Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Bm Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JLouis Thiry, updated: 10/10/2017 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Tuning is f#DGBD to play in Bm
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Am Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JLouis Thiry, updated: 1/23/2020
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Bm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JLouis Thiry, updated: 3/23/2020
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JLouis Thiry, updated: 1/23/2020
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Notes: Another one by the famous Carolan, not really a folk piece but not really a classical one, neither. The style is not pure clawhammer, rather something like "clawpick" would be a better name as I use my index finger like a pick to get notes sequences clearer and so I can use my thumb on upbeats more easily. If that explanation's not the clearer, sure it is the shorter.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JLouis Thiry, updated: 1/19/2020
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Notes: A beautiful harp tune by O’Carolan. May be a bit tricky at first sight, especially where the RH fingering is mentionned.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JLouis Thiry, updated: 10/26/2018
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Gm Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JLouis Thiry, updated: 3/25/2023
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Am Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JLouis Thiry, updated: 4/16/2017
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Genre: Folk Style: Exercises and Licks Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by JLouis Thiry, updated: 12/5/2020
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Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JLouis Thiry, updated: 11/2/2022
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Difficulty: Expert
Posted by JLouis Thiry, updated: 4/16/2017
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Notes: Probably from Altan
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JLouis Thiry, updated: 4/17/2021
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Notes: Everybody loves Steve Earle's "Galway Girl", good verses, very good chorus and now a fine banjo solo based on Sharon Shannon's intrumental. The tune itself is not difficult. Most of ornementations I usually add are left, you can add yours. The only difficulty is stepping between 5th and 12th positions and back. Enjoy and if you like it, let me know.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JLouis Thiry, updated: 10/11/2017
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Notes: O’Neill #152
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JLouis Thiry, updated: 10/11/2017
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Notes: Jackson’s Morning Brush (D)
Jackson’s Bottle of Brandy (G)
Jackson’s cravat (G)
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JLouis Thiry, updated: 12/22/2018
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Notes: From the playing of Northumbrian piper Pauline Cato
Genre: Other Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Bm Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JLouis Thiry, updated: 1/23/2020
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Notes: Mædieval dance and drinking song.
f#DGBD tuning which I call “Tourdion Tuning”, my favorite and most melodious above all. This is an excerpt from my banjo book "Jiggin’ Banjo, une sélection de Morceaux Ternaires & Syncopés”.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Expert
Posted by JLouis Thiry, updated: 2/26/2020
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Notes: Written in D Major, this quadrille (jig) is played in fact in A mixolydian (no G#) played on aDGBD tuning without a capo. If someone has a nice chord progression to propose, I'll be glad to add it.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JLouis Thiry, updated: 4/16/2017
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JLouis Thiry, updated: 4/16/2017
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Notes: From an album by The Boys Of The Lough
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JLouis Thiry, updated: 4/16/2017
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Notes: From Christy Moore's group "Moving Hearts" and later covered by Canadian group "Leahy"
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JLouis Thiry, updated: 10/12/2017
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JLouis Thiry, updated: 1/23/2020
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JLouis Thiry, updated: 12/7/2018
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JLouis Thiry, updated: 5/24/2019 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Another setting of the famous Morrison's Jig. excerpt from from a tunebook yet to come: "JIGGIN’ BANJO”, dealing with non-conventional music from irish jig to ragtime in the clawhammer style
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Minstrel (Stroke Style) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by JLouis Thiry, updated: 1/30/2023
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JLouis Thiry, updated: 12/22/2018
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Notes: A timeless song. Here are two D versions of the song "Old Joe Clark". Often considered a beginner banjo tