: 6/5/2022
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Notes: Tabbed by Stanley Tone -
https://youtu.be/hqZPLtisUaQ
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Open D (aDF#Ad) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 4/18/2012
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/7/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jbs325is, updated: 3/11/2012
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by OldFox, updated: 1/20/2014
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stratovarious520, updated: 7/29/2022 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Capo 2. My take of the Bela version of the Reno classic.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Slapstick_inc, updated: 2/14/2026
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 8/31/2011 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: another version
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD)
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 8/2/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/7/2006 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Slapstick_inc, updated: 2/14/2026
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Notes: Bill Keith's
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by rossnickerson, updated: 5/4/2019
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 12/3/2009
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by agentheath, updated: 11/9/2014
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Notes: Basic version of Banks of the Ohio.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Kstevensmd, updated: 10/18/2019
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/1/2023 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Here are 3 pretty straightforward breaks to this jaunty little murder ballad. The first is down the neck, the second is up the neck, and the third employs Keith/Scruggs tuners. To understand the section of the tab with Keith tuners, you will need to hear it by playing the MIDI.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 6/12/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Slapstick_inc, updated: 2/14/2026
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/6/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/7/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Gilles Rezard, updated: 12/1/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Slapstick_inc, updated: 2/14/2026
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Notes: Capo 2nd fret
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/13/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by rossnickerson, updated: 5/5/2019
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Slapstick_inc, updated: 2/14/2026
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Notes: Not sure of the key (C or G?)
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/13/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by AndreVanDerBeek, updated: 3/15/2015
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 6/25/2017
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Notes: BSB is a brilliant original banjo tune written by Bill Keith. It has a remarkable internal logic, a flow of melody notes, which is not surprising given Bill’s penchant for mathematics. Many years ago I posted a tab of BSB, but in recently watching a youtube video of Bill playing the tune I detected some errors in my tab. So I have tried to render a tab that is closer to the way he played it. The B part is particularly difficult for the left hand. Pay attention to the section in measure 11, where the trick is to use your index finger to barre the 1st and 2nd strings at the 10th fret and then fret the 5th string at the 14th fret by s-t-r-e-c-h-i-n-g over with your ring finger. It probably would help to have fingers like bananas (which I don’t have). Capo up 2 to play in the key of A.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/13/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/26/2018
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Notes: I heard this first in the old barn at Bean Blossom
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: F Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Jim Pankey, updated: 4/28/2015
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Slapstick_inc, updated: 2/14/2026
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Notes: Capo 2nd fret
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by fbisel, updated: 4/22/2025
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Notes: Beautiful Life - Baucom break from Doyle Lawson Rock My Soul
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by sdevries, updated: 12/19/2009 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Banjowen, updated: 9/5/2009 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: A tune that I wrote a few years ago for my Daughter Rebecca.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/13/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Freddie.D.Holt, updated: 1/23/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by John Harper, updated: 3/26/2010
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Notes: Greatfull Dead did this tune among others. G tuning capoed to key of A.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 10/10/2011 - 4 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 11/2/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BanjoTJC, updated: 3/3/2017
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BanjoTJC, updated: 3/26/2017
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Truje Luthier, updated: 5/24/2020
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Jodebanjo, updated: 4/1/2015
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Truje Luthier, updated: 2/19/2020
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by wilbanjo, updated: 10/6/2019
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Notes: Mark Stockton tabs
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by speedbump, updated: 5/2/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 4/8/2016 - 5 Member Comments
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Notes: Along with Earl Scruggs and Bill Keith, Allen Shelton was one of my major influences and inspirations when I was learning to play bluegrass banjo. It was a thrill to see him with Jim and Jesse at the University of Chicago Folk Festival in 1966, where he wowed the audience (and me) with his banjo prowess. Bending the Strings is a clever original piece by Shelton, and one that involves the use of Keith/Scruggs tuners. I read somewhere that he wrote it when he was a teenager, an indication of how talented he was. I have tabbed it so you can play it without D tuners, although I have indicated above the tab the proper moves if you have tuners. The first break resembles the way Shelton played BTS, but it is not note-for-note. The second break is reminiscent of Bill Keith's version and includes some neat ideas. You can find Keith's recording of it on his 1992 CD "Beating Around the Bush," which should be in every bluegrass banjo player's collection.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 10/21/2024 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This jaunty little original tune started out as a simple warmup exercise and, without my planning it, morphed into a recognizable tune. I normally play it AAB, and I have provided two versions of the B part for some variety.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: Cm Difficulty: Expert
Posted by John Steele, updated: 8/21/2013
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Notes: This tab corresponds with Jim Reed's sound file of "Beth".
Jim has confirmed it's correctness.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by gcpicken, updated: 6/26/2023
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Notes: This is the just the Melodic Break
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/13/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/13/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/29/2007
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Slapstick_inc, updated: 2/14/2026
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Kstevensmd, updated: 2/4/2012 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: Big Ben is a great song that I have heard performed by Tony Trishka but could not find a tab for it. So, my teacher, Glenn Nelson and I came up with this arrangement. I hope you like it.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/12/2020 - 7 Member Comments
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Notes: One of the classic instrumentals by the Osborne Brothers, featuring harmony banjos as well as solo banjo breaks.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Slapstick_inc, updated: 2/14/2026
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Slapstick_inc, updated: 2/14/2026
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/14/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/14/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/14/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/29/2007
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dUSA, updated: 12/17/2014 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Up the neck version
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Lukino_Bali, updated: 4/13/2023 - 6 Member Comments
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Notes: Beautiful music gave me the strength to write :-)
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Slapstick_inc, updated: 2/14/2026
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dbrooks, updated: 12/4/2023
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Notes: This tab is based on the clawhammer playing of Abigail Washburn in a duet with Bela Fleck found on the CD "Echo in the Valley." Also as the 2nd tune of a medley on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWIfFIEeZjw
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: E Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Old Hickory, updated: 5/31/2025
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Notes: I created this TablEdit version of Carson Sass's PDF tab of Bela Fleck's Big Country in response to a Hangout member's request for help in converting that PDF to .TEF.
I imported it easily into TablEdit, just as the instructions say.
Note: Carson's tab has the measures wrong. The third note in his tab should be a downbeat in the first full measure. The 2-4 third string slide leading into it should be pickup notes in the preceding measure.
I also had to change his ending of the first time through to make the repeat work. What I created makes musical sense. If it's not what he played, sorry. It's only a few notes off at most. At the end of a measure where it's just fill. You'll survive.
Also note: The tab is only Part B. Not the whole piece.
Here's a link to Carson playing Big Country: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYd-ZJ0YNRk
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dbrooks, updated: 12/3/2023
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Notes: This tab is based on the playing of Phoebe Sanders found in this YouTube video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdlrU_8OAac
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/14/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by darbard, updated: 10/22/2013
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Notes: As played by Bela Fleck in "Left of Cool" (studio version).
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by DarrenJ, updated: 3/31/2019
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Notes: If you’re looking for a fun tune that combines melodics, single string, and a swing feel, look no further than Alan O’Bryant’s Big Cow in Carlisle. After hearing this on the radio, I quickly perused the Hangout for the tab but only found someone’s request for it. YouTube only offered the recording by the Nashville Bluegrass Band. Still green in the world of transcribing banjo tunes, I decided to take on the challenge. After several slowed down listens, thanks to YouTube’s speed setting, I feel I have a solid representation of the tune.
In the first, full measure, I use my pinky for the hammer-on to facilitate an easier maneuver for the ring finger on the 3rd string-7th fret and the middle finger on the 2nd string-2nd fret, but if that isn't comfortable for you, do what is! At the 2nd ending, make sure to bring out the syncopated line with the 5-4-3 on the D string. Alan does this so well, the open 3rd and 1st strings are hardly noticed.
Be sure not to rush the hammer-on at the down beat of the B section. It isn't anticipated as a 16th note, and your picking index finger jumps up to the 4th string to execute the slide in the following measure. Release the string with your fretting hand, making that note staccato (note the rest) as well as the following two quarter notes on the 1st string. The same is true for the following two quarter notes on the 2nd string at the 8th fret. Listening to the recording will help immensely.
Note the single string in m. 23. Pretend you're Wes Corbett, and start with the index finger since you've just used your thumb. I heard in an interview he taught himself single string and started with his index. You can transition to a more traditional thumb lead using the middle finger on the 2nd string, but it changes the tone pattern (plastic vs. metal pick).
The form of the tune is a bit uneven: A1-A2-A1-A2-B-A2. In the second grouping of A sections, another instrument alternates with the lead. However, the banjo's ending break is shortened, leaving out the two middle A sections, rendering the form A1-A2-B-A2.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/14/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 3/13/2012 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: I grew up in the Adirondack mountains of northern N.Y. State--very near to the Canadian border. There is a lot of french influence in my arrangements. Enjoy.............Lynn
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Duc7, updated: 8/8/2010
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Notes: Here's a classic Bill Monroe gem that just rocks - have fun!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by 21stCenturyBanjo, updated: 11/12/2018
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Notes: Big Mon in A Capo 2
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Slapstick_inc, updated: 2/14/2026
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by NickPug, updated: 6/29/2026
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Notes: Here is my arrangement of Big Mon in two octaves. The first octave is heavily inspired by Tony Trischka's arrangement in his book "Master Collection of Fiddle Tunes for the Banjo," based on the playing of Bobby Hicks. The second half uses more advanced techniques: closed melodic with some single string, and some big jumps up the neck.
This tune started as more of an exercise and has since evolved into this mess. I tried to stay true to the melody with some variations here and there
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 7/20/2023 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: My interpretation of Alan Munde's elegant break on the Monroe classic, from Bobby Hicks's album "Texas Crapshooter."
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by elijahwheeler, updated: 4/29/2025
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Notes: My first experience in writing tabs for bluegrass banjo, as well as in creating my own variations
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Bigbear1700, updated: 8/21/2012 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Sorry its upside down, just right click and select rotate until its rightside up.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/14/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/14/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/14/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Devon Wells, updated: 2/26/2010 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 1/7/2020 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Here is my version of a classic tune by Bill Monroe and Kenny Baker, normally played in the key of A (capoed up two). The breaks involve a judicious mixture of Scruggs and melodic playing. Pay particular attention to the third break, in which I attempt to capture the feel of Kenny Baker's approach to the tune on the fiddle. Ah, Kenny Baker.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by howsy-bee, updated: 1/4/2020 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: 3 breaks in 2 registers.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Slapstick_inc, updated: 2/14/2026
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Notes: Capo 2nd fret
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Jodebanjo, updated: 7/13/2014 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Tabbed out the intro the way Noam plays it. I've included the right hand fingerwork on important passages, which makes it playable. Not for the fainthearted. Lots of index-finger-above-the-thumb picking. NOTE: I can't get a 5th string capo in GP6, so add 2 frets on the 5th string in the tab.
Update 7/13/14: Small update.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by 21stCenturyBanjo, updated: 5/9/2019
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 4/8/2016 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: My take on Pikelny's first break on Big Sandy River -- you know, the easy one -- from "Noam Pikelny Plays Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe." I emphasize that there are multiple ways to play the same notes, especially on the up-the-neck parts, and I may not have captured the exact way he plays it. This is an exceptionally difficult piece played at a blistering tempo. So buckle up your seat belts. As for his other breaks to BSR: Well, you're on your own. Good luck
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/25/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Old Hickory, updated: 4/2/2014 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: My arrangement of this popular fiddle tune. Influenced by several sources.
I don't include fingering because in most case it's obvious and I assume anyone who plays melodics has their preferred ways of getting at the basic formations that come up in this arrangement. I will note that there's some use of middle finger on 2nd string, usually at the top end of a forward roll. In measure 19, for the 3-note backward roll starting on 2nd string I actually use my index finger for both 2nd and 3rd strings. It's non-conventional, but it works for me, especially at the moderate tempo of this tune. You're free to use middle on 2nd for a true 3-finger backward roll, as Tony Trischka and Bela Fleck would. Thank you to Hangout member Sam Parks for letting me use the guitar, mandolin and bass tracks from his TablEdit file. Saved me a lot of time.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by howsy-bee, updated: 2/15/2019 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Low and high break.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 8/20/2025
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Slapstick_inc, updated: 2/14/2026
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by bohemianbanjo, updated: 9/20/2011
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Notes: From the Oregon Bluegrass Association newsletter "Bluegrass Express," Fall of 2011.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/14/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 11/10/2018
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/14/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Claude Grassley, updated: 4/6/2020
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by phb, updated: 2/20/2022
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Notes: This is my transcription of the banjo intro as recorded on the Bluegrass Album Band's third record.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 3/13/2025
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Slapstick_inc, updated: 2/14/2026
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Slapstick_inc, updated: 2/14/2026
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Notes: Jim Mills'
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: F Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 6/14/2014
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Notes: live Porter Wagoner Show 1968
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x572Y3JCnJ0
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Slapstick_inc, updated: 2/14/2026
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by jbs325is, updated: 3/11/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Get the Backing Track, MP3 and Chord Chart at LaynePublications.com.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by seanray, updated: 1/17/2026
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Notes: Basic arrangement from seanray.com
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/15/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 7/8/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/15/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jbs325is, updated: 3/11/2012
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Notes: Get the Backing Track, MP3 and Chord Chart at LaynePublications.com.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by HOWDYDOODY, updated: 1/22/2017 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Normally played in the key of A ( capo 2 )
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 11/10/2018
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/13/2026
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Notes: I have tabbed two breaks to this jam favorite. The second break includes some interesting melodic sequences I heard on a concert tape (recorded at the Birchmere, to be precise) of Bela Fleck when he was with Spectrum.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by howsy-bee, updated: 4/3/2023
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Notes: A mix of low and high passages. Tab of my banjo break on the Bluegrass Coalition video project, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar1yDjqpTXQ
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/15/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/15/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Raul Cabezali, updated: 1/12/2019
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Notes: My teacher asked me to prepare an arrangement in C for this tune, and so did I.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 4/25/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Key of A, uncapo
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 9/10/2012
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Notes: Key of A................. no capo. I wanted to see how difficult it would be to play Bill Cheatham in open A--and It didn't go that bad at all ...but I made a few slight banjoistical (new word) :) changes from my original arrangement and added the backup instruments......
Hope you like it.................Lynn
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Slapstick_inc, updated: 2/14/2026
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Notes: Capo 2nd fret
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 1/7/2014
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Notes: Here is a creative Bill Emerson lick that is a variation on a standard Scruggs lick.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by 5-String, updated: 2/5/2018 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is a note for note transcription of how Bill Keith played this medley on the video "Banjo Meltdown" from the 1992 Tennessee Banjo Institute.
YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpqAFnyvzHQ
The tab is written such that you can follow along with the recording. Chords are basic, i.e. not necessarily exactly what is being played by the guitar. Adjust settings so that chords are displayed as letter names only, tab is displayed at 4 bars per line, and view is scaled to 16th notes. Bill Keith's left hand fingerings are included, but may be considered unusual or difficult by some. Other fingerings are possible and might be preferable by players with different sized hands and/or banjo necks.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by 5-String, updated: 2/5/2018 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: This is a note for note transcription of how Bill Keith played this tune at the Midwest Banjo Camp, 2013.
YouTube link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlHoWnLzIAY
Note that this version is slightly different than the version included in my "Medley" with the Bourree by Bach. A few lines have simple, but useful alterations, to grab the ear of someone paying attention.
The tab is written such that you can follow along with the recording. Chords are very basic. Adjust settings so that chords are displayed as letter names only, tab is displayed at 4 bars per line, and view is scaled to 16th notes. Bill Keith's left hand fingerings are included, but may be considered unusual or difficult by some. Other fingerings are possible and might be preferable by players with different sized hands and/or banjo necks. Bill remarks "I can remember the title sometimes," but never states it in the linked video given above.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by 5-String, updated: 5/23/2018 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Bill Keith was scheduled to teach at the Alabama Folk School at Camp McDowell this spring, and consequently I was very excited to get to pick his brain for 4 whole days. However, he unfortunately had to decline due to a "health issue beyond his control." So, I thought I'd just learn a few of his tunes anyway. Why not start with one of the first ones that made him famous… the "Devi's Dream" and "Sailor's Hornpipe" medley from the "Livin' On The Mountain" album? This should be a note for note transcription, with the possible exception that there were a couple of spots where he may have used a "pull-off" lick getting to the A minor chord, but I couldn't really tell. I didn't include it, so the A minor bits are played around the 5th fret, instead of the first. Adjust settings so that chords are displayed as letter names only, tab is displayed at 4 bars per line, and view is scaled to 16th notes. I wish him well and hope that his health improves so that he might make it back in the future.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A#/Bb Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by 5-String, updated: 5/23/2018 - 5 Member Comments
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Notes: This tab is my interpretation of how Bill Keith played the tune on the "Bill Keith and Jim Collier" album. Both banjo breaks are included along with the backup for the fiddle and mandolin breaks. In other words, the tab is written such that you can follow along with the record. Adjust settings so that chords are displayed as letter names only, tab is displayed at 4 bars per line, and view is scaled to 16th notes. The first few blank measures are there to maintain the chord & bar patterns (4 bars per phrase) such that each phrase starts at the beginning of a line.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by 5-String, updated: 5/23/2018
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Notes: This is a note for note transcription of how Bill Keith played this tune on his "Something Auld, Something Newgrass, Something Borrowed, Something Bluegrass" album. There are similar, single solo, tabs in Tony Trischka's books "Melodic Banjo" and "Bill Keith Banjo," that certainly have enough info to play the tune similar to the way Bill did it. However, for those of you who are interested in all of the specific details, (or just can't stand it when the books leave them out) this should be exactly how Bill played it on the record. The tab is written such that you can follow along with the recording. Adjust settings so that chords are displayed as letter names only, tab is displayed at 4 bars per line, and view is scaled to 16th notes. The first few blank measures are there to maintain the chord & bar patterns (4 bars per phrase) such that each phrase starts at the beginning of a line.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/15/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Slapstick_inc, updated: 2/14/2026
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 10/18/2018 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Capo 5th fret
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/15/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jbs325is, updated: 3/11/2012
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dskeigley, updated: 1/1/2014 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Slapstick_inc, updated: 2/14/2026
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Notes: Capo 5th fret; Includes a melodic version
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 7/23/2021
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Notes: I dislike capoing above the 4th fret. Hence when I wanted to work out a break to Billy in the Lowground, many years ago, I did not want to capo at the 5th fret and play out of the G position. When I heard I Don Stover’s rendition in drop C tuning, I was inspired to use drop C for my break, and I incorporated some strange ideas. Note that the B part played by some people goes to the F chord (4), whereas other people’s versions go to Am (6m). My tab goes to the F chord, but you can change it to Am by substituting an E note for the F note. I also mimic a little bit of Clarence White in the B part.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Dm Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Chapucero, updated: 5/2/2020
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Notes: Couldn't find a definitive banjo version for this, so I transcribed some of John Reischman's playing and added a few ideas of my own for parts I couldn't quite get. This has some fun ideas in Dm. Enjoy!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mikejboulder, updated: 2/12/2012
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Notes: Tab request in response to thread http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/228176/#2892709
See the video at: http://www.bishlinebanjos.com/wp/models/cimarron/
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Fede, updated: 1/10/2021
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Notes: Transcribed from Bela Fleck's album Natural Bridge (1982)
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by sjm78560, updated: 4/24/2012
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Slapstick_inc, updated: 2/14/2026
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by phill, updated: 3/23/2011
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Notes: This tune was written by the great Don Stover. I always wanted to play it and then one day I was fooling around and it started to come to me. When I listen to Don's recording on "Things In Life" he plays at lighting speed. It's in G tuning but in the key of c (use C shapes).
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 8/19/2015 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: This is my take on Black Diamond, it was written by the late Don Stover. Hope You like it..Lynn
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by rustewey, updated: 12/2/2017
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Notes: This is a Don Stover classic that was issued on Rounder records ROU 0014 in 1972
The tab is taken from a recording made in Don's living room during a lesson in 1972, he was playing the no holes style 6 that was destroyed by the airlines later.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jcland, updated: 1/26/2024
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Notes: Originally recorded on Larry Cordle's album "Murder On Music Row" back in 1999. It was recorded in B so I have tabbed this out in the original key of B with the Capo on the 4th fret.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Slapstick_inc, updated: 2/14/2026
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by KI4PRK, updated: 2/17/2010 - 7 Member Comments
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Notes: The classic show-piece for fiddle, "Black Mountain Blues/Rag" arranged here for Scruggs/Reno style banjo (capo 2). This piece is difficult at a medium tempo, let alone the burning fast velocity it sounds best (in my opinion) at. The 2nd chorus is an example of Don Reno's continuous roll pattern, which is a forward roll with no breaks until the end of the chorus. Thus it sounds almost too syncopated, and the timing is down with a lot of pull-offs & hammer-ons. I have experimented with a triple pull-off á la Don's "Green Mountain Hop", (which is this same piece albeit in the key of D), to imitate the "crazy" fiddle part (you have to hear the tune to know what I'm talking about). Needless to say it's quite difficult at any tempo! There are a few small single string parts in the first two A sections, which are kinda difficult to pull off cleanly. Has a Rhythm Guitar & Bass rhythm track, as well as a guitar kick-off. Have fun!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/15/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 10/26/2012 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by schlange, updated: 7/11/2014 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: From Jack Baker, for our TOTW: http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/287936
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 10/18/2018
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Notes: capo 2nd fret
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by bango, updated: 10/1/2023
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Notes: Mostly cribbed from Emerson, Baker, Crowe & Munde.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Slapstick_inc, updated: 2/14/2026
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 2/27/2021 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: My tablature to BMR comprises 2 breaks. The first is the way I often play it. The second is my approximation of a break by the great Bill Emerson, one of my favorite banjo players. He recorded 2 breaks to BMR on his album “Gold Plated Banjo.” You can find the first break in the Bill Emerson tab book published by Acu-Tab. Here I have included my tab of his very improvisational second break.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by crisslewis, updated: 1/5/2026
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Notes: I could not find a version in D / C on our site so I have done a tabedit version which might help out others, i see old billy string has done this in C/D and a lot of my guitarist friends seem to be playing it in C / D .
this is based on the banjo ben version and the credit should go to him for working it out,
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 4/7/2015
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Notes: My interpretation of a straightforward melodic piece by Marshall Brickman, from "New Dimensions in Banjo and Bluegrass" (Elektra Records, 1963).
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mwblake, updated: 1/22/2015 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: Marvellous tune from the great Matt Flinner. Capo II. Watch out for the unsquare bits! Here's a performance by the composer: http://youtu.be/Npjmp7ph0rk
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by conic, updated: 1/24/2018 - 5 Member Comments
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Notes: I have made this tab of the up the neck lick from the Robert Feathers band, fantastic old home place album, track 10 blackberry blossom. it has to be played fast to hear how great this lick is. I think the banjo picker is Evan Ward. I am unable to find the album for sale but I have this track as mp3
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/15/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/15/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum) Key: G Tuning: Tenor G (DGdg) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Mirek Tim Patek, updated: 2/24/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jbs325is, updated: 3/11/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 11/10/2018
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BanjoBoy88, updated: 6/17/2024
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Notes: The fiddle tune but using Scruggs rolls. Made easy to learn from.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by toolmaker, updated: 3/7/2020
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Notes: It may be a little awkward in the chorus but I like the sound. Capo 2nd fret for A.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by littleton, updated: 2/5/2021
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Slapstick_inc, updated: 2/14/2026
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoy, updated: 8/19/2021
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Notes: These are some variations on this cool instrumental I've come up with to spice things up a little bit. It seemed every banjo picker knew a well known melodic version but that was about it, so I wanted to come up with some Scruggs-type ways to approach this tune, with a little chromatics thrown in here and there. I especially enjoy the stuff I came up with for Part B ... lots of fun to be had with this tune. I also have a rambling video I made back in 2013 which shows some of these licks in play ... https://youtu.be/5qdZJgmL7Ig
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by phill, updated: 3/24/2011
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Notes: This is a counter melody of the A part an idea I got when fooling around way back.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by phill, updated: 3/24/2011
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Notes: A varation of the wole tune
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by earlsgranada, updated: 11/3/2024
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Notes: Noam Pikelny arrangement of Blackberry Blossom
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 11/2/2021
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Notes: Some years ago, in wandering around the internet I discovered and downloaded a file entitled “Flatt & Scruggs, Live Shows 1956 - 1959.” One track was a fiddle/banjo duet on Blackberry Blossom, with Earl Scruggs playing backup to the fiddle. The chords in his backup were minimal: In contrast to the usual structure, his A Part included only G and D chords, and his B Part was only in E minor. But it is vintage Scruggs-style backup and well worth listening to. In the tablature I have tried to capture Earl’s backup, although I found it difficult to decipher his playing in the B Part. So treat it as an approximation. To put his backup in context, I have added a banjo track playing the melody, but it is muted so that you can hear the backup track more clearly. If I could play the fiddle I would have included the fiddle track instead. However, you can also listen to the recording of Earl and Paul Warren, posted on the Media section of my BHO page.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/15/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Fathand, updated: 12/13/2011 - 3 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Devon Wells, updated: 3/30/2011
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Notes: A backup that works nicely for Blackberry Blossom--has a descending bassline with pinches. If you like it you may like my banjo blog at www.banjohomeplace.blogspot.com
Genre: Bluegrass Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Devon Wells, updated: 1/23/2013
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D#/Eb Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Matt Davis, updated: 5/14/2016 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: This is an arrangement of the tune that I've conjured up myself, designed to be more of an exercise than anything, but nevertheless, fun to play and enjoyable to listen to. It begins in G just like normal, but then changes keys to Eb for a verse, then to Bb for a verse, and then back to G. All in open tuning. Enjoy!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 1/13/2016 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: The first elegant melodic break to BB I heard was by Bill Keith on the Zap Records LP “Dobro and Fiddle,” by Kenny Haddock and Billy Baker (one of Monroe’s former fiddlers), released in 1967. He subsequently recorded it with the supergroup Muleskinner, in 1973. Bill’s breaks were delightful and stayed close to the melody, unlike the excursions into banjo noise practised by many of his successors, and they were played at breakneck knuckle-busting speed. For an example of the cleverness of his break, note how he used ascending scales in the first run-through of the A part and then descending scales in the second run-through. Brilliant. Catch the video of Muleskinner on youtube.com, to see a young and bearded Bill Keith playing some outstanding banjo on BB and a bunch of other tunes.
The tab I have posted here is pretty close to the way I hear Bill playing it, and I give you two of his endings, the first from the Billy Baker recording and the second from Muleskinner. Note that the backup chord structure can be complex as in the tab and Muleskinner recording, or simple as in the Billy Baker recording. Either way it’s a great tune.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoy, updated: 2/15/2022
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Notes: This is my original arrangement of this beautiful tune by Paul McCartney. In working this up I discovered that Paul does not always play it the same way, occasionally adding in some transitional or "bridge" measures before the 3rd and 4th verses, and sometimes only before the 4th verse. This version is the latter.
Anyway, this is a fun tune to play and beautiful to hear. I hope you enjoy.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Slapstick_inc, updated: 2/14/2026
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/15/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/15/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/15/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by seanray, updated: 1/17/2026
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Notes: Backup Tab for "The Session Book" - seanray.com
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Gm Tuning: Open Gm (gDGBbD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 10/21/2023
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Notes: An original tune in G minor tuning. Interesting ideas can emerge when one is noodling in G minor tuning. About the title: BS M is a rare bird indeed, a small mountain rising above the bald prairie. It is artificial, constructed as a ski slope for the 1971 Canada Winter Games.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: F Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Matthess, updated: 4/24/2020
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Notes: This is my arrangement of Bela's banjo intro to "Bloomin Rose". His banjo is tuned gGCEG. It's the same tuning as standard open G, but just shifted down to open C. This can be played in open G and it still sounds lovely. Hoping to transpose the other parts Bela plays in the song and make a full instrumental out of it.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/15/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jbs325is, updated: 3/11/2012
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/15/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by howsy-bee, updated: 4/18/2018
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Notes: After some considerations, I undid the changes after the bass break, and left the others.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Lauck, updated: 6/12/2012
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Notes: A Texas fiddle tune.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 7/12/2023 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: From the Smithsonian Folkways album "Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys: live recordings 1956 - 1969, off the record volume 1." The B part of Keith's break is particularly interesting, in my opinion. After playing the tune, Monroe commented that Keith's banjo playing was so good it gave him chills.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/15/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Slapstick_inc, updated: 2/14/2026
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/15/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 3/1/2019
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Slapstick_inc, updated: 2/14/2026
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Notes: Often played in B or Bb with a Capo
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Ukeridge, updated: 2/12/2010 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/15/2006 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Vidshooter, updated: 1/20/2014
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Notes: This tab also contains two backup sequences
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by schlange, updated: 2/28/2014 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: From Jack Baker, for the TOTW
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A#/Bb Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by awal767, updated: 10/26/2019
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Notes: J.D. Crowe's intro break from The Bluegrass Album Band's "The Bluegrass Album". Transcribed by AWAL767.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Claude Grassley, updated: 4/7/2020
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Notes: I couldn't find any clawhammer tabs for this so here's my version of Blue Ridge Cabin Home. I think it works. Most versions I found on line were played in Bflat or A.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 6/12/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by RB3, updated: 6/9/2026
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by James Stiltner, updated: 2/12/2013
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 10/11/2016
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Notes: Scruggs's break to BRCH is one of his classics. In its deceptive simplicity and elegance it ranks up there with his break to "No Mother or Dad," in my opinion -- it is a break in which he really plays the words. The first break by Scruggs is my attempt to capture his recorded version with Lester Flatt, and the second break is an amalgam of variations I have heard on various radio and concert recordings by Flatt and Scruggs. The next 2 breaks are my own, with some elements based on Bill Keith's playing. Flatt and Scruggs recorded BRCH in B flat; so capo up 3 if you want to play along with the recording.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by barrybush, updated: 6/6/2015 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is my beginner attempt to tabledit the backup on Earl's Blue Ridge Cabin Home album
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by barrybush, updated: 7/13/2024 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: My attempt at a beginner melody
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by GTurbo, updated: 1/17/2012
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Notes: PDF will provide the best view or print output. (TablEdit is converted from GuitarPro2.)
Grasstowne - Blue Rocking Chair (2011)
This is a simple melody tab, not a transcription of banjo break played by Grasstowne.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/15/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by coltoncrawford, updated: 9/19/2019
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: F Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 4/9/2025
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Notes: Larry Sparks and the Lonesome Ramblers
Tune down 2 frets
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Duelington, updated: 9/19/2023
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Notes: Terry Baucom's break to Blue Yodel #3 from IIIrd Tyme Out's album Puttin' New Roots Down
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 10/21/2023 - 4 Member Comments
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Notes: An original tune, with a low break and a high break.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jbs325is, updated: 3/10/2012
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Notes: Comes with TAB, Chord Chart, MP3 and Backing Track MP3. From LaynePublications.com
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/15/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 11/10/2018 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: F Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dUSA, updated: 12/17/2014
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Dm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Dave Nauman, updated: 2/7/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: Dm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ashurman, updated: 6/30/2018
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Notes: This is Bob Black's long mainly melodic break on the great Kenny Baker tune from 'Frost on the Pumpkin' as near as I can get it. You may find better ways to finger some passages.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: Dm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stratovarious520, updated: 4/28/2022
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Notes: A Kenny Baker classic, arranged for banjo by Bob Black. To the best of my ability, this sounds like exactly what Bob played. For reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VhYTH5Z8uw
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/15/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jbs325is, updated: 3/11/2012
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Notes: Get the Backing Track, MP3 and Chord Chart at LaynePublications.com.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by ryleetondo, updated: 2/23/2026
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Notes: Simple beginner clawhammer tab for Blueridge Mountain Blues, based on the recording by Doc Watson. It's not the most technical tab, I'm a beginner, and it's just what I play for this song.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 8/26/2014
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Notes: Capo 2 5th string up to B rendering Key of E
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/15/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by NumberIII, updated: 1/4/2012
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Notes: Bluesy adaptation of classic Scruggs' full tag lick
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 3/1/2014
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Notes: Just some D licks that I conjured up
have fun and start inventing your own licks...............Lynn
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stratovarious520, updated: 2/18/2021
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Notes: An a cappella piece from "Strictly Arnold", kind of like a minor themed Home Sweet Home. I suppose the song title is in reference to Andy Boarman...perhaps Boarman played HSH in a similar fashion. At any rate, use the original recording for reference, since Tabledit is a computer app, and Jimmy was human.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stratovarious520, updated: 2/19/2021
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Notes: I fixed a couple of perceived errors.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/19/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/19/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by trinaemig, updated: 9/10/2025
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/16/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 1/1/2014
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Notes: capo 2nd Jim & Jessie intro and two breaks
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A#/Bb Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by schwimbo, updated: 2/11/2021
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Notes: This is my most recent interpretation of Bobby Thompson's 2nd break on the Jim and Jesse recording from the early 1960s. Note that the melody is played in more of a single string style rather than melodic style, though it could be played pretty closely using a melodic style. Bobby was good at single string and melodic style (as well as Scruggs style).
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/16/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/16/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 4/18/2022 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: Bound for Jasper emerged on a recent long drive home from Canada’s magnificent West Coast, with an overnight stop in Jasper National Park, Alberta. The B Part employs what I have called the “staircase” roll, learned from the playing of Don Stover. As you will see, the structure of the tune is AAB. I dedicate BfJ to the memory of my dear friend Dr. Neil Cowie – anesthesiologist, storyteller, banjo player – who died on 18 June 2016. Goodbye, Old Pal.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/16/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Dm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by larrytanner, updated: 2/24/2015 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: Great tune by Tom Adams. It's hard for me because of the single string work, but well worth the effort.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: Dm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by thomgus, updated: 3/5/2017
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Notes: Tom Adams melodic composition and a chance to explore a song in Dm.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/16/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/16/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by CBSplayer, updated: 3/5/2015
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/16/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by jimrichter, updated: 11/19/2023
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Notes: Melodic version of Texas fiddle tune "Brilliancy"
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 2/14/2012
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 12/18/2019 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This tune came to me from the Great Universal Oneness. Translation: I was noodling around, and it emerged from the noodling. I wanted to explore the relation between the Bb and D chords, and you can judge how it turned out. It is played out of the G tuning with the capo up 2 frets to the key of A, to make it easier on the guitarist. Incidentally Broad River is near Boiling Springs, North Carolina, where Earl Scruggs came from.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/16/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/16/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/16/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Bluegrass Banjo Dude, updated: 8/23/2020
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Notes: Here's another Jam ready classic from the Flatt & Scruggs Gospel vault! Be sure to study up! What better gold standard to compare your banjo playing to than the master himself! True banjo playing way before its time!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: E Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Dave Nauman, updated: 9/2/2010
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Notes: GuitarPro is squirrely about capoing the fifth. No matter what the tab says, this tune is played in standard tuning, capo 2, fifth string capoed 4. It shows the fifth string being fretted at the fourth, but it's not.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by nathane, updated: 1/20/2025
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Notes: This is my first attempt at working out a tune and creating tab so apologies if it's not great. It's based on Noam Pikelny's recording from the Noam Pikelny plays Kenny Baker plays Bill Monroe record. The recording is in E, I assume capo'ing at 2 and spiking the top string at 9.
I put the 5th string in as tuned to g and fretted at 7 rather than tuned to a and open as this makes the tab sound correct when the up the neck sections are played.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/16/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by James Stiltner, updated: 1/27/2013
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 4/12/2022
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Notes: This is my take on BFB. If you like songs by the Delmore Brothers, you can find my tab for Nashville Blues in the tablature archive.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by James Stiltner, updated: 6/28/2013 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 1/5/2020 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: Buck’s Run is a delightful mandolin tune composed by Buck White. To me, it conjures the sound of baying hounds chasing a deer. It is also an excellent tune for the banjo and has been recorded by several artists: Buck White of course, with banjo by Jack Hicks; Larry Cordle, with banjo by Dave Talbot from Ontari-ari-ari-o; and Jeff White, with banjo by Charlie Cushman. My version of Buck’s Run includes influences from each of these banjo pickers, as well as a wonderful fiddle break by Kenny Baker (ah, Kenny Baker …). It is played in the key of A.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by alducks, updated: 3/28/2017
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Notes: Used a tab on here to convert to G tuning with the D tuned down to a C used by the band in the video. Added Bass tab ( have no idea how to do the guitar and mandolin). Experimented some to try to get the tab of the braying mule and the alternating walkup measures to sound like Douglas' version. Also used repeated measures to try to keep pace with Rod's comic delay...to be able to play along somewhat with the video. No guarantee of accuracy, but it kinda works.
If you have corrections send them to me...I'll fix it.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/16/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD)
Posted by rossnickerson, updated: 5/4/2019
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 2/15/2021 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: Inspired by Butch Robins's recent (February 2021) video of him playing Buffalo Gals, I dusted off my tab of the tune, corrected a few errors, and added backing tracks. Here it is for your dining and dancing pleasure.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 6/18/2012
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/16/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by davidtoc, updated: 10/13/2011
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Notes: Transcribed from Earl's rendition on Foggy Mountain Banjo. It's not exact, but I think it's extremely close. Includes solos and backup. I set the metronome pretty slow so I can play along. To play at Earl's speed, set the Tabledit tempo (CTRL-K or CMD-K) to 288.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by geckoberry, updated: 1/19/2023
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Notes: Such a great recording of Bugle Call Rag - I can't stress enough how cool it is!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3flkkBPTM5M
Russ takes the Scruggs vocabulary we know and love and keeps it fresh and exciting with clever syncopation and wonderful delivery!
