Amazing Grace

Posted by WayneConrad, written by John Newton

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- Play count: 200

Size: 918kb, uploaded 1/6/2013 9:20:07 AM
Genre: Traditional / Playing Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)

Amazing Grace, arranged by Rick McKeon.

Amazing Grace

Posted by WayneConrad, written by John Newton

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- Play count: 49

Size: 3,535kb, uploaded 6/2/2019 7:29:01 PM
Genre: Traditional / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Based on Rick McKeon's three-finger arrangement, and very similar to it, but played here in clawhammer style (with some pinches stolen from Rick's arrangement). Played on a cheap practice banjo, poorly. Open G tuning.

Backyard Music banjo with cake pan resonator

Posted by WayneConrad

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- Play count: 72

Size: 431kb, uploaded 6/10/2017 5:49:12 PM
Genre: Traditional / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Trying the Backyard Music banjo with a cake pan "resonator." Recorded using a Sony PCM-M10 with AGC disabled. The tune being played is "I wish I Was a Mole in the Ground," which is traditional.

Backyard Music banjo without cake pan resonator

Posted by WayneConrad

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- Play count: 45

Size: 426kb, uploaded 6/10/2017 5:50:24 PM
Genre: Traditional / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Backyard Music banjo without cake pan "resonator". Recording at the same gain and same geometry as the "with" recording.

Danville Girl

Posted by WayneConrad

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- Play count: 212

Size: 4,238kb, uploaded 7/28/2017 6:36:43 AM
Genre: Traditional / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

After Dock Boggs. Three-finger thumb lead. Played on Backyard Music short-scale fretless. f#DGAD, capo 5th.

I Truly Understand

Posted by WayneConrad

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- Play count: 137

Size: 3,846kb, uploaded 6/18/2017 10:23:03 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Played in clawhammer style, after the way Jerry Garcia played it--but not nearly as well. The banjo is a Deering Goodtime Parlor (short scale). The player is some old city boy trying to sound like he's from the mountains.

I'll Fly Away

Posted by WayneConrad, written by Albert E. Brumley

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Size: 934kb, uploaded 11/10/2012 10:43:23 AM
Genre: Bluegrass / Playing Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)

Arranged by Rick McKeon Played by a beginner two months after starting the banjo.

Jesus Loves Me

Posted by WayneConrad, written by Bradbury/Warner

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- Play count: 191

Size: 324kb, uploaded 5/31/2015 12:37:48 PM
Genre: Traditional / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

arrangement by Wayne Conrad. Tab: http://www.banjohangout.org/tab/browse.asp?m=detail&v=21370

Little Birdie

Posted by WayneConrad

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Size: 4,973kb, uploaded 8/28/2017 6:53:33 AM
Genre: Traditional / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

After Chance McCoy and the Appalachian String Band. Birdie tuning, capo 3.

Mister Rabbit, Mister Rabbit

Posted by WayneConrad

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Size: 3,537kb, uploaded 12/5/2017 6:10:20 AM
Genre: Folk / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Traditional. I heard this on Pete Seeger's "Birds, Beasts, Bugs & Fishes Little & Big." I stole a lick from him, and my verses are largely the same. Otherwise, it is my arrangement.

Red River Valley

Posted by WayneConrad

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- Play count: 161

Size: 1,194kb, uploaded 11/10/2014 5:59:07 AM
Genre: Traditional / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Red River Valley, clawhammer style. Arrangement by Richard Hefnor. Tab at https://drive.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=http://ezfolk.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/chb-Red-River-Valley-3.pdf

Red Rocking Chair

Posted by WayneConrad

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Size: 3,489kb, uploaded 7/27/2017 6:45:19 AM
Genre: Traditional / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Traditional.

Red Wing

Posted by WayneConrad, written by Music by Kerry Mills, Lyrics by Thurland Chattaway

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- Play count: 558

Size: 782kb, uploaded 2/28/2014 6:09:25 PM
Genre: Traditional / Playing Style: Exercises and Licks

Arrangement from "Clawhammer Style Banjo" by Ken Perlman. First recording since the banjo was gone over by Billy at B&B Guitars. Stripped screw fixed, head tightened, frets leveled, zero-fret installed. It sounds _great_ and plays much easier now. Thanks, Billy. Recorded with a SONY PCM-M10, which sounds much better than the broken sound card I was using before.

Rock-a-Bye Baby

Posted by WayneConrad, written by Traditional

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- Play count: 96

Size: 751kb, uploaded 7/11/2015 10:11:45 AM
Genre: Traditional / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Rock-A-Bye Baby. Played with capo on fifth fret. Tab is at http://www.banjohangout.org/tab/browse.asp?m=detail&v=21403

Six over Four polyrhythm

Written/Posted by WayneConrad

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- Play count: 50

Size: 718kb, uploaded 2/22/2019 5:00:57 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen / Playing Style: Exercises and Licks

Six over four polyrhythm that's my homework for this week

Teddy Bear's Picnic

Posted by WayneConrad, written by John Walter Bratton and Jimmy Kennedy

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- Play count: 216

Size: 3,413kb, uploaded 11/16/2017 6:37:55 AM
Genre: Jazz / Playing Style: Other

After the marvelous version done by Garcia and Grissman on "Not for Kids Only". 5-string banjo, but just strummed and no fifth string used.

The Miller's Will

Posted by WayneConrad

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- Play count: 232

Size: 3,384kb, uploaded 7/18/2017 6:33:57 AM
Genre: Folk / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

The Riddle Song

Posted by WayneConrad

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- Play count: 92

Size: 733kb, uploaded 1/9/2014 2:56:56 PM
Genre: Traditional / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

The Riddle Song, performed by a beginner.

This Little Light of Mine

Posted by WayneConrad, written by Harry Dixon Loes

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- Play count: 229

Size: 3,514kb, uploaded 11/10/2017 5:09:32 AM
Genre: Folk / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

clawhammer, double-C tuning with capo on 2nd fret

Why, Oh Why

Posted by WayneConrad, written by Woodie Guthrie

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Size: 3,904kb, uploaded 4/17/2018 4:50:39 AM
Genre: Folk / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

One of Woodie Guthrie's wonderful children's songs. Played in double-C on a Goodtime Parlor, in the garage, in the middle of the night during a bout of insomnia.