Arkansas Traveller Double Banjo

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Size: 1,993kb, uploaded 2/25/2025 11:28:00 AM
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This is a rendition according the settings in John Burke's "Old Time Fiddle Tunes for Banjo". He claims that the last part is a harmony part to the other ones. I tried that out.

Big Sciota

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Size: 7,424kb, uploaded 11/12/2014 6:20:36 AM
Genre: Bluegrass / Playing Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)

This piece was recorded with my Deering Sierra. I bought that banjo from Mr. Lou Boeyens. In his younger days he was ,besides a great musician, a great entertainer. Anyway, once I got used to it, it's a great banjo.

Boating Up Sandy

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Size: 4,355kb, uploaded 3/5/2017 4:13:15 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Boatman

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Size: 2,273kb, uploaded 4/16/2020 2:45:43 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Bonnie Prince Charlie

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Size: 4,772kb, uploaded 10/9/2016 4:34:53 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Bonnie Prince Charlie is the unofficial name for Charles Edward Stuart. He tempted for the British crown, but lost the crucial battle. For the rest of his live he lived in exile in France en Italy. So this is probably a Scottish tune. Adam Hurt made a very nice arrangement.

Briar Picker Brown

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Size: 2,528kb, uploaded 3/27/2020 1:02:56 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Brilliancy

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Size: 2,514kb, uploaded 3/25/2020 9:49:57 AM
Genre: Bluegrass / Playing Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)

Clara's Hornpipe

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Size: 5,526kb, uploaded 1/7/2017 5:54:30 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Got this tune from Youtube , played by Howie Bursen.

Cookhouse Joe

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Size: 1,846kb, uploaded 10/31/2023 8:22:42 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

We started a playing group in the Ward De Beer Music ateljeee in Antwerp Belgium. This is one of the tunes we work on.

Crazy Creek

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Size: 1,326kb, uploaded 12/19/2024 5:49:10 AM
Genre: Bluegrass / Playing Style: Other

Cuckoo's Nest

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Size: 2,158kb, uploaded 9/4/2024 3:47:58 AM
Genre: Traditional / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Hornpipe with an Irish origin.

Cumberland Gap

Posted by jef, written by Scott Nygaard

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Size: 3,976kb, uploaded 12/29/2023 2:13:53 PM
Genre: Folk / Playing Style: Unknown/None Chosen

Cumberland Gap is welknown as fiddle tune in D or a banjo tune in G. This is however quit different. It's a tune from Scott Nygaard in Cminor. I learned the tune at a banjo workshop by Lluiz Gomez.

Deer River

Posted by jef, written by Chris Coole

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Size: 3,259kb, uploaded 7/19/2024 8:52:37 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Chris Coole made this one as an exercise on "rolls".

Devil's Dream/Sailor's Hornpipe

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Size: 2,745kb, uploaded 1/5/2013 12:43:43 PM
Genre: Bluegrass / Playing Style: Other

These tunes are considered to be the very first beginning of melodic banjo. Bill Keith must be nearly eighty by now. Nevertheless we, in Europe, meet him every year at the yearly bluegrassevent in Voorthuizen Holland. As for us he's a living legend. His presence there really means a lot.

Ducks on the millpond

Posted by jef, written by Kyle Creed

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Size: 1,185kb, uploaded 8/12/2024 7:30:31 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Played according to the tab in John Burke's Book of Old Time Fiddle Tunes for Banjo. On YouTube the fiddlers play it on a much faster pace than I do.

Fall of Richmond

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Size: 2,816kb, uploaded 12/31/2012 3:29:45 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Farewell Trion

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Size: 3,120kb, uploaded 3/26/2023 12:48:46 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Fishers Hornpipe

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Size: 5,513kb, uploaded 11/23/2019 12:57:54 PM
Genre: Traditional / Playing Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)

Forked Deer

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Size: 2,305kb, uploaded 6/10/2019 2:41:49 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Hand in Hand

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Size: 3,141kb, uploaded 3/10/2023 1:50:43 PM
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This might be the slowest banjo tune I ever knew. That doesn't mean it's an easy one. I found it on Spotify as a live rendition from Tony Ellis. Brilliant., He brings lots of feeling in every note.