Don't take the annotations on the tab to seriously - while it helps to bend the 2-3 slides and make certain parts real greasy, I really just put em' in for a little fun.
Enjoy!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by seanray, updated: 1/17/2026
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Notes: Backup Tab for "The Session Book" - seanray.com
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 7/15/2024 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Foggy Mountain Banjo Album
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Cwiiis, updated: 7/17/2015 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is Bully of the Town, as Ralph Stanley played it.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by freta, updated: 8/23/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: tabbed to guitar pro from http://rickmckeon.com/banjotabs.html
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/16/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by rossnickerson, updated: 10/11/2012
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Notes: An easy version of Bury Me Beneath the Willow from the free tab page at BanjoTeacher.com
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jbs325is, updated: 3/10/2012
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Notes: Comes with TAB, Chord Chart, MP3 and Backing Track MP3. From LaynePublications.com
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Ron C, updated: 8/6/2013
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Notes: I first saw a tab of this back in the 1970s and then modified it to reflect other versions I have heard over the years. Multiple files loaded here, as well.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by HOWDYDOODY, updated: 5/6/2016
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 11/21/2017 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Here is my arrangement of Bury Me Beneath the Willow. The first break is down the neck and straightforward. The second break is up the neck and is mostly in the chordal style. The third break is back down the neck and employs Keith/Scruggs tuners. TablEdit includes no simple way to indicate retuning strings, as with Keith tuners. So I have inserted text above each relevant portion of the tab to show what to do with the tuners (I did the same some time ago with “Girl’s Breakdown”). In other words, the notes in the tab corresponding to the notes played with Keith tuners are placeholders, and I used the “change note” function to sound the relevant notes in the MIDI. Thus by playing the MIDI you can hear an approximation what it sounds like to achieve melody notes by detuning and retuning a string. In my opinion this is one of the coolest effects in bluegrass banjo.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 3/1/2019
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by toolmaker, updated: 3/10/2020
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Notes: I put difficulty as beginner but intermediate would also apply. I highlighted the melody for the beginner. I also put left & right hand fingering in,but use what you want. There's back-up on the tablEdit with banjo back-up.(Fiddle & guitar).
The PDFs have melody and back-up banjo. I like to play it around 140 b.p.m. 4/4 time.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Ira Gitlin, updated: 5/23/2025 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Exercise for playing melody breaks up the neck, and eventually in different keys, using partial chords
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Jack Baker, updated: 7/2/2026
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Notes: www.frettedinstrumentsnyc.com
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/16/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/1/2020
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Notes: Busy Fingers is an intriguing fiddle tune written by Tommy Jackson. On the banjo Bill Keith played a lovely version, but did not record it as far as I know, whereas Alan Munde recorded it under the title "Banjalin." The second break in my tablature was inspired by one of Alan Munde's characteristically innovative breaks.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by geckoberry, updated: 1/8/2022
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Notes: This tune is pretty crazy! I have the first and second breaks in here, and they're loaded with Single String, syncopation, and the usual genius we can expect from Scott Vestal.
The fingerings are from this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SluB9sRofD8
But I added another way to play the last lick, since my 14-year old hands don't come anywhere close to making that reach.
Geckoberry!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by sdevries, updated: 9/26/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: E Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dskeigley, updated: 10/16/2014
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 6/12/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by KidfromDeliverance, updated: 4/3/2016
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Notes: Thanks to Tom Adams for his help on this great tune from Vern Williams.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by chuckv97, updated: 3/16/2020
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Notes: Fairly straightforward Scruggs picking based somewhat on Ben Eldridge’s version. Capo 2 , spike 5th string at the 7th fret. Here is a video of me playing it. https://youtu.be/SYbDU8UbAe8
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD)
Posted by patmcg1960, updated: 11/11/2009 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: My first venture into writing.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A#/Bb Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by stan, updated: 7/23/2012 - 3 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Cm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 3/8/2016 - 6 Member Comments
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Notes: In memory of Bill Keith, whose recording of Duke Ellington’s Caravan on his 1976 album “Something Auld, Something Newgrass” introduced the tune to the world of bluegrass banjo and gob-smacked me when I first heard it. The tab is based on Keith’s arrangement, and it is mostly the way I have played Caravan for the last few decades. It is not a note-for-note copy of Keith’s version, but I did include a number of his nifty ideas, or at least my interpretation of them, that are worth examining. Note that in live performance Keith would start the tune with some appropriate noodling, and I have included a fragment in the tab. Note also that the Intro includes the banjo’s alternating between G7 and Ab Dim, whereas the backing instruments alternated between G7 and Ab7 throughout Part A of the tune. Finally, in his Outro to the tune Keith used a Keith tuner on the 4th string to go from D to C. If you don’t have a Keith tuner on your 4th string, you can just end it with a C note on the 2nd string 1st fret.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 11/9/2010
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Notes: My arrangement of this traditional folk song, which has been recorded by pickers as diverse as Pete Seeger and Earl Scruggs. The first and third breaks should be played slowly, in the chordal style employing triplets, and you will probably need to employ the MIDI function on TablEdit to hear what they should sound like, because they way they look in tablature does not resemble how they sound. I like to play the second break at a faster tempo, and the contrast between the slow and fast breaks makes a more interesting arrangement, I think. The tablature shows the arrangement in drop C tuning, although it could be played just as easily in standard G tuning.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by chuckv97, updated: 10/6/2025
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Notes: No slides, hammer-ons, or pulloffs. For first or second year players. TAB is displayed in the lesson video.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Gilles Rezard, updated: 12/6/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/17/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by James Stiltner, updated: 1/22/2013
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Expert
Posted by BanjoSerge, updated: 3/31/2014 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is Bobby Thompson's cut of Casey Jones.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLCyvuY9Ujs
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Logan l banjo, updated: 1/13/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Freddie.D.Holt, updated: 1/23/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by dskeigley, updated: 11/22/2014 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dskeigley, updated: 8/18/2013 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 11/5/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by howsy-bee, updated: 9/21/2018 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Almost note-for-note transcription of the video I recently posted: https://www.banjohangout.org/myhangout/videos.asp?m=d&catID=0&id=33898
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Banjowen, updated: 2/22/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: A tune as the late great Jimmy Arnold might have played it.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Banjowen, updated: 2/22/2012
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Notes: A tune as the late great Jimmy Arnold might have played it.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/31/2007
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by CCABanjo, updated: 3/18/2012
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Notes: Two of the midi files are for "play along" to help with your timing while practicing the tune (one at 90 bpm and the other at 130 bpm).
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD)
Posted by schlange, updated: 7/18/2014
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Notes: For the TOTW: http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/288316
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by HOWDYDOODY, updated: 11/27/2016 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by conic, updated: 10/2/2017
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Notes: This is my first tabs - part A and part B and it of the great cherokee shuffle as played by member "Alfidog" , the version as can be seen on youtube or in the video archive.
I have done this in excel because I know excel. Its saved as a 2 x Jpeg's.
Some of the measures look a bit odd but believe me it works a treat
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 11/10/2018
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Sam Alfano, updated: 6/18/2019
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Notes: A really solid version of Cherokee Shuffle that allows you to drive hard with your right hand Scruggs style and also incorporate nice melodic licks. I borrowed a bit from Scruggs and Keith for this arrangement.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Old Hickory, updated: 7/29/2019 - 6 Member Comments
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Notes: My attempt at transcribing Alison Brown's banjo solos in Sally Van Meter's version on The Great Dobro Sessions album. Tabbed out in response to request from Hangout member. I needed a challenge. Not saying this is 100% but it sounds pretty close. Please send comments or corrections.
Revised/corrected file 7/25/19
Recorded reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZD03yrvi3w&list=RDLZD03yrvi3w&start_radio=1
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by nirvano, updated: 12/16/2021
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Notes: Steve Huber is a wonderful banjo player and this solo is another proof.
It's the second solo from Team Flathead CD.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by rdeanjordan, updated: 11/24/2023
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Notes: My version of Cherokee Shuffle borrowing elements from Bill Keith, Alan Munde, as well as many of my own inventions. Capo to 2nd fret (A). Hear it played here (without capo-ing to A): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMnl4Kfeohc.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Lefty5string, updated: 2/29/2020
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Notes: This version has a shorter A part as often found in bluegrass jams. Fairly simple arrangement in the clawhammer style with hammer ons, slides and pull offs but no drop thumbing. Includes two variations on the B part. Capo 2 for fiddle in A.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by elijahwheeler, updated: 5/6/2025
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by elijahwheeler, updated: 5/6/2025
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/19/2016
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Notes: The Nashville fiddler Tommy Jackson wrote Cherokee Shuffle, and it has become a staple for bluegrass banjo players. For reasons lost in the foggy mists of time, my band Silver Spring (in Vancouver, B.C., mid-1970s) changed the E minor to an E major and renamed it Cherokee Strut -- and note that the tune is typically played in the key of A; thus we are talking F# minor and F# major. My tab includes 2 breaks, the first in conventional 3-finger style and the second incorporating more melodic sequences. This was how I played more than 15 years before Bill Keith released his terrific arrangement. The structure of the tune is AABB.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 4/11/2015
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Notes: Bill Monroe / based on Tony Rice version capo 3
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A#/Bb Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by NickPug, updated: 6/1/2025
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Notes: This is my attempt at transcribing Noam's first break in Cheyenne, from "Noam Pikelny Plays Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe." 5th string is spiked to the 8th fret. This one of many breaks played on this record
I got started referencing this other BHO tab as a roadmap for the first half of the break, and then added in some more of the nuances that I heard:
https://www.hangoutstorage.com/banjohangout.org/storage/attachments/archived/files/cheyenne---noam-pike-9131930122020.pdf
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Hannes Fehringer, updated: 11/13/2010
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Notes: Source: Jim & Jesse, In The Traditon, Rounder 1987
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 3/6/2012
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jbs325is, updated: 3/11/2012
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Notes: Get the Backing Track, MP3 and Chord Chart at LaynePublications.com.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Backing Track Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BanjoFret12, updated: 8/4/2024
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Notes: My favorite banjo artist, Dave Hum, has backing tracks and tabs for sale by his family on his website. I encourage you to buy them while you still can. I bought the tabs for Chicken Reel, but the tabs don't show how Dave plays his fancy chorus piece (for lack of better words to describe it). I figured the piece out and here it is. By the way, I made a nice backing track for this song, which you'll find in the MP3 section of this forum in a few different speeds. Enjoy!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 9/10/2012
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 9/3/2012
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 11/10/2018
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Gm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Buxton, updated: 4/28/2017
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Notes: Reno and Smiley's "Chinese Breakdown." Recorded in G#. Complete song including back-up. Source can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpSFvyMoES8
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 3/4/2012
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Genre: Bluegrass Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mwblake, updated: 9/14/2009
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Notes: There are two tunes called Chinquapin Hunting and this is but one of them! Single string/Melodic style, with down and up the neck variations.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/21/2022 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Here is a tune I wrote some years ago.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 12/22/2012
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 12/6/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: My son plays this song in D on the fiddle so, this is what I came up with for the banjo accompaniment ..................Enjoy...........L.Williams
drop C tuning Capo 2 for key of D
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stan, updated: 10/23/2012 - 3 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Ian_banjo, updated: 10/21/2012
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Notes: This is just my attempt to write down the tune as I am having difficulty pinning down the second part. I would be grateful for any correction anyone could supply.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by stan, updated: 7/22/2012
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Notes: this is a transition tune for those wanting to work on going from simple melody to a more roll oriented melody or break.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by KI4PRK, updated: 9/6/2009
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Notes: Here's a fiddle tune for the banjo, Cincinnati Rag. There's a little bit of cross-picking (crossing one right-hand finger over another) to accommodate the melody. The descending part over the "A" chord in the first section is also kinda hard. This version goes to an E-minor chord one time in the second part. This is the way Kenny Baker (among a few others) played it. I label this "Scruggs" style, but there is also melodic & single string in there.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 11/10/2019
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Notes: This is a great tune that I am surprised more people don't play. My arrangement is based on Bobby Hicks's outstanding fiddle break on Herschel Sizemore's recording "Back in Business." You should play this thing at a good pace; the tab is at a tempo of 240. Pay attention to the A chord in the first break, measures 12 and 13, which I based on Lee Marcus's tab that is no longer available on BHO. I based the A to D passages in the second break, measures 36-38 and 44-47, on a break of Sonny Osborne's that I heard many years ago -- "I Know What It Means to Be Lonesome" perhaps.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 11/15/2019
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Notes: Here is the tab of my attempt to approximate on the banjo the way Kenny Baker plays Cincinnati Rag on the fiddle. Hence there are more melodic sequences and fewer Scruggs cliches (licks, runs) than in the version of CR I posted previously. The tab is not note-for-note, both because the staccato of the picked banjo cannot capture the sustain of the bowed fiddle, and because I am not Noam Pikelny.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by plumbman51, updated: 12/30/2009
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Notes: I wrote this because our church building didn't have a bell tower. I heard similar chimes off an old Pete Stanley number. It is played in a lot of chords so should be easy for a begginer to play after a bit. I usually play it faster than it is tabbed here.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Texasbanjo, updated: 2/2/2016
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum) Key: G Tuning: Tenor G (DGdg) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Mirek Tim Patek, updated: 2/24/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Rawhide Creek, updated: 7/4/2014
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Notes: Not exactly the way Ralph Stanley played it, but an accessible and enjoyable way to get acquainted with a great, familiar tune. It's in the key of G Dorian, so there is one flat (Bb) in the key signature rather than the more conventional one sharp (F#).
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Rawhide Creek, updated: 7/11/2014
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Notes: A really easy way to break into "Sawmill" tuning (2d string raised to C) and have a nice tune to play. Nothing fancy here, just an accessible, good-sounding song. The key is actually G Dorian, so there is one flat (Bb) in the key signature rather than the more conventional one sharp (F#).
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by BTS, updated: 5/1/2016
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Notes: This is wonderful version of Clinch Mountain Backstep from the playing of John Apfelthaler. Visit John's BHO page to the video of him playing it. It starts with a down the neck arrangement, followed by melodic and up the neck arrangements, and closes out with two more down the neck arrangements. It is packed from one end to the other with interesting licks and ideas, but remains true to the original tune.
I think this tab is very close to a fret for fret transcription. But be aware of one point. The fourth bar of the B section of Clinch Mountain backstep changes time signature to 6/4. When tabbing I couldn't get that to work with John's melodic arrangement. I contacted John who was kind enough to tell me that in his enthusiasm he had played through that part in 4/4. He was also kind enough to advise me how to correct the small error. So the tab won't quite match John's playing at that point in the tune. So follow the tab - particularly if you're playing it with other musicians.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 11/10/2018
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by egoldfinger, updated: 6/29/2019 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is my best cut at a note for note transcription of Ralph Stanley playing this tune. It's my first time publishing here on Banjo Hangout so great to finally give something back after all I have gotten from the site! Note that Ralph uses a hammer-on for open string which is designated here as a bracketed note.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: G Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stratovarious520, updated: 2/5/2023 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: A little deviation from the norm. Raising the 2nd to C facilitates the lower register licks, and the droning C makes a nice ambient effect.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 9/24/2025
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Am Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by heronhawk, updated: 6/25/2016
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Notes: Sawmill capo 2 (aEADE), clawhammer, Recording King RK-OT25, RIP Ralph Stanley
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BTS, updated: 8/16/2016
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Notes: This is a down the neck variation for Clinch Mountain Backstep inspired by John Apfelthaler's up the neck arrangement which I posted previously.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Unknown/None Chosen Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by bandzo, updated: 5/29/2011 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: As played by Ralph Stanley -- 1971",
transcribed and TablEdited by Jim Crowley {All Tabs}
Modified and Edited by Jack R. Baker (2003).
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by seanray, updated: 1/17/2026
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Notes: Backup Tab for "The Session Book" - seanray.com
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Studebaker Hawk, updated: 8/29/2009
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Notes: This is the version McEuen played on the old Nitty Gritty Dird Band recording "Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy". Standard G tuning, capo at the second fret.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/17/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by kmwaters, updated: 10/20/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Nice arrangement by Ron Block
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/5/2020 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: From an unreleased tape. Bill's version is close to the 1927 recording by The Hillbillies.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dskeigley, updated: 11/30/2016 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Am Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/24/2022 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Here is my current take on CFM, with some variations you might find useful. For example, the ascending passage in measures 61 through 63 works in other tunes such as June Apple.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A#/Bb Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by RadMuz, updated: 12/24/2025 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BanjoTJC, updated: 6/24/2015
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by chuckv97, updated: 2/12/2025
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Notes: Intermediate level TAB of a Hank Williams classic. Video is in the video library which includes the TAB
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mwblake, updated: 6/1/2010
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Notes: Nice session tune! This is a melodic version in the key of G. Rocks along nicely and is not too tricky. Have fun!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Tom Hanway, updated: 6/15/2015
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Notes: I have this exact tab recorded note-for-note in the BHO music files, played to a piano backing track so that I could put in bass movement and chords in order for the syncopated figures to be heard against the normal downbeats and strong beats. I also play this with a considerable amount of swing (bounce) which gives the tune an even more syncopated feeling. This is a cakewalk, similar to ragtime, though it could be sped up and played as a driving breakdown. Playing tip: as tempo increases, the more the bounce (degree of swing) tends to even out. The focus here is to demonstrate syncopation and accenting in Scruggs-style picking. Big thanks to Taj Mahal for this lovely tune.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Tom Hanway, updated: 6/15/2015
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Notes: I have this exact tab recorded note-for-note in the BHO music files, played to a piano backing track so that I could put in bass movement and chords in order for the syncopated figures to be heard against the normal downbeats and strong beats. I also play this with a considerable amount of swing (bounce) which gives the tune an even more syncopated feeling. This is a cakewalk, similar to ragtime, though it could be sped up and played as a driving breakdown (see other tab). Playing tip: as tempo increases, the more the bounce (degree of swing) tends to even out. The focus here is to demonstrate syncopation and accenting in Scruggs-style picking. Big thanks to Taj Mahal for this lovely tune.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by wilbanjo, updated: 5/31/2011
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Notes: This is just the verse , all the breaks in the song were from the verse.This song is from the Dueling Hearts Cd , If the Lord be Willing. www.duelinghearts.net
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Eliott - Elstree, updated: 8/2/2025
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Notes: She'll be coming round the mountain arranged in two ways using multiple different roll styles.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Duelington, updated: 3/16/2023
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Notes: Alan Munde's break to Coming Down From Denver. This is transcribed from Byron Berline's album, "Dad's Favorites."
The 5th string is tabbed two frets higher than you would play it. This is so the note sounds right. The proper fret is notated in text above.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD)
Posted by Tono, updated: 9/18/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Lewistaylor565, updated: 6/29/2018 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Open D (f#DF#Ad) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/18/2015
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Notes: From Jack Baker for our TOTW http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/303792
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Open D (f#DF#Ad) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 10/29/2017 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Earl Scruggs open D tuning f# D F# A D (originally tuned up a fret) - complete
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 10/31/2014
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Notes: I've always had fun with this tune.Throw in a couple of lyrics and let her fly...............
Lynn
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by James Stiltner, updated: 3/19/2013
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 8/21/2014
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Notes: Original guitar part and transcription to banjo
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Freddie.D.Holt, updated: 6/4/2010 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Adapted for banjo from guitar tab by Brennen Enrst (this web sight/guitar tabs) a great little peice of music by Mr. D. Reno. Give it a try.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by geckoberry, updated: 1/17/2022 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Wilbanjo asked me to tab this out on my "Need a tab?" forum:
https://www.banjohangout.org/topic/380335
Here's the video I tabbed from:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpSRrO45X3I
Have fun!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by gary vann, updated: 5/18/2010 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: my version of county clare in standard g tuning , i think it is close to the original , does any one have the chords ?
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by BanjoSerge, updated: 7/11/2014 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is Cowboys and Indians, as played by Bill Emerson on his album, Home of the Red Fox.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Cm Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoy, updated: 2/27/2021 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: I picked this tune sometime Fall 2020 at a jam session up in Shelby, NC. Until then it had never been on my musical radar at all. A cool tune by Bill Emerson. This is my take on it, and I give a few different roll ideas in the tab. I've also made a YouTube video which can be found at https://youtu.be/pvbJzjVniUw
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: F Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 1/1/2026
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Notes: Crazy Arms is a wonderful classic country song. Ray Price's version in particular comes to mind. My break is structured in the chordal style of repetitive triplets, and the tablature is more comprehensible if you listen to it in the MIDI function of TablEdit. Note that the C chord contains a short passage of an ascending thirteenth chord, a nifty creation of Sonny Osborne’s that mimics a pedal steel.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stratovarious520, updated: 2/15/2021 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: By request, Jimmy's abbreviated version of Howdy Forrester's "Wild Fiddler's Rag. All 3 breaks are essentially the same. I have however included 3 different ways to do the triplet lead-in to the Eb chord. Enjoy!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 4/26/2020
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Notes: Crazy Creek was written by Tommy Jackson, who was a fiddle mainstay in Nashville recordings from the 1950s and beyond. I was inspired by Bill Keith’s version of CC, but this is the version I came up with, which I have been playing for many decades. Note added in April 2020: I added a bass track.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stratovarious520, updated: 4/23/2023 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: A Tommy Jackson fiddle tune. The first break is in the style of Bill Keith, the second is based on Ben Eldridge's playing (although he called it Cross Country). Capo 2.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: E Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by KI4PRK, updated: 11/25/2009
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Notes: Here is the Don Reno banjo tune "Crazy Finger Blues". I believe Don "invented" the unique tuning used for the song, g#EG#BC#, or open D ("Reuben") tuning up a whole step with the 1st string lowered. It's a fun, pretty simple & fairly easy banjo tune that is impressive. The "Crazy Finger" part is almost slap-your-self-in-the-forehead easy. But it sounds hard. I've also included most of the other variations Don does in the tune. Be sure to check out the original recording by Reno & Smiley; it's great! For the part where the banjo & the fiddle split the break, just barre @ the 12th for the E chord, 5th for the A chord, & 7th for the B chord, & it's thumb —index/middle on the 3rd and 2nd/1st strings, played to the rhythm of the song. An excellent "Jam" tune. Has a Rhythm Guitar & Bass rhythm track. Have fun!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by banjokit, updated: 10/23/2011
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Notes: Chords for Creep, you can strum or pick, forward rolls work best. Not sure about tuning but chords seem about right. Uploaded for fun and not meant to be perfect.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by tomhaugen, updated: 4/20/2010 - 7 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stevieparker1, updated: 4/29/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Terkku, updated: 10/29/2010 - 9 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by jbs325is, updated: 3/11/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Jacob Underwood, updated: 3/17/2015
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Notes: Here is a basic version of "Cripple Creek" for the intermediate picker. Also included is the "Shave and a haircut - two bits" ending.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by littleton, updated: 3/5/2017
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Notes: a VERY easy version
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by littleton, updated: 3/5/2017
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Notes: 1st & 3rd lines are super easy; 2nd & 4th lines are an advanced beginner version
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 11/10/2018
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by BanjoBoy88, updated: 6/17/2024
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Notes: Easy Cripple Creek, but with real Scruggs rolls. Accurate note values and section endings/repeats. Designed to use for learning to play.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/24/2020 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: My version of Cripple Creek, with a few flourishes you might find useful in other tunes.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Logan l banjo, updated: 9/26/2023
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Backing Track Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BenGran, updated: 6/21/2018
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 6/16/2024 - 5 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Exercises and Licks Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BenGran, updated: 6/21/2018
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by BenGran, updated: 6/21/2018
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by zurwell, updated: 8/23/2023
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Notes: Here's a simple little up the neck run for beginners. From the Z man. Enjoy!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Buxton, updated: 12/21/2016
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Notes: Complete tab of FMB recording.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by seanray, updated: 1/17/2026
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Notes: Backup Tab for "The Session Book" - seanray.com
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Devon Wells, updated: 6/4/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Jody Hughes, updated: 6/10/2025
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Notes: Very basic super easy version of "Cripple Creek" from JodyHughesMusic.com
One of the first things I teach my beginner banjo students
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by S_D, updated: 5/24/2026
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Notes: I found a clawhammer version of Cripple Creek by Mike Larsen that I really liked and started experimenting with it. After a good bit of noodling around and improvisation along the way, this arrangement gradually became mostly how I play the tune.
So here is yet another version of Cripple Creek for Banjo Hangout. Be sure to check out Mike Larsen’s version as well.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by elijahwheeler, updated: 12/8/2025
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Notes: My half-melodic, half-Scruggs version of this tune
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD)
Posted by patmcg1960, updated: 1/8/2012
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by toolmaker, updated: 3/7/2020 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: I wrote the song in 2010. It's a good song to work on your inside rolls. I also put in suggested fingering but use whatever is good for you. I put guitar backup in also. The ending is a little crazy but good left hand exercise.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 6/12/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoy, updated: 11/6/2019
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Notes: This is my version of this fun traditional fiddle tune. Part A is fairly straightforward, and I've included two different melodic versions for Part B for you to mess around with. I hope you enjoy.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Gm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Dave Nauman, updated: 2/7/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mwblake, updated: 9/7/2018 - 13 Member Comments
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Notes: I have tried to accurately transcribe the playing of Alan O'Bryant on the Nashville Bluegrass Band's recording of this song [on their album "Twenty Year Blues"] although there are a couple of places where I remain unsure of exactly what he played [bars 28 & 29 being one!]. Most of it is bona fide though, I would say, with a melodic A part and single string B part. A great medium paced tune with lovely cascading melodies. Enjoy!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Gm Tuning: Open Gm (gDGBbD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/23/2020
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Notes: This gem was written by Bill Monroe, who reportedly told Lamar Grier, his banjo player in the mid-1960s, "This will be a good tune for you." Grier apparently did not like CtC, because it is played at a loping pace slower than most banjo instrumentals and does not employ any of the standard banjo rolls or licks. I think it can be a fine tune for the banjo, and my tablature was influenced by
Butch Robins's outstanding arrangement, particularly the DTN break.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by pepefuster, updated: 10/30/2016
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Notes: Based on Kenny Wertz performance on The Scottsville Squirrel Barkers Blue Grass Favorites
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Fathand, updated: 7/26/2016
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Notes: Posting for Stanleytone who has technical difficulties
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Logan l banjo, updated: 10/16/2023
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 10/9/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: My arrangement features a judicious mixing of forward rolls and backward rolls. Pay particular attention to this in the second break, the last section of which (the slide up the fifth fret of the first string) is pretty similar to a break of Earl Scruggs's on a concert recording of Flatt and Scruggs. The tag after that section is my own. It is worthwhile to incorporate backward rolls -- typically M-I-T with a first-string lead -- into your playing, because they add extra tension and interest, in my opinion.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/11/2014 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: Tab from Jack Baker for our Tunetorial of the Week.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by rossnickerson, updated: 5/4/2019
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 11/16/2019 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: My arrangement of Cuckoo’s Nest is in the key of D, in open G tuning. Most of the A part is drawn from the tab posted by Hans Holzherr (Howsy-Bee). The B part is based on some ideas from Butch Robins’s recording and the tab posted by Jack Baker (edited from an earlier tab by Jim Crowley). I gratefully acknowledge all.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum) Key: G Tuning: Tenor G (DGdg) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Mirek Tim Patek, updated: 2/24/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jbs325is, updated: 3/11/2012
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Evangeline07, updated: 11/5/2014
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Notes: This is one of the more advanced intermediate tabs I learned a year or so ago. Great arrangement
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by HOWDYDOODY, updated: 12/16/2016
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by rossnickerson, updated: 5/5/2019
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 6/12/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 6/13/2021
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Notes: Don Reno
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by seanray, updated: 1/17/2026
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Difficulty: Expert
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 6/14/2024 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 8/21/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Eliott - Elstree, updated: 7/23/2025
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Notes: Uptempo bluegrass piece with some challenging rhythms.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 8/29/2015 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Here are 5 licks that you can use for a G-D-G turnaround. The first 4 are originals of mine. The first employs a chordal approach. The second substitutes a Bb chord for the D, to provide a kind of bluesy effect that is unexpected and punchy. The third is one of my default licks, which I have used in a variety of tunes. The fourth I have also used in many tunes, including "Are You Missing Me," which you can hear on my BHO page, at http://www.banjohangout.org/myhangout/media-player/audio_player2.asp?musicid=9864&archived= I have to tell you that for years I struggled with tabbing the correct timing on this one, and the solution came to me while I was sleeping -- I kid you not. The last one is a wonderful Bill Emerson lick. It is constructed beautifully, and I feel a sense of peace and oneness with the universe when I hear it. Okay, perhaps that's overstating it somewhat. But it is a great lick, which is anchored in the repetitive use of the C note, the flatted 7th, on the second string, with the melody notes doing a lovely walk up the first string.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Hannes Fehringer, updated: 9/4/2010 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: As played by Jim Mills, Hide Head Blues, 2005, Sugar Hill, Key of A, capo 2nd fret.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dpetervan, updated: 4/9/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: 3-finger rendition of this great clawhammer Steve Martin tune
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A#/Bb Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 12/24/2023 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This version of Daley's Reel combines Scruggs, single-string, and melodic styles, all of which I needed to capture the tune. My version was inspired by Kenny Baker's on fiddle. There are some tricky bits in the right-hand fingering, and below the tab I have indicated which digits I use to play it.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dskeigley, updated: 8/12/2013
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 10/21/2024 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: This was inspired by the reaction of a little girl who would squeal and dance around when I played the banjo. This simple tune emerged and became one for her to dance to.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by chuckv97, updated: 8/20/2025
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Notes: Kris Kristofferson’s fine song that The Country Gentlemen and others recorded. The video with TAB is in the video library.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jbs325is, updated: 3/12/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by James Stiltner, updated: 1/5/2013
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD)
Posted by schlange, updated: 7/28/2014
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Notes: From Jack Baker, for this week's TOTW (http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/288856)
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by chuckv97, updated: 8/20/2025
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Notes: No slides, hammer’ons, or pulloffs. Video which includes the TAB will be in the video library.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by howsy-bee, updated: 9/1/2016 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: From Bill's recording with Muleskinner, 1973. While being quite a short break, it's filled with "Keith signature licks".
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/25/2006 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 6/12/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Cm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Westvon, updated: 9/18/2012
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/25/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by prestg1, updated: 6/1/2013 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: Transcribed from the EP 'Dawg Grass', which is the version used in the Car Talk theme. Doesn't include the mando/banjo intro; just the guts of it, as interpreted.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Paulie Ray, updated: 12/24/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/25/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 7/17/2025
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Notes: Daybreak in Dixie is a mandolin tune written by Bill Napier when he was with the Stanley Brothers. The title later morphed into "Ralph's Banjo Special." To complicate matters further, the Stanleys also changed the chords slightly and recorded it again as Daybreak in Dixie. Whatever, it is a nice punchy banjo tune. You can find the recording in my Media page: https://www.banjohangout.org/myhangout/music.asp?ID=4040
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by coltoncrawford, updated: 12/13/2018 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/27/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by KI4PRK, updated: 9/6/2009 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: My version of Dear Old Dixie. Has all the bluegrass styles I play: Scruggs, Reno, Melodic, and whatever of my own I through in there. It's fairly difficult.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by bango, updated: 9/6/2016
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Notes: My first tab!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 6/12/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 7/6/2023
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Notes: I have posted the tab for a couple of variations of DOD, including a break down the neck. As a special treat, the tab includes the lyrics, in a footnote at the end.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by seanray, updated: 1/17/2026
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Notes: Backup Tab for "The Session Book" - seanray.com
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/27/2006 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dskeigley, updated: 12/27/2014
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jbs325is, updated: 3/12/2012
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Notes: Get the Backing Track, MP3 and Chord Chart at LaynePublications.com.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Ian_banjo, updated: 10/19/2013
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Notes: This occasionally uses the middle finger on the second string, which is OK with practice!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: F Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by howsy-bee, updated: 3/5/2022 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Bill Keith's two breaks on Red Allen, Frank Wakefield and the Kentuckians' 1964 Smithsonian Folkways recording.
Tuning: aDGBD; Capo: 3; 5th string capo: 8
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Peter Vipulis, updated: 4/16/2019 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: 5th String Capo 7.
Not sure if it was recorded separately, heard some things that he was/wasn't playing (shrug).
Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyewFTUg7kM
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by RB3, updated: 10/2/2022
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 10/1/2023 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: Denver Belle is a lovely medium-tempo tune written and recorded by Kenny Baker, the greatest bluegrass fiddler. My arrangement highlights the power of the pull-off on the first string out of the C position.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Duc7, updated: 9/11/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Here's a wicked little banjo tune from the great Alan Munde and Country Gazette. Lots of "Dillard" roll here, and everything falls nicely under the fingers until the diminished run at the end, which is fairly prickly.... This is one you should have in your arsenal - enjoy! Skip Holmes.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jbs325is, updated: 3/12/2012
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by 21stCenturyBanjo, updated: 7/31/2018
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Notes: Bill Keith's Melodic version
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by rossnickerson, updated: 5/5/2019
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 6/12/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Tom Hanway, updated: 11/19/2015
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Notes: Bill Keith played this live at the Eagle Tavern in New York on March 20, 1988. Capo II to play in A.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Am Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Devon Wells, updated: 6/4/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by KI4PRK, updated: 9/7/2009 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Ralph Stanley's "Dickson County Breakdown", a banjo breakdown that is basically a lot of common banjo licks over a simple melody, nonetheless great sounding and fun to play. Although rather close to Ralph's break, neither of the breaks are replicas of his own; they are fully my own interpretations. He doesn't do the up the neck break, but I thought it was fun so I threw it in there. Has useful, standard key of "G" introduction & ending that can fit on many songs. Includes a Rhythm Guitar & Bass rhythm track. Have fun!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/23/2016 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: On 8 December 1962 Flatt and Scruggs played their legendary concert at Carnegie Hall. It was not the first bluegrass concert at Carnegie Hall, having been preceded by Earl Taylor and the Stoney Mountain Boys, but it is certainly the most memorable. Dig a Hole in the Meadow was one of the songs the Foggies played, and it incorporates one of Earl’s most elegant breaks that nails the melody without over-reliance on formulaic rolls. Ironically, Bill Monroe recorded the song as Darling Cory just 2 days before, on 6 December 1962, with Lonnie Hoppers playing a break similar but not identical to Earl’s on banjo. Most bluegrass folk are probably familiar with the version by the Foggies, but you should definitely give a listen to Monroe’s version as well: His singing is outstanding, Kenny Baker's fiddle playing is beautiful as always, and Monroe takes a mandolin break that is positively eerie.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by chuckv97, updated: 5/7/2025
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Notes: An early intermediate level arrangement. The video which includes the TAB is in the video library. The TAB is displayed at the end of this video https://youtu.be/QI0r5CwomK0?si=EVGgL6ViiJPqAraV , which is also shown above.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by kmwaterstx, updated: 10/8/2019
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Notes: Did this one a long time ago. Enjoy.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by leinbachj, updated: 3/11/2012
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Notes: Here is a Reno style version.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 11/10/2018
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 10/16/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/2/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Greg Gilbert, updated: 9/7/2009
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Notes: In the style of Carl Jackson
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 11/10/2018
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 6/6/2020
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjopeter, updated: 12/20/2020 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: View instruction video on YouTube. Enter Keywords: banjo peter noorman.
Or visit my website for tabs and instruction videos: www.peternoorman.nl
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/22/2016 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: My take on Jesse McReynolds's classic tune, arranged with a harmony part for the second banjo.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjo_don, updated: 5/29/2012
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Notes: This is one of Terrys' early ones off the Boone Creek Album any comments let me know banjo don !!!!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Paulie Ray, updated: 11/6/2011 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: This is a version of Steve Earle's "Dixieland" on the Mountain Album. It's played in the key of D on the album (capo at 7th fret for a bright sound to compliment the penny whistle). This tab follows the vocals. The intro is slightly different, but I think you can figure out that part using this tab.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stan, updated: 7/22/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: this was a redo for our worship band;
Do Lord or This Little Light of Mine
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/2/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by stratovarious520, updated: 12/25/2022
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Notes: I originally learned this from Jimmy Arnold, But this arrangement is closer to Howdy's original. Capo 2. Mp3 and .pdf files are in the Tab discussion forum.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Am Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Adgardad, updated: 3/16/2010 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: A great minor tune from Tony Trischka's "A Robot Plane Flies Over Arkansas" album. A fairly straight forward melodic style arrangement.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/2/2006 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A#/Bb Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by schlange, updated: 10/13/2014
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Notes: For our TOTW (http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/292753) from Jack Baker.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/2/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 6/21/2024 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by briar32, updated: 10/31/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Westvon, updated: 12/18/2014
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Notes: Kick off as played by Ron Stewart on Adam Steffey's CD, 'Grateful." This is quintessential down and dirty, driving banjo. It demands to be played with attitude and bounce.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/9/2015
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Notes: From Jack Baker, for our TOTW (http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/300589
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by schlange, updated: 9/11/2013
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by briar32, updated: 10/31/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Dave Nauman, updated: 2/7/2010 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by John Steele, updated: 1/3/2013 - 4 Member Comments
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Notes: I transcribed this from Jim's sound file posted here. You will find that bars 13-16 are a bit different than on other passes through. I have written out bars 13-16 just as Jim played them, but you may find it easier to substitute bars 21-23, which are very similar to the intro. The tab itself cannot accurately describe Jim's exceptional nuance and dynamics... you'll have to listen very closely to duplicate which notes sing out, and which notes are tucked into the background.
