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!
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006
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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: 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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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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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: 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.
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