"Parker's" Old Time Jig

Posted by Joel Hooks, written by John Parker

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- Play count: 129

Size: 1,039kb, uploaded 5/6/2025 6:29:12 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Classic

Banjo solo played from original A notation sheet music

A Little Bit Of Everything

Posted by Joel Hooks, written by Vess L. Ossman

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- Play count: 772

Size: 2,802kb, uploaded 2/19/2011 8:29:27 AM
Genre: Ragtime / Playing Style: Classical

Nothing is new with the banjo!

Auld Lang Syne.

Posted by Joel Hooks

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- Play count: 692

Size: 1,625kb, uploaded 12/30/2007 6:02:22 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

From The Howard Banjo Instructor, 1903.

Bell Jig

Posted by Joel Hooks

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- Play count: 390

Size: 1,764kb, uploaded 10/2/2008 7:45:32 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

For the experiment. Stroke style, Briggs' tuning.

Dance of the Shadows

Posted by Joel Hooks, written by Bill Bowen

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- Play count: 137

Size: 2,757kb, uploaded 11/24/2016 7:18:58 AM
Genre: Popular / Playing Style: Classic

Darktown Dandies

Posted by Joel Hooks, written by Joe Morley

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- Play count: 383

Size: 3,167kb, uploaded 10/21/2018 4:52:51 PM
Genre: Ragtime / Playing Style: Classic

Composed by Joe Morley for 5 String Banjo. Played to demo Gariepy Van Eps "flush fret" banjo.

Funeral March 1865

Posted by Joel Hooks

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Size: 2,821kb, uploaded 4/1/2008 7:33:31 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

From Frank Converse's Banjo Method 1865

Indian Summer

Posted by Joel Hooks, written by Neil Moret

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Size: 1,829kb, uploaded 4/2/2016 6:26:37 AM
Genre: Popular / Playing Style: Classic

Fred Van Eps

Jo-Jazz Rag

Posted by Joel Hooks, written by Thomas Armstrong

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- Play count: 167

Size: 3,778kb, uploaded 9/21/2019 6:20:12 PM
Genre: Ragtime / Playing Style: Classic

This is a crude sight-reading of a piece in the EZ Banjo Method for demonstration on a discussion of a banjo accessory of the same name.

Jolly Darkies

Posted by Joel Hooks, written by Alex Magee

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Size: 5,182kb, uploaded 10/3/2015 7:00:58 PM
Genre: Popular / Playing Style: Classic

Classic banjo recording of a piece written by Brooks & Denton in the 1880s

Maple Leaf Rag

Posted by Joel Hooks, written by Scott Joplin

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Size: 3,147kb, uploaded 7/9/2016 8:45:08 AM
Genre: Ragtime / Playing Style: Classic

Played by Fred Van Eps

Marmion Schottische

Posted by Joel Hooks

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Size: 2,194kb, uploaded 11/16/2007 11:19:47 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Classic Style on SS-10 with nylgut strings. Song from Clarke Buehling.

Mary Polka Duet.

Posted by Joel Hooks

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Size: 2,041kb, uploaded 12/17/2007 7:45:15 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

George C. Dobson. This came from Clarke Buehling's

Money Musk

Posted by Joel Hooks

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- Play count: 890

Size: 3,128kb, uploaded 11/6/2007 6:01:54 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

New-York March.

Posted by Joel Hooks

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- Play count: 389

Size: 1,783kb, uploaded 12/30/2007 6:04:36 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

From Frank B. Converse 1865.

Nola

Posted by Joel Hooks, written by Felix Arndt

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Size: 3,586kb, uploaded 9/15/2016 6:10:48 AM
Genre: Popular / Playing Style: Classic

Played by Fred Van Eps (banjo) and Robert Van Eps (piano). FVE is playing "classic" style, bare fingers with nylon strings on a banjo of his own make.

Old Eph's Polka.

Posted by Joel Hooks

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- Play count: 710

Size: 1,937kb, uploaded 9/20/2008 8:24:51 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Tune of the Week for 9.21.08.

Paganini Caprice

Posted by Joel Hooks, written by Niccolo Paganini

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- Play count: 172

Size: 2,176kb, uploaded 6/29/2019 8:45:29 AM
Genre: Classical / Playing Style: Classic

Alfred Farland

Ramshackle Rag

Posted by Joel Hooks

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- Play count: 144

Size: 2,390kb, uploaded 4/2/2016 6:27:41 AM
Genre: Ragtime / Playing Style: Classic

Fred Van Eps

Serenade

Posted by Joel Hooks, written by A. A. Farland

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- Play count: 767

Size: 3,951kb, uploaded 9/10/2015 5:50:53 PM
Genre: Classical / Playing Style: Classic

Tremolo playing by Alfred A Farland. Finger style on gut strings.