This afternoon I went through this tab with Jim to ensure it's accuracy. I hope you enjoy it. - John
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stan, updated: 7/22/2012 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: thanks Mitch Jane & Rodney Dillard for such a great tune!
this is one of my favorite Andy Griffith episodes!
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by webadage, updated: 9/4/2013
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Jack Baker, updated: 6/30/2026
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Stu D Baker-Hawk, updated: 4/21/2017 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This tab is based on the playing of Eagles member Bernie Leadon from the album Desperado.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 1/15/2013
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by seanray, updated: 1/17/2026
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/2/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/2/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/2/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dbrooks, updated: 4/8/2021
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Notes: "Doug's Tune" was written and played by Doug Dillard and the Dillards. This clawhammer version of "Doug's Tune" is based on the 2010 YouTube video by oldthyme dragon (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMNYU-8aZdU ). It is really more of a ragtime tune than bluegrass. The syncopation in Part A requires either an upward brush stroke or a drop thumb to the 1st string. I chose the latter.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stratovarious520, updated: 1/12/2023 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Capo 2. A couple of surprises inside. ; )
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A#/Bb Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Duelington, updated: 3/1/2023
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Notes: This is my shot at Doug's Tune from The Dillards Back Porch Bluegrass.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/2/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/2/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/2/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/2/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Jack Baker, updated: 7/1/2026
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 12/5/2021 - 5 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by RJWMitchell, updated: 10/9/2014
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dholland, updated: 9/8/2015
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Notes: This is my first attempt to tab a 3/4 time tune. To me it seems clunky in spots. Have a go at it and feedback would be appreciated. It is in the Key of D aDGBD tuning. Thanks.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 6/14/2021
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Notes: And now for something completely different: how about a bluegrass song about a guy murdering his (presumably pregnant) girlfriend? Notwithstanding its topic, Down in the Willow Garden is a very nice song, and it also serves as a fine instrumental. The tablature is inspired by Bill Keith’s version from a jam he recorded with Earl Scruggs in 1963 when Bill was working with Earl on the book “Earl Scruggs and the 5-string banjo.” In the recording I heard, Bill played banjo and Earl played 12-string guitar. An interesting aspect of Bill’s arrangement is that he played it first in the key of G and then modulated to the key of C, a very nice transition.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/2/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 4/6/2021 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: The tablature starts with an amalgam of Earl Scruggs's breaks from the 1949 recording and the video from 1956 (in volume 7 of the DVDs). It then proceeds to a version of one of Crowe's breaks from the Bluegrass Album Band, and finishes with a break of mine that was partially inspired, as I recall, by Alan Munde’s version. I first posted the tab on BHO in 2010, and here is an updated version.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum) Key: G Tuning: Tenor G (DGdg) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Mirek Tim Patek, updated: 2/24/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/4/2014
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Notes: From Jack Baker, for the TOTW - http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/279323
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by phb, updated: 4/17/2021 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: This is my transcription of Flatt&Scruggs recording of "Down the Road". I transcribed the intro and all six breaks plus the ending lick. Comparing the breaks with each other is interesting because of the many very small variations Earl adds each time he plays the theme.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 6/12/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by kmwaters, updated: 12/21/2013
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Notes: Capoed up 2 all strings. Earl's opening break with Lester.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 10/29/2017 - 4 Member Comments
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Notes: Mercury 1949 capo 4th
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjofrog, updated: 8/24/2010
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Notes: In measures 4&5 and 16&17 I bar the first three strings at the 5th fret with my index finger and fret the other notes with my ring finger. In measures 10&11 I bar the first three strings at the second fret with my index finger and fret the other notes with my ring finger.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 6/12/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 7/12/2024
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Notes: This is a revised version of a tab I posted long ago. I incorporated several useful ideas from Wayne Cliburn's tab of July 2024, and I added a couple of wrinkles.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Studebaker Hawk, updated: 8/29/2009
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Notes: Based on the playing of John McEuen, from the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band album "Will The Circle Be Unbroken (Vol. I)".
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 6/30/2013
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/2/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/2/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jcland, updated: 2/26/2020
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Notes: Per Request. Found this on an old backup drive I had. This version also has bass and backup rhythm guitar.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/2/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/3/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/3/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/3/2006 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/3/2006 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjorino, updated: 1/14/2019
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Notes: I made the tabs so close as possible my ears could hear from the sounds of the tune in the movie Deliverance.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 6/12/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BenGran, updated: 6/21/2018 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by janolov, updated: 3/2/2019 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by BenGran, updated: 6/21/2018
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Giaour, updated: 12/30/2010 - 5 Member Comments
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Notes: This is my attempt to get as close as possible to the original soundtrack version of the banjo part.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 2/22/2011
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Notes: This is a two finger thumb lead version of Duelling Banjos, where the banjo is "duelling" with a guitar.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/3/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 7/4/2020
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Notes: Here is a gem of an old-time fiddle tune that was one of Bill Monroe's default instrumentals in the 1960s.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Open D (f#DF#Ad) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by RB-1, updated: 4/2/2026
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Notes: I started working on this tune years ago, and got stuck in a few spots, mainly fingering and some timing issues.
Hans Holzherr (howsybee) came to the rescue and filled in the blanks, particularly the bit with the triplets, that are no real triplets at all... ;-). I owe him for that!
From then on, I also did some reworking to make it flow under my fingers (so it's not nescesarily the way Jens played it!), but I think more than 95% of the notes are in the right spot.
Included are an example of how to play the tuner piece without Keith tuners.
Also there is the a tab of how I'm playing the ending.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by 5-String, updated: 6/20/2022 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is my interpretation of how Earl Scruggs played this tune on the "Foggy Mountain Banjo" album. All lead breaks and backup are included. The tab is written such that you can follow along with the recording. Adjust settings so that chords are displayed as letter names only, tab is displayed at 4 bars per line, and view is scaled to 16th notes. The first few blank measures are there to maintain the chord & bar patterns (4 bars per phrase) such that each phrase starts at the beginning of a line.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by 5-String, updated: 6/20/2022 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: This is my interpretation of how Earl Scruggs played this tune on the "Foggy Mountain Banjo" album. All lead breaks and backup are included. The tab is written such that you can follow along with the recording. Chords are notional, i.e. not necessarily exactly what the banjo is playing at any given moment, but what I think the basic chords are for the general tune, for each bar. Adjust settings so that chords are displayed as letter names only, tab is displayed at 4 bars per line, and view is scaled to 16th notes. The first few blank measures are there to maintain the chord & bar patterns (4 bars per phrase) such that each phrase starts at the beginning of a line.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by 5-String, updated: 6/20/2022 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is my interpretation of how Earl Scruggs played this tune on the "Foggy Mountain Banjo" album. All lead breaks and backup are included. The tab is written such that you can follow along with the recording. Adjust settings so that chords are displayed as letter names only, tab is displayed at 4 bars per line, and view is scaled to 16th notes. The first few blank measures are there to maintain the chord & bar patterns (4 bars per phrase) such that each phrase starts at the beginning of a line.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by 5-String, updated: 6/20/2022 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: This is my interpretation of how Earl Scruggs played this tune on the "Foggy Mountain Banjo" album. All lead breaks and backup are included. The tab is written such that you can follow along with the recording. Adjust settings so that chords are displayed as letter names only, tab is displayed at 4 bars per line, and view is scaled to 16th notes. The first few blank measures are there to maintain the chord & bar patterns (4 bars per phrase) such that each phrase starts at the beginning of a line.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by 5-String, updated: 6/20/2022 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: This is my interpretation of how Earl Scruggs played this tune on the "Foggy Mountain Banjo" album. All lead breaks and backup are included. The tab is written such that you can follow along with the recording. Adjust settings so that chords are displayed as letter names only, tab is displayed at 4 bars per line, and view is scaled to 16th notes. The first few blank measures are there to maintain the chord & bar patterns (4 bars per phrase) such that each phrase starts at the beginning of a line.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by 5-String, updated: 5/23/2018
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Notes: This is a note for note transcription of how Earl Scruggs played this tune on the "Country Music" album, Mercury 20358, or The Bear Family's Flatt & Scruggs 1948-1959, disc 1. All lead breaks and backup are included. One item of interest is that, several times in this tune, Earl employs a pretty wicked lick that covers 3 chord positions (inversions of the same chord) to go from a I7 chord to a IV chord, and from a V7 chord to a I chord. You have to jump all over the neck to play it, and the distance your hand has to jump changes significantly, depending which transition you are playing, because the notes are much more closely spaced in the upper part of the neck, than in the lower part. It tends to foil muscle memory. The tab is written such that you can follow along with the recording. Adjust settings so that chords are displayed as letter names only, tab is displayed at 4 bars per line, and view is scaled to 16th notes. The blank 3 measures preceding each verse are skipped when the tab is played with the MIDI player, using the Reading List tool. They are only there to maintain the chord pattern such that each verse starts at the beginning of a line.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by 5-String, updated: 6/20/2022 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Notes: This is my interpretation of how Earl Scruggs played this tune on the "Foggy Mountain Banjo" album. All lead breaks and backup are included. The tab is written such that you can follow along with the recording. Adjust settings so that chords are displayed as letter names only, tab is displayed at 4 bars per line, and view is scaled to 16th notes. When adjusted in this manner, each phrase will start at the beginning of a new line.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 10/23/2011 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: This version contains 4 breaks. The first and third are similar to Earl Scruggs's low and high breaks, the second and fourth are my own. You will note that I wrote the tab as though you are playing without Keith tuners and hence must fake the tuner part; if you have Keith or Scruggs tuners, by all means use them. Note also that the chord structure of the first break is slightly different from the others: In the A part, measure 8 (which is measure 7 if you ignore the introductory measure), the I chord (G) is held and leads into the V chord (D) in the next measure. In all the other breaks, the equivalent of measure 7 is a II chord (A) that leads into the V chord (D). Yep, that's the way Earl wrote, recorded, and played it.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 6/14/2024
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Notes: no tuners required
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 2/23/2022 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: This is an attempt to show how Earl's Breakdown can be played in Clawhammer style. It took me only 40 years to work out this arrangement :)
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by seanray, updated: 1/17/2026
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/19/2024 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by ButchRobins, updated: 4/4/2021
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Notes: Tab by Bill Evans
As played by Butch Robins; Source:
"Grounded Centered Focused"
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A#/Bbm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by chuckv97, updated: 8/20/2025
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Notes: The video which includes TAB is in the video library.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by KI4PRK, updated: 10/22/2010
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Notes: Here's two Don Reno banjo breaks to an old Bill Harrell classic, "Eatin' Out Of Your Hand". It is very close, but not quite note for note Don's two breaks to the song. The first break is the melody, fairly simple but just perfect. The second one is quite mind blowing and is really crazy. If you learn these breaks you can learn a lot about the Reno style. The first break is more of an Intermediate, fairly straightforward, but the second one is pretty hard. Has a Rhythm Guitar & Bass rhythm track. Have fun!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by smitchinson, updated: 12/20/2011
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Notes: Thanks to Martin Blake for posting this great tune. This is my version. Same key, so may give you an alternative break to Martin's arrangement.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by James Stiltner, updated: 2/20/2013
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by runner, updated: 12/11/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stan, updated: 11/1/2012
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Notes: Thank you Grandpa Jones for making this tune so popular!
Hee Haw rules!!!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Ron C, updated: 8/6/2013
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Notes: As with other tabs I submitted here, they reflect my process of learning to tab in Tabledit and always can stand some improvement and changes. Please feel free to modify any of my tabs. I will learn from your changes. Somehow, multiple versions of the same file loaded, here.
Thanks, Ron
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Stu D Baker-Hawk, updated: 12/28/2014
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Notes: Here's Steve Martin's arrangement of this old classic.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by HSmith, updated: 6/4/2023
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Notes: This is my take on Ben Eldridge's arrangement of this old favourite on one of Mike Auldridge's dobro albums. I think Ben's arrangement breathes new life into this old song, and the use of dropped 'C' tuning introduces some nice sounds. I'm still feeling my way with Tabledit, so the timing is a little shaky in places, but I hope you'll get the idea.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by rossnickerson, updated: 10/11/2012
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Notes: An easy version of Eight More Miles to Lousiville from the free tab page at BanjoTeacher.com
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Tom Hanway, updated: 1/10/2010
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Notes: This is a Scruggsy version of the tune; please also see my two other more melodic/single-string versions, one in D Major, another in G Major.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Tom Hanway, updated: 1/10/2010
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Notes: See my melodic version in D and my Scruggsier version in G. Originally known as 'Jackson's Victory' (while he was still popular) and later changed to the 'Eighth of January', we also know this favorite tune as the melody or "air" to the 'Battle of New Orleans'. Notice the Celtic-sounding drones and raggy syncopation I have put into the second part to give it more lift. I use a lot of staccoto-single-string work in the second part to capture the melody down the neck, but it could also be played an octave higher in a more legato-melodic style.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Tom Hanway, updated: 1/25/2010
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Notes: For Paddy Kiernan, who proved to me about reaching top speed with accuracy using 21st-century picking-hand fingerings. I've also tabbed this here in D and G (both melodic/single-string), also a Scruggsy version (G), and now this one in Drop C tuning, dedicated to Bill Keith.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 1/13/2020 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Eric Weissberg's version is from the seminal melodic album "New Dimensions in Banjo and Bluegrass" (1963). Butch Robins's version is from a youtube video (2019) and is similar to Weissberg's but differs in subtle and interesting ways. In my view, Robins's arrangements are typically interesting and subtle. For fun I included a banjo duet at the end of the tab.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 8/12/2024
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Notes: I usually play Eighth of January in G or, with the capo on 2, in A. It also works well in the key of D, and this is my version. There is a lot of single-string work, particularly in the high break, but it is not outrageous. If you want a different take on playing the tune in D, check out the tablature by the late Lynn Williams (banjoman 1). His nifty version is in double C tuning, with the capo up 2.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Dm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoy, updated: 11/18/2022
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Notes: This is my original version of this cool old Latin tune. It's a fun tune to play.
You'll see I tend to hang out on the three inner strings a lot which may take some getting used to. I really like the warmth you find there.
To my ear, Part B has no discernible melody line so I'm just filling the space with misc banjo rolls. Feel free to go nuts.
I give you plenty of ideas to play around with here and I hope this inspires you to come up with your own versions.
I have a YouTube video which will give you an idea of how some of this might sound out in the wild:
https://youtu.be/m2WNvAeAxJo
I hope you enjoy :)
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Expert
Posted by banjo_don, updated: 6/10/2013 - 4 Member Comments
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Notes: this is my take on this song please leave me a comment enjoy!!!!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: Dm Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Expert
Posted by stratovarious520, updated: 10/6/2022
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Notes: Based on Mike Snider's arrangement (which was based on Vic Jordan's)
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Am Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mwblake, updated: 8/30/2009 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Great old timey tune in Am arranged for 3 finger banjo (capo II) and harmony mandolin
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by quantumgravity, updated: 12/2/2024
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Notes: as played by Jason Burleson with Blue Highway
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by James Stiltner, updated: 4/25/2013 - 3 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Jacob Underwood, updated: 3/17/2015
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Notes: Here are four endings that are basically interchangeable. You can also mix and match parts from each ending for other variations. Every picker needs to know and play these well.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dUSA, updated: 12/6/2009
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: F Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by rwsansom, updated: 10/2/2020
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Notes: (Version 2019.01.11f). I transcribed this using a combination of the studio recording and various live performances of Tony, particularly https://youtu.be/XrHAxCAfzi8. Thanks to Rich Stillman (waystation) for his feedback!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 7/29/2022 - 5 Member Comments
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Notes: In bluegrass banjo it is useful to be able to emply several different roll patterns for playing an F chord, and here are some options for your dining an dancing pleasure. To see and hear some of them in action, check out my tabs for June Apple (https://www.banjohangout.org/tab/browse.asp?m=detail&v=24277) and Little Maggie (https://www.banjohangout.org/tab/browse.asp?m=detail&v=24290).
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by schlange, updated: 8/5/2015
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Notes: From Jack Baker, for our TOTW (http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/307302/)
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Jack Baker, updated: 7/7/2026
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Notes: www.frettedinstrumentsnyc.com
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/29/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A#/Bb Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dUSA, updated: 12/6/2009
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/29/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/30/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/30/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/30/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/3/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/3/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D#/Eb Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by KI4PRK, updated: 11/11/2009 - 6 Member Comments
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Notes: Farewell Blues, an old swing tune made famous as a bluegrass banjo instrumental by Earl Scruggs, in a more jazz-worthy key: Eb major, although like Earls version it has that funky b3 major chord instead of the swingy b3 diminished chord. The key should not be as much a subject of worry as is the intense hand contortions needed to get the drop-C chord (e.g. 5567, 4th to 1st strings) sound in open-G; down the neck this is a real STRECH! It took me a looottt of practising to be able to make the chords up to speed, but it is worth it; it's a real neat sound. The other hard lick is the tag lick such as the one in measures 3 & 7. This one takes a little practice. The single string licks are mostly standard Reno single string licks, although there's one of my own at the beginning of the 5th break. This tune will definitely take some practice, but it's a real firecracker once you get it right. I shamelessly like this tune in Eb much better than drop-C tuning, key of C. Has a Rhythm Guitar & Bass rhythm track. Have fun!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by bango, updated: 10/1/2023
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 6/14/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by seanray, updated: 1/17/2026
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Notes: Backup Tab for "The Session Book" - seanray.com
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/29/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by howsy-bee, updated: 6/14/2016 - 3 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/27/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Duelington, updated: 9/19/2023
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Notes: This is Rob McCoury's kickoff break to Feel the Blues Moving in, as best as I can understand it.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 7/5/2024 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Foggy Mountain Banjo
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Ira Gitlin, updated: 2/17/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Ira Gitlin, updated: 2/17/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 6/27/2024
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Notes: This is my take on a tune Bobby Thompson wrote and recorded with Carl Story in the 1950s. I probably first heard it on an el-cheapo compilation LP entitled "Fire on the Banjo." Be warned: Thompson played it at a hypersonic speed.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/27/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/27/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/3/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/3/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BigCotton89, updated: 6/10/2011 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: this is just the intro. I'll try to work on the rest of it later.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 2/15/2024 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Josh Graves - King Of The Dobro Album
/ Blake Williams ? - banjo
mp3 = slow to fast
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BigFiveChord, updated: 5/8/2024
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Notes: As played by Allen Shelton
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/30/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Snowman217, updated: 12/11/2009
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Notes: Has guitar and bass backup.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum) Key: G Tuning: Tenor G (DGdg) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Mirek Tim Patek, updated: 2/24/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by schlange, updated: 10/20/2014 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: For our TOTW (http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/293104) from Jack Baker.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by HOWDYDOODY, updated: 5/7/2016
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Genre: Bluegrass Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by michel braquemart, updated: 8/27/2020
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Claude Grassley, updated: 1/4/2022
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Notes: Although I play clawhammer style, I jam with a lot of Bluegrass jams so I adapted Firebal Mail for Clawhammer. It's fairly simple and sounds good. This is my opening break and I pretty much repeat it (as close as possible LOL) while I sing it.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 6/18/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by elijahwheeler, updated: 7/7/2025
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/3/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/3/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by seanray, updated: 1/17/2026 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by seanray, updated: 1/17/2026
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Gm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by maddogonbanjo, updated: 1/12/2011
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Notes: Kenny Baker fiddle tune
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 9/26/2015
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Notes: FH can be played in several different keys, but it works well in G, which takes advantage of some standard melodic positions and runs. I took the variation on the A part, starting in measure 9, from Byron Berline's version in his fiddle album with the Dillards. You will note that it anticipates the B part and that its chord structure is slightly different from the standard A part, in measures 1 to 9.
Berline and the Dillards played it in D, and I transposed it to G. I hope I captured the feel of his version.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by howsy-bee, updated: 11/9/2019
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Notes: After playing Fisher's hornpipe out of G with capo at 7 for years, I decided to arrange it for open G, 5th string capoed at 7 with the possibility to play both a high and a low break.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by jimrichter, updated: 11/19/2023
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Notes: Fisher's Hornpipe--melodic style playing out of D (no capo)
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD)
Posted by Tono, updated: 9/17/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by bigbandjos, updated: 8/31/2014
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 6/17/2026 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: This is my take on a nifty tune composed and recorded by Steve Huber, of Huber Banjos fame. It features Scruggs-Keith tuners, and you will need to employ the MIDI on TablEdit to hear how it should sound.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/28/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by seanray, updated: 1/17/2026
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Genre: Bluegrass
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/3/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stratovarious520, updated: 2/26/2022 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: From the album "One More Step with Cliff Waldron and the New Shades of Grass" (1972). A quick mover with a bunch of Jimmy's signature cool licks.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by jeremywokka, updated: 3/18/2024
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Notes: "This is the one where Earl does a little bit of tuning and a whole lot of picking"
The export from Guitar Pro 8 down to Guitar Pro 6 ruined the de-tuning notation, so I'm including the Guitar Pro 8 file with a renamed extension. It's the file that says "CHANGE EXTENSION" - you need to rename it from .gtp to .gp.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 6/18/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 8/1/2013
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Notes: In the multi-CD set "Newport Folk Festival: Best of Bluegrass 1959-66," Don Stover played a great break to Flint Hill Special employing a descending melody on the fourth string. It reminds me of a ball bouncing down a staircase ("descending Victorian stairs," a line from Jesse Winchester), and I refer to it as Stover's Staircase break. The repetitive right-hand pattern is 4-2-1-2. I have tabbed out an approximation of Stover's Staircase break here, and you can find a variation of the Staircase break in my tab to FMB elsewhere on BHO.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/29/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 9/6/2012
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Notes: Flop eared mule is popular fiddle/ banjo tune..hope you like it......Lynn
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 6/4/2026
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Notes: FEM was one of the first tunes I worked out by ear, in this case by listening to Eric Weissberg's version on the album "Folk Banjo Styles" (1961). The tablature is the way I have come to play it through the years.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/29/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/30/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JohanOhman, updated: 10/26/2011
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Notes: This is a melodic arrangement of Flopped Eared Mule, which I learned from Tony Thrishka on School of Banjo.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 3/8/2016 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Michael Cleveland - Charlie Cushman banjo capo 4
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/29/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by eagleisland, updated: 9/18/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: All of us want to play FMB at speed. Trying to speed up too fast is difficult because it only SOUNDS like FMB at warp 9. Slowing it down and adding some swing makes it fun and almost turns it into a new song - except it's not. Play it with some swing, and when the speed comes to you it'll sound like FMB! This was tabbed on the fly so it's not completely accurate - but it's close enough.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by eagleisland, updated: 9/19/2011
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Notes: In response to a question, here's the same exact arrangement without any swing in it. Compare to "FMB slow and swinging" tab.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by stratovarious520, updated: 4/25/2021 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: Indeed another FM Breakdown tab, but with Tony T's youthful flair. From 1977's Banjoland.
Note: measures 11 and 15 show both the open G and D string E note struck simultaneously. The E is a dead note, and not played, but having it there makes it sound "right". Lots of inventive scale ideas, and a couple of things that are definitely unique. have fun with it!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 8/1/2013 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Don Stover played a marvelous descending melody as one of his breaks to Flint Hill Special. The right-hand pattern is a repetitive 4-2-1-2. Although I have not been able to find a version by Stover, or anybody else for that matter, playing this melodic sequence in Foggy Mountain Breakdown, the pattern works well with FMB. This is my arrangement of FMB with a number of embellishments. The second break includes a Stover-like sequence.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Exercises and Licks Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 1/15/2014
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Notes: Interval Theory
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jmachen, updated: 6/23/2025
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Notes: Tab based loosely on You Tube clips by Alison Brown, Steve Martin and James Henry
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by fishnfule, updated: 12/20/2009 - 4 Member Comments
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Notes: Transposed from Rob Bourassa's video lessons. I hope this is OK with Mr Bourassa. There may be a mistake around the 13th measure.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by puloy, updated: 4/17/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by allisondas, updated: 11/14/2011 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Transcription as played on 'the Essential Earl Scruggs'
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jbs325is, updated: 3/10/2012
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Notes: Comes with TAB, Chord Chart, MP3 and Backing Track MP3. From LaynePublications.com
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by schlange, updated: 8/31/2014 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: From Jack Baker, for our TOTW
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by HOWDYDOODY, updated: 1/29/2017
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 1/1/2020
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Notes: Yet another version.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by BenGran, updated: 2/4/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 6/18/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by RB3, updated: 5/10/2025
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Notes: This tablature for Foggy Mountain Breakdown is written with both a 2/4 time signature and a 4/4 time signature.
The basic musical phrase that defines the song consists of 16 measures. The first 16 measures of this tablature have a 2/4 time signature and the second 16 measures have a 4/4 time signature. For both time signatures, the arrangement is the same. All 32 measures are played by Tabledit at a rate of 160 beats/minutes.
The purpose of doing this is to demonstrate that tempo is a function of both the beat/minute rate and the time signature, not just the beat/minute rate. When you play the tablature with Tabledit, you can hear the change in tempo, even though the beat/minute rate remains constant throughout all 32 measures.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Backing Track Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BenGran, updated: 6/21/2018 - 13 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by BenGran, updated: 2/4/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Exercises and Licks Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BenGran, updated: 6/21/2018
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by BenGran, updated: 2/4/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by BenGran, updated: 6/21/2018
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BenGran, updated: 2/4/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by seanray, updated: 1/17/2026
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by MissKristen, updated: 12/24/2018
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Notes: These are a couple of original breaks for Foggy Mountain Breakdown played in melodic style. I also use measure 13 as a kickoff for melodic tunes such as Sailor's Hornpipe. The first measure or two of each break are also very useful and can be used for a lot of things. Measures 9 and 15 are a couple of melodic fills that I use very frequently. As you can see, there are a number of things that can be useful in your playing beyond just using them for Foggy Mountain Breakdown.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Devon Wells, updated: 7/18/2013 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: A BHO member asked me for the tab for my version of FMB from the contest so here it is for anyone interested.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 2/11/2022 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: Flatt & Scruggs -1949 Mercury recording
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Logan l banjo, updated: 9/11/2023 - 5 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by kleblanc, updated: 7/6/2010
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Notes: I have edited this time in attempt to get a closer representation of the actual timing. First attempt at this, so it may be way off. Rob has confirmed that the fingering is correct anyway, so it should be helpful.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 4/21/2021
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Notes: transposed to A440 looped 20x
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Alberto Ruatta, updated: 9/9/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by schlange, updated: 7/14/2015 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: For this week's TOTW, from Jack Baker. http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/306395
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 5/4/2018
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Notes: I also call this tune "Mody Mountain Breakdown". It is a little fun with an old Bluegrass banjo favorite which I transposed into Dorian mode and played is sawmill tuning with some kind of Scruggs style.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 5/11/2014
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Notes: This tab is in response to a post about writing a song in a minor key and shows that a song could be "flipped over" into it's relative minor key. The chord progression is as follows:
Em Em Em Em G G Em Em G G Em Em B7 B7 Em Em
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by banjoman0254, updated: 12/8/2009 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by johann, updated: 4/13/2011
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Notes: Transcribed from an old TV recording of Flatt and Scruggs Band.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by curt57, updated: 10/18/2015 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by dUSA, updated: 2/4/2012
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Notes: Single String version
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Lemon Banjos, updated: 11/2/2019 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Basic version of Foggy Mountain Special. This version doesn't have that "bouncy" feel that Scruggs used, but it allows for playing the song more accurately when speeded up, and I think it sounds slicker anyway. Enjoy!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G#/Ab Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by esa, updated: 7/5/2023
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Notes: This tab contains a full transcription of Foggy Mountain Special based of the version on the Foggy Mountain Jamboree album. It contains most bluegrass instruments (Banjo, guitar, violin, mandolin & bass) with their respective solos in the song. The mandolin solo is not very accurate and the guitar backup can sometimes be a bit weird in my opinion, but I am still learning. If anyone has any tips on how to make dobro backup, please make a comment, as dobro is very interesting. I don't have a dobro at home but I have the other bluegrass instruments, hence why I have transcribed for a full band.
The fiddle backup was also a bit tricky and I tried to something fancy with the double bass at 01:09, but don't mind that. For some reason also the mandolin midi gets changed to a shamisen midi, and I don't know why.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by seanray, updated: 1/17/2026 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Here is Earl's syncopated bass run solo leading into the bass solo.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Lemon Banjos, updated: 11/30/2019 - 5 Member Comments
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Notes: These are some Melodic versions of Foggy Mountain Special I learned from Rick Falls. These are GREAT breaks, and the techniques within them can be applied in so many different areas. Enjoy!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Buxton, updated: 1/20/2015
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Notes: Complete song, all breaks and backup
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by CBSplayer, updated: 3/2/2014
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/30/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by dfrye, updated: 11/2/2019
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Notes: Written by Don Reno
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 8/1/2022 - 4 Member Comments
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Notes: When I first heard Follow the Leader decades ago, the chord structure and title led me to speculate that it is Don Reno’s rejoinder to Foggy Mountain Breakdown. Whatever Reno had in mind, his nifty tune has stood the test of time, and the single-string work certainly blew my mind when I heard it. This tablature is a way I tend to play FtL, with a blending of Scruggs, melodic, and single-string styles and employing some of my own favorite licks. It most definitely is not faithful to Reno’s version, which is much more strongly wedded to repetitive forward rolls.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by rwsansom, updated: 10/12/2018 - 4 Member Comments
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Notes: Transcribed while listening to the CD: Don Reno - Founding Father of Bluegrass. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiAw1khxyhQ
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Tom Hanway, updated: 6/25/2015 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is based on the original Reno & Smiley recording. It's heavily syncopated and very striking: Reno accented a lot of melody notes on the offbeats, also brushing with his thumb, letting the banjo ring into the downbeat, and his staccato single-string work is legendary stuff, a bold stylistic departure from Earl's approach. This is one of Reno's signature tunes, perhaps his answer to Scruggs' 'Foggy Mountain Breakdown'. (See page 1 and 2.)
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by seanray, updated: 1/17/2026
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Notes: Here is my take on Don Reno’s classic tune, Follow The Leader. It incorporates the three main styles of Bluegrass banjo; Scruggs, Melodic and of course Single-String (ala Don Reno).
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 6/4/2012
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: E Tuning: Open D (f#DF#Ad) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 6/3/2015 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: I play this tune out of D tuning and capoed up 2 frets for key of E.
A lot of guitar pickers think that they've got us banjo pickers on the ropes by playing in E.
WE have secret weapons, one is open D tuning and the other is a capo. :) Have fun with this tune.......Lynn
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: E Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by guyfaivre, updated: 11/3/2017 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: I tried to transcribe the interesting video of John Stiltner :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Fbq4Sj5vN4
This piece of Johnny Cash is played in the unusual tone of E
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J'ai essayé de transcrire l’intéressante vidéo de John Stiltner
Ce morceau de Johnny Cash est joué dans l'inhabituelle tonalité de Mi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Fbq4Sj5vN4
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/29/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: E Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by trinaemig, updated: 10/19/2025
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by The Cosmic Surfer, updated: 6/27/2023
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dpetervan, updated: 8/12/2011 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: Verse and backup arranged by Tom Arri; lead break tabbed by Peter Van Eenenaam
Song written by Jens Kruger
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A#/Bb Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by chuckv97, updated: 3/20/2020
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Notes: Based on Jens Kruger’s break, although I’m tuned to standard G tuning, capo 3 , instead of Jens’ Bflat/C tuning. The first E minor chord is only for the banjo break; during the vocals they play a B minor. (taken from the capo). My video is here https://youtu.be/xd3ZUzf26SU , and in the BHO video library.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A#/Bb Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dpetervan, updated: 3/27/2011 - 4 Member Comments
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Notes: Here is my attempt at a close "note for note" transcription of Jens Kruger's banjo break. The verse part sounds great using BanjoTom's arrangement.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/29/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/29/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by peter somerville, updated: 10/15/2015
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Notes: this tab is using modern 3 finger single string approach
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jimrichter, updated: 2/27/2026
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Notes: Forked Deer in melodic style played in C with capo at 2nd fret
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 6/23/2026 - 5 Member Comments
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Notes: Some years ago, Joe Larson posted a tab for a lovely version of Forked Deer in standard G tuning, played from the C position with the capo at 2. I find the sound of the C position more pleasing than versions out of the D position, and accordingly I have modified the tab for drop C tuning. The A part is similar to Joe’s tab, with the addition of drop C. Note that the single string section in measures 8 and 9 is tricky, because it involves crossing the thumb over the index finger; I have tabbed the right-hand fingering I employ. The up-the-neck section of the B part is similar to Joe’s version, whereas the down-the-neck section is a bit of a departure that is reminiscent of John Hickman’s playing. About the title: Forked Deer has a number of potential meanings, such as the configuration of a deer’s antlers, a county in Virginia, a river in Tennessee, or a sexually aroused ruminant. Feel free to pick your favorite interpretation.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/29/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/29/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Klaus, updated: 9/15/2025
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Notes: Oldtime Song in Bluegrass Style
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Klaus, updated: 9/15/2025
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Notes: Oldtime Song in Bluegrass Style
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Klaus, updated: 9/15/2025
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Notes: Oldtime Song in Bluegrass Style
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Open D (aDF#Ad) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/24/2016 - 6 Member Comments
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Notes: A masterpiece by Marshall Brickman, from the album "Folk Banjo Styles" (Elektra, 1961).
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjo_don, updated: 5/14/2012
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Notes: This is my 1st tab nothing but banjo on this one.This my version of this song, hope you all like and comment on it. banjo_don
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by mherring, updated: 4/28/2010
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Notes: A little game to work on Scruggs Style speed (I think). I heard a classical guitarist talking about tremolo speed. Tremolo on a classical guitar involves playing a rapid succession of index (i) - middle (m) - ring (a). He pointed out that even though the combination of the notes is rapid each finger digit is only striking the string say twice a measure, or once a measure. My theory is that if you increase the tempo on the index only to get the timing right on and then switch to middle only and then thumb only and then start mixing combinations of thumb + index only, or thumb + middle only, or index + middle only, then when you finally do thumb, index, middle you "might" be able to play a little faster than before.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by chuckv97, updated: 7/20/2025 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: For the advanced beginner,, no slides, hammer-ons, or pulloffs.
Video which includes TAB is in the video library.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/29/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/5/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by John Harper, updated: 3/26/2010 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This version is very similar to the arrangement by Cohen and Kennison. I heard it differenly so here's my version. I think Emerson and Waldon played it capoed up in C (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjQRzH-S_JM). Enjoy!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 6/19/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/5/2006 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/30/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/5/2006 - 3 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Fathand, updated: 12/21/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Simple Version of Frieght Train
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by flyakfish, updated: 2/25/2021
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Notes: Played in open "G" tuning. Since guitar players like to play this in "C" I thought I would try a version with some melodic spices and without a capo or retuning..
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/29/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Sagar, updated: 4/24/2011
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Notes: writer Zdenek Vitek arr banjo Cyril Kovac
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Exercises and Licks Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 1/16/2014
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by wesmont, updated: 11/12/2015
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Notes: Its based on an old church song "Holy God We Praise Thy Name".
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Jacob Underwood, updated: 3/17/2015
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Notes: This is one of the most basic licks that every bluegrass banjo player should know well. It is a huge part of the Scruggs style.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 9/21/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Here is a nifty G to C run I first heard Sonny Osborne play in Bugle Call Rag, on a concert tape from the late 1960s or early 1970s. Kristin Scott Benson also uses it in her recent (2009) version of Bugle Call Rag. The first two versions are what I hear Sonny and Kristin playing, respectively (with thanks to Kristin for helping on her version). The third version varies by one crucial note. You decide which one you prefer.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Matthess, updated: 4/21/2016
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Notes: This is a tune by Chris Pandolfi. This is the A part of the tune, which is played twice before the B part. The song actually begins at measure 5, and that's where the backup starts. Measures 1-4 are an intro, so when repeating the A part, start the second time at measure 5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQMhT0n-h6M&feature=youtu.be
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Matthess, updated: 4/4/2015
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Notes: This is the B part. It is only played once, whereas the A part is played twice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQMhT0n-h6M&feature=youtu.be
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by larrytanner, updated: 12/12/2010
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Notes: This tune is played in the scruggs style, but sounds like clawhammer. Interesting arrangment by Nashville Bluegrass Band.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jimrichter, updated: 10/12/2025
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: Dm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stratovarious520, updated: 12/22/2022
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Notes: A cool tune from Jimmy Arnold (R.I.P.). Mostly melodic and a couple of single string licks, but completely devoid of Scruggs licks. Something different, I guess.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Ragaisis, updated: 8/7/2013 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: This is a transcription of Hartford's break as played on his solo VHS. You can find it on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCVQ3w3sKxA. It's in C out of open G tuning.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BigFiveChord, updated: 7/27/2019 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Alan Munde transcription, low and high breaks
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjo_don, updated: 5/29/2012
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Adgardad, updated: 3/16/2010
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Notes: A fiddle style melodic banjo tune from Bobby Clark's album "One Legged Gypsy". Alan Munde on five string, serving up his typical tasty licks.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dbowman, updated: 10/15/2010
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Notes: Capo 2
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Bluegrass Banjo Dude, updated: 8/23/2020
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Notes: Here is a great example of Bluegrass Gospel of this era! Recorded in 1951, "Get In Line Brother" really rings with Earl Scruggs behind the Banjo! Check out these tabs and find out for yourself! Perfect for any jam session at your local Church!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Gm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Devon Wells, updated: 10/10/2011
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Notes: Bluesy little ditty. Lots of synchopation. Doesn't need to be too fast.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Dave Nauman, updated: 2/7/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Gm Tuning: Open Gm (gDGBbD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Studebaker Hawk, updated: 8/29/2009 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: My arrangement of one of the greatest Western songs ever written. Tune your banjo to an Open Gm tuning (g D G Bb D).
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Gm Tuning: Open Gm (gDGBbD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by banjo_don, updated: 5/28/2012
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Notes: I seen where some others have submitted this song and so here's my take on it enjoy banjo don!!!!!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by crawdad, updated: 9/22/2009 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: A fun song, kinda easy. Includes a mandolin break. (I'm obviously not a mandolin player.)
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ddale79, updated: 2/5/2012 - 4 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjo_don, updated: 5/29/2012
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Notes: This is from Dig A little Deeper with Doyle Lawson his 2nd time with him
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 4/18/2016 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Alison Brown is an incredible progressive banjo player, right up there with Bela and a few others. I first saw her in the 1990s when she was accompanist for Michele Shocked, and her reputation led me to a Michele Shocked concert in Victoria, B.C. Brown lived up to expectations, and in the process I discovered the delightful Michele Shocked. In addition to her progressive and jazz playing, Brown can rip off a straight-ahead bluegrass tune. Girl’s Breakdown is one of her originals that makes good use of Keith/Scruggs tuners, hence her clever play on the title “Earl’s Breakdown.” The tune is on her wonderful 2000 recording “Fair Weather.”
When examining the tab, you will be able to hear the note changes in the MIDI file -- and you will need to listen to the MIDI, to hear the tune's melody -- but these are not reflected in the frets indicated in the tab, which show the string going from 0 to 0. This is because I employed the pitch change function to achieve that sound (also, how would TablEdit depict detuning the second string from B to A --- e.g., 0 to -2?). The actual notes played are shown in text above the appropriate section of tab. And I want to thank Jack Baker for alerting me to the pitch change function. Through the years Jack has been generous and accommodating in helping me to understand the subtleties of TablEdit and of musical notation in general, and I gratefully acknowledge his guidance here. His contributions to BHO have been very significant.
On the recording, Alison really burns it up; hence the MIDI is high-speed. But you can slow the MIDI down, to hear it better. And if you find the TablEdit file to be too long to print, with both musical notation and guitar accompaniment displayed, you can go into “Print Preview,” then “Print Setup,” then “Multitrack” to suppress the musical notation, and you can delete the guitar by clicking on the green bar above track 2 and deleting.
The structure of Girl’s Breakdown is AAB.
Michael
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjohn2, updated: 7/23/2016
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Notes: This is written by Alison Brown and you must have a pair of D-tuners installed for this - and see that they are well oiled! A lot of twisting and turning. The difficult parts are where you have to turn the tuner in advance to be prepared. This and then in the B-part where the banjo is tuned to D for some measures.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by dbrooks, updated: 10/31/2023
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Notes: This tab is based on the version by Flatt & Scruggs in this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nIOHAORBZA. They play the song in the key of F, but this tab is in open-G tuning for convenience.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dskeigley, updated: 1/1/2014
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by bandofothers, updated: 9/11/2014
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Notes: Glendale Train in the Key of G using Scruggs/Melodic 3-Finger picking.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: E Tuning: Open D (aDF#Ad) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Rick W, updated: 10/26/2014
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Notes: Open D tuning capoed up 2 frets. I transcribed this to TablEdit from a .jpg graciously shared by stanleytone. It's a very cool modal sound.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: F Tuning: Open D (aDF#Ad) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 12/5/2023
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Notes: The Johnson Mountain Boys
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 6/19/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Devon Wells, updated: 2/26/2010 - 3 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by earlsgranada, updated: 11/3/2024
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Notes: Noam Pikelny arrangement of the Bill Monroe jam session standard
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 9/2/2021 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Bill Monroe and Byron Berline co-wrote the first 2 parts of GR, the parts most people are familiar with. Berline also wrote a third part that you can hear at the tail end of Monroe's recording, and I have included all 3 in my arrangement for banjo.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Devon Wells, updated: 6/4/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjopeter, updated: 12/20/2020
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Notes: View instruction video on YouTube. Enter Keywords: banjo peter noorman.
Or visit my website for tabs and instruction videos: www.peternoorman.nl
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 4/20/2020
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Notes: A beautiful tune that is a bit tricky on the banjo.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by HOWDYDOODY, updated: 12/18/2016
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Notes: Normally played in the key of A ( capo 2 )
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Adgardad, updated: 3/21/2010
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Notes: A nice Scruggsy style break by Bela Fleck. This is from when Bela played with the band Spectrum, and is from Spectrum's debut album, "Opening Roll".
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by larrytanner, updated: 12/24/2009
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Notes: Gone Gone Gone in the style of Alan Munde
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Mark W Andersen, updated: 12/4/2012
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Notes: This tune can be played in standard or dropped c tuning.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by chuckv97, updated: 7/20/2025
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Notes: No slides, hammer-ons, or pulloffs, 3/4 time, for first or second year banjo students
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mwblake, updated: 1/21/2014 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: A bouncy little tune, with a tip of the cap to "Eight More Miles to Louisville". Not too tricky to play, in Scruggs style with a modicum of melodic style in the B part.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 7/31/2024 - 7 Member Comments
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Notes: Goodbye Liza Jane is a swing tune that I associate with Bob Wills, and of course it works well in bluegrass as an instrumental. The tablature is my take on GLJ, with 3 breaks – nothing too outrageous.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by grunnet, updated: 12/13/2012
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by hamestring, updated: 1/26/2010
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Notes: Based on the playing of Terry Baucom from the IIIrd Tyme Out cd "Puttin New Roots Down"
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 1/1/2020 - 5 Member Comments
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Notes: This popular folk song sounds traditional, but its authorship is usually attributed to Paul Clayton. Presumably it was written in the 1950s. In bluegrass style, it has been recorded by Bill Monroe, among others. The song regularly comes up in jams.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/24/2026
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Notes: This song is based on a traditional song and was copyrighted by Paul Clayton and The Weavers in the 1950s. I arranged it in my approximation of Earl Scruggs's guitar style.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/3/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by agentheath, updated: 4/26/2012
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Notes: Ben Eldridge 1st solo from Live at the Cellar Door
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by bango, updated: 10/3/2023
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 6/19/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by michel braquemart, updated: 8/17/2020
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ianhobba1, updated: 9/4/2010
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Notes: Another C Tuning song written by Wynne Osborne, think he was good on the Pedal Steel as well as Banjo, anyway I like the tune, couldn't play it like he did and Tabbed it the way I played it on the MP3 sent to my Hangout Site.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Jethro Aberdeen, updated: 5/2/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 7/15/2023 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This arrangement is in open D tuning (f#DF#AD). Most banjo pickers play "Black Mountain Rag" out of G tuning, usually capoed up 2 to A. However, following Doc Watson's version, guitarists tend to play it in C, capoed up 2 to D. On the banjo the tune is also wonderful played out of open D tuning (f#DF#AD). Don Reno played it in D tuning, and he renamed it "Green Mountain Hop." On his "Something Auld" album, nearly 50 years ago, Bill Keith also played "Green Mountain Hop" in open D tuning, and it is a great arrangement that I have tried to capture in this tablature. Pay particular attention to the interesting variation on the V chord (A) beginning in measure 34 -- for me, this clever sequence typifies Bill Keith's brilliant playing.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Banjowen, updated: 9/5/2009 - 6 Member Comments
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Notes: Another self-penned tune that I wrote shortly after buying my Sullivan Greenbrier banjo.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/14/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by jimrichter, updated: 11/19/2023
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Notes: Inspired by the versions of Grey Eagle by Butch Robins and Courtney Johnson
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 6/19/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 4/2/2020
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Notes: A melodic version of all 4 parts of Grey Eagle, inspired by the fiddle playing of Bobby Hicks. The version on banjo by Butch Robins was also an influence, and I tip my hat to him with the harmonic section in the last part. I originally posted this tab in October 2011 and in April 2020 have added the bass track. What can I say, I have slow reflexes.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by tbfnyc, updated: 9/25/2010
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Notes: Jim Mills' version from his instruction DVD
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Devon Wells, updated: 6/4/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 6/19/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by seanray, updated: 1/17/2026
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Notes: Backup Tab for "The Session Book" - seanray.com
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 6/21/2024 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: Complete transcription of Earl Scruggs from Foggy Mountain Banjo Album, Columbia CS 8364 (1961)
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 3/12/2024
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Notes: This is a great old nonsense song ("...groundhog grease all over her chin..." Really?).
When working up my breaks many years ago, I was greatly influenced by Red Allen and Frank Wakefield's rendering of the song, which includes the G to F progression. It is fun to play.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 8/15/2013 - 6 Member Comments
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Notes: There are already 237 versions of Groundspeed on BHO. Why add another? Well, this one has some interesting features. For one, the B part in the first break is to my ears (but what do I know) perhaps more faithful to Scruggs’s recording on the Foggy Mountain Banjo album than most other versions, all due to the difference made by one note, the second string B rather than the first string D. In other words, following the Flint Hill Flash's lead, I hear Scruggs's first pinch as involving the open second (B) string and the third string at the second fret, rather than the open first (D) string and the third string at the second fret. For another, the second break starts out high but is mostly down the neck, in melodic style (hah, take that, Flint Hill Flash!). It’s a tasteful version, if I do say so myself. The third break has some ideas you may find useful, and the ending is of general interest and utility. It’s an ending lick I first heard J. D. Crowe play.
Genre: Bluegrass Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ashurman, updated: 9/15/2020
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Notes: My attempt to transcribe John Reischman's first mandolin break from 'Half Past Four' on his Harmonic Tone Revealers CD. A mix of melodic and single string styles. Many other options for fingering (some no doubt more efficient) are available.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Buxton, updated: 2/15/2013
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Notes: As played on the Martha White show http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmqfZ0k2mxQ
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 2/21/2021 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Although the Foggy Mountain Boys never released this song on an album, you can find their version of it on Volume 9 of the Flatt and Scruggs tv show DVDs, and also on youtube. Uncle Josh and Cousin Jake sing it as a duet, and Earl takes 2 breaks that I have tried to capture here. He must have been feeling frisky on the day it was filmed, because he tossed in some whimsical ideas.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by John Harper, updated: 3/26/2010 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Pretty tune and fairly simple. You usually hear the down the neck break, so I added an up the neck one for variation.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 11/17/2023
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Notes: Notes: I have loved this tune since I first heard the Country Gentlemen play it in the 1960s, along with versions by, among others, the Stanley Brothers as well as J. D. Crowe and Ricky Wasson in Crowe's final album. The tablature I have posted in the Tab Archive is pretty straightforward except for a lick in measure 16 that I may have borrowed from Bill Emerson.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/14/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/28/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/28/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Tuning: Open D (f#DF#Ad) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by gofur, updated: 2/12/2017
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Notes: by Ralph Stanley, as heard on the 2001 album "Man of Constant Sorrow".
I couldn't find a tab or lesson that sounded close enough so here's a note by note reconstruction of the recording. Fingering might be off but I'm 99% sure of the notes. The recording is about a quarter of a tone sharp, if you're planning to play along with both you might want to pitch shift it.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Open D (aDF#Ad) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/14/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Texasbanjo, updated: 10/7/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ashurman, updated: 6/13/2021
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Notes: A cool tune with a catchy melody from David Grisman and Sam Bush. Combination of melodic and single-string styles. Fingering choices made to allow the frequent slides in the original. Take a listen on the web or spotify before trying this one, particularly with some of the rests and syncopated licks.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD)
Posted by Tono, updated: 9/17/2010 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Devon Wells, updated: 6/4/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 1/14/2025 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: I wrote this tune in honour of ice hockey, the official religion of Canada. And remember the classic advice of Red Green: Keep your stick on the ice.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Buxton, updated: 11/7/2014
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Notes: Tab from Martha White show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6nJIcQ3KGU
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by OvrTheTop, updated: 6/2/2024
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Notes: My take on Andrew Marlin's Hawk is a Mule. It's a pretty loose melody, so I'd encourage you to play around with it and find what feels fun to play.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Jethro Aberdeen, updated: 1/5/2020 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: By The Grascals Verse/ intro only
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by larrytanner, updated: 10/3/2012
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Notes: Heartsville Pike is from the Seldom Scene's After Midnight album. Song written by Ben Eldridge and transcription by Ian Perry.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dpetervan, updated: 1/9/2015 - 9 Member Comments
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Notes: "Heaven Sent", by the Steel Drivers. Took me a long time. Note for note for the most part, but not quite. Please feel free to edit it and share your changes with me!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by KI4PRK, updated: 3/4/2010 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Here's the banjo back-up tab for an old fiddle tune, "Hell's Broke Loose In Georgia". The first time through is very easy, all played out of the drop-C tuning open C chord, and only one left hand ornament, a simple choke. All forward rolls. The second time through is more of an intermediate/advanced version using hammer-ons, pull-offs, and more difficult chokes as well as more varied rolls. This is in the style of banjo & fiddle. Has a mandolin melody track. Have fun!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by drobertz, updated: 9/30/2017
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by KI4PRK, updated: 11/25/2009
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Notes: The Don Reno banjo instrumental "Hen Scratchin' Stomp". It's sort of Don's take on Katy Hill, with the second section in E instead of G. As in the 1949 Mercury recording of "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" by Flatt & Scruggs, the banjo plays in E minor while the backup band plays in E major. Creates a cool effect. This is a good start to learning Don's rolls, & to see where he differs from the Scruggs style even in its basic rolls. Not too hard, & an altogether fun piece to play. Try bringing it out at your next jam; very few people know it, but it's a simple tune & the others will pick it up quickly. I highly recommend listening to the Tennessee Cut-Ups original recording. It's full of energy, drive, & will give you a good idea of Don's timing.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by geckoberry, updated: 2/11/2022
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Notes: Gcpicken asked me to tab this out on the "Need a tab?" forum:
https://www.banjohangout.org/topic/380335
Here's the reference video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM6jangk70s
This tab includes the opening solo, as well as backup up to the 40 sec. mark - Have fun!
Geckoberry :)
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by chuckv97, updated: 5/26/2025
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Mooooo, updated: 12/21/2017 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: Cool tune by Jim Mills, give your pinky finger a workout. I included chords so your Mother-in-Law can pick along. Here's a link to the source, have fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFus3OaVtGE
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jimrichter, updated: 3/18/2026
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Notes: This is based on the opening solo by Bill Runkle on Del McCoury’s Dixie Pals album High on a Mountain (Rounder Records 1973).
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD)
Posted by creedog, updated: 9/4/2012
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Notes: This is a Banjo break to Bryan Sutton's "Highland Rim" off of his Ready to Go album. Standard open "G" tuning in the key of D. Tabbed in the melodic style.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by 5stringJim, updated: 8/30/2012
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Notes: Usually capoed up to 4 to sing in the key of E
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Alberto Ruatta, updated: 5/5/2013
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Notes: My first Tab.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 1/13/2023 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: This tune was inspired by my joy in observing the formation of hoarfrost, an icy crystalline coating, on the trees and bushes – the flora – in my neck of the woods. It gradually emerged as I noodled around while contemplating the beauty of hoarfrost, along with life, the Universe, and everything.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JoeDownes, updated: 8/7/2011
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Notes: The popular German folk song in the Romantic tradition - arranged for Scruggs style banjo.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 4/10/2024 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: New Grass Revival
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Texasbanjo, updated: 10/7/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 3/15/2021 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: In addition to being an ace banjo player, Bill Emerson is the composer of wonderful original banjo tunes, several of which I have tabbed and placed in the BHO tab library. Lately I have been listening to his album “Home of the Red Fox.” The title track is another of his gems, and the tab I have posted is the way I play the tune. Give a listen to the recording, available on youtube.com. He has a stellar cast of supporting players – Jim Buchanan, Jerry Douglas, Jimmy Gaudreau, Tony Rice, and Mark Schatz – and the dynamics of their playing on the tune are nothing short of sensational.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Jethro Aberdeen, updated: 6/7/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 1/27/2013 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Bluegrass Banjo Dude, updated: 8/23/2020
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Notes: Here is tablature for "Home Sweet Home” as recorded on the Foggy Mountain Banjo Album. This is accurate to the best of my ability.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Open D (aDF#Ad) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/14/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by chuckv97, updated: 7/20/2025
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Notes: An intermediate level arrangement in the key of G.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Jtharrison, updated: 6/18/2025
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Notes: Tabbed this out just to get in on paper. Hope this allows more freedom for individuals to add their own twists since open G is most common.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum) Key: C Tuning: Tenor C (CGdg) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Mirek Tim Patek, updated: 2/24/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum) Key: C Tuning: Tenor G (DGdg) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Mirek Tim Patek, updated: 2/24/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by tbfnyc, updated: 12/15/2015 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Earl's famous "backward roll" gem in C tuning.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Devon Wells, updated: 11/16/2020
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 6/21/2024
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Notes: Foggy Mountain Banjo
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jimrichter, updated: 8/7/2025
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Notes: From the playing of Eddie Adcock when he was with Country Gentlemen
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Chapucero, updated: 8/8/2023
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Notes: I just transcribed this to the best of my abilities, then noticed there were no tabs easily found online. It's not quite not for note, but I like playing it this way. The second break is basically a case study of the Lilly style... somewhere between Shelton and Reno. Have fun!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Andy Campbell, updated: 11/15/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This tab was transcribed by Chris Athey and was found on bluegrassbanjo.org.
It was converted from Tabrite to tef for someone on BHO.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 8/21/2019 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: HBB is a great tune for jams, an improviser’s dream. The chord structure is straightforward, and the melody is loose enough that you can have lots of fun with it. I have tabbed 3 breaks that give some sense of the range of improvisation the tune permits. To tell the truth, I threw everything into it but the cat, the sump pump, and the kitchen skillet. There is of course a danger that improvisation can descend into what I call “banjo noise” — an endless cascade of notes, often in chromatic scales, that somebody else called “a blizzard of nails” — and I tried to avoid that here. The only part of the tab you might find difficult is the pull-offs, but they should come with practice.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by RB100_1963, updated: 3/1/2020
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum) Key: G Tuning: Tenor G (DGdg) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Mirek Tim Patek, updated: 2/24/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 5/4/2015
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by stratovarious520, updated: 11/22/2023
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Notes: My interpretation of Bill Keith's break on this mandolin piece. Transcribed from a live recording at Bern, Switzerland, 4/15/77. Capo at 2.
Performance notes: This may or may not be how Bill fingered it, but it was the easiest way for me to get the notes. in measures 3, 11, and 27, barre with the index finger on the 9th fret, and use the ring to get the notes on the 11th fret.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 7/19/2020
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Notes: John Hartford
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dskeigley, updated: 1/7/2016
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjo_don, updated: 5/29/2012
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Notes: Had some fun playing this in several groups I been in hope you all enjoy it banjo don
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjo_don, updated: 5/29/2012
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Notes: This is off the New Qick Silver they did only one album Terry takes some pretty good breaks on it I thought I would share it banjo don
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by allisondas, updated: 11/14/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Transcribed from Stanley Brother Anthology. Capo 2nd fret, 5th string to A.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Ira Gitlin, updated: 6/19/2014
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SKID, updated: 6/9/2015
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Notes: Ralph's break from the King Records 45rpm Single.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by rossnickerson, updated: 5/4/2019
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by nachosv, updated: 2/19/2019
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Notes: Banjo Paris Session (1979) , written and played by Francois Vercambre
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 4/17/2014
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Notes: Byron Berline wrote this delightful tune and first recorded it on one of the early albums by Country Gazette. In addition to a guitar break by Clarence White, the recording featured a stellar melodic banjo break by Alan Munde, which I have tried to capture here. The break is difficult and tricky, but mastering it is sure worth the effort.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by RB100_1963, updated: 3/1/2020
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by The Cosmic Surfer, updated: 6/27/2023
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 10/28/2017
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Notes: Hey kids, ever want to impress your chums down at the malt shop by playing two tunes at once? Well, here's your chance! I first heard Bill Keith play something close to this back in the 1960s and much later heard Bobby Thompson play a version on the famous front-porch tape that Steve Arkin and Keith made of Thompson in 1964 or so. There are no standard 3-finger rolls in this piece, and undoubtedly there are different (and probably better) ways of playing the same notes. But this is what I came up with, and it seems to work, although it is tough to play.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Bunyip, updated: 3/2/2023
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Notes: From Mark Howard Bluegrass Traditions album.
Basic melody.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 6/12/2024
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Notes: Old time tune done bluegrass
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by dskeigley, updated: 1/13/2015
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 5/13/2014 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: capo 2nd New Found Road
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mikejboulder, updated: 2/20/2021
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Notes: Terry Baucom kickoff to the Lou Reid, Terry Baucom and Carolina "I Call Your Name". Source: Source:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzPEAxejHco
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jimrichter, updated: 11/19/2023
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Notes: This is a "transcription" to the intro of the tune. Though only about 95% accurate, it conveys what Richard Bailey is doing in the head.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G#/Ab Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 1/18/2015
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Notes: As played by Earl Scruggs, recorded in 1958. Earl departed from his usual rolls in this short break, which he traded with the fiddle and dobro. Instead, he played most of the break in single-string style. It is exceedingly simple and stunningly effective. The song is in waltz time, with the capo on the first fret -- or perhaps Flatt and Scruggs tuned up their instruments a half step, as they tended to do in their earlier recordings. And, yes, the break comprises only 4 measures (thanks to Ken for asking!).
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 4/6/2020
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Notes: This tune is the precursor of Bill Monroe's tune "Santa Claus." Its structure is AABA.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by hamsterlabs, updated: 9/23/2021
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Notes: My son and I wrote this one afternoon. It is an original, hope someone enjoys it.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stan, updated: 1/1/2013
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Notes: A Great Gospel Jam tune!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by RickyDoo, updated: 11/12/2011
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Notes: This tab is based on Chris Talley Armstrong's video lesson of the song available on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6YW5zzi4hk
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stan, updated: 8/1/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by James Stiltner, updated: 7/14/2013
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by schlange, updated: 12/20/2014
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Notes: For our TOTW, from Jack Baker: http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/296360/
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 7/11/2021 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: A pretty straightforward version, with verse and chorus. Ah, Hank Williams ...
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by rossnickerson, updated: 5/4/2019
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/14/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 1/18/2017
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Notes: I Wish You Knew is a classic by Jim and Jesse and the Virginia Boys, with a stellar banjo break by the great Allen Shelton. The break contains ones of Shelton's signature licks, in measure 13, and it illustrates his renowned bouncy style, as can be seen in measures 4 through 7. If you listen to the original recording by Jim and Jesse, you will hear lots of Shelton's tasty backup, including licks influenced by the pedal steel, which also show up in Bill Keith's playing. Jim and Jesse recorded it in the key of B, and so my tab is in B.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/12/2016
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Notes: This is my interpretation of Don Stover's version of I Wonder How the Old Folks Are at Home, which he recorded with the Lilly Brothers. It reveals many aspects of his bouncy/punchy style, including repeated pinches and hammer-ons in the C (IV) chord. Compare Stover's break to Bill Keith's, which I have also posted in the Tab Archive.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ValleyBoy, updated: 11/24/2015
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/14/2016 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Bill Monroe often had Del McCoury sing I Wonder How the Old Folks Are at Home when McCoury was Monroe's lead singer and guitarist, in 1963. Of relevance to BHO, Bill Keith was the banjo player of the day in the Blue Grass Boys. Several concert recordings of Keith's version with Monroe are floating around, and I have combined 2 of his breaks to give you a feel for his approach to the tune. Pay particular attention to measures 14 through 17, where Keith dishes out a tasty melodic take on the A (II) to D (V) chords, a section that alone is worth the price of admission.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 12/11/2025 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: This song has been recorded by many artists, and here is my take on it for bluegrass banjo.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Jim Pankey, updated: 12/1/2009 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Here's a fun, kinda intermediate, version of I'll Fly Away that takes a couple of twists and turns to keep everything interesting.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by rustewey, updated: 11/20/2011
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Notes: This tab is for the mp3 of I'll Fly Away posted on the Banjo Hangout by RB3Banjo
This was a fragment with part of the tune followed by a fiddle break and then the whole tune.
I have tabbed it as close as I can.
If you refine the tab I would appreciate a copy.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by rossnickerson, updated: 10/11/2012
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Notes: This is a song from my Gospel Songs for Banjo Book/CD/DVD from the free tab page at BanjoTeacher.com. Thanks, Ross Nickerson
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by afrevele, updated: 1/21/2014
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Notes: Banjo Ben Style!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Open D (aDF#Ad) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Don Borchelt, updated: 5/4/2015
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Notes: This is a three-finger arrangement resides somewhere in the ether between bluegrass and old-time.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by HOWDYDOODY, updated: 4/30/2016
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by banjoteacher.com, updated: 4/26/2019
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/14/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/3/2023 - 5 Member Comments
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Notes: Earl played finger-style guitar on many of the Foggies' gospel songs. He often played out of the E position, miraculously in the key of G with the capo on the 3rd fret. The tablature is my stab at playing I'll Fly Away in Scruggs-style guitar.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/14/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A#/Bbm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Buxton, updated: 12/25/2024
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Notes: Complete tab for Flatt and Scruggs recording on Bear Mountain CD. Capo on the third fret to follow along to the recording. Great example of Scrugg's up the neck back-up. Tab will open in latest tabledit viewer.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by fbisel, updated: 5/29/2025
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Notes: I'll Live Again - Terry Baucom from Baucom, Bibey, Graham & Haley
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 12/28/2016 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is one of Jim and Jesse's gems, recorded in the late 1950s, as far as I can tell, with Bobby Thompson on banjo. Thompson's break is straightforward and driving. My version is similar to his, although I have added a few embellishments, including the chorus.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Hannes Fehringer, updated: 9/30/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 11/1/2012
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Notes: The first break is close to Earl Scruggs's classic recording. The next two breaks are variations that give some idea of how one can improvise around the melody.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 9/7/2021 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Here is a gem from the Flatt and Scruggs canon. Several different banjo players have recorded excellent versions, including Earl Scruggs, Bill Keith, and J. D. Crowe. The tab is my version and comprises two breaks. The first break is down the neck and is the melody of the verse, which is the standard way of playing the song. The second break starts out up the neck, with the melody of the verse, and then goes down the neck for the melody of the chorus. I first worked this version out in the 1970s and still play it this way. I guess I am not very imaginative.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Logan l banjo, updated: 3/1/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Paulie Ray, updated: 12/12/2012
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Notes: With apologies to Bing!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 10/10/2011
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Notes: A Bill Monroe classic, recorded when Earl Scruggs with in the band. I wonder whether Monroe had this in mind as a vehicle for Earl's "fancy banjo" when he wrote the tune. I have tabbed out two breaks. The first sticks close to the melody, although I did throw in a little melodic sequence at the end. The second break is more out there and includes a high part that I really like, as well as an ending that you may find useful in other songs.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by dbrooks, updated: 11/26/2024
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Notes: This is a basic version of Bill Monroe's classic song. He sang it in A. Capo at the 2nd fret to mat his playing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBMiOjZWy6I
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 11/27/2024
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Notes: Here is a try to make a clawhammer version of Bill Monroe's "I'm Going Back To Old Kentucky" (I think it was first recorded in 1949). I have verse and chorus with banjo following the melody, and I added a more advanced banjo break. G tuning with capo on 2nd fret, since Bill Monroe recorded it in the key of A.
In TablEdit I put the tempo to BMP = 250. Bill Monroe played more att 300 BPM, but I have heard other slower versions too.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 10/12/2011
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Notes: This is a great old tune by Reno and Smiley. I have tabbed out two up-the-neck breaks. The first sticks pretty close to the melody; the second departs a bit and includes some licks that you might find useful in a variety of tunes. If you go to the Music section on my BHO web page, you will find a track of this song, from a practice tape by my band Silver Spring, recorded in Vancouver, B.C., in the mid-1970s. The second break in the tablature is the one on the track. On the recording, we played in A; so just capo up 2 and play it as tabbed in G. Note that the last D chord is a bit tricky, because it involves alternating the index and middle fingers while picking the first string. Although difficult, the lick is worth mastering, because you can use it in lots of tunes. The melody in the lick is played on the first string and involves a descending melodic sequence (D --> C --> B --> A --> G) embedded in a repetitive rhythmic pattern, as follows, with the melody string IN CAPITALS: ONE--three--two--one--ONE--three--two-one---ONE-three--two--one, and so on.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 8/5/2024
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Notes: Ralph Stamley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwGDdilPRUg
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 3/6/2016 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Bill Monroe wrote this "true" song about revisiting his childhood home on Jerusalem Ridge in Kentucky. It is a good song for the banjo, and I have tabbed 3 breaks. The first stays close to the melody, and the others improvise a bit.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dbrooks, updated: 9/6/2023
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Notes: This tab is based on the version by Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K0BHVn7N7E . They play the tune in the key of B. Capo at the fourth fret to match their key. This tab tries to capture some of the banjo licks in the intro, so the brushes appear in some unusual places (e.g., 3rd beat). Simplify the arrangement to suit your taste.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 11/12/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Hannes Fehringer, updated: 9/4/2010 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: This tab is more or less the basic break as played by Don Reno on Don Reno, Founding Father of the Bluegrass Banjo, CMH-Records, 2001. Originally the tune appears in the key of A. I am using a capo on the second fret and I am aware the fact, that Don Reno didn't. However: The best way to figure out a tune is to play along with the record.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dbowman, updated: 8/30/2009
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Notes: J D Crowe first break. Guitar Pro file and PDF
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/14/2024 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by RadMuz, updated: 10/3/2021 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Banjo Alison Brown. The solo starts at 1:16 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pABaFx3jY90
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/14/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/16/2026
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Notes: Silver Spring, my band in Vancouver BC, used to play this Beatles song in the 1970s. It works really well in bluegrass, as also demonstrated by the Dillards and the Charles River Valley Boys. I would like to know whether Lennon and McCartney (mostly McCartney in this case) were deliberately writing a bluegrass song.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/6/2020 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Here is a great bluegrass tune I first heard recorded by Earl Taylor, later by Longview.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 4/5/2024
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Notes: I’ve Lost You is a song recorded by Flatt and Scruggs on 9 May 1951, with Chubby Wise on fiddle and Everett Lilly on mandolin and tenor vocals. It is one of the rare songs the Foggies did with a mandolin break (in their consistent determination not to sound like Bill Monroe!). Earl’s banjo break is lovely and elegant, and this is my interpretation/approximation of it. Note the interesting way he played the D chord in measures 8 and 9.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by fbisel, updated: 4/26/2025
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Notes: I’d Rather Die Young, Baucom break from Doyle Lawson
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by chuckv97, updated: 7/7/2025
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Notes: Easy arrangement for advanced beginners,, no trickery, just one slide. The video which includes the TAB is in the video library.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by fbisel, updated: 5/21/2025
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Notes: I’m Leaving Detroit - Terry Baucom
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: Am Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 8/9/2022 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: The SteelDrivers
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 2/19/2026
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Notes: Here is yet another version of this old tune, this one not too surrealistic. And for a version in Scruggs-style guitar, go to:
https://www.banjohangout.org/tab/browse.asp?m=detail&v=26197
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Gm Tuning: Open Gm (gDGBbD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jcland, updated: 11/30/2024
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Notes: Here is a TablEdit version of "In Hell I'll Be In Good Company" by The Dead South. I also included the guitar rhythm and a bass line. It's at 140 bpm to closely match the recording speed. It should match the entire recording in length.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by chuckv97, updated: 12/1/2025
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 3/13/2025
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by RB4picker, updated: 11/25/2018
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjodave777, updated: 3/16/2021
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Notes: capo 2
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by gradelyduck, updated: 9/16/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjo_don, updated: 6/10/2013
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Notes: This is a song off Jeff Parkers "Go Parker" CDthey do it live in B but on the CD it is in Bb
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/13/2007
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mikejboulder, updated: 4/11/2021 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: A great John Reischman tune. This was influenced by the playing of Old Cremona (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PjyDnSc2_c) and Lluís Gómez (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y4zRCNDVZQ). The B section timing is not true to the Mandolin version but it is playable. The Reischman version goes up an octave on the last A part which I elected not to do. I added an alternative melodic ending similar to Old Cremona's version at the end.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stratovarious520, updated: 2/12/2021 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: I believe this to be Jimmy's first recorded instrumental. From what I've gathered, he was 17-18 years old. Bandmate Wesley Golding provided the guitar lead. I have transcribed this as capo at 1, but am not certain that they weren't tuned slightly sharp from standard, and the transfer from analog to digital did the rest. Use your own judgment.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Exercises and Licks Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 7/2/2023
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Notes: I'll add licks from this video from time to time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpybkWP1Azg
.05
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by flanorelli, updated: 3/4/2012 - 5 Member Comments
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Notes: I worked out an arrangement of Jens Kruger's "Jack of the Wood" from the Kruger Brother's "Between the Notes" CD. It may not be note-for-note accurate, but it's pretty close.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Toppy, updated: 10/13/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by KI4PRK, updated: 9/8/2009 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is a little-known Don Reno banjo tune, Jacknife-in'. He actually played it at only a medium tempo, but this version here is blazing fast in the manner of Jeremy Stephens, who recorded it for his CD, "Scarlet Banjo". Some of these breaks here are based on some of his breaks, and some are my own. Due to the tempo, single string work, and some very quick changing of positions this is quite a difficult piece. Single string work is TITI. It's labled Open G (gDGBD), but it has the 5th capoed up 2 (at the 7th fret) for aDGBD, in the key of D. Also, it's labeled "scruggs", but it's really "Reno" style. Has a Rhythm Guitar & Bass rhythm track. Have fun!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 8/27/2019
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Notes: Two of my favorite banjo pickers recorded Jamboree, Doug Dillard on “The Banjo Album” (1970) and Butch Robins on “Grounded-Centered-Focused” (1995). Both credit the tune to Andrew Welling, who is the composer of the music for many movies. Doug’s version is a bit frantic and repetitive, whereas Butch’s is more coherent, approachable, and interesting IMHO. You could say it is more grounded, centered, and focused. My tab is not intended to be a note-for-note transcription of Butch’s recording, but I did try to capture a bit of the spirit of his version. The trickiest bit is the right-hand fingering in the passing chords in the B part, and I have tabbed out the fingering I use to pick the strings in that section. If you find a way to play the section that is easier for you, however, go for it. Butch recorded it in the key of Bb, but I have posted it in the key of G.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Lynne, updated: 1/19/2010 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Sorry it's hand written.
this was tabbed for me by Bill Knopf
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Jethro Aberdeen, updated: 6/14/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by James Stiltner, updated: 1/5/2013
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Jodebanjo, updated: 12/7/2013
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Notes: Enjoy
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by The Cosmic Surfer, updated: 6/27/2023
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Notes: It's done in E on the guitar but I worked it up in G for the banjo...love to know what you think. Thanks!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/18/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/18/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Am Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by howiejor, updated: 3/23/2017
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Notes: Inspired by Noam Pikelny's bluegrass version of Kenny Baker's classic fiddle arrangement, I undertook to get as close as I could to Baker's arrangement using the clawhammer style in a G modal (or Sawmill) tuning, capoed at the second fret and fifth string capoed up to an A.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Am Tuning: Open Gm (gDGBbD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 10/18/2018
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Notes: capo on 2nd fret
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: Am Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ButchRobins, updated: 5/23/2020
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Notes: Play as if in G minor
Capo 2nd fret
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Am Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by phb, updated: 8/14/2022
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Notes: These are the tabs to my arrangement and recording of "Jerusalem Ridge". I tried to capture as much of the fiddle tune as possible.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Am Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by crisslewis, updated: 10/22/2024 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: here is my first go at tabbing out a tune, i could not find any versions of this tune in the open G tuning in a TabEdit version. so here is a Noem Pikely style break, but a bit more straight
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Am Tuning: Open Gm (gDGBbD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dbrooks, updated: 10/27/2024
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Notes: This clawhammer tab is based on a version I played with the Celtic group, Guilderoy Byrne. It's on their CD, "I Once Loved a Lass."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crp4GXOw0eM&list=OLAK5uy_nOGVs7-zjNRZe_BhEEhSrsKPArM2Ad9Rw&index=24
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Em Difficulty: Expert
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 10/31/2024
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Notes: A complete transcript of Kenny Baker's fiddle part for 5string banjo (single string). Open G tuning for this fiddle part (optional capo 5th fret for original recording in C/Am) if so the total span of the banjo, lowest to the highest frets are used. Also included is the actual banjo backup part with a separate tab. This banjo is tuned down in Em (eBEGB = -3-3-3-4-3) as in the original recording (same option of capo 5th fret rendering Am aEACE). I have included midis and mp3s in Em and also original Am. In memory of Kenneth Clayton Baker (June 26, 1926 – July 8, 2011)
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Backing Track Key: Am Difficulty: Expert
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 10/21/2015
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Notes: As recorded by Bill Monroe/Kenny Baker
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Am Tuning: Double C (gCGCD)
Posted by banjukebox, updated: 12/5/2024
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Notes: Capo 2
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Am Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by fivestring61, updated: 4/23/2010 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: My version of an up-the-neck break for this classic Monroe tune...
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Am Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by 21stCenturyBanjo, updated: 10/24/2018 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Noam Pikelnys version of Jerusalem Ridge from "Noam Pikelny plays Kenny Baker plays Bill Monroe"
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Am Tuning: Open Gm (gDGBbD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/21/2020 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: This is my take on the beautiful version of Jerusalem Ridge recorded by Butch Robins on his classic album "The Fifth Child." Robins's version is similar to Bob Black's, which Jack Baker provided a wonderful tab for quite some time ago, but it differs in subtle ways and is, to my ear, closer to Kenny Baker's version on the fiddle. Robins apparently played in standard G tuning, but I find it to be easier in G minor tuning.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/29/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/7/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dUSA, updated: 12/17/2014
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by HOWDYDOODY, updated: 4/18/2013 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Ron C, updated: 8/5/2013
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Notes: This tab is a synthesis of versions I learned by ear as well as tabbed by others.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by rossnickerson, updated: 5/5/2019
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/1/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/18/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum) Key: D Tuning: Tenor G (DGdg) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Mirek Tim Patek, updated: 2/24/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum) Key: G Tuning: Tenor G (DGdg) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Mirek Tim Patek, updated: 2/24/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/10/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/7/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/18/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/1/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Paulie Ray, updated: 12/12/2012
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/7/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by armandozuppa, updated: 12/21/2009
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by caloscalzo, updated: 1/21/2010
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Notes: Traditional rendition of the popular Christmas piece. Enjoy the tab but make the song your own.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by gradelyduck, updated: 7/31/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Texasbanjo, updated: 10/7/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Gray Toney, updated: 11/10/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Toppy, updated: 12/1/2011
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Notes: My attempt at a Christmas tune
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by MMski, updated: 12/15/2011
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Notes: Happy Holidays! Should be decently easy!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by rossnickerson, updated: 5/5/2019
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by kmwaterstx, updated: 12/7/2019
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Notes: Hopefully Jack won't mind me sharing. After all it is the season for giving, right?
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/14/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by kmwaters, updated: 11/8/2016 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 10/13/2012 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Yep...........Christmas is rolling in on us fast....Hope you like........L.Williams
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Mike Rowe, updated: 4/20/2018
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Mike Rowe, updated: 4/20/2018
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Matthess, updated: 12/29/2016
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/7/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Jean-Marie RENARD, updated: 4/21/2013
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Notes: I'm a french banjo picker and I created a personal arrangement
and adaptation for banjo (bluegrass style)
of the song"John Brown'S Body".You'll find attached herewith
the Guitar Pro file in order to enhance your "Tab archive"
(if you're interested).
Best regards
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/10/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/7/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/18/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/18/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/23/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 9/22/2016 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: There are some terrific versions of John Hardy out there in different tunings. I am thinking of Eric Weissberg's version on "Folk Banjo Styles," an Elektra LP from 1961. Alan Munde also a very interesting version that Lee Marcus has provided a tablature for on BHO. My version is in good ole G tuning, the default tuning of bluegrass banjo. I have included 4 breaks. The B part on several of them is challenging and will require some work. Altogether, there is probably more variation here than I would use on stage or in a jam, and I include it just to show you the possibilities. One aspect to note is that melody notes on the high break (# 3) are played on the first string with the middle finger. This may seem counter-intuitive, but it works.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by HOWDYDOODY, updated: 11/27/2016
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 3/1/2019
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/18/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/1/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 7/3/2012
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/7/2006 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/18/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/28/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 4/20/2025
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by geckoberry, updated: 7/16/2021
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Notes: Earl Scruggs with Hylo Brown!
You can find the recording here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMes9o9sPbo
:)
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/7/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/10/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Open D (f#DF#Ad) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 6/28/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 4/9/2022
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Notes: Most of us are probably familiar with Scruggs's lovely version of John Henry in D tuning, on the "Foggy Mountain Banjo" album. But he also was known to play JH in G tuning. Here is my interpretation of his straightforward elegant break in G from the Flatt and Scruggs tv show on WSM, with vocal by Hylo Brown. You can find Scruggs's version in Vol. 1 of the DVDs, and also on youtube.com.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/10/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 9/19/2014
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Notes: Based on ACAPELLA
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 4/4/2014
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Am Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by guyfaivre, updated: 12/13/2021
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Notes: I put the main notes in bold
Search "jolene tuto banjo" on youtube
(J'ai mis les notes principales en gras, le tuto est sur youtube)
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Dm Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 5/15/2014 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Rhonda Vincent & The Rage - modal tuning a D G A D
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Steelydan, updated: 7/21/2013 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Christmas Corner's 1st tab. This tab is Scruggs style, but is also availabe as a Clawhammer version @ http://www.ezfolk.com/banjo/tab/xmas/jollyo-m/jollyo-m.html (Richard Hefner) and is available free with midi files for 3 versions with melody. Tab is loosely based on a tab by Dave Daylor. Merry Christmas in July.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/12/2026 - 5 Member Comments
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Notes: Bill Keith arranged and recorded this nifty tune on the 1982 album "Fiddle Tunes for Banjo," with Tony Trischka and Bela Fleck -- an album that every bluegrass player should listen to. JWM is a jaunty excursion into some interesting musical ideas and comprises 3 parts. Incidentally, it was actually written in the 19th century by two classical banjo players, according to BHO member Joel Hooks. So perhaps it should instead have been included on a different album, "Banjo Tunes for Banjo."
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/1/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Texasbanjo, updated: 10/7/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by rossnickerson, updated: 5/4/2019
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by blanham, updated: 11/17/2023 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Easy Version
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/18/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/10/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/18/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Keith Alberding, updated: 6/15/2015 - 5 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 4/9/2026
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Notes: My arrangement was inspired by Doc Watson's version.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 4/23/2020 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Jethro Aberdeen, updated: 3/30/2020
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Notes: Tab is written as if you were playing by yourself. Simplify melody if you would play in a band setup. Solo part is at the end of the tab.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dskeigley, updated: 8/10/2025
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 6/2/2020 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: An original tune I wrote for my wife, who is also an original.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 10/21/2024 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Here is an original tune with a curious history. I deliberately and systematically worked up the A part, but did not know what to do to finish off the tune. The B part came to me in a dream, believe it or not. I awakened with the melody fresh in my head, and ran to grab a banjo and play it before it faded.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/7/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by maurodanielrossi, updated: 1/31/2023
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Notes: From The 5-String Banjo Stanley Style by John Wright 1984
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/7/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/7/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Wyatt Custom Banjo, updated: 11/26/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/7/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/7/2006 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/7/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/7/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/23/2014
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Notes: By Jack Baker, for the Tunetorial: http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/285375/
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 4/18/2012
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by gulyrob, updated: 3/15/2013
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Notes: INTRO - Kelly Emerson plays Deering's Golden Era and Calico banjos - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkEiRRCU1A4
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by kellyweeks55, updated: 10/16/2012
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Notes: This is my original tune. It is a basic breakdown. Learning this song can help you learn and work on skills that are needed for the more difficult breakdowns of Earl Scruggs.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Dave Nauman, updated: 8/11/2011
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Notes: The tab and midi are in G, but the tune is usually played in A. GuitarPro doesn't seem to understand how to capo a banjo.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD)
Posted by eagleisland, updated: 1/20/2014
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Notes: This is a STUDY provided to assist in discussion of driving backup on the Playing Advice forum. Transcription is from a slowed version of the song from Rhonda Vincent and the Rage's "Ragin' Live" album. I believe the first 29 measures or so are a reasonably accurate reflection of what Kenny Ingram played during the kick and first verse. I am less confident in the B part (starting at measure 30); there was a lot of artifact in the original recording I was working from and while the banjo in the recording is still providing pulse it's a little hard to hear all the subtleties under the harmony vocals.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 2/18/2015 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNdVhjxBjys Kenny Ingram - Rhonda Vincent and the Rage (G capo 4th = B)
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/7/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Gm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Banjoker, updated: 9/4/2009 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/7/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Dave Nauman, updated: 2/7/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/7/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Kstevensmd, updated: 11/15/2022 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: This is a fun exercise to learn the chords in the Key of G in all the inversions.
In the first section, the exercise plays the G scale on the G string (3rd string), the roll pattern starts on the G string.
In the second section, the exercise plays the G scale on the D string (1st string), the roll pattern starts on the D string.
In the third section, the exercise plays the G scale in the B string (2nd string), the roll patten starts on the B string.
As you play it through you are learning all the chords in the Key of G in all the inversions up and down the neck. By saying aloud (or thinking) the notes of the scale as you play the exercises you will easily learn the positions of all the notes in the Key of G on all the strings. (1st and 4th the same of course).
You can invent your own exercise by changing around the sequence of the chords and roll patterns to your liking.
In the first section, I find it easier to play the bar position chords using the index, middle and ring fingers. In the third section, I find it easier to play all the notes on the 1st string with the pinky.
Have fun!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/7/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/7/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 10/7/2025 - 4 Member Comments
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Notes: The tablature reflects my current take on this lovely traditional tune, which shifts between the keys of A major and A minor -- shades of Bill Monroe.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by n2banjos, updated: 12/13/2019
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Notes: Here's an original tune recorded on Blue Mule's Scratchy CD. This is mainly a melodic fiddle tune, but with some lilted timing. Here's a link to a YouTube version, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qMwJu5mZz4.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/7/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dskeigley, updated: 2/14/2015 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by zerkleje, updated: 12/19/2012
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Notes: Guitar Pro File written in ver 6... had to export to ver 5 (GP5) to upload here.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ronh2510, updated: 5/12/2021
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Notes: Got a request from a French customer of mine (he lives in France and bought all 4 of my Banjo Tab books) to tab out the French National Anthem in Scruggs style. Well, here it is. Straight ahead arrangement - shouldn't prove too difficult for the Intermediate player. Watch the chords in bars 16 and 18 Gm and Eb. If you hold the chord shapes down in each bar as you roll through them it should help.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Ron C, updated: 5/14/2013
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Notes: This is not my original tab in that it is based on what I had learned and played 15 years or more ago. I don't recall the sources, so can't give attribution. Ron
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 7/29/2022
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Notes: I have dusted off my tablature of Lady of Spain, which I worked out some decades ago. Note that my arrangement opens and closes with a vamp pattern. Lady of Spain is a standard number on the accordion – I’m talking to you, Lawrence Welk -- and it just sounded more complete to me with a cheesy intro and exit. Note also that the V chord -- i.e., G -- progresses to a G augmented. If you're going to go cheesy you might as well go whole hog (if I might mix metaphors). So put on your dancing shoes, strap on the old accordion, and everybody polka.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by pmcd22, updated: 3/1/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/7/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/7/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by awal767, updated: 6/27/2025
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Notes: Here's a fun original tune. There are a few sticky bars RH-wise but the rest is hopefully a nice little cakewalk!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/7/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/7/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by webadage, updated: 9/2/2013
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 12/12/2012
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Notes: Also known as "Leather Britches," this is a great jam tune. I love the pinches in Part A, because they give it extra drive. Perhaps the only tricky bit is found in measures 10 and 26, and I have indicated the right-hand picking pattern, which involves playing the 2nd string with the thumb and then crossing over and playing the 3rd string with the index finger, a pattern than Alan Munde occasionally uses (at least to my ear) to good effect.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/7/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by jimrichter, updated: 8/7/2025
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 10/29/2017 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: original is fiddle and banjo this is banjo only
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Dm Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Expert
Posted by mwblake, updated: 2/12/2013 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Fantastic fiddle tune by Aubrey Haynie, from his album "Doin' My Time". I have transcribed Bela Fleck's solo break, to the best of my ability. You could have fun wrestling with this one. It ain't easy, but...
NB. Spike the 5th string to A - tuning: aDGBD
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Freddie.D.Holt, updated: 1/21/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by stratovarious520, updated: 2/6/2021
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Notes: Another blistering instrumental of Jimmy's from the Rainbow Ride album. I thought the intro was a combination of triplets, but the exceptional ear of howsy-bee (Hans Holzherr) pointed out my mistake(s)! The 3 breaks Jimmy takes are all essentially the same, so I only included one and the ending. Have fun with this one.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: F Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Paulie Ray, updated: 12/12/2012
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Notes: This tune has a lot of chord voicing to bring out the melody.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 10/12/2022 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is a straightforward melodic version of Liberty — including harmonics — that is relatively easy to play. I quickly worked it up after hearing friends play a twin-fiddle arrangement. Note that it is in the key of D but played in standard G tuning.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by flyakfish, updated: 2/24/2021
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Notes: This song is played melodic style in the key of "D" in standard "G" tuning but with the 5th string lowered one fret to F#. This makes it easy to play and very flowing melodic style by not repeating the same string. This tuning works for many songs played melodic style in "D". I haven't seen this tuning here so I am posting several for examples.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/7/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Devon Wells, updated: 10/1/2012
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 4/26/2014
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Notes: Liberty is a fun tune and relatively easy to play in drop C tuning. Capo the second fret for the key of D which is the preferred key for fiddlers. Hope you like it. Lynn Williams
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjofrog, updated: 12/4/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/26/2014 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: For the TOTW. This song is aka "Life Is Like a Mountain Railroad." Original tab by Stan Slack, modified by Jack Baker.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 8/9/2022
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Notes: The Osborne Brothers
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Jodebanjo, updated: 7/31/2016 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Updated finger positions. Much better playable.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: E Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by RadMuz, updated: 11/17/2025
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by kmwaters, updated: 8/22/2015 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Simplistic melodic of the great old wartime tune.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by kmwaters, updated: 7/19/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Klaus, updated: 3/18/2025
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Notes: Up the neck version, not so hard to play
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/8/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G#/Ab Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by KI4PRK, updated: 9/6/2009 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Yes, it's Limehouse Blues (a jazz tune) and it's in Ab (without a capo), but this is a bluegrass version complete with some standard Reno variations. Has a bluegrass guitar rhythm track & a bass rhythm track. The rolling parts aren't that hard, actually, but the single string can be a little tricky. The double stops are played by brushing down on the strings with your thumb.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 7/15/2012
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjojason88, updated: 6/11/2013
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Notes: Based off of Dwight McCall's recording of the song.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/8/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by garry-tabedit, updated: 4/5/2011 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Couldn't find a decent tab on the internet, and so I transcribed it.
It's in drop C tuning, and I have only tabbed the instrumental breaks as the verses are the same minus the melody, plus I only have a demo version of tab edit, which has restrictions on the bars I can export...
Have fun, and check out more tabs on my blog:
http://banjosarecool.blogspot.com/
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/8/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/8/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Jacob Underwood, updated: 2/23/2015
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Notes: Here is an intermediate banjo solo for Bill Monroe's "Little Cabin Home on the Hill." It's pretty straightforward, employing the use of several classic Earl Scruggs licks. Mastering some of the classic elements of this solo can help the intermediate player prepare for a more advanced level.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 10/12/2022
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Notes: This tablature contains some variations that you might find useful. My main reason for posting the tab is to highlight the G-D-G turnaround in measures 30 and 31, a brilliant lick from the playing of Bill Keith that works well in many songs.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/14/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/8/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by kmwaters, updated: 10/9/2018
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Notes: Might need a tweak in the codas, but I set the reading list a bit to improve things a little.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stratovarious520, updated: 6/30/2021
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Notes: My arrangement of the A.P. Carter song, taken to the banjo realm by Earl's Foggy Mountain Banjo album. I also have a video in the archives of this version.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 7/5/2024
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Notes: Foggy Mountain Banjo
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/31/2026
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Notes: This is an updated version of a tab I posted some years ago. It comprises 3 breaks. The first is pretty much straight Scruggs, the wellspring from which all bluegrass banjo flows. The second and third are more improvisational. Note the lovely G-D-G turnaround in measures 46 and 47, which I learned from Bill Keith.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by agentheath, updated: 4/26/2012
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Notes: Ben Eldridge kickoff solo from Live at the Cellar Door
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/8/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by allisondas, updated: 11/26/2011
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Notes: The original recording is in the key of C, but I was unwillingly to list it in C b/c that's just a capo crime. In the vamp section, Ralph plays a few awkward rolls.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 4/27/2020 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: Here are 3 breaks.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/14/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 4/14/2018 - 4 Member Comments
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Notes: as played on the album "The Best of The Best" - Ralph Stanley (Federal Records fed-0528-2)
G tuning - capo 5
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/8/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by kmwaters, updated: 12/19/2013 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: First Break Bill Emerson arrangement.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by kmwaters, updated: 2/3/2014 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Capo up 2 on all strings - cleaned up a little from previous posts.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by RB3, updated: 7/9/2022
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Tom Hanway, updated: 8/26/2015 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Here is a Scruggsy arrangement for the OT tune, with some melodic and Celtic-style flourishes.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by OvrTheTop, updated: 12/6/2025
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 6/12/2012 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/8/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by bandofothers, updated: 2/11/2011 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 10/27/2021
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Notes: Live and Let Live was one of Bill Monroe's signature songs, and it's a good one. My tablature is for a pretty straightforward break -- nothing surreal here. But there is lots of room for improvisation.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A#/Bb Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 9/21/2016 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Here is a nifty break by Bill Keith, from the Keith and Rooney album of the same name. When I first heard it, in 1963 or 1964, I was quite impressed. It is simple and elegant, and it contains some novel ideas (for the time). Keith and Rooney played it in A#/Bb, and I have tabbed it in that key.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 7/31/2024 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: This is from the famous front porch tape Steve Arkin and Bill Keith made of Bobby Thompson’s playing in 1964. The quality of the recording is low, and I could not always clearly hear what Thompson was playing. So take it FWIW. Liza Jane must at one time have been a popular name, resulting in at least 3 songs or tunes in country music. There is Ole Liza Jane, which Merle Travis recorded as a nonsense song and Don Stover recorded as a lovely banjo tune (https://www.banjohangout.org/tab/browse.asp?m=detail&v=26264). There is also Goodbye Liza Jane, which I associate with Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys (https://www.banjohangout.org/tab/browse.asp?m=detail&v=27278). And then there is Bobby Thompson’s version, which seems to exist in a Universe all its own.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by gulyrob, updated: 11/5/2013 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Here is one of my favorite songs, from Dave Hum. I struggled a lot with TAB. Enjoy it!
Dave Hum version of youtube Locust Hill (2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1mwnUJvtNU
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BanjoJeff, updated: 3/1/2013 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A#/Bb Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 8/12/2021 - 7 Member Comments
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Notes: The Osborne Brothers recorded Lonesome Feeling in the 1960s. On youtube you can find excellent versions that are more recent, such as those by Josh Williams, Dean Osborne, and the the 2018 IBMA All-Star Jam. The latter features an outstanding lead vocal by Nick Dumas and impressive banjo work by Justin Moses. My tablature contains 2 breaks, the first the way I tend to play it and the second an approximation of Justin Moses’s break. I found it difficult to hear and decipher parts of Moses’s break; so navigate it at your peril.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Dm Tuning: Open C (gCGCE) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by delmando, updated: 2/12/2015 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Dm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/26/2018
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Notes: My first post ... I hope somebody finds this arrangement enjoyable. Tabledit
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Dm Tuning: Open Gm (gDGBbD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Studebaker Hawk, updated: 10/9/2009 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Transcribed from the playing of John McEuen on the Will The Circle Be Unbroken (Vol. I) album. Second 'B' part variation from a later Vassar Clements recording featuring a break by McEuen. Capo all the way up to the 7th fret.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Dm Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Expert
Posted by jimrichter, updated: 12/10/2023 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: In the style of Courtney Johnson
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/15/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Dm Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mwblake, updated: 8/16/2017 - 5 Member Comments
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Notes: The classic Kenny Baker/Bill Monroe fiddle tune. A beautiful, interesting melody. I've never heard another banjo interpretation of it. This is mine. I hope you like it. [NB. Spike the 5th to A]
Update: Noam Pikelny has since recorded this tune on "Plays Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe" - check it out, it's awesome!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by littleton, updated: 11/28/2022
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Dm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Bill H, updated: 2/23/2023
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Dm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by 21stCenturyBanjo, updated: 4/6/2019
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Notes: Noam's version of Lonesome Moonlight Waltz off the Noam Pikelny plays Kenny Baker plays Bill Monroe album
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/15/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Banjoker, updated: 10/14/2012 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Banjo break with guitar and bass.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by howsy-bee, updated: 11/5/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Tab for the video in the media archive.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/15/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/15/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum) Key: G Tuning: Tenor G (DGdg) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Mirek Tim Patek, updated: 2/24/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 11/14/2019 - 7 Member Comments
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Notes: Lonesome Road Blues is common in jams, and it's a favorite of mine. My tab comprises some variations on how you can play it.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 4/6/2022 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: I have revised my tab of LRB by adding an additional down-the-neck break that comprises some passages you might find useful.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 10/11/2025
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Notes: This arrangement was inspired by one of Bill Keith's breaks on Bluegrass Breakdown, when he was a Blue Grass Boy. I find it to be more driving than many melodic breaks, and you may find portions of it to be useful in other tunes and breaks.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 1/6/2014 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 7/15/2024
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Notes: Foggy Mountain Banjo Album
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/15/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/15/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 5/28/2012
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/15/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by rossnickerson, updated: 5/5/2019
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/14/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by HOWDYDOODY, updated: 4/28/2016
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by wesmont, updated: 4/16/2016 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: I made this one after watching a lesson at Tony Trischkas School of Banjo at artistworks.com with him & Bill Evans about developing solos. I also like to give credits to Alan Munde. His teaching about "Roll Logic" is so helpful.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/15/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by n1wr, updated: 12/3/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: E Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Buxton, updated: 11/21/2017
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Notes: John Hartford's version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0cdmHXWYr8
Tuned in open E 1st string E, B,G#,B,E. All breaks.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/24/2014
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Notes: For the TOTW (http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/281986), from Jack Baker
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/16/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/16/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/16/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/16/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/16/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 4/2/2023 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Their version of Love and Wealth is one of my favorite songs by Flatt and Scruggs. They did not release a studio recording on the song, but a recording of a live radio broadcast from the early 1950s is available on the bootleg LP “Kings of Bluegrass, Vol. 2.” (The LP’s liner notes are from Ben Dover, which happens to be the name of a character in Chevy Chase’s “Fletch” movie). In contrast, J. D. Crowe produced a studio recording of the song on the recent album “Crowe and Wasson.” It is instructive to compare the versions by these two masters. They are generally similar, with some notable exceptions: Compare Scruggs’s nifty C passage in measure 4 to Crowe’s more conventional C passage in measure 21. Scruggs handles the A to D transition in measure 15 in an unconventional way, with only 2 notes, whereas Crowe carefully plays the melody in measure 32. Scruggs played the song in the key of B, and Crowe's is in the key of A. The tablature is in G.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Bendan, updated: 6/20/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 11/18/2017
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Notes: Here are two of my breaks to Love Come Home, both including some moderately difficult licks. Pay particular attention to the C and D chords, several of which I borrowed from recordings by other players. I have labelled the sources of the licks that I borrowed. Note also that the trick in the first IV (C) chord of the second break is to emphasize the alternation between the first string 2nd fret and first string open -- this alternation is the effect I am trying to achieve. I highlighted this in the MIDI by selecting "ringing note" for those notes.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/16/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/16/2006 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/16/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/16/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Claude Grassley, updated: 4/8/2020
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Notes: Simple Bill Monroe tune clawhammer style. The same 8 measures repeat throughout both the verses and chorus as far as I could tell. I imbedded the lyrics but they don't match up real well in tabledit
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/14/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/16/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/16/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/16/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Kstevensmd, updated: 10/18/2019
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Notes: I hope you like it!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/16/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by howsy-bee, updated: 8/30/2021 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: (Fairly) accurate transcription off Jimmy Arnold's "Riding With Ol' Mosby" album, with thanks to Greg Crisp.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stratovarious520, updated: 2/17/2021 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: Capo 2. From the "Strictly Arnold" album. Some liberties were taken, notably with the last break. I'm not one to judge, but I believe the alcohol had kicked in by this point at the recording session...listen to the original slowed down, and you'll see what I mean. Still, a fun tune, and it has some signature licks in there.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Gm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Kachuka, updated: 7/23/2014 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: Written by Mike Munford and performed by Frank Solivan and Dirty Kitchen.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/14/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/14/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Eliott - Elstree, updated: 7/24/2025
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Notes: Short and fun bluegrass song with an upbeat melody and legato runs
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stan, updated: 7/22/2012 - 6 Member Comments
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Notes: a fun tune for everyone to take a break on!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/8/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by crishergirl, updated: 5/9/2012
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Notes: This is in the style of the music from the movie "O brother where art thou".
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by rossnickerson, updated: 5/5/2019 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/19/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by coltoncrawford, updated: 4/13/2020 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Steelydan, updated: 8/16/2013
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Notes: Tabbed a version of "I have (I've got) a mansion just over the hilltop. It's played in the key of C (C-F-G) with the banjo tuned to G. Capo 2 and your playing in D. This is 3-finger Scruggs style and is played relatively slow (I've embedded a Ricky Van Shelton Youtube version) and included lyrics.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by stratovarious520, updated: 1/19/2026
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Notes: A little gem from Keith Whitley and Country Store, featuring Pat Cloud on banjo, circa 1972. Pat's 2nd break had an ascending D7 lick which twisted my ear a little. I thought others could benefit from it. I realize my ending/tag is different, but I usually just tab these things for the way I would play them. About any standard D to G fill would work. Capo 2, and have fun!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: A Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Expert
Posted by James Stiltner, updated: 1/27/2013
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Ricky Mier, updated: 4/11/2010 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: the song goes out of the banjos low register, but who cares. its sure fun to pick!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Dm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoy, updated: 8/14/2021
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Notes: A basic video demo can be seen at https://youtu.be/UKQBDK7d3EU ... This is my arrangement for 5-string banjo on the cool Instrumental "Manzanita" by Tony Rice. This includes the basic building blocks of the tune, including the backup chords ... feel free to take it and run with it :)
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ianhobba1, updated: 9/3/2010 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: I heard this tune played on the banjo clawhammer style on an album 'Folk Banjo Styles' and wanted to play it Scruggs style and it seemed to fall out in C Tuning....
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Chapucero, updated: 5/2/2020
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Notes: This is Alan Munde's arrangement off "Keep on Pushing." More 'true blue' and less flashy melodic stuff in here, but with Al's special touch. Plenty of great examples of the I-T-I-M roll starting on the 2nd string, which Al has often mentioned as one of his favorite (and most heavily employed) rolls. I particularly like the way the B part starts-- that's a useful one at high speeds!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by ChuckJo, updated: 3/4/2013
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Notes:
Marching Through Georgia was written by Henry Clay Work in 1865 to celebrate the Union "March to the Sea" led U.S. Major General William Tecumseh Sherman from November 15, 1864 to December 21, 1864 culminating in the capture of the Port of Savannah. Mark recorded Marching Through Georgia with Emory Lester for the CD, Acoustic Rising, released on the Mountain Home label in 2006. On the CD, Mark told me, he placed a capo on the 5th fret of his banjo tuned in double C (gCGCD) raising the banjo's pitch to the key of F. To make my job of transcribing this tune into tab easier, I asked Mark to play without the capo.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 3/31/2015
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by dUSA, updated: 12/17/2014 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D#/Ebm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by phb, updated: 12/9/2018
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Notes: This is my transcription of the Country Gentlemen's "Matterhorn". For some reason it felt wrong to me to write everything relative to 0 when capoed this high. Hence, open strings appear as "8" and what is e.g. the 2nd fret relative to the capo is notated as "10" and so on.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by OvrTheTop, updated: 3/11/2013
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Notes: Tab with lyrics included. No solo's tabbed out from the song.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Cm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Banjowen, updated: 9/29/2009 - 4 Member Comments
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Notes: A self-penned tune in the key of Cm which has a Mexican/Spanish flavour....
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by eagleisland, updated: 11/9/2013 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Don Borchelt posted a lovely arrangement of this song a while back. Always good to have several versions to choose from, dontcha think? This arrangement is a little simpler than Don's and should be easier for newer players to grasp.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Dave Nauman, updated: 6/8/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Cwiiis, updated: 5/1/2015
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Notes: Transcribed from Poison Lies volume 4.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by CCABanjo, updated: 4/3/2016
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjott, updated: 3/21/2015
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Notes: Mighty Dark to Travel as played by Charlie Cushman on this YouTube video. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJE3Vf4_2I0)
If you notice something wrong with the tab, please let me know.
Tabbed by Tabito (no pun intended).
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Jack Baker, updated: 6/30/2026
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 8/15/2015
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Notes: As played by Don Stover and by J. D. Crowe.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Classical Key: Gm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Ian_banjo, updated: 7/23/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is another minuet from the Bach Anna Magdalena notebook. However, it now looks as if it was by Christian Petzold as a companion piece to the popular minuet in G major.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 9/7/2021
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Notes: This sprightly little tune is known by a number of names besides “Miss McLeod’s Reel,” including “Did You Ever See the Devil, Uncle Joe,” “Enterprise and Boxer,” “Hop High Ladies,” and “Virginia Reel.” For me, it has been an earworm burrowing into my temporal lobe that persisted for many years until I finally gave in and produced a tablature.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by flyakfish, updated: 2/24/2021
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Notes: A melodic version in the key of "D" played in standard "G" tuning but with the 5th string dropped one fret to F#. This makes the fingering easy and more flowing played melodic style without repeating the same string. I will post more songs I play this way since I haven't seen this simple tuning used here.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A#/Bb Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dholland, updated: 2/1/2013
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Notes: Fiddle tune by Kenny Baker in key of Bb. Great tune that I've never heard anyone play. Hopefully this will spur someone on. The PDF files are for page 1 and 2.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A#/Bb Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dholland, updated: 1/21/2019 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Sagar, updated: 4/24/2011
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Notes: Writer Cyril Kovac
modified by Lee Marcus
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Sagar, updated: 4/24/2011 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Original version composed by Cyril Kovac
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by rsbanjodog, updated: 3/26/2013
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by banjo321, updated: 8/29/2016
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Notes: Two breaks and fill end licks for Bill Monroes classic tune
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 3/10/2016 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: M&T is a traditional song that Bill Monroe arranged and made his own. A number of great banjo players have tackled it: Earl Scruggs, Don Stover, Bill Keith, Craig Smith, J. D. Crowe, Lamar Grier, and the list goes on. I have tabbed out 3 breaks, 2 down the neck and 1 up the neck (a la Don Stover). Have fun.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Janna, updated: 7/14/2019
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Notes: I was looking for the original tab of this song, but noticed that the tabs I found in the Internet were not like the original... So I tried to write my own tabs listening the original mp3 record of the Bill Monroe and Earl Scruggs playing. I used the program for making the record very slow so I could hear each note Earl Scruggs played.
Now it seems my tabs more close to the original version of the official studio version of this song.
Please, let me know, what do you think? Do you like it or no and why? Your opinion means lot for me! Thank you!!!))
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/14/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BanjoTJC, updated: 4/18/2025
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by CCABanjo, updated: 3/18/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Two of the midi files are for "play along" to help with your timing while practicing the tune (one at 90 bpm and the other at 120 bpm).
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 7/27/2013
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Notes: This is another classic fiddle tune written by Bill Monroe that is an excellent vehicle for the banjo. I have tabbed out a relatively straightforward arrangement with nothing too flamboyant. I included two versions of the B part, the first up the neck and the second down low. Both work well, but I have found that the second is easier to play when poor lighting on stage prevents me from seeing the position markers on the neck.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by thomgus, updated: 3/27/2017
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Notes: Noam Pikelny's melodic version of this Kenny Baker classic.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/14/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by fbisel, updated: 4/22/2025
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Notes: Moundsville Pen - Baucom break from IIIrd Tyme Out
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Buxton, updated: 6/30/2018
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Notes: From Martha White show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxJlMTXK6Jo
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 10/17/2023
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Notes: A transfer of Kevin Burke's GP5 version to tabledit.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dskeigley, updated: 10/18/2014
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 12/16/2015 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: Mr Sandman was recorded by the Chordettes in 1954, although it had previously been recorded by Vaughn Monroe -- no relation to Bill Monroe, I think – and his Orchestra in the same year. Steve Arkin has stated that Bill Keith had an arrangement of the song in the early 1960s, although I have never heard Keith’s version (and would love to, if anybody has a recording). In any case, several years ago I finally worked up an arrangement of my own, and I just got around to the tablature, posted here. It took me about one month to tab it out – a real pain – but I think I finally got it close to right. I borrowed the idea for the ending from an excellent tab by Jack Gentle Jr. (aka MickG) that was posted in the Tab Archive some years ago, and I gratefully acknowledge it here. When you work through the tab, you will find unusual D13 and D7 chord positions in measure 24 and elsewhere. Here I made use of Sonny Osborne’s brilliant creation of a pedal steel–like chord progression that he demonstrates in his Homespun Tapes video.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Banjowen, updated: 9/5/2009 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: A tune I wrote for a pet dog we once had, his name was "Spike", and he managed to reach the ripe old age of 21 (human years) and from then on we called him "Mr Spike"as respect, unfortunately he passed away shortly afterwards.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Kstevensmd, updated: 6/5/2022
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Notes: Some of my guitar playing friends were asked to play Mr. Spaceman by the Byrds at a memorial service for a friend of ours who recently passed away, a favorite song of our friend. I was asked if I would join them and do a banjo break. Here is a simple banjo break I came up with using traditional Scruggs rolls. I hope you like it.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by kingofboise, updated: 12/23/2018
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Notes: A fun and easy bluegrass-style song I wrote for beginners.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Erwin, updated: 4/7/2022
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 2/28/2021
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Notes: Bill Holden was, in my opinion, one of Bill Monroe’s best if under-recognized banjo players. After a stint with the Country Gentlemen he joined the Blue Grass Boys in the mid-1970s. His break on Cabin in Caroline is straightforward and bluesy, but challenging. The right hand in the bluesy passages is potentially difficult, and I have indicated the fingering that I find works.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dbowman, updated: 10/11/2010 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: I noticed there was not a version of this great song in the BHO tabs. Added this version that is not particular to any players break....just the way I play it.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 9/13/2025
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 10/22/2025 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: This is a classic from Flatt and Scruggs. The first break in the tab is Earl's second break in the recording, which contains many of his characteristic licks and tricks. The second break in the tab includes several variations and ends with a Fleck-ism.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by fbisel, updated: 5/22/2025
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Notes: My Little GIrl In Tennessee - Terry Baucom
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JohanOhman, updated: 6/29/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: A wonderful song by Bill Emerson. Played in A with capo.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by rossnickerson, updated: 5/5/2019
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by howsy-bee, updated: 4/20/2019 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Dm Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stevieparker1, updated: 7/11/2010 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: D minor Tuning ( aDFAD )
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Dm Tuning: Dm (aDFAD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by schlange, updated: 8/25/2014 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: For our TOTW, tabbed by Jack Baker
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Dm Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjo321, updated: 8/8/2017
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Notes: I tabbed this in the adgbd tuning. it has a little different feel to it and it has a improvised blues break up the neck. I always liked this tune but I hated having to tune on stage so I rearranged this so all I had to do was spike the fifth string to A from G tuning.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Dm Tuning: Dm (aDFAD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by awal767, updated: 9/8/2019
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Notes: Here's Earl's first break from this fun tune, with his nice little harmonic tag at the end.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Dm Tuning: Dm (aDFAD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 4/14/2024 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: Here is a lovely original tune by Mr. Earl himself. It employs the D minor tuning, which Bill Keith also used in his stunning arrangement of Little Sadie. My version of Nashville Blues contains a particularly challenging single-string passage in measures 27 and 28, and I have shown the right-hand fingering I use when attempting to play it. Try it at your own risk.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Dm Tuning: Dm (aDFAD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/14/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Dm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Studebaker Hawk, updated: 10/9/2009
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Notes: If you've ever REALLY listened to Earl playing Nashville Blues on the Will The Circle Be Unbroken album, halfway through the song another banjo steps in the background and plays harmony (of sorts) to Earl's lead. This is John McEuen's 2nd banjo part to that song. NOTE: Song is in the key of Dm, banjo in Open Gm tuning, capo at 7th fret.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 10/19/2017 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Not the instrumental in D minor by Earl Scruggs, this jaunty little tune/song (not very bluesy IMHO, but what do I know) was written by the Delmore Brothers. The most popular recording is perhaps that by Doc Watson, who plays a couple of nifty guitar breaks. I have tried to capture the spirit of Doc’s guitar in breaks for the banjo. Nothing challenging here, just fun to play.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/17/2006 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/15/2006 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by rustewey, updated: 11/20/2011
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Notes: I learned this version in Don Stover's livingroom in 1973
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 11/10/2018
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by earlsgranada, updated: 11/3/2024
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Notes: By Ned Luberecki, one of his signature tunes, Nedscape Navigator. Reminiscent of Scott Vestal's "Cruisin" & "Wired" and tunes that use the open 4th string as the drone. Enjoy!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjofrog, updated: 8/23/2010 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: Composed by Tim O'Brien. An arrangement that I figured out. I don't think there are any pickup notes. I'm also not sure where the measures start and end, but the tab seems to be accurate in this arrangement. Anyway, it's a fun song to pick and sing.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 4/1/2020 - 4 Member Comments
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Notes: In this stressful time of a pandemic, why not learn a tune with a topical title, “Nervous Breakdown.” The tune was written and recorded in the mid-1960s by Bob Johnson on the album “Twelve Shades of Bluegrass” by Bob Johnson and the Lonesome Travelers. All I have been able to find out about Bob Johnson is that he was from Chattanooga, TN, he played for a short while with Bill Monroe – see the tape circulating among collectors of the Blue Grass Boys at Bean Blossom, 13 April 1958 – and he retired from music in 1967. You can hear Johnson’s recording of Nervous Breakdown on youtube.com. Bob Black also recorded it on his delightful album “Ladies on the Steamboat.” Nervous Breakdown has an odd but appealing chord structure, and I have somewhat arbitrarily broken it into 2 parts, A and B
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Don Borchelt, updated: 3/23/2023 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: This is a banjo lesson I prepared for a student the years ago, based on the Country Gazette's live recording of this Delaney & Bonnie song. I may have simplified Alan Munde's picking here and there to accommodate my student's playing level, I can't remember. Note that the TEF file has all of the tracks, not just the banjo. Note that the banjo is capoed on the 4th fret.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by kingo5string, updated: 2/9/2013
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Notes: The is Doug Dillard's break(s) which are split with the mandolin. The tune is in D, so Doug capos up seven (7) frets.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: A#/Bb Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by KI4PRK, updated: 9/6/2009
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Notes: The Frank Wakefield mandolin tune, "New Camptown Races", arranged for melodic style banjo key of Bb, uncapoed. It's very hard, IMO, to get it to sound really smooth but it still sounds really good. No fancy ending for this one :P With Rhythm Guitar & Bass rhythm track. The triplets are played by carefully brushing your thumb down across the strings in time with the triplet.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A#/Bb Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Old Hickory, updated: 12/15/2014
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Notes: Dec 15, 2014: Uploaded corrected file. Fixed a note error. // My transcription of Mike Munford's solo on the Frank Wakefield CD "Ownself Blues." Lots of tricky stuff. Thanks to the note isolation and i.d. feature in Transcribe software, I'm fairly certain I have the notes right. Of course, the fingerings could be different.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A#/Bb Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by 21stCenturyBanjo, updated: 4/29/2018
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Notes: Written By Frank Wakefield
Sheet music by 21stCenturyBanjo
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 8/4/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 8/4/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 6/3/2021 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: NYC is very nice tune that was written by Tony Trischka, who recorded it in the mid-1980s. It has been rattling around in my brainpan for quite some time, and I finally committed it to tablature. My tab of the tune is not identical to Tony's version, but it does follow it fairly closely. Note that, to my ear at least, Tony tunes the fifth string to F#, although it also could be tuned to A or even G. If I got it wrong I am sure someone will correct me. Note also the lovely descending note pairs in measures 14 and 15. For some reason I find that passage really moving.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Banjopikr, updated: 2/10/2022
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Notes: Here's a backup line to the song, based on the Flatt & Scruggs version but added a few forward-backward rolls here and there. Tune is in drop C.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by banjomikey, updated: 12/10/2009 - 6 Member Comments
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Notes: This is probably my favorite banjo instrumental. written by Richard Underwood, the original banjo player for The Johnson Mountain Boys. I think the beauty is in the straight forward simplicity of the tune.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Ira Gitlin, updated: 3/15/2016 - 5 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by agentheath, updated: 11/30/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: As played by John Mark Batchelor.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by bango, updated: 10/12/2023
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/14/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by trinaemig, updated: 8/2/2025
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: E Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by RadMuz, updated: 2/27/2024
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Notes: The Infamous Stringdusters
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/3/2016 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: My tab comprises two breaks, the first close to Earl Scruggs's and the second more improvisational. Scruggs's break is one of the most straightforward and elegant of his early recordings with the Foggy Mountain Boys, and I love it. If you take a listen to the Foggies' recording, note that they tuned their instruments up a half step. Hence they sound like they are playing in G#, although they are playing out of G position.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by banjotom2, updated: 8/28/2012
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stan, updated: 12/31/2009
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Notes: Stan Slack
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stan, updated: 5/20/2013
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Bm
Posted by phb, updated: 5/9/2011
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Notes: This is my first transcription ever so there will be a lot of mistakes. I did this as an exercise because people on the BHO keep telling us beginners that transcribing recordings teaches a lot (haven't noted much of a change yet... ;).
I chose "No Title Yet Blues" because I like it a lot and there are few tabs of it to be found. This is the 1st break from the Alan Munde recording, unfortunately I haven't got the original Weissberg/Brickman recording (I'd love to get that and the the other recording from the "New Dimensions" that aren't on the "Deliverance" soundtrack, if anyone knows where to find them...).
The tuning turned out to be a D tuning with the 4th string dropped by a minor third to a B note.
I wish I could play this tune well. Before this I had never played anything in D tuning (just got my banjo 8 months ago) so this will take me some time to play reasonably well...
The tab was written using a free linux tab editor called songwrite2. Unfortunately it is still a very simple program which is why I couldn't add most of the embellishments.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/15/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 7/11/2020
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Notes: There are 2 tunes with the name North Carolina Breakdown. This is the other one (if I may borrow Bill Evans’s joke about Chinquapin Hunting, another pair of different tunes with the same name). Perhaps the better known NCB is a fiddle tune by Arthur Smith. The other one, the tune I have tabbed here, is a fine banjo creation by Sammy Shelor, the Grand Poobah of Punch. The first break is a fairly straightforward rendition of the tune, the second is the way I often play it, and the third is my attempt to capture some of Shelor’s improvisations.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Adgardad, updated: 3/21/2010
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Notes: Another nice Scruggs/Bluegrass style tune by Bela Fleck. This was from one of the "Tasty Licks" albums (the 2nd one I think). Bela is so well known for the jazz and newgrass stuff that I think a lot of us forget that the man can lay down some really sweet bluegrass banjo as well.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 12/17/2024 - 5 Member Comments
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Notes: When exiting a Bob Dylan concert on a cold clear Saskatoon night in November 1997, I was gobsmacked by a virtuoso performance of the Northern Lights, shimmering, crackling, and popping in the sky, all of which inspired me to write this tune. I posted the tablature on BHO shortly thereafter. The ascending run of triplets was an attempt to convey the sense of the shimmering and rippling of the Lights. In 2008 with my band Knee Deep, I debuted the tune at, fittingly enough, the Northern Lights Bluegrass and Old-Time Music Festival. Note added in 2021: Northern Lights Breakdown is a crooked tune, one that has varying numbers of beats in some of the measures. I have revised the tab, to reflect this and to clean up some errors.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by blugras77, updated: 5/21/2019
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Notes: Transcribed from Rob McCoury's album, "The 5 String Flamethrower."
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: E Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ianhobba1, updated: 9/28/2021 - 4 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/14/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by kmwaterstx, updated: 10/19/2019 - 3 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Duc7, updated: 8/18/2019
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Notes: One of my students was looking for a version of this tune for the banjo, so I came up with this arrangement - enjoy! Skip
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Devon Wells, updated: 9/21/2009
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Notes: A version of O canada I cooked up. Up the neck section may appear more difficult than it actually is. Use basic major chord shapes (D shape, F shape and straight barre) and that's really all there is too it (except the very end of the up the neck where you'll use a couple of minor shapes for the last two descending chords). You can hear it on youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJYiixdCN0w) or on my hangout page. Write me if you have any questions.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by rossnickerson, updated: 5/5/2019
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/17/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/9/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by rossnickerson, updated: 4/27/2019
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A#/Bb Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by rdeanjordan, updated: 1/2/2024
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Notes: A delightful fiddle tune played famously by Lyman Enloe and arranged for melodic banjo and band by Bob Black. Capo to 3rd fret (Bb).
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/17/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Alberto Ruatta, updated: 5/19/2012
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stan, updated: 11/27/2021 - 4 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/17/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Andy Campbell, updated: 12/15/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is from the site http://www.j2buttonsw.co.uk/
It is based on the Mark Clifford intro on the Bruce Springsteen album
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/17/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 9/5/2007
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Dave Nauman, updated: 2/7/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by delmando, updated: 5/15/2013
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Notes: A "square" arrangement with no extra bar between sections 2&3. Add it in if you prefer!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 3/1/2019
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stratovarious520, updated: 1/8/2022
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Notes: Capo 2. Another hodgepodge of styles and ideas. Several cool licks to "borrow" and assimilate into your own playing. Just pay it forward after you make it your own!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Dave Nauman, updated: 7/29/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: Gm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ButchRobins, updated: 2/29/2020
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Notes: From Butch Robins' CD "Grounded Centered Focused"
Listen here: https://soundcloud.com/butchrobins/old-ebenezer-dangerfield
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by taurodont, updated: 7/9/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/17/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/17/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by NickPug, updated: 2/7/2026
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Notes: Hello, here is my transcription/arrangement of "Old Grimes" from the *Mount Royal* record by Julian Lage and Chris Eldridge. This is the opening break from that track (I think Julian is playing it).
I arranged it for the banjo by heavily adapting techniques from Noam Pikelny and his lessons on ArtistWorks - this is a purely melodic arrangement with some tricky single string sprinkled in for a couple beats (sorry couldn't help it). I have a more single-string oriented version that I will clean up before also posting here.
Throughout this tab are variations of fingerings to get the same notes or similar notes with a different emphasis. Choose what you like.
This tune is getting called more among my flatpicking guitar friends, so I had to come up with something so I can hang in a jam. Hope you like!
-Nick
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/17/2006 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A#/Bb Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by allisondas, updated: 9/18/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: triplet feel to most of the licks in this opening break.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by AndreVanDerBeek, updated: 10/26/2013 - 4 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Old Hickory, updated: 11/11/2013
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Notes: Just what the world needs: One more version of Old Home Place. The only thing somewhat different that I introduce here is what I play on the first D chord (or whatever the "V" chord is if you capo this as many do). I don't recall what my inspiration was for that lick. Not claiming originality. Enjoy. -- Old Home Place by Mitch Jayne & Dean Webb
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 11/19/2018
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 3/27/2023
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Notes: This is not a tablature of the way Doug Dillard or J. D. Crowe played the song, but it is the way Michael Corcoran plays it. You can hear it on Lucas Welsh's album "West of the 3rd" (https://www.lucaswelshmusic.com/).
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 10/23/2011
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Notes: This is a fine old Flatt and Scruggs chestnut. Lester really cranked up his singing on this one, and the Bluegrass Album Band also does an excellent version with Tony Rice on the vocal. I have tabbed my interpretation of Earl Scruggs's break and of J. D. Crowe's break (with the BGAB). Scruggs's break shows his genius for capturing the melody without always relying on cliched licks or rolls. Crowe's break is derived from Scruggs's, but departs from it in subtle ways. Both are worth learning.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/17/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/21/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/21/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/21/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Tenor G (DGdg) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Mirek Tim Patek, updated: 2/24/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by James Stiltner, updated: 3/25/2013 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Jacob Underwood, updated: 6/9/2016
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Notes: Here is some tablature for a biasic version of "Old Joe Clark."
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Buxton, updated: 2/8/2018
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Notes: Complete tab for Flatt and Scruggs recording on Bear Mountain CD. Recording speeds up slightly so tab sync will be off. Key of A, capo at the 2nd. This is a good example of Scruggs backup as the banjo is right channel isolated in the recording making for a relatively easy follow along.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BTS, updated: 3/23/2019
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Notes: This is a tab of a version of Old Joe Clark by The Smoking Stone Band. The introduction is highly unusual and wonderfully imaginative. The main body of the tune is more "Trad" than bluegrass feel to it. You can hear the original on the bands Soundcloud page here https://soundcloud.com/smokingstoneband/old-joe-clark. GP5 and PDF versions.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by b_kamper, updated: 1/5/2020
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by howardrm, updated: 1/23/2021
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Notes: A low break and a high break.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/14/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by chuckv97, updated: 7/20/2025
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Notes: A syncopated variation
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/29/2024 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: The first break is similar to what Eric Weissberg, Bill Keith, and others played in the 1960s and contains that OJC run useful in so many tunes (perhaps Weissberg created it?). The second break is more the way I play it today, with lots of drive coming from forward rolls (in Bill Keith's terminology; I used to call it "walking up the strings"). Either version is worth adding to your arsenal.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/17/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/21/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/21/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/21/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 7/11/2024 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Sonny recorded this on a relatively obscure album, "Down Yonder, by Wade Ray and the Country Fiddlers," with Sonny O. on banjo and Homer and Jethro on guitar and mandolin, respectively. The A part of the banjo break employs several backward runs, and it is interesting to contrast it with the more common break first recorded by Eric Weissberg in 1963 and then by Bill Keith in 1965. I have included a section of their A part for comparison.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 11/13/2012 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: This tablature provides an approach to playing harmony to OJC. It opens with "eight potatoes" (as Steve Arkin named it), the riff that fiddle players open tunes with, but as approximated by the ole 5-string. My friends say that this particular harmony part has the flavor of the Middle East; so maybe it should be called "Mediterranean OJC." Whatever you call it, the harmony part is fun to play, and you will be able to come up with plenty of variations as you work it.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 2/26/2012
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by crawdad, updated: 8/29/2009
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 7/18/2020 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: The Old Spinning Wheel is a lovely song, words and music written by Billy Hill. You can find numerous versions on youtube, including nice recordings by Slim Whitman and by Jimmy Wakely that provide a clear roadmap of the melody.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mikejboulder, updated: 7/3/2021
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Notes: A good jam tune. Some melodic runs with some bonus variations. Classic version by James King for reference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5J7Yjr-AVM.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/21/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/21/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by rossnickerson, updated: 5/5/2019
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Open D (f#DF#Ad) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by cuberous, updated: 11/21/2025
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Dave Nauman, updated: 2/7/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 7/29/2025
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Notes: Ole Liza Jane is a traditional nonsense song that Don Stover recorded as an instrumental. You can hear the lyrics in Merle Travis’s version on youtube. The tablature is my interpretation of Stover’s arrangement on the banjo. The first break is pretty close to Stover’s, whereas the second veers off a bit into modest improvisation. In particular, the B part of the second break is more faithful to Travis’s vocal than to Stover’s B part on the banjo. Stover plays OLJ at breakneck speed, and his recording features a fine mandolin break by David Grisman. You can hear me playing it on a practice tape from some years ago, on the media section of my BHO webpage:https://www.banjohangout.org/myhangout/media-player/audio_player2.asp?musicid=9860&archived=
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 10/21/2024 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: This sparky little tune is for a sparky little guy. It's one of those tunes that emerged from random noodling and wrote itself.
Note added in May 2024: I changed the key of the tune from G to A -- easier reach for the left hand -- and added a second break.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/21/2006 - 4 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by geckoberry, updated: 1/24/2022 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Hi!
Conic asked me to tab this out on the "Need a tab?" forum, and so here we go!
Here's a link to the forum to request more tabs:
https://www.banjohangout.org/topic/375867
And here's a link to the song this comes from:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNqazuIqN6c
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 10/12/2011
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Notes: On and On is one of Bill Monroe's classic "true" songs, inspired by events in his own life. This arrangement is the way we play it in my band Knee Deep. The arrangement was influenced by Bill Keith's version, specifically the way he plays the IV (C) chord. Note that the V (D) chords and the tags contain some of my ideas that can be used in various other songs..
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/21/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Dm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by banjoistic, updated: 3/11/2018 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: I tabbed this tune from the melody as played by David Grisman on the mandolin. I think I got it pretty close. It's much more Keith style than Scruggs. I'm still learning how to play it up to speed, and I'm sure some of you will get there quicker than I. Any suggestions/corrections are welcome.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Gm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by indivirtuoso, updated: 4/16/2013
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Notes: This is as close as I could get to Bill Keith's live performance with Muleskinner in 1973. Great melodic style arrangement of a classic Grisman tune. Any comments or corrections are welcome.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Gm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by 21stCenturyBanjo, updated: 4/29/2018
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Notes: By David Grisman and recorded with Bill Keith and Muleskinner
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/22/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/22/2006 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: E Tuning: Tenor G (DGdg) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Mirek Tim Patek, updated: 4/15/2011
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Notes: The tenor banjo is tuned to open G tuning DGdg, there is capo on the 2nd fret. The first part (in the concert key of E) is played in D (chords D=0202, G=0000, A=2222), the second part (in the concert key of A) is played in G (chords G=0000, C=5520, D=0202). Feel free to change the rolls, as well as the filll-in licks/walking bass connecting parts (anyway, the vocal version has shorter connection between the words in the first part - adjust the number of walking bass measures by yourself).
This is just one of possible versions how to play the melody in the first part and how to roll the harmony in the second part. The third part (also in the concert key of A, played thanks to capo in G) is missing but you are supposed to play some fill-in lick under the fiddle or harmonica solo - find them e.g. at http://banjosessions.com/?p=109 .
The melody over the dominant A chord (concert B chord) in the first part is compromised - however if you have big hands, you can reach the actual melody note on the 6th fret (counted with capo) with your pinky while holding the barre with your index finger on the 2nd fret.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 1/6/2014
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Notes: This is a clawhammer version of the Bluegrass fiddle classic Orange Blossom Special. There are 3 instrumental parts plus one optional vocal part. I have tried to get several variations of each part. You don't have to learn or play all variations - just choose those you like. Orange Blossom Special is a tune with opportunities and possibilities, so use your fantasy and creativity and make your own version. I have just tried to illustrate a few possibilities.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/22/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/22/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by CCABanjo, updated: 8/10/2014
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Notes: My version of this classic Stanley Brothers tune.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/22/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/22/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Steven Moore, updated: 3/17/2016
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Notes: A simple version of (Somewhere) Over The Rainbow as I played it many years ago when I was 15. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF7PDuKOOhA
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/22/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by John Harper, updated: 3/26/2010
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Notes: Johnny Cash sings this one. Pretty simple arrangement.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/25/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/25/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Vidshooter, updated: 1/20/2014
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Notes: This tab also contains 2 different backup sequences
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/25/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Westvon, updated: 12/18/2014
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Notes: I heard this on an old Knoxville Grass Album from many years ago. As for the BPM, sorry, don't know, but if you can get a recording of it you'll find it's not fast at all.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Kstevensmd, updated: 10/18/2019
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Notes: I hope you like it!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by John Steele, updated: 1/30/2014
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Notes: This is Ben Eldridge's banjo intro to "Pan American" from the Seldom Scene album "Old Train". A good friend of mine asked me to write this out for him, so I figured I'd just post it here. This is the first half - the last half is the same.
I have tabbed this out in G in open G tuning. On the album it is in the key of B, which means you will have to capo up to the fourth fret to play this intro in the same key as the Scene. -John
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/25/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by rbfour5, updated: 11/11/2016 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: From "Live at the Cellar Door" My version of Ben Eldridges' break on "Panhandle Country"
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Greg Gilbert, updated: 9/7/2009
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by bigbandjos, updated: 8/31/2014
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by bigbandjos, updated: 8/31/2014
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Notes: This file should work
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/25/2026
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Notes: Some years ago a member of BHO asked for tablature of a banjo break to Paul and Silas, to be played in church as I recall. Here is an expanded version of the tab, considerably tarted up.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Banjo Island, updated: 11/4/2009
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Notes: 5th string capoed to A
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by routou, updated: 7/3/2020
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Notes: Have fun !
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by routou, updated: 7/3/2020 - 3 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/25/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by crawdad, updated: 12/4/2023
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Notes: A buddy of mine asked me to score this for him, so I thought I would share. It's actually pretty easy.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/25/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C#/Db Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by schlange, updated: 2/17/2015
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Notes: Created by Jack Baker, posted for our TOTW
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/25/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 10/26/2011
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Notes: This is a great song by Woody Guthrie that adapts well to bluegrass. See, for example, the version by J. D. Crowe and the Kentucky Mountain Boys on "Bluegrass Holiday."
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Stu D Baker-Hawk, updated: 9/16/2014 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Yep. This is the way Roy plays it (for the most part). Roy's been known to switch it up, using different licks and different positions on the fingerboard, but, like I said, for the most part this IS his arrangement.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stratovarious520, updated: 2/7/2021
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Notes: Capo 2. From the Cliff Waldron and the New Shades of Grass album, "One More Mile, One More Town, One More Time" (1973).
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/25/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/25/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/25/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by rossnickerson, updated: 5/4/2019
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 4/9/2012 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: Here's a nice version of Earl Scruggs's break on this traditional tune that I found on an unreleased "air check" recording from WSM. His approach to the tune contains some interesting picking patterns that may surprise you (they did me).
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/25/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/25/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by crishergirl, updated: 9/11/2014
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Notes: This tablature strays a bit from the traditional single string notation, because it follows the record recorded by Sonny Osborne at the age of 14 when he was a bluegrass boy. You may interchange the long notes for the more difficult single string notes if you wish. The tablature is not exactly as in the mp3, it is a bit simpler on page 2. Taught to me by Alan O'Bryant at Midwest Banjo Camp in 2011.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 12/3/2015 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Here is Bill Monroe's classic instrumental. The first break approximates Earl Scruggs's version. The second break is an up-the-neck version (heresy! Earl did not play a high break), and the third break includes some melodic stuff that lets you keep the drive going while improvising a bit. Note that I am using Flatt and Scruggs's chord progression, where the 1 chord (G) and then the 5 chord (D) are played in measures 7 and 8, respectively. Monroe's original version held the 1 chord (G) in both measures 7 and 8, although he later played it with a 7 chord (F) and then 5 chord (D) in measures 7 and 8, respectively. I prefer Flatt and Scruggs's version, which is mid-way in complexity between Monroe's original stripped-down version and his later one. Although I have tabbed it out in the key of G, you would normally capo up 2 to play it in A.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by kmwaterstx, updated: 11/25/2019
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/14/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 6/6/2026 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is an attempt to make a clawhammer version of the old Scruggs instrumental tune Pike County Breakdown.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/25/2006 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjopeter, updated: 12/20/2020
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Notes: View instruction video on YouTube. Enter Keywords: banjo peter noorman.
Or visit my website for tabs and instruction videos: www.peternoorman.nl
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/25/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/25/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by fingerlakes, updated: 8/11/2025
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Notes: Capo 3
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 1/22/2012
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by fbisel, updated: 4/22/2025
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Notes: Baucom break Poet With Wings from Doyle Lawson
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by dUSA, updated: 12/17/2014
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Ian_banjo, updated: 6/15/2013
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Buxton, updated: 5/17/2022 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Tab from Martha White show which is slightly different from the album version. Back-up till the end of the Banjo break, where the back up more or less repeats again.
The guitarpro file should open in tablEdit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmxtetzBmaM
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by geckoberry, updated: 1/17/2022 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: AGACNP asked me to tab this out on the "Need a tab?" forum:
https://www.banjohangout.org/topic/380335
Here's the video I tabbed from:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmxtetzBmaM
Enjoy!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G#/Abm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by MartinLuther1960, updated: 1/8/2014 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Capo 4th and 9th for G#m... Plays the same as em without a capo...
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 7/2/2016 - 5 Member Comments
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Notes: Sitting in a cabin (okay, a cottage) in Jasper, Alberta, September 2012, I pulled this one out of the ether.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/25/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Kat Eyz Capos, updated: 11/17/2011
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Notes: Written by Eric Weisberg
Arranged by Jack Hatfield
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by CCABanjo, updated: 4/3/2016
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/25/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A#/Bb Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Logan l banjo, updated: 9/11/2023
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Notes: This is my version of the beginning banjo break on Dailey & Vincent's Poor boy workin' blues. This is my first tab I've made so if there's any problems let me know. Hope you enjoy
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 11/21/2019 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This song has been rattling around my forebrain for a while, and I finally got around to tabbing out a couple of breaks. There is nothing radical here, I think, just some standard stuff that is useful is a variety of breaks. The tempo can be either slow, almost plodding as in Flatt and Scruggs’s recording, or energetic and sparky, as in the versions by the Country Gents, Jim Mills, and others.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/25/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/25/2006 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by kmwaters, updated: 5/13/2019 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by RJWMitchell, updated: 7/1/2013 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Performed at 140 - 160 bpm (chrochets per minute)
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Open D (f#DF#Ad) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 7/1/2026
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Notes: The title of my original ditty refers to two things: that I live in a part of North America that frequently hosts tornadoes, and that the tune employs Scruggs-Keith tuners -- often called "Twisters." To appreciate the sound of the twisters you will need to play the tab in the MIDI function of TablEdit.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/25/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/25/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Klaus, updated: 2/12/2026
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Notes: Old time song as a Bluegrass tune
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/25/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/25/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by kmwaters, updated: 5/20/2019 - 4 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Gm Tuning: Open Gm (gDGBbD)
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/14/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Open D (f#DF#Ad) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 3/22/2026 - 5 Member Comments
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Notes: Recently I was playing in open D tuning (f#DF#AD) because I love the resolution to the open fourth string, which resonates in my soul, such as it is. As I noodled around, a new tune emerged, and I present it in the Archive for your dining and dancing pleasure. As for the title, well, it came to me in a dream. Either that or I heard on the news.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 12/11/2018
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Notes: Prisoner’s Song is a classic bluegrass and country song performed by everyone from Bill Monroe and Del McCoury to Fats Domino and Brenda Lee, and also recorded as an instrumental by the Kentucky Colonels. However you want to play it, you’ll need the banjo, and here are two straightforward breaks for you to try out. The first break ends in a D-chord run I heard Bill Emerson play, and the second break ends with a D run based on the playing of Bill Keith.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/25/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/25/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 12/27/2024 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: In 1978 I played at the first Coombs Bluegrass Festival, on Vancouver Island, along with several members of my Vancouver-based band Silver Spring. One of the highlights of the festival for me was to meet a fine musician named Gerry Patch, who played with the Canadian band Border Ride. Gerry was an excellent singer and multi-instrumentalist, and, like me, he was a Bill Monroe fanatic. He and I ended up jamming in a field at the festival site, with him on mandolin and me on banjo. In addition to the many Monroe songs and tunes that we played, we also improvised a couple, including a simple but I think catchy hornpipe. Pumpkin Patch Hornpipe is my attempt to reconstruct what I can remember of that tune, which I have carried around in my head for many years.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BanjoNikopolis, updated: 1/21/2013 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is just the opening two phrases. However, it is essentially the main riff/lick/line etc.
As best I can hear that is.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Open D (aDF#Ad) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Jsit515, updated: 8/7/2014 - 4 Member Comments
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Notes: This not my first tab transcription, but the first I'm posting to Banjo Hangout. This is a Bela Fleck song from the Natural Bridge album that a friend recently lent me, and so I learned one of the more Scruggsy/ straight ahead bluegrass songs from the album. I feel it has a nice and catchy sound to it. Anyway, here it is.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/25/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 10/21/2024
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Notes: This original tune is in drop C tuning. I love the deep resonant sound of that 4th string.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Open D (aDF#Ad) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by AlBanjo38, updated: 1/7/2018
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by bango, updated: 10/29/2025
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by trinaemig, updated: 7/25/2025
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by flyakfish, updated: 2/24/2021
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Notes: This is a melodic version in the key of "D" in standard open "G" tuning but with the 5th string "G" tuned up two frets to an "A" note. The first part with the 5th string tuned higher really allows you to play true to the melody, the fingering is easy and it really flows. By playing songs in "D" melodic style and tuning the 5th string to either an "A" note higher or an "F#" note lower you can get the same flow as songs played in "G". I have have posted several other easy examples for anyone interested.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjopeter, updated: 12/20/2020
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Notes: View instruction video on YouTube. Enter Keywords: banjo peter noorman.
Or visit my website for tabs and instruction videos: www.peternoorman.nl
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: E Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by briar32, updated: 10/31/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by kmwaters, updated: 6/5/2014
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Notes: From Kermit's Greatest Hits
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/26/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/26/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jbabb, updated: 3/5/2015 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by jbabb, updated: 3/5/2015
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/26/2006 - 6 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/26/2006 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by wmidkiff, updated: 5/8/2013 - 3 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 3/13/2020
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Notes: I first heard Red Apple Juice played by the folk group The Tarriers, with a young Eric Weissberg on banjo, and shortly thereafter I heard it as Red Rocking Chair by the classic Country Gentlemen, with the supernal Eddie Adcock on banjo. This tab is my version, with two breaks. The first stays reasonably faithful to the melody. The second is a loose interpretation of Eric Weissberg’s break and makes use of D-tuners. Eric was not afraid to use D-tuners, and I celebrate his contributions to bluegrass banjo and, in particular, his inspiring me to learn to play it. Thank you, Mr. Weissberg.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/26/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/26/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 10/12/2011 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Yeah, another version of RHB. This is a great old fiddle tune, played at almost all jams. I have tabbed out two breaks. The first is my attempt to capture the melody in standard "Scruggs" style (i.e., North Carolina three-finger style), with a few melodic riffs thrown in. The second is a more frankly melodic break. Lots of stuff here you can use in other tunes as well.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by harwoodw, updated: 3/20/2012
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Notes: Capo at the second fret.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/14/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by flyakfish, updated: 5/6/2022
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Notes: Tab is written in the Melodic style. Most often played in the key of "A" (Capo 2nd fret, tune 5th string to "A").
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by pickenchicken23, updated: 7/28/2020
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Notes: Red Prairie Dawn is an oldtime tune written by Illinois Fiddler, Garry Harrison. I enjoy playing this tune clawhammer, but also love it fingerpicking. It just fits really nice on the banjo, melodic style. Hope you enjoy!!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by 5th string nut, updated: 11/5/2009 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by HOWDYDOODY, updated: 4/30/2016
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by rossnickerson, updated: 5/5/2019
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by chuckv97, updated: 7/7/2025
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Notes: An easy arrangement for advanced beginners. Video is in the video library.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dskeigley, updated: 3/8/2014 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by rossnickerson, updated: 5/4/2019
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by jimrichter, updated: 7/28/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Open D (f#DF#Ad) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 12/8/2023 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Open D tuning
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 8/8/2013
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Notes: Redwing is a nice simple tune that is common in jams. However, for some reason it was never immediately obvious to me how to find the melody of the B part of Redwing. You could say that I had trouble winging it. Anyway, eventually I sat down and worked the B part up quite deliberately. The first break is pretty straight Scruggs style, whereas the second break is more improvisational.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BTS, updated: 6/13/2015 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is a wonderful version of Redwing as played by John Apfelthaler. Check out the videos on John's BHO home page to hear him playing it. First time around is Scruggs style, followed by melodic and up the neck arrangements. The down the neck arrangemnt is reasonably straightforward while the melodic and up the neck arrangements are reasonably challenging.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by littleton, updated: 4/7/2021
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by littleton, updated: 4/7/2021
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Old Hickory, updated: 1/25/2023 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: My arrangement of this popular instrumental piece, pretty much as I played in this YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKdxRa705o8&t=9s
Because I didn't play exactly as I had intended, this tab was my attempt to transcribe my own playing and figure out what I actually did. The differences between what I intended to play, what I did play, and what I've tabbed are only a few notes at best. And now, five years later, I don't remember where they are.
The ascending run in the second half of the "A" part in the third time through was my mis-constructing from memory an Alan Munde lick that you can find online. I like my way, so I've never swiched to Alan's even after learning it.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/27/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Don Borchelt, updated: 6/14/2015 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is my transcription of a tune composed and performed by BHO member Jim Reed, in a video he posted on 1/26/12. I was just discussing the tune with BHO member John Steele in the BHO Chatroom (6/15/15), and we disagreed about how Jim plays the opening measure of the B part. I went back and listened to it again, and decided John was right. So I have revised the tab accordingly.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Frailblazer, updated: 9/23/2012
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Notes: This tab is based on Jim Reed's YouTube performance of his original tune - Reed's Hornpipe which can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1l5Hn3GEio&feature=plcp
I downloaded the video, re-synced the audio and then extracted the audio to a separate file. The Amazing Slow Downer was used on the audio track while observing the video. This should be a pretty accurate transcription of Jim's performance.
Chord shapes and fingerings are noted when appropriate.
The style of this tune is Melodic Bluegrass.
Enjoy!
- Ric
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/27/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by chuckv97, updated: 7/29/2025
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Notes: The popular song written by banjo player Scotty Wiseman of Lulubelle and Scotty, the country music duo of the 1940’s and 50’s. My video of this is in the BHO video library.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 2/5/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 2/5/2012
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Gm Tuning: Open Gm (gDGBbD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Stu D Baker-Hawk, updated: 10/7/2012 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: This song has morphed into many different versions throughout the years. John McEuen first composed it in the 1960s as 'Dismal Swamp'. It later got some new life breathed into it when he rearranged it in the late-1970s and recorded it as 'White Russia' on the self-titled album 'The Dirt Band'. Later still it resurfaced once more in what we know today as 'Return to Dismal Swamp'. In my tab I've incorporated all the known versions of this song into one arrangement. It's a great banjo tune from the mind of John McEuen and it's worthy of your interest.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/27/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by 5th string nut, updated: 11/5/2009
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Notes: Tuning: F#DF#AD
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Open D (f#DF#Ad) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 7/1/2024 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Open D (aDF#Ad) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/14/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/27/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Open D (f#DF#Ad) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 4/1/2015 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: For my banjo students, here are some variations on Reuben in open D tuning. Some of it is very straight Scruggs style, and some is something else.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/27/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: C Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by motomatto, updated: 11/2/2009 - 5 Member Comments
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Notes: This is from the Deviation and Places (compilation) albums. I took the original tab that was posted here and fixed a few things. I think it's pretty close to the original now.
There's a video of Bela playing this (back in the New Grass Revival days) at youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4hSqg6xkrw
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 10/25/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stratovarious520, updated: 2/9/2021
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Notes: Another quick mover. Maybe not quite as flashy as some of his stuff, but a great chord progression, and it's great fun to play!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Maruko, updated: 4/1/2015
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Notes: Played with Kapo 2nd Fret Key of A
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman0254, updated: 11/22/2009 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Here is an example of what I offer from my site at http://www.leemarcusmusic.webs.com/
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by fbisel, updated: 4/22/2025
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Notes: River of Death - Baucom break from Doyle Lawson Rock My Soul
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 12/29/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 12/29/2011
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Notes: ANOTHER VERSION
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 9/5/2024
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Notes: This is a wonderful tune by Bill Monroe. I have included two versions of the B part, a low break and a high break. I play it either way, although the version low on the neck is easier when the stage is dark (and I can't see where the positions are higher up on the neck). To accommodate the fiddle, the tune is played in A, with the banjo capo on the second fret.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BanjoNikopolis, updated: 12/11/2013
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Notes: My own version of the Bill Monroe/Kenny Baker tune off of the album Kenny Baker plays Bill Monroe. Hope you enjoy! Soon I'll also work out a tab that mimics the mandolin, and then hopefully can work out the actual banjo line from the album.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by AlBanjo38, updated: 9/12/2018
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/19/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by RB3, updated: 1/23/2026
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by NickPug, updated: 2/7/2026
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Notes: UPDATE 2/7/26: per request, I transposed this down to standard capo fret numbers, so it is played out of capo 2, 5th string at 7th fret, but the tab numbers are displayed as if playing in open G. The original tab (with non-capoed fret numbers) is included for historical shaming of my decision (see DISCLAIMER BELOW)
This is my transcription of Noam's opening break on the tune "Road to Columbus" off the Noam Plays Kenny Plays Bill record.
I came up with a lot of these fingerings based on Noam's tab for "Big Sandy River" provided in an ArtistWorks welcome message, and I cobbled together the positions from a couple live recordings on YouTube, but this is mostly true to the notes off the record (as close as I could hear them). I know Bennett Sullivan made a video of this break years ago, but I wanted to fill in some small gaps based on how I heard it played/think Noam would do it
I hope to post more of this record soon! Transcribing these tunes is a pet project of mine right now
Cheers,
Nick from Colorado //
DISCLAIMER: this tab uses unconventional fret numbers. This piece is played with capo on 2, 5th string spiked at 7. This tab details the actual fret numbers, not the numbers relative to the capo like you normally see. This can take some getting used to, but the up the neck shifts are a lot easier to read using this style of tab (it's actually what Noam used in his tab for "Big Sandy River")
e.g.
fret 2 on strings 1-4 = open 2nd string with Capo 2;
fret 7 on 5th string = open 5th string, spiked at fret 7
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Greg Gilbert, updated: 9/7/2009
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Notes: In the style of Carl Jackson
Genre: Bluegrass Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum) Key: G Tuning: Tenor G (DGdg) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Mirek Tim Patek, updated: 2/24/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by seanray, updated: 1/17/2026
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Notes: Here is my arrangement of the Bill Monroe tune Roanoke.
It's primarily melodic style with a Scruggs style backup included.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Open D (aDF#Ad) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by rustewey, updated: 9/14/2018
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Notes: I have tried get this as close to Don's recording as I can.
It will play as a loop for practice.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoy, updated: 12/31/2020
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Notes: A BHO thread popped up about wanting ideas for playing this tune in the Key of D. So here is an idea for the intro only, playing in open G tuning.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 10/12/2011
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Notes: Not everyone can sing Rocky Top in G, A, B flat, or B. One guy I have picked with (Vic the Butcher, who is the biggest ... but I digress) can sing it only in D. Well, it works well in D, in G tuning with the fifth string tuned up to A (slip it under the model railroad spike at the seventh fret). The only tricky bits in my arrangement are in the chorus. If you have difficulty figuring out how it should sound, give a listen to the TablEdit MIDI file.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjofrog, updated: 8/23/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Andy Campbell, updated: 11/4/2016 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This was copied from a pdf of a Jack Hatfield version
"Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms" is an American traditional song. It seems to have developed from lyrics in the cowboy song "My Lula Gal",[1] itself a development of bawdy British and Appalachian songs generally known as "Bang Bang Rosie" or "Bang Away Lulu.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/14/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 10/12/2011
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Notes: This is a bluegrass classic, similar to Nine Pound Hammer. The first break is my interpretation of Joe Drumright's break on Bill Monroe's 1964 recording. The second break is my own. Monroe plays the song in the key of B.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/2/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BanjoTJC, updated: 4/12/2025
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BanjoTJC, updated: 4/12/2025
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BanjoTJC, updated: 4/18/2025
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by rossnickerson, updated: 5/5/2019
- Download from banjoteacher.com
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/14/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Buxton, updated: 6/30/2018
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Notes: Martha White show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUnK_3kAUYI
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by GlennM, updated: 5/27/2019 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Not sure if i got all the fingering correct. My ead is not thinking good but it sounds ojk.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by gcpicken, updated: 5/23/2023
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Notes: Collection of what may be considered "Standard Rolls"
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by mikejboulder, updated: 2/12/2012
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Notes: TamZeb - I posted the tab files on the tab archive at;
Sorry for the repost. User error.
http://direct.hangoutstorage.com/banjohangout.org/storage/tabs/r/tab-ronbishline-tag-16773-454311222012.tef
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/2/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/2/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 4/24/2026 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: My version of Bill Monroe's classic.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 3/11/2020 - 7 Member Comments
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Notes: This is my attempt to capture Scruggs's break on a youtube recording, presumably from an Opry radio broadcast, of Flatt and Scruggs with Stringbean, posted on BHO by Dick Bowden. As Dick points out, Scruggs did not play a break on the original recording of RoOK with Bill Monroe on 27 October 1947. So it is a delight to hear his take on the break. The quality of the live recording is not great, however, and it is hard to hear exactly what Scruggs is doing. So wade in at your peril.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 7/3/2026
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Notes: I posted the tab for this original mid-tempo tune in 2009 and named it after one of my wife's paintings. I have gone back to clean up some errors, and I repost it here for your dining and dancing pleasure. Note that Keith tuners are employed in several measures, and to hear them you will need to play the tab in the MIDI function.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Banjowen, updated: 4/2/2011
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Notes: The first tune that I composed which uses D-tuners, with special thanks to Bill Breen (Just Bill) who helped me with the arrangement.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/2/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/2/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by EdwinV01, updated: 8/15/2025
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Notes: Played by Billy Failing, Ending towards first verse is a bit fuzzy but he outlines the upperstructure of a D7 chord x-D-A-C-D to get into the verse on the last bar
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/2/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Gm Tuning: Open Gm (gDGBbD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Stu D Baker-Hawk, updated: 11/26/2014 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dpetervan, updated: 2/10/2011
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Notes: Includes the first verse lyrics with the up the neck backup
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/2/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: E Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Jenry562, updated: 6/24/2018
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Notes: Here is Noam Pikelny's first break he took in this video of him playing Sad and Lonesome Day with Stuart Duncan. Just totally awesome! (Triplets on one string - use a forward roll TIM) Hope you enjoy :)
Reference video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eXkKKYqbUE
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/19/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/2/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/2/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by michel braquemart, updated: 8/17/2020 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: F Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Patrick P., updated: 4/19/2019 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Sequenced by midi genius Barry Taylor. Enjoy the banjo harmony and the modulation F and C.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mwblake, updated: 8/30/2009 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Capo II (Key of A) Arranged from a recording of a version by Chris Thile and John Hartford
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Jim Pankey, updated: 1/5/2015
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Notes: Custom Lesson for Greg Rich
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/2/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 12/21/2016 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Most bluegrass banjo players are familiar with Earl Scruggs's arrangement of Sally Ann played up the neck. However, the tune is also quite amenable to breaks down the neck. I have tabbed some variations of a low break to Sally Ann that you may find useful.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by seanray, updated: 1/17/2026
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Notes: Backup Tab for "The Session Book" - seanray.com
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 2/2/2025 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: With echoes of Bill Keith, Butch Robins, and John Hickman
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/11/2020
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Notes: With echoes of Earl Scruggs, Alan Munde, and Byron Berline.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 7/15/2024
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Notes: Foggy Mountain Banjo Album
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Erwin, updated: 6/5/2020 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: My transcription of how Earl Scruggs plays this fiddle-tune on "Foggy Mountain Banjo". This tab differs enough from the transcription in Earl Scruggs' book not be an infringement of copyrighted material. Especially, in the book the 1st downbeat starts on the 5th note, in my transcription on the 9th note (1st note 3rd measure), giving the feel as if the whole song is shifted 1/2 measure, that is really the magic of this tune. Also, it has the advantage that the B part UTN (12th fret position) starts on the downbeat of a measure, not halfway through a measure, as it is transcribed in the book.
(with minor review for easier playing the DTN part)
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/2/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/2/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/2/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/2/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mwblake, updated: 8/30/2009
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Notes: Yet another version of Salt Creek, with a little bit of chromatic single stringing, for a change. Capo II
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjofrog, updated: 11/17/2010 - 5 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 2/27/2014
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Notes: Fun jammers tune
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by banjo_don, updated: 12/15/2014 - 4 Member Comments
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Notes: This is my spin on the song Salt Creek. Enjoy, this is for all those who wanted a tab the way I picked it.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by banjo_don, updated: 12/18/2014 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Corrected Salt Creek I accidently left out a measure and fixed the chime at the end. enjoy banjo don !
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stratovarious520, updated: 2/21/2021 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Capo 2
A friend of mine from YouTube asked how I would arrange this tune. This is pretty much the way I've always played it. Tony Trischka's Banjoland album was my first exposure to this Monroe instrumental, and as a kid, I tried to play it just like he did. Of course it evolved over time.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/19/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/2/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dholland, updated: 7/23/2014
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Notes: This is an up the neck version of Salt Creek. The chords are the way that my band plays it. I've played it chorded other ways as well. The second part is basically scales in the chords with a sort of melodic run down on the last two measures. Lots of room for personalized changes in this version. Enjoy. Thanks.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 11/26/2023
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Notes: As Butch Robins said, Bill Keith's playing changed the landscape for bluegrass banjo players. Salt Creek is one of his seminal pieces. In the first break I have tabbed my interpretation of some of Bill's ideas, and the second break is how I tend to play the tune.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 11/10/2014
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Notes: This is another tune that is fun to play with two banjos in harmony. The second part (Part B) is my inadequate attempt to approximate on the banjo Kenny Baker's arrangement on the fiddle.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 2/17/2015 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: John Reischman and the Jaybirds
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BigFiveChord, updated: 1/23/2019
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by chuckv97, updated: 11/11/2019 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Tab for John Reischman’s very nice tune. Capo 2, spike 5th string at 7. Some of the 2-4 slides can be hammered-on or slid 2-3,, your preference. Youtube has a few vids of it , and this is my video https://youtu.be/B8USMVULha8
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by dskeigley, updated: 8/10/2025 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 7/18/2022
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Notes: This is my banjoistic take on a lovely instrumental written by mandolin maestro John Reischman. Note that in measures 3 and 4 I tried to faithfully capture the tune's timing.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/23/2023
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Notes: This is an improvisational banjo break for Reischman's tune. You can throw in all sorts of banjo noise -- as I did -- as long as it works in the chord structure. Note that I borrowed some passages from Reischman's improv on the mandolin.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by delmando, updated: 10/29/2014
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Notes: I picked up this lovely John Reischman tune at the Cornish Bluegrass festival; It fell so easily into a comfortable clawhammer arrangement.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/2/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 4/12/2014
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Notes: My version of Salty Dog comprises two breaks, each with two parts. The first break is in pretty straight Scruggs style, with a down-the-neck and then an up-the-neck segment. The second break starts with a semi-melodic segment reminiscent of Allen Shelton's wonderful break on the recording of the song by Jim and Jesse, and the second segment incorporates elements (but is not a faithful copy) of Bill Keith's jaw-dropping break on his album "Living on the Mountain" with Jim Rooney, released in 1964 or thereabouts. If you haven't heard the album, you should grab a copy to hear marvelous banjoistics by a young Bill Keith. As to the melody of Salty Dog, you might ask what a C note is doing in an E chord. Perhaps the simplest answer is to think of E augmented. As to the perennial question "What is a salty dog anyway?", I will stay out of this one. Either it's a soft drink, or it's a pickled sausage, or it's something else altogether.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by phb, updated: 7/20/2018
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Notes: Transcribed from the Flatt & Scruggs recording.
The TablEdit is NOT an TablEdit file but a MuseScore file. Please rename it from .tef to .mscz naming format after download to use in MuseScore.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Logan l banjo, updated: 10/6/2023
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/19/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoy, updated: 10/25/2019 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is a tune I wrote several years ago which was inspired by a musical phrase (a "lick") I heard on one of Sam Bush's albums. It's amazing what a lick can inspire. So I named the tune after Sam. It's a fun tune to play so I thought I'd throw it out there for whoever might be interested. I hope you enjoy :)
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by larrytanner, updated: 3/16/2010 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: Arrangement by Jessie Baker, as played on his Yessir! CD. If you have not heard this young man, go out and buy his CD. You will be glad you did.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 8/6/2024
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Notes: San Antonio Rose is a classic western swing tune that works well as a bluegrass instrumental. After listening again to Bob Wills's recording, I discovered that the tab I posted in 2020 had omitted a subtle part of the melody, the part with the words "It was there I found, beside the Alamo, enchantment strange as the blue up above." Thus I have added it to the tablature as Part B.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: F Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoy, updated: 4/4/2023
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Notes: Bela Fleck's 1988 album "Drive" for me personally was a seminal moment in trying to learn banjo. I had never before heard a banjo do what Bela was doing, how he was approaching and utilizing the banjo in original compositions. Every tune on that album is a masterpiece in my opinion and certainly changed my view of what a banjo is capable of ... not that I could ever hope to achieve that level of musicianship, but definitely opened my mind and ears on what banjo can do beyond lead and backup ... So this is my half-fast attempt at this masterpiece, something I'll never perform publicly or in any gig but is fun to absorb nevertheless. It is a very cool tune. I greatly enjoyed trying my hand at it and creating the tablature, and I hope you enjoy it much as I have. ***** I have created a YouTube video where I layered three banjos, just having fun with the tune, but it will give you an idea of how the tablature sounds for the lead banjo part ... FOUND HERE https://youtu.be/Wn-Ul7sUQKs
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/2/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/2/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/2/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/2/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 10/8/2011
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Notes: Sandy Boys is a great old-timey tune associated with the playing of a renowned fiddler from West Virginia, Edden Hammons. But its origins are probably in the minstrel shows of the 19th century. I became familiar with the tune from a tab that Don Borchelt posted on his web page (http://www.banjr.com/tablatures.htm) some time ago, and I have since encountered it in jams. The version I have posted here is very much for the bluegrass banjo, with both Scruggs-ish and melodic elements.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 8/14/2012
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Notes: This is fairly close to Bill Keith's rendition of the tune, recorded with Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys in 1963. It is played at a nice moderate tempo, not too rushed. Neil Rosenberg and Charles Wolfe's discography of Monroe states that Monroe learned a version of the tune from an old-time fiddler who lived in southern Indiana/northern Kentucky. It is close to the tune "I Don't Love Nobody," and you can find versions of the latter in the BHO tab archive.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by waystation, updated: 12/2/2017 - 5 Member Comments
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Notes: I always teach Santa Claus around this time of year, even though the tune has nothing to do with the season - it's named after the town of Santa Claus, Indiana. One of my students expressed an interest in doing an octave break, and I had a lot of fun putting this together with him. My goal was to keep the melody of the tune and the feel of Bill Keith's classic break, just an octave higher.
The arrangement turns out to be a great lesson in mixing notes fretted on high frets of low strings with open string notes on the first and second strings. The open notes, besides being integral to the melody, also give the player time to move from one left hand position to the next.
Since the whole break takes place above the seventh fret, even radical left hand movements aren't actually that big, so the arrangement is easier to play than it first seems. Some of the left hand positions are unusual and fun to play. My favorites are the beginning of the B part, from measure 17 through 19, and the descending D chord arpeggio in measure 9. The melody notes are highlighted in the tab, so you can focus on those, but listen to the tab before you start playing it to get a good idea of how the melody pops out of these unusual left hand positions and right hand rolls. I offer this break in the spirit of Bill Keith. I hope he'd like it.
If you're familiar with my Mel Bay book, "Bluegrass Banjo from All Sides", this tune falls between level B and level C. I consider it an advanced intermediate arrangement, but if you're comfortable with melodic licks up the neck - or even if you aren't - give it a try. Merry Christmas!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Texasbanjo, updated: 10/7/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 10/16/2012 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: It's time to start early and polish up those Christmas tunes......hope you like it..
L.Williams.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by JAH, updated: 8/17/2016
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 10/2/2025 - 5 Member Comments
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Notes: I dredged up the tab for this tune that I wrote in the 1970s, corrected a few errors, and added a bass track.
Here is a recording of the tune: https://www.banjohangout.org/myhangout/music.asp?id=4040&pagenum=3
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/3/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/3/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by pmcd22, updated: 3/2/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Duc7, updated: 12/6/2012
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Notes: Here's a lovely little gem from the great Eric Weissberg that I rediscovered recently on an old LP. It's a little wonky in spots, but that's what makes it such a fun tune to play.... I hope you like it - Skip.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Dave Nauman, updated: 2/7/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Adgardad, updated: 3/17/2010
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Notes: This song is from Bobby Hicks album "Texas Crapshooter" (available @ Amazon.com). The banjo break is very well put together, not too terribly hard to play and just fun to put under your fingers. Key of G capoed at the 2nd fret to put it in A.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JanetB, updated: 12/29/2016 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: Bill Monroe wrote the tune Scotland, honoring his roots. Kenny Baker fiddled it with the Blue Grass Boys and I learned listening to him.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by hickorysmokebbq, updated: 1/7/2012
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Notes: I did not create these. I found them somewhere thought I'd share.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by From Greylock to Bean Blossom, updated: 2/15/2016
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by James Stiltner, updated: 3/24/2013
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Steven Moore, updated: 4/4/2015
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Notes: I slowed down and tabbed out Béla Fleck's See Rock City. Should be note for note. Email me with questions or requests: stevenmoore.banjo@gmail.com.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by billcopeland, updated: 1/11/2010
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Notes: Reno Style
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 8/4/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stan, updated: 7/22/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by CBSplayer, updated: 1/1/2014
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Notes: My variation of Noam Pikelny's solo on Senor from Dierks Bentley's album Up on the Ridge.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by stratovarious520, updated: 5/26/2023 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: A bouncy ditty from Larry's 1980 album Power Play. There are some weird triplet licks in the second break, but they will surely build your chops.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: Dm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Lukino_Bali, updated: 6/9/2022 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Finally.... for you
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006 - 3 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Dm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by John Harper, updated: 9/8/2013
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Notes: A guitar player friend of mine plays Shady Grove in Dm. I had worked out a version in Em that is similar to others posted here and had started working on a high break. I had an "Ah, hah!" moment when I realized that my high break used no open strings and didn't involve the 5th string. This arrangement, while pretty simple is totally moveable up and down the neck so you can play in Am, Bm, Cm, Dm, Em, etc. It's in Tabledit and pdf. I sometimes do a hammer-on as opposed to a slide for the first measure as it bluegrasses it up a bit. If that's too hard just start on 3rd string 7 fret.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/13/2023
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Notes: This is not the version of Shady Grove in a minor key that might be played by a folk singer with a dulcimer – not that there’s anything wrong with that! Instead this is the bare-bones hard-driving bluegrass version in a major key, as played by, among others, Bill Monroe (on the CD “Bluegrass Masters, from the Newport Festivals”), Flatt and Scruggs (on vol. 9 of the DVD “Flatt and Scruggs TV Shows”), and Doyle Lawson (on the eponymously titled CD “Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver”). I have tabbed 2 breaks, with lots of improvisation in the breaks, including a Fleck-ism at the end of the second break.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dbowman, updated: 9/20/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjofrog, updated: 11/6/2010
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Notes: An old Jim and Jesse song. This arrangement is not as complicated as their recording, but I think it'll do since I can't find it tabbed anywhere else.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JohanOhman, updated: 10/27/2011
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Notes: This is Allen Sheltons break from Jim & Jesse´s version of the song
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Ira Gitlin, updated: 10/31/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/19/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by John Harper, updated: 3/26/2010
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Notes: Key of C in G tuning for when the singers like that key. A short exercise in 3rds.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Devon Wells, updated: 10/13/2009
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Notes: In open D tuning with a high A. Have fun!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 8/14/2016 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Also known as "Shenandoah Valley Breakdown," this is a classic instrumental by Bill Monroe. He recorded it with Bill Keith on banjo in 1963, the version most of us are familiar with. However, there is a radio tape of Monroe playing on the Opry Jamboree from December 1958, with Joe Drumright on banjo, and rumor has it that Monroe had to phone Drumright to play it over the phone to teach it to Keith just before they recorded it in 63. A concert tape from 1977 of the Blue Grass Boys with Bill Holden playing a marvelous version on banjo is also floating around. (Apparently by then Monroe had discarded his dictum that there can be only one guy named Bill in the BGB). My arrangement comprises three breaks and incorporates elements from these different players. The first break is loosely based on Bill Keith's recorded version with Monroe. The second break is a nifty melodic arrangement that is my version of the way Bill Holden played it. The third break is from a 1981 concert recording of Bill Keith, in which he introduced another outstanding take on the tune. Capo up 2 and play it in A.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stan, updated: 3/10/2010
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Notes: Stan Slack;scslack@juno.com
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Gm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by geckoberry, updated: 7/16/2021 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: All breaks of Alison Brown's shoot the dog! There's a lot of single string, time signature changes, and triplets in here, so good luck!
Geckoberry :)
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Buxton, updated: 10/5/2010
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Notes: Video of the tabbed song is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FgpQyk5ibw&feature=related
Notes are accurate, timing may be a little off.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by howsy-bee, updated: 2/14/2021 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Bill Keith's high break on Should we tell him? from Banjoistics, 1984, typical for Bill's integration of melodic into Scruggs style, which can only be termed 'Keith style', although that was the initial name for purely melodic style.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BanjoBoy88, updated: 6/17/2024
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Notes: A few breaks of Shuckin the Corn, with full Scruggs rolls. Some of it was taken from the "Earl Scruggs and the Five-String Banjo" book, but I added and edited some of it for ease of learning to play.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006 - 3 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Tenor G (DGdg) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Mirek Tim Patek, updated: 11/5/2009
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by schlange, updated: 11/3/2014
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Notes: For our TOTW (http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/293881) from Jack Baker.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by schlange, updated: 11/3/2014
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Notes: For our TOTW (http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/293881/) from Jack Baker.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 11/20/2021 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: The tab includes some ideas I have accumulated through the years.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Jack Baker, updated: 7/3/2026
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Notes: www.frettedinstrumentsnyc.com
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Jack Baker, updated: 7/3/2026
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Notes: www.frettedinstrumentsnyc.coj
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by nitehawk0z, updated: 7/27/2020 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: Scruggs book only provides the details of the 1st break. I methodically went through the 2nd and 3rd breaks to tab them out, I believe it's 100% accurate.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 3/1/2019
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by rwsansom, updated: 10/2/2020
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Notes: From the The Osborne Brother's 1973 Ru-be eee release. https://youtu.be/BGqclVqpXm8. I love Sonny's latin syncopation in this song! The song is originally in B, with a capo on the 4th and 9th frets, but the transcription is in open G. I also added backing guitar and bass tracks to the TablEdit file.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Adgardad, updated: 3/16/2010 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is the version of "Silver Bell" played by Bela Fleck on the album "Fiddle Tunes for Banjo".
It is just the banjo part. There is a low first solo and then right into the 'up the neck' break and then back down to a slight variation of the first part again, and then a quick tag ending.
Be sure to listen to the recording to get the tempo, chords and the overall feel of the song in the proper context.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Paulie Ray, updated: 12/12/2012
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Notes: A waltzing Xmas tune!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dskeigley, updated: 8/18/2013 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 8/4/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Fathand, updated: 1/5/2013 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is a simple backup technique for beginners. Alternate Thumb followed by a "pinch" using the Middle and Index fingers on first 2 strings. Alternately, you could follow thumb by pinching the 1st and 5th strings.
This also works fairly well to accompany oneself singing easily.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/19/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Banjopikr, updated: 7/6/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Banjopikr, updated: 7/6/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jbabb, updated: 5/19/2013
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jbabb, updated: 7/5/2013 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: This is the revised version of the tab that I posted before. I made the changes after watching Ron play this at a festival. Either way will sound the same but this new version is an easier way of getting the notes.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by larrytanner, updated: 12/23/2009 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is based on the Jimmy Mills version, from his My Dixie Home CD.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stratovarious520, updated: 3/16/2022 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: I really enjoyed piecing this one together. Some classic Osborne/Mills, and some more modern ideas from Hans Holzherr and myself. Capo 2, and jam away!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by RadMuz, updated: 1/18/2023
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Open D (aDF#Ad) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by banjorino, updated: 7/3/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by HSmith, updated: 9/3/2021 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is my favourite tune from my favourite album, Bela Fleck's 'Drive'! This tab is very loosely based on an uncredited Guitar Pro tab, but my preferred fingering choices are very different and, I think, much more natural and easier to play. The original tab included a harmony banjo part which I've removed to avoid confusion. Hope you enjoy it!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by OvrTheTop, updated: 8/17/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Patrick P., updated: 1/20/2019
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Notes: Played by Alan Munde
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by chuckv97, updated: 7/29/2025
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Notes: Easy banjo TAB for first or second year players
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jimrichter, updated: 8/7/2025
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Notes: Based on the playing of Vic Jordan from his album Pickaway
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman0254, updated: 11/22/2009 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Here is an example of what I offer from my site at http://www.leemarcusmusic.webs.com/
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 3/20/2025 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is my version of a jaunty tune by Don Reno.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 8/4/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/25/2007
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Tenor C (CGdg) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Mirek Tim Patek, updated: 11/5/2009
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by flyakfish, updated: 5/6/2022
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Notes: This is a melodic version in the key of "D" played in open "G" tuning but with the 5th string tuned down one fret to F#. This makes the fingering easy and helps from repeating the same string for more flowing melodic. I haven't seen this tuning here before so I am posting several of my song arrangements for melodic players to experiment. A mostly standard version just to highlight the tuning which I think you will like.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/20/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 9/8/2022
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Notes: It can be instructive to compare arrangements of a tune by different masters, and the tab shows versions by 3 of the best. It is in drop C tuning, capo at 2, and the structure of the tune is of course AABB.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 7/15/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: When I worked out this arrangement I was reflecting on the playing of Doug Dillard--I stole a few of his rolls for this popular tune because DILLARD ROLLS WORK :) hope you like it.........
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 8/16/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: revised version
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/19/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjopeter, updated: 12/20/2020
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Notes: Visit my website for tabs and instruction videos: www.peternoorman.nl
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman0254, updated: 11/22/2009 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Here is an example of what I offer from my site at http://www.leemarcusmusic.webs.com/
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Steelydan, updated: 7/18/2013 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: (Scruggs Style) Key of G (Capo to Voice). Beginner. 1st measure is intro. Play thorough betwee : and 1 1st time and play through without intro with 2 for finish. Tabbed by hand and dug up from old archives I have. Enjoy.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by wesmont, updated: 3/8/2016
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 10/8/2011
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Notes: Here is a lovely straightforward version of the tune, played by the guy who wrote it, the noted songwriter Earl Scruggs. It is way less ornate than J. D. Crowe's versions (posted on BHO as well), and provides a nice contrast to J. D.'s take on the tune. If you want to learn to play Somehow Tonight, I suggest that you start with Earl's version and then move on to J. D.'s.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A#/Bbm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 10/12/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: In my continuing quest to understand the genius of J. D. Crowe, I have tabbed two versions of one of his signature tunes, “Somehow Tonight,” written by Earl Scruggs – and who knew that the Scruggsmeister is a wordsmith? The first break is from Crowe’s recording with the Bluegrass Album Band (BGAB), the version most of us are familiar with. Note Crowe’s repeated use of multiple thumb strokes on the fourth string, a cardinal feature of his blues style. The second and third breaks are from Frank Godbey’s legendary recording of the New South at the Red Slipper Lounge of the Holiday Inn, Lexington KY, November 1974. I really prefer Crowe’s attack on this version of the tune. Note how his second break from 1974 ends with a blues riff that goes off in the ozone. I am not sure that I got it completely right, but it’s reasonably close.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Banjowen, updated: 4/20/2010 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjojason88, updated: 6/11/2013
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Notes: Second String D-Tuner:
High Stop: "C" Note
Lower Stop: "B" Note
Between the first break and the second break, you must quickly tune the second string down from a "C" note to a "B" note and leave it there for the duration of the second break.
After the second break, quickly tune the second string from the "B" note back up to the "C" note.
Because I could not figure out how to put all banjo breaks on one module, they are split between breaks. All breaks should be played by one banjo and see notes in the tab to understand how to play the song.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/22/2016 - 6 Member Comments
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Notes: Here is a bluegrass arrangement of “Over the Rainbow,” often referred to as “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.” I play it in the key of C, standard G tuning, although some versions I have heard (e.g., Eddie Shelton’s) are in the key of G. But I think C works better on the banjo. I am aware that there are alternate chord structures for this tune, particularly for the B part. This version works for me, but your mileage may vary, and feel free to come up with your own arrangement.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Steven Moore, updated: 3/17/2016
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Notes: A simple version of (Somewhere) Over The Rainbow as I played it many years ago when I was 15. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF7PDuKOOhA
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by cameronle34, updated: 9/25/2016
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Banjowen, updated: 2/22/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: A self composed tune that I wrote for a friends wife.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by alducks, updated: 3/28/2017
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Notes: Banjo and simple Bass modules to play along with Jimmie Martin's version on youtube. Insert your own backup instead of the banjo solo if you want to. Again...no guarantee on accuracy but it works.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Open C (gCGCE) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by CCABanjo, updated: 4/6/2016
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ShhhItsASecret, updated: 4/4/2020
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Notes: Standard roll, melodic, and up-the-neck (roll) variants. Adapted from old-time, clawhammer versions of the tune.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 11/10/2021 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: I have been listening to a lot of the Osborne Brothers lately, and I was reminded of this simple but enjoyable tune. It's a great choice for jamming.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by elijahwheeler, updated: 7/7/2025
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Notes: My attempt to transcribe the break I heard from Hammertowne
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by eagleisland, updated: 1/4/2013
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Notes: Our dobro player wanted to add this song. Learned it from the Jerry-Douglas-produced "Tribute to Tut Taylor" album. There was no banjo part on it, so this is what I came up with.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Dave Nauman, updated: 2/7/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 6/29/2013 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: This is my take of this neat song that I learned from Fred Warner, a great musician (fiddle and banjo) playing friend of mine . Hope you like it..........L.W.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/25/2015 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: SF is one Bill Monroe's weirder tunes, but it is a gem.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: E Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Cwiiis, updated: 1/14/2016 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Inspired (but pretty different to) Blake Williams's break on the Live From Mountain Stage album, and with a few bars borrowed from Casey Henry playing Northern White Clouds (which has a basically identical B part to Southern Flavor).
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Em Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 5/8/2017 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: This is a clawhammer version of Bill Monroe's Southern Flavor. It is played in standard tuning but with the fifth string tuned down three half steps to E (equal to first string second fret). A rhythm guitar and a mandolin part is included in the tab, but the mandolin is silenced in the midi file.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JanetB, updated: 5/8/2017 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Bill Monroe wrote this classic and plays it different every time through. I've chosen one version and enjoy playing it this way.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by fivestring61, updated: 4/24/2010 - 4 Member Comments
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Notes: High break I arranged for this Bill Monroe tune... note this is played in natural Em but I capo at the second fret and capo/tune the 5th to B.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by fivestring61, updated: 4/24/2010 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: First of two breaks I arranged for this Bill Monroe tune... note this is played in natural Em but I capo at the second fret and capo/tune the 5th to B.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/10/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/10/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Gm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Eliott - Elstree, updated: 7/30/2025
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Notes: Uptempo Bluegrass piece. Pairs well with clinch mountain backstep.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BanjoTJC, updated: 2/2/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: I made this one up. The up the neck version is on youtube. You can go straight there by clicking the URL.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 8/8/2025 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/10/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by rdeanjordan, updated: 1/2/2024
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Notes: A melodic style arrangement of this great fiddle tune as played by Bob Black.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JohanOhman, updated: 10/27/2011
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Notes: A melodic break played by Allen Shelton with Jim & Jesse
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mbeaky, updated: 3/27/2022 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is a gem of a song by John Hartford; as fun to play as it is to sing. The first break is a Tabledit version of Jayme Stone's transcription and ends on the first beat of measure 32. The rest is my arrangement of this classic.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 6/26/2023 - 3 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mwblake, updated: 1/22/2015 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: I play this great John Hartford song with my band "The Grass Snakes" and this is a fairly accurate transcription of what I play. There's nothing very tricky here - a little bit of syncopation in the b part, but it's all quite attainable, with a bit of practice. A favourite song at my gigs and I hope you enjoy learning it!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 3/1/2019
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by dbrooks, updated: 6/16/2023 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This clawhammer tab aims to capture the joy of John Hartford's tune.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/10/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/10/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/10/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Tom Hanway, updated: 2/21/2016
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Notes: Scruggs's version from the Martha White Radio Show, June 1953.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 10/22/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/10/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by GBftp52, updated: 5/20/2013 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: This great tune has been recorded most notably by Alison Krauss and John Denver. But I have heard this tune played by many bluegrass groups over the years with the most recent being a local group we watched at a restaurant a few days ago. Here is one of my breaks for the Key of G.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 2/19/2026 - 6 Member Comments
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Notes: Here is a revised version of an original tune I first posted on BHO years ago. Incidentally, "Stemwinder" is the name of a provincial park in British Columbia.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 6/14/2026
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Notes: I wrote and posted this tune some years ago. I have now tweaked the tab, to include a passage employing Keith tuners. Incidentally, Stemwinder is the name of a provincial park in British Columbia.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Bm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 10/18/2017
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Notes: SteelDrivers - capo 2 waltz
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/10/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 8/24/2016 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: After I watched "The Big Lebowski" once again, this simple tune emerged from a cloud of smoke (just kidding!). To me it reflects the zen of The Dude, who, as we all know, Abides.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/26/2018
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Dave Nauman, updated: 3/25/2010
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Notes: A great and seemingly little known Bill Monroe instrumental.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Zephinie, updated: 8/15/2018
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Notes: (Capo 2) Melodic/SS arrangement of Stoney Lonesome as played by the Bluegrass Album Band.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 7/4/2017
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Notes: Here are the takes on this classic Bill Monroe tune by two great banjo players, Noam Pikelny and Bill Keith. Pikelny's version is from the album "Noam Pikelny Plays Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe," and it is faithful to Baker's version on fiddle. I have included two of his interesting variations on the B part that mirror Monroe's composition. Keith's version is from "The Grass is Greener," and it is less tied to the fiddle break. It's more interpretive, if not downright surreal. Capo up 2 to play in A.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 4/18/2016 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: SMT is a lovely tune employing Keith/Scruggs tuners. Walter Hensley wrote it and recorded it as Stoney Mountain Twist and Walt's Breakdown, and more recently J. D. Crowe recorded it as Stony (sic) Mountain Twist. The tab I have posted is more or less my own arrangement, not faithful to either Hensley's or Crowe's. For Part C, where you crank up your Keith tuners (twisters), I have tabbed it to show the melody notes without tuners, but I added the protocol for using Keith tuners above the tab. So you can still play it if you do not have Keith tuners, although it sounds much better with the tuners. (It was a real bear to get the timing accurate on Part C, by the way).
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/10/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by stratovarious520, updated: 2/3/2021 - 4 Member Comments
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Notes: Keeping the Jimmy theme going. Another barn burner (about 300bpm in Tabledit) that showcases the late, great Jimmy Arnold. A warmup is suggested before tackling this one full speed!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stratovarious520, updated: 8/6/2022 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: I realized when I was learning this tune, the only tablature around is from an old Banjo Newsletter, and from the Masters of the 5 String Banjo book. The Masters book only has the first break. So, I made my own. Please note that this is adapted for my own (in)abilities and taste. Also, Mr. Munde recorded this initially (Together Again for the First Time, 1977) with capo at 2.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Open D (aDF#Ad) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/29/2020 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: In the immortal words of W. C. Fields, who was not a banjo player. He was, however, an entertainer who started his career in vaudeville as “The World’s Greatest Juggler” and went on to write and star in a number of very funny if slightly bizarre films (e.g., “The Fatal Glass of Beer,” “The Bank Dick,” “You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man,” “Never Give a Sucker an Even Break”).
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/10/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 4/22/2025 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: It's time for a tab for Sugarfoot Rag (also known as Concrete Canyon Boogie), with variations. The tab is in G, but the tune is normally played in A, with the capo up 2.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/10/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by banjohn2, updated: 7/23/2016
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Notes: This is based on the playing of Scruggs with Monroe in september 1946
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/10/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/10/2006 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by agentheath, updated: 5/5/2013 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: 2nd break (~3:18) by J.D. Crowe with the Grascals in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IE2gLELpBc
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by schlange, updated: 11/10/2014 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Sonny Osborne's arrangement, tabbed by Jack Baker.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by dbrooks, updated: 8/20/2023
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Notes: This clawhammer tab is based on the recording by the Osborne Brothers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNQj9Gq-9MI ). They play it in B, so capo at 4th fret to match the video.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 8/20/2023
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Notes: Capo 4 to play along with Osborne Brothers recording.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 11/29/2022 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: The version of SSotM that Earl Scruggs played on is from a recording of an Opry radio broadcast in the late 1940s by Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys. Lester Flatt sang it as a solo number, and Scruggs took a lovely up-the-neck break. Note the transition from G to C in measures 5 and 16, wherein Scruggs seems to be playing a chromatic passage with the notes G - Eb - D - C. As far as I can tell, he picks Eb rather than E. Does this make Scruggs the Father of Chromatic Banjo? You be the judge. The recording I took this from can be found on youtube. Although the recording seems to be in the key Bb, I have tabbed it in the key of G.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by RB4picker, updated: 12/20/2017 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 11/28/2015
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Notes: The Osborne Brothers 1966- capo 2nd
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 6/8/2020 - 6 Member Comments
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Notes: Sushi is a fine fiddle tune written by the great Kenny Baker – the most elegant bluegrass fiddler, in my opinion – and it works well on the banjo. You can see Mr. Baker playing Sushi here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Noi625ZhRR8&feature=youtu.be The version on the video comprises only 2 parts, whereas the recording of Sushi by Saskatchewan fiddler J. J. Guy on his album “Cadillac” includes a third part. My arrangement for the banjo includes all 3 parts.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 5/14/2024 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Jerry Reed, Larry McNeely
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Jethro Aberdeen, updated: 6/18/2018
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Notes: Corrected sound module- thanks Jack, sorry it took so long to correct.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stan, updated: 9/18/2011
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Notes: Bluegrass Gospel
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 8/13/2015 - 5 Member Comments
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Notes: Bill Emerson is one of the all-time greats on bluegrass banjo IMHO, and over the years he has written a bunch of memorable tunes. Perhaps his signature tune is Sweet Dixie, which he recorded when he was with Jimmy Martin in the 1960s. Emerson had written and recorded the tune earlier than that, however, and Martin’s name was included because he was the leader of the band. In any case, Sweet Dixie is a great driving piece that every bluegrass player should include in his or her repertoire. It is formed around a percussive series of pull-offs on the first string, and buddy it is effective. It’s normally played in the key of D; so capo up 2 and go to town.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/17/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by llscracker72, updated: 10/23/2013 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: capo at the 7th fret
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by stratovarious520, updated: 3/20/2021
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Notes: This piece epitomizes (to me) Ben's joyful approach to banjo. It's a knuckle buster at his tempo. Pay careful attention to his syncopation...melody notes fall in strange places!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/10/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by phill, updated: 3/23/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: I based this version on a more traditional style giving it an old timey feel. There is a lot of thumb work in it.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/10/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stan, updated: 7/24/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Both High & Low breaks!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD)
Posted by James Stiltner, updated: 12/31/2013
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Unknown/None Chosen Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Sagar, updated: 7/6/2011
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Notes: arr for instruments Cyril Kovac may 2005
original arr by Vidar Hansen 1982
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 11/11/2023
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by pstokes, updated: 9/13/2020 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Andy Campbell, updated: 1/6/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This was a free download from the Jay Buckey site. www.jaybuckey.com
I got it probably 6 or 7 years ago not long after I started.
I can heartily recommend Jay's work as I have bought a few of his books over the years.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by schlange, updated: 11/24/2014
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Notes: From Jack Baker, for our TOTW: http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/294944
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by CHaynie, updated: 11/26/2011
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Notes: Verse Break
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by John Harper, updated: 3/26/2010
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Notes: Great Hank Williams tune. Like the G7, C, A7 to D7 progression.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/3/2006 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 8/4/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/3/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/7/2026
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Notes: This is one of Bill Monroe's sprightly tunes. My tab shows 3 parts: A, B, and C. However, B and C may just be variations of the same part -- you be the judge. Monroe recorded the tune with triple fiddles (and Bobby Thompson on the banjo).
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BanjoTJC, updated: 3/24/2017 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: This is a good song, fun to play too!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/16/2007 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 8/21/2015
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Notes: A classic fiddle tune that lends well with the banjo ..........Hope you like it.....Lynn
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 6/21/2023 - 4 Member Comments
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Notes: As best I can recall, I first heard this lovely traditional tune on Tony Rice’s initial solo album on Rounder Records (entitled “Tony Rice,” appropriately enough). There was no banjo break on the track – J. D., where were you? – and so I worked out a break that followed Rice’s chord structure (other versions may employ slightly different chords). I have posted the tab here.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by trinaemig, updated: 8/22/2025
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by elijahwheeler, updated: 11/11/2025
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Bunyip, updated: 9/28/2025
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Notes: Jim Mills’ break on Temperence Reel.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/3/2006 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/3/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JohanOhman, updated: 10/26/2011
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Notes: This is the banjo intro to Tennesse Mine almost as played by Pete Schwimmer on the Sam Hill album " Haunted by a Memory".
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dskeigley, updated: 11/18/2014 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Rowland, updated: 4/17/2022
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Am Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mwblake, updated: 2/24/2017
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Notes: A great Aubrey Haynie fiddle tune which is gaining a lot of popularity at the sessions in Devon. This is a near transcription [without the pyrotechnics at the end of the 2nd time round the A part] of Bela Fleck's banjo break on Haynie's original recording on the album "A Man Must Carry On". Note the subtle change of chords (and thus the melody) in the second time round the A part and that the B part only goes round once. It's in regular tuning with capo II. I hope you like it!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/3/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by James Stiltner, updated: 4/29/2013
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 8/22/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: I learned this tune from listening to a great guitar version by Robert Schaeffer.
hope you like it....
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 8/31/2012
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Notes: No inside rolls in this version
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/30/2014
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Notes: For the TOTW, from Jack Baker.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Jack Baker, updated: 6/30/2026
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/3/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/3/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/3/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/3/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/13/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/13/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/13/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/13/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/13/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Tono, updated: 9/17/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Dm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by geckoberry, updated: 10/26/2022 - 4 Member Comments
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Notes: This banjo break is really stellar. It has some super Ron Block-y stuff in it, and he fills the solo with emotion and clarity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR6n4ZqVHDE
Enjoy!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/5/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by banjoteacher.com, updated: 4/26/2019
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by rossnickerson, updated: 4/27/2019
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Giaour, updated: 2/15/2011 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: This is TABLEDITed version of PDF found here. Thought I'd type it out for y'all!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by fivestring61, updated: 4/21/2010 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: My version of an up-the-neck break for Steve Martin's "The Crow"....
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mikejboulder, updated: 1/24/2017
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Notes: A great tune performed by the Gibson Brothers.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Dm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by chode, updated: 9/23/2025
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Notes: From my record Birds in the Background. Cover of a .357 String Band song
Song & album links below:
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/andydimondandthewholesomeomensmaxroes/birds-in-the-background
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Am Tuning: Open Gm (gDGBbD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Duc7, updated: 7/1/2014 - 3 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/5/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 12/29/2007 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by RB3, updated: 3/11/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 6/20/2019
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Notes: This is a nice straightforward song that, to my knowledge, the Foggy Mountain Boys never recorded in the studio. However, there are several versions from other sources floating around, and I have tabbed two of Earl Scruggs’s breaks. The first is from a radio recording, WSM air checks, apparently from the middle or late 1950s. Earl’s break shows how he would depart from formulaic use of the standard rolls we associate with Scruggs style. The second break is from one of the Flatt and Scruggs tv shows on WSM, from July 1961. It can be found on #5 of the DVDs released by Shanachie, but you can also find it on youtube. This break also shows Earl’s propensity for improvisation in those days.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dskeigley, updated: 8/12/2013
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by geckoberry, updated: 1/7/2022 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: Randy Dishmon asked me to tab this on the "Need a tab?" forum:
https://www.banjohangout.org/topic/380335
Here's the link to Craig Smith playing it on the recording:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNMS5Uv_qZM
Have fun!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by EdwinV01, updated: 8/20/2025
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Notes: First theme Jens Plays on the Behind the Barn, Vol. 2 record. Last roll he plays something different to get into the backings of the guitar theme.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Mark W Andersen, updated: 6/15/2013
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by caloscalzo, updated: 9/17/2009
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Notes: I was told that this song was public domain now. This tab is based off of Roy Acuff's version.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 10/28/2025 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: In addition to being one of the all-time great bluegrass banjo players, Bill Emerson was a prolific composer. The Grey Ghost is one of his better known pieces, a nifty variation of the tune Dixie. TGG also employs a clever double-thumb technique, which as far as I know Emerson originated, to produce a delightful and rhythmic melodic sequence. You will first see it in measure 3, and it is worth studying. Note that I have included an up-the-neck break. This tune is admirably suited to playing up the neck, and so I created one.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mwblake, updated: 10/27/2013
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Notes: This is from a Tim O'Brian song which was played as an instrumental by Bryan Sutton on one of his albums. It has a really interesting B part. I have included a guitar and harmony mandolin part with this arrangement, but have muted them in midi options, to clarify the banjo. I love this tune. Latterly it has been covered by The Infamous Stringdusters. Enjoy...
Martin
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD)
Posted by Tono, updated: 9/17/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Adgardad, updated: 3/16/2010
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Notes: A quirky tune off of one of Tony Trischka's early recordings. It can now be found on the compilation "The Early Years".
This tune is in 7/4 time, with the rhythms mostly broken down as 123/1234. I got the guitar chords close and it will at least give you a clue as to how it might sound played with others. Definately listen to the recording!
Genre: Bluegrass Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Joseph Newns, updated: 7/26/2010 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by James Stiltner, updated: 10/15/2013
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: E Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by howsy-bee, updated: 1/1/2021
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Notes: One of Ben Freed's wonderful compositions! The tuning is eDGBD, key of E.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: E Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stratovarious520, updated: 1/20/2021
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Notes: My variation of howsy-bee's tab. I took a couple of liberties with phrasing, note choices, etc, to make it playable for me. Between this version and his, you may come up with your own variations!
Tuning: eDGBD
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Jodebanjo, updated: 9/29/2016 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Not sure what this song is called. Only ever found it on Youtube:
https://youtu.be/O8qqrnvYU0c?t=6m19s
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Gm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Jodebanjo, updated: 11/13/2013
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Notes: Including all solos.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/8/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/8/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Gm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjohn2, updated: 7/23/2016 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: This arrangement has fiddle, banjo and rhythm guitar. It should be fairly close to the playing of Blue Highway
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/9/2012
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Notes: As played by Bobby Thompson in Bill Monroe's recording, capoed up to A. One could quibble, I suppose, with my interpretation of the B part beginning in measure 18, where I show the notes as played on a single string (third string second fret to third string open) as opposed to melodic style (fourth string seventh fret to third string open) to achieve the same sequence of notes. I don't know for sure which way Bobby Thompson played it, but I find the single-string approach to be easier to play.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/8/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/8/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A#/Bb Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by JohnP, updated: 7/14/2010 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: This is my first attempt at TablEdit. This is pretty close to J.D. Crowe's 1975 recording of The Old Home Place, with The New South. This is the first opening break. Standard open G tuning. (capo 3rd fret)
Enjoy,
John Pospischil, 2010
www.fellswoopband.com
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A#/Bb Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by phb, updated: 3/21/2018 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is a transcription of the version found on J.D. Crowe & The New South.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A#/Bb Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by awal767, updated: 2/10/2019 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: A transcription of J.D. Crowe's playing of the entire song as it appears on the album J.D. Crowe and the New South.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/8/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/8/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 2/9/2026 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Dave Nauman, updated: 2/7/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by jimrichter, updated: 11/19/2023
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Notes: The Old Mountaineer--Bill Monroe tune based on the playing of mandolinist Mike Compton
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by rwsansom, updated: 10/4/2020 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: A beautiful song written (I think) by Adam Cloer that he performed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAacAn310no. Here is my arrangment with a few tasty bits added that my "inner ear" was hearing. (Latest version: v.2020.09.28d)
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by chuckv97, updated: 5/11/2025
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Ian_banjo, updated: 5/23/2014
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Notes: I learnt this Utah Phillips song from a Dry Branch Fire Squad album, but the banjo break is my own.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by geckoberry, updated: 10/25/2022
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Notes: Such a cool solo and such spot on delivery!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ8MX5DvGbk
Enjoy!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JohanOhman, updated: 10/26/2011
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Notes: This is an attempt to transcribe Graham Sharpe's banjo break from the Steep Canyon Rangers' album Mr. Taylor's new home.
It should be played in A, with a capo, but I transcribed it in G...
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjo_don, updated: 5/14/2012
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Notes: This is the tune Sea Of Life off Doyle Lawson an Quick Silver, Terry Baucom's break as close as I could get enjoy banjo_don
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by cuberous, updated: 9/8/2025
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Notes: This sweet melodic tune was composed by Laurence Diehl and recently posted here on the BHO in the Video Library. It consists of two parts, A and B, played: A - A - B - B - A.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by rossnickerson, updated: 5/5/2019 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjofrog, updated: 8/23/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by DarrenJ, updated: 3/30/2017 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is my first full-length tab, so I'm sure it's in no way perfect. I used the youtube video
where The Earls of Leicester are playing an a darkend room with a single lightbulb. Charlie
has a couple variations in the video of them under a tree, notabily in m.9-11 and the ending.
All the x's are open and very subtle. Charlie is an expert at bring out the melody notes and
backing off the filler notes. There are others, but I just chose to include those marked.
Feel free to message me with corrections!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by KI4PRK, updated: 9/6/2009
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Notes: The Wreck of the Old 97 in drop C tuning. There may be a few minor errors in the tab, this is an older tab of mine which I made before I'd fully gotten the hang of tabbing tunes. Still, a good version with an ending I learned from an anonymous banjo player that works well in the key of C, standard tuning as well as this drop-C version. The first repeat is the melody. The second is basically an alternate melody and banjo licks with very little semblance to the real melody.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Duc7, updated: 9/13/2011
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Notes: Here's a great Bill Emerson/Jimmy Martin tune that's fairly easy and fun to play!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by schlange, updated: 7/9/2014 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: From Jack Baker, for our TOTW: http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/287532/
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 3/1/2019
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 8/27/2015 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Bill Emerson wrote and recorded Theme Time before he joined Jimmy Martin, and then he recorded it again while in Martin's band. It is a standard in jams. Jack Baker posted an excellent tab of TT in July 2014, as the TOTW. My tab provides some variations on the standard version and is the way I have played it for several decades.
Genre: Bluegrass Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Kat Eyz Capos, updated: 11/17/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by rbfour5, updated: 1/10/2016 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: My version of Doug Dillard playing "There is a Time", from the "Live Almost"
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by kmwaters, updated: 12/14/2019
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Notes: Open G tuning and capo at fret 5 to play in C.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jmoliver, updated: 3/29/2013
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Jacob Underwood, updated: 1/22/2015
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Notes: This is the tablature for my banjo intro for the song "There'll Never Be Another You," which was co-written by me and my dad, and is on the 2014 Bluegrass Express project "In Our Own Words." I felt like this song could've been on the "Jim & Jesse Today" album, so I made use of some of my favorite Allen Shelton licks.
"The Road Ends," which is the first single from the project, can be heard in my mp3 archive. The full album can be ordered at www.bluegrassexpressband.com.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/26/2023
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Notes: Don Stover was one of the first generation bluegrass banjo players. His style was hard-driving but could also be jaunty and whimsical. As well, he was an excellent singer and song writer. Things in Life is one of his memorable original songs. Its structure is simple, involving only 2 chords, and its melody and lyrics are haunting. The tablature is of my version of the song in 3-finger style, although Stover played it in clawhammer. There is nothing extreme in my version – the song demands a straightforward approach.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Open C (gCGCE) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/28/2023 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Don Stover was one of the first generation bluegrass banjo players, but he started out as and remained an accomplished clawhammer player. He told of first hearing Earl Scruggs on the Opry in December 1945 and resolved to figure out how he played that way. Stover’s 2-finger style did not sound like Scruggs, however, but the light dawned when a traveling salesman told him Earl played 3-finger style using metal finger picks. He was also an excellent singer and song writer, and Things in Life is one of his memorable original songs. Its structure is simple, involving only 2 chords, and its melody and lyrics are haunting. Stover played clawhammer banjo on the song. The tablature is my clawhammer version of the song, inspired by but not a note-for-note copy of Stover’s playing. It is in open C tuning.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjojason88, updated: 6/11/2013 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 8/29/2015 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: A classic by the Stanley Brothers (or is that the Carter Brothers, Ralph and Stanley?). The tab opens with the chorus and then proceeds to the verse, and you might find some stuff of general usefulness therein.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by HOWDYDOODY, updated: 12/18/2016
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 10/27/2023 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Hot Rize - Pete Wernick
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/13/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by rossnickerson, updated: 10/11/2012
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Notes: An easy version of This Land is Your Land from the free tab page at BanjoTeacher.com
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by kmwaters, updated: 2/15/2014 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Up The Neck break for this old tune.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by chuckv97, updated: 7/6/2025
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Notes: An easier tab for this old gospel song,, no slides, hammer-ons, or pulloffs. The video which includes TAB is in the video library.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Jethro Aberdeen, updated: 6/3/2020 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: Many variations can be found from over the years, I like Johnny Cash and Willie Nelsons versions as well as others, this is how I would play it.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by rossnickerson, updated: 5/4/2019
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Jethro Aberdeen, updated: 5/10/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by chuckv97, updated: 5/11/2026
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Notes: The Alan O’Bryant song that “TRIO” popularized
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 7/5/2026
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Notes: This is my latest escape I mean original tune. I heard the chord progression while sleeping, and when I recovered consciousness the tune wrote itself. FYI, Three Valley Gap is in the beautiful Shuswap Country of southeastern British Columbia.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mwblake, updated: 11/23/2015 - 10 Member Comments
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Notes: This is my melodic arrangement of a lovely tune by Russ Barenberg, which has recently been the theme tune for "The Transatlantic Sessions". It's a transcription of Russ Barenberg's initial guitar break, but due to the limited range of the banjo, it has to be played an octave higher. It's a trifle tricky in places and I have put the right hand fingering in the places where I feel one might struggle. This arrangement uses all of the neck, reaching the 19th fret in the B part. Very satisfying when it starts to flow! This tune is gaining a lot of popularity in the West Country (Devon & Cornwall) so let's get it out to the world to widen its appeal! Have fun!
PS, it's in D and don't forget to spike the 5th to A!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 10/7/2016 - 4 Member Comments
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Notes: Another terrific original banjo tune by the great Bill Emerson
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 10/29/2017 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Columbia FC - 38295
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006 - 3 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dskeigley, updated: 11/21/2014 - 3 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: E Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by RadMuz, updated: 4/23/2025
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Notes: Spectrum, Bela Fleck, Intro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhZp1V-knPY
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Freddie.D.Holt, updated: 1/21/2010
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Notes: capo second fret, fifth string tuned to A
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by imac50, updated: 3/27/2013
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by rossnickerson, updated: 4/27/2019 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 4/30/2022
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Notes: Here is my take on a jaunty little tune that Bill Monroe recorded late in his career. After fooling around with it on the mandolin, I have rejigged my banjo tablature, to bring it closer to Monroe's version. The structure of the tune is AAB.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Adgardad, updated: 3/16/2010 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: A nice fiddle tune in the melodic style from Sam and Alan. I think this is pretty close to Alan's version, but I worked it out so long ago that I no longer have any way to listen to it. My record player bit the dust ages ago.
It starts off in the key of C, but switches to the key of G at the end.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 7/19/2018 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Earl Scruggs recorded Toy Heart with Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys in 1947. His break is straightforward and driving, particularly the nifty F7 chord up the neck. Almost 30 years later, J. D. Crowe recorded it with the Bluegrass Album Band, and in his break you can hear the subtle bluesy touches he added to the style. You may find it informative to compare the tabs of the 2 breaks. To add a humorous note, I have included the tab of my break to Toy Heart. Don’t pop your stitches from laughing too hard.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 12/21/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by seanray, updated: 1/17/2026
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Notes: Backup Tab for "The Session Book" - seanray.com
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Am Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD)
Posted by billyboms, updated: 10/19/2017
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Notes: I tried to make this transition simple.
But I think how to make the transition 3/4--->4/4 better.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjo_don, updated: 5/17/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by coltoncrawford, updated: 4/24/2020 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Toppy, updated: 5/27/2016
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 4/26/2014 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: This is mostly a non-melodic approach to Turkey in the straw. Although many banjoists already play it melodically, this just gives you a different slant to the tune. Hope you like it...Lynn W
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 4/28/2014 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Turkey in the Straw is a traditional tune going back to minstrel days, when it had a racist title. It was one of the first tunes I worked out in melodic style, in 1963 or 1964. Hearing a tape of Bill Keith playing it helped me at that time to finalize my version, which owes a lot to him I am sure. It is a good tune from which to begin learning melodic style.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by jimmartin1984, updated: 8/13/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/19/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by trinaemig, updated: 10/19/2025
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by caloscalzo, updated: 9/17/2009
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Notes: I don't think there is a copyright on this song.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Ian_banjo, updated: 9/1/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is my first attempt, just for fun, to arrange a whole bluegrass song, including the lead melody and tenor harmony. Unfortunately, TablEdit doesn't have a voice synthesiser, so I have used midi sounds to replace the voice. I entered the melody notes for the voice and tenor harmony as banjo tab. The instruments are guitar, banjo and bass.
I have loosely based the arrangement on the Country Gentlemen's version, although I don't know how to inject their level of drive and energy. Also I haven't included mandolin and dobro or attempted to copy Eddie Adcock's inspired backup! (Someone else is welcome to have a go at that.) Instead I opted for some vamping the first time round and then some simple forward and forward-reverse rolls the second time.
Note that if you should ever want to print all of this out, it runs to lots of pages. So it is better to print out one instrument/voice at a time using the TablEdit Print Set Up menu on the Multi-Track tab.
I have pitched the song in G, although the CGs do it in B (I think). However, with TablEdit, it is easy to transpose into higher keys if required.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/19/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Banjopikr, updated: 2/10/2022 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Here is an example of using what I call a "cheater D position" in G tuning to provide accompaniment. Hold your index finger down on the third string, second fret and use the D string as your drone instead of the fifth string. Check out the tab and try to sing along and you'll see what I mean.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by KI4PRK, updated: 2/8/2010 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: Here is an old Austrian March-turned-country instrumental, "Under The Double Eagle", arranged for Banjo solo (with accompaniment). I have included all the original parts (to my knowledge) in this version, with an intro and 4 parts. The intro and first 2 parts are in C, the 3rd part is in F, and the 4th part is in Bb, ending with a repeat of the 2nd part (in C). This is arranged in a Reno style, although not a tablature of his playing of the tune (which he did admirably!). It's fairly difficult, as one would expect with the key changes. Has a Rhythm Guitar & Bass rhythm track. Have fun!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 10/4/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: D Tuning: Open D (f#DF#Ad) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stratovarious520, updated: 11/15/2020
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Notes: My first attempt at tabbing anything! I only have the demo version of Tabledit, so no midi file. Have fun with it!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/11/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/11/2006 - 11 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/11/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/11/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by dUSA, updated: 12/17/2014 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: 2nd break.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by dUSA, updated: 12/20/2014
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Notes: 3rd break + ending.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by dskeigley, updated: 11/30/2019 - 8 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 12/9/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/6/2014 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: From Jack Baker for our TOTW: http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/284169
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by rossnickerson, updated: 5/4/2019
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/19/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by chuckv97, updated: 7/6/2025
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by chuckv97, updated: 4/8/2026
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Notes: The fine Herb Pedersen song that Seldom Scene popularized.
Demo performance here:
https://youtu.be/bE768agrM-M?si=7qa3UIOkAT_m154M
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/5/2007
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 6/28/2022
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Notes: My approximation on the banjo of the version by the supernal Kenny Baker on fiddle.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Paulie Ray, updated: 12/12/2012
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Notes: Don't let the key change in the bridge throw you!!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by HOWDYDOODY, updated: 4/25/2017 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by corodent, updated: 8/20/2013
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Notes: Jim Pankey recently posted a great version of Washed In The Blood Of The Lamb to the video archive. I wanted to learn it, so I tabbed it out. He gave me permission to share the tab.
Highly recommend you listen closely to the video to really capture the way he plays it. He has a great way of accenting the syncopated notes that make this version come alive.
Version is here on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVEq0-xqqX8
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by KI4PRK, updated: 11/11/2009 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: A much better version of Washington & Lee Swing than my last, which had a lot of mistakes in it. This one is a completely banjo version, with 4 breaks, the last being a slight variation on the first. It does NOT include the second part, which is a throw-over from Don Reno's recordings of the tune (my inspiration) in which the key changes to G and the fiddle does the second part. It is in the key of C, standard G tuning. Has some funky rolls that I like to throw in there just to mess up banjo players and to make listeners say "huh?". I've always felt the timing in this tune had to be especially accurate to get it to sound good, so make sure you listen to one of Don Reno's recordings of it, as well as a jazz/western swing or marching band take on it. Has a Rhythm Guitar & Bass rhythm track. Have fun
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jimrichter, updated: 1/18/2026
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dskeigley, updated: 8/18/2013 - 3 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stratovarious520, updated: 10/20/2023
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Notes: By request from a member.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by kmwaterstx, updated: 11/1/2019
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Am Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BGBob, updated: 9/10/2018 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Unusual version.
Tune B down ½ to Bb
Capo 2
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by earlsgranada, updated: 11/3/2024 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Noam Pikelny basic arrangement of Wayfaring Stranger in E minor
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Banjoker, updated: 9/16/2009
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Notes: Banjo break only
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BanjoTJC, updated: 3/23/2025
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Notes: Melodic version of a JD Crowe song
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/8/2020
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Notes: This classic country song is perfect for bluegrass and has been recorded by Earl Taylor and the Stoney Mountain Boys.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Texasbanjo, updated: 10/7/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BanjoBoy88, updated: 10/15/2019
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Notes: The classic Christmas piece, but with actual Scruggs rolls and fills, not just the melody notes.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Erwin, updated: 3/28/2022
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Notes: 1st tab in my endeavor to transcribe all Earl Scruggs tunes I have in my possession.
From the CD-set "Flatt & Scruggs : The Complete Mercury Recordings"
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 8/4/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 8/2/2011
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Notes: another break
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by tbfnyc, updated: 5/29/2012 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Bill Emerson plays this differently every time. This is close to the version from his CD "Home of the Red Fox".
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C#/Dbm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by trinaemig, updated: 12/13/2025
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjofrog, updated: 9/25/2010 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: When playing the MIDI of this tab, set the tempo to 66% since I haven't figured out how to set the tempo when I write the tab. : )
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/19/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by crawdad, updated: 9/16/2009
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Notes: Works well in a medley with "Away in a Manger"
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by harwoodw, updated: 1/17/2013 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is a version I transcribed from Bob Black off the album Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe. Great Melodic version and really hard to get up to speed, but it fits great under the fingers. Watch out for the bar of 3/4 at the end of the B section.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 3/1/2019
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by 21stCenturyBanjo, updated: 4/29/2018
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Notes: Noam Pikelny's version of
Wheel Hoss by Bill Monore
Tab by 21stCentruyBanjo
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Devon Wells, updated: 9/6/2021 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: capo 2
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/29/2016
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Notes: A lovely break from Earl Scruggs.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 9/12/2021 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: I first heard this lovely song played bluegrass style by Hot Rize, although it has been recorded by many artists. You can find multiple versions on youtube. The tablature includes both the verse and chorus, and it is the way my band Knee Deep plays the song.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A#/Bb Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Bluegrass Banjo Dude, updated: 8/23/2020
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Notes: Another Bluegrass Gospel tune to tuck away in your practice book! These banjo breaks will definitely give you a run for your money (Or not because this tab is free)! Especially the second break Earl takes on this recording with those bluesy bends!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by rossnickerson, updated: 10/11/2012
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Notes: This is one of the songs in my Banjo Songs For Beginners for Banjo Book/CD/DVD from the free tab page at BanjoTeacher.com. Thanks, Ross Nickerson
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 12/26/2024 - 4 Member Comments
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Notes: When the Springtime Comes Again is also known as Little Annie, and it is a fine tune popularized by the Carter Family. I first heard it played by Vern Williams, who knocked my socks off with his high tenor. I have tabbed two breaks. The first is the way I play it today, the second is closer to the way I played it 20 years ago in my band Cedar Creek in Victoria, B.C.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A#/Bb Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Studebaker Hawk, updated: 9/3/2009
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Notes: Based on the playing style of the late-great-Courtney Johnson, this song in played in the key of Bb with the banjo in a standard G tuning (i.e., capo 3)
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A#/Bb Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by jimrichter, updated: 12/1/2024
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Notes: Based on Courtney Johnson’s playing from NGR’s “When the Storm is Over”
Song written by Bob Lucas
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stan, updated: 5/15/2012
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Notes: When We All Get to Heaven (break)
scslack@juno.com
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 8/2/2011 - 3 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 1/8/2025 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: Allen Shelton recorded this tune on the 5-string dobro, and his playing inspired my version. I did not try to capture Shelton's arrangement note for note, although I did borrow one of his characteristic runs for the outro. It is fun to play this at jams, although providing a chord chart helps the other players.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mikejboulder, updated: 7/29/2016
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Notes: A great Bob Amos tune. Break is over the verse.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Rowland, updated: 11/21/2010
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Notes: *** Easy play using chord shapes (partial and full)***
In order to download: right click TABRITE and
choose "save target as"
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 11/17/2012 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: In this version of Whiskey I tried to use as many Scruggs and Dillard rolls as possible to help the song drive harder for me...I don't have the same dexterity in my hands that I did when I was younger pup , so I try to compensate for it. I guess it's what I like to call banjoistic liberties or for lack of another word, CHEATING................................... LoL.... hope you like it........Lynn Williams
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 11/10/2018
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 10/7/2025 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: To make it easier to play, I have revised my tab for WBF that I first posted years ago. And is it "whiskey: or "whisky"?
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Tom Hanway, updated: 6/15/2015
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Notes: Notice all the syncopation in this old cakewalk. I tabbed this for bluegrass banjo players who are looking for new and interesting tunes. Actually, this one dates from 1899. It's Scruggsy but also combines melodic and single-string playing. I will soon tab another version with the C-Part (rare).
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/22/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by n2banjos, updated: 7/1/2013
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Notes: Great jam/jam band song
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Dave Nauman, updated: 2/7/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006 - 3 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Adgardad, updated: 3/21/2010
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Notes: Another of Bela's Bluegrass bounty. This one is short - only one break - but sweet. I especially like the transition phrase in measures 2 and 3 and both the D7 phrases in measures 8-9 and 15.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 10/13/2011 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Here is Crowe's take on the Flatt and Scruggs chestnut, recorded in 1975 for Rounder 0044 "J. D. Crowe and the New South" but not released until Cracker Barrell's re-release in 2002. The first (low) break is one of the greatest IMHO, in which Crowe "plays the words." The second (high) break is more improvisational. Both are full of goodies.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: F Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by KI4PRK, updated: 3/6/2010
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Notes: Here is Earl Scruggs' solo for "Why Don't You Tell Me So?", from Flatt & Scruggs' Mercury sessions. It is note for note, unless I made a mistake ;) The walking bass line is actually taken from the vocal break, not the banjo break, but I like the sound. The guitar part is not taken from Lester in any way; that's the way I play in an E position (capoed up 1) on the guitar with a thumb and finger. One of the classic banjo solos of all time, in my opinion. Have fun!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Dm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Zephinie, updated: 8/17/2018
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Notes: (5th fret capo 2) Wickwire by Mile 12, as played by Catherine "BB" Bowness. Because the fifth string is capod, the '10' on the fifth string will actually be on the 12th fret.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mwblake, updated: 6/1/2010
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Notes: Ron Block style, transcribed from one of his solos played at Kingham Hill School in the Cotswolds, UK, in April 2009
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stan, updated: 8/21/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stratovarious520, updated: 10/18/2023 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: An old Howdy Forrester fiddle piece, covered by many banjo pickers. I took elements from several versions, and made my own. There are a couple of spots with T1T2 (or TIMI) 4 note rolls, but nothing too crazy. Have fun with it!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by jbs325is, updated: 3/10/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Comes with TAB, Chord Chart, MP3 and Backing Track MP3. From LaynePublications.com
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by cboyle, updated: 4/9/2012 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: My first Tabledit, nice little tune, enjoy!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 10/4/2012 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/14/2014
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Notes: From Jack Baker, for the TOTW: http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/281425
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: F Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/14/2014
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Notes: Allen Shelton's version, transcribed by Jack Baker for our TOTW: http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/281425
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 10/7/2017 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: My version of WF is a bit different from some other nice ones on BHO (e.g., Jack Baker’s and Martin Blake’s) in that, as I was tabbing it out, I realized that I had been influenced by Eric Weissberg’s version on the Elektra LP “Folk Banjo Styles” (1961). Weissberg is the first 3-finger player I heard in the early 1960s, and I tried to figure out how he was playing those amazing things – all a prelude to my hearing and learning from Earl Scruggs and Bill Keith. So, although it is by no means a note-for-note interpretation of his version, consider this tab a tip of the hat to Eric Weissberg, particularly the second version of the B part.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Bluegrass Banjo Dude, updated: 7/28/2019
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Notes: Hey guys,
New to banjo hangout and relatively new to banjo still (7 months of playing consistently). Been working on transcribing this tune for a couple of weeks now and I think I have it pretty close to the recording Keith Whitley and Ricky Skaggs had on their Second Generation Bluegrass album. I've always loved the way Mr. Stanley played this tune! Let me know how I did! Always open to review
Thanks!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/19/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by kmwaters, updated: 3/20/2018
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Notes: From Mooo pdf tab
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/22/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 10/21/2024 - 4 Member Comments
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Notes: I love the sound of harmonics in banjo tunes, and this led me to write this tune.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Jethro Aberdeen, updated: 5/11/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by leemarcusmusic, updated: 11/5/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: As played by Lee Marcus on "Grandpa's Pond"
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by eagleisland, updated: 9/27/2014 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This tab is the MELODY LINE ONLY, showing placement of the melody notes. It is NOT an arrangement, but rather posted so that people learning to develop their own breaks have a frame of reference.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by phb, updated: 12/9/2018
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Notes: This is my transcription of the recording on the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's "Circle" album.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Bluegrass Banjo Dude, updated: 8/23/2020
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Notes: Here is a version I put together of the classic Bluegrass Gospel tune, Will the Circle Be Unbroken. If you find yourself pickin' some Bluegrass with a group of people, there's a pretty good chance that this tune will come up! So why not be prepared with a hot (JD Crowe inspired) banjo break!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/19/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by goodgood, updated: 5/21/2017 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: A while back I searched out some Two Finger Thumb Lead versions of some of my favorite songs, but I was not able to locate them. Now that I feel I understand the style, I have decided to translate some clawhammer tunes to the TFTL style.
This one is based of the clawhammer version of Will The Circle Be Unbroken that I found I. The Clawhammer Stule Banjo book by Ken Perlman.
I hope it is easily understood. Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by chuckv97, updated: 7/6/2025
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Notes: Video which includes the TAB is in the BHO video library
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by allisondas, updated: 10/26/2011
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Notes: As played on the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, volume I
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 11/29/2020
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Notes: A bluegrass classic, written by Lester Flatt and first recorded by him with Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys (including, of course, Earl Scruggs). I pulled the first break off a radio recording of Flatt and Scruggs from 1957. The second break is more improvisational, including a Keith-ish melodic sequence, and the third break is a variation on the Scruggs approach and sticks to the melody. This was perhaps the first tune I worked out on my own, in the early 1960s, back before there were personal computers, smart phones, or Schitt’s Creek.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Old Hickory, updated: 9/22/2021
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Notes: In response to a new player asking about tabs for Willin' -- by Lowell George -- and some other non-banjo songs, I decided to write out a version that I consider within reach of first-year players. It's all in the first four frets. The trickiest move may be an "inside roll" in which the middle finger picks the second string.
The trickiest part for me was tabbing the pause before the famous line "And if you give me . . ." I didn't leave as long a pause as it could be and made that a measure of 6/8. It's still not right. I trust everyone who knows the song to wait as long as they want at that part.
Sept 22 update: I have replaced the original TablEdit file with a version including keyboard, bass and drums (created in iReal Pro) that you can use as accompaniment.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A#/Bb Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by howsy-bee, updated: 10/1/2019 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Low and high break.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by graxis, updated: 1/5/2023
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Notes: The kickoff to Terry Baucom's great tune Winslow from the album 4th and Goal. Couldn't find it so I had to do it myself. Not going to say it's 100% note-for-note, but it's good enough to get started. I'm not terribly great with TEF, so there might be a few notation mistakes. A huge thanks to everyone on Banjo Hangout that's made my first year playing banjo pretty damn successful.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Kstevensmd, updated: 1/9/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by HSmith, updated: 8/19/2021
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Notes: This is my take on Scott Vestal's second break on the tune 'Wired' from the 'Livewire' album. Although I've listed it as bluegrass and Scruggs style, I feel it's more like jazz, mostly in the single string style. I found it quite challenging to learn and there's a lot of innovative stuff here, plus some odd timing that's very different from bluegrass. This is my first attempt at tabbing a piece in Tabledit, and I've a lot to learn about the product but I hope my tab will give you a feel for the tune. Good luck!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Em Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BTS, updated: 8/16/2016
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Notes: This is my tab for John Hartford's magical song With A Vamp In The Middle. I think it is important to stress that this is one of those tunes where the banjo interacts heavily with the other instruments. Played on it's own as a solo it sounds strange, but in combination with guitar, fiddle and dobro it springs to life.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Cm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by navek55, updated: 11/4/2022 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: My transcription of banjo, guitar, bass and three vocal lines of the full CD track of this great tune - from a great album. See the notes section in the tab.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 10/8/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006 - 4 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by drew-gurbach, updated: 6/18/2011
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Notes: A less complicated up-the-neck version.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stan, updated: 12/31/2009 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Stan Slack
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/19/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Backing Track Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BenGran, updated: 6/21/2018
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Exercises and Licks Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by BenGran, updated: 6/21/2018
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by BenGran, updated: 6/20/2018
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 3/8/2012
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 2/12/2013
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Notes: The first time I heard this song was back in the early 60's when I heard Jim Reeves sing it.. It's a good jam tune.enjoy. L Williams
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by schlange, updated: 2/25/2014
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Notes: For the TOTW: http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/277486, based on Earl's arrangement.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by rossnickerson, updated: 4/23/2019
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A#/Bb Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 8/14/2012 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: In memory of Earl Scruggs, here is one of my favorites of Scruggs's breaks. If you pay attention to the nuances of the right hand patterns, you will see that Scruggs did not approach picking patterns in a formulaic way. He played the melody notes and found rhythm notes to flesh out the melody, without being strictly tied to the rolls that so many of us learned from his recordings.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by bkbgrass, updated: 5/30/2018
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Notes: To play with the tune, I believe the banjo is capoed on the 4th fret.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/11/2006 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Jack Baker, updated: 6/30/2026
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by reformedcellist, updated: 5/24/2016 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by rimn, updated: 9/16/2020
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: E Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stratovarious520, updated: 4/1/2021 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This will open a few doors for playing in the key of E using G tuning. This presents the 1st two breaks in the tune. Enjoy, and comment if you like!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 10/28/2014 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Don Reno Solo
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Hannes Fehringer, updated: 9/30/2010
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Notes: I presume Roger Sprung has used a dropped C-tuning gCGBD, in spite of the fact, that the lowered D-string ist not plucked at all. But even when not played the string rings and gives the tune the special drive.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by rossnickerson, updated: 1/1/2012 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by samdavis, updated: 1/3/2014 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Beginner standard but does require drop thumb in C chord.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/19/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 2/9/2026 - 4 Member Comments
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Notes: Everybody knows this song, and it's fun to play.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/11/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/11/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/22/2016 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Earl Scruggs and Cousin Jake played this ragtime classic as a duet between the banjo and bass fiddle. The first break is similar to the way Earl recorded it, in the Carnegie Hall concert; the second is not.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/11/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/11/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/11/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/11/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/11/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/11/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 6/25/2019
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Notes: Del McCoury recorded Wildwood on his first solo album,, “Del McCoury Sings Bluegrass,” in 1967. The banjo player was the great Bill Emerson, who played the chorus in his break. The break is pretty straightforward, and ends with a fine D lick that can be used in a variety of tunes. You might enjoy comparing Emerson's break on the chorus to Scruggs's breaks on the verse, also posted on BHO.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 6/25/2019
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Notes: Flatt and Scruggs did not do a studio recording of Wildwood, but they did perform it on one of the radio tapes I have. It is a wonderful song, and I’m surprised more bluegrass musicians have not recorded it – the only album I have it on is Del McCoury’s first solo album from 1967, “Del McCoury Sings Bluegrass,” on Smithsonian Folkways. Earl Scruggs played the verse in his breaks, and I have tabbed the two versions I heard him play.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/11/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by RJWMitchell, updated: 9/4/2013
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Notes: Easy 3-finger melodic both low neck and up the neck versions. This is only provided for information only - Buy the MP3, or several, like I did.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Maruko, updated: 5/31/2016 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is the Kick of from the Kentucky Thunder Version. (I think)
So it's probably Jim Mills on the Banjo! ...I like that!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by geckoberry, updated: 1/8/2022
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Notes: This is the solo Tony Rice played with the Bluegrass Album Band for Your Love Is Like A Flower, but it's tabbed out for banjo! It's almost all single string and melodic, and when Tony went lower than the banjo could play, I brought the notes up an octave.
Have fun!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/11/2006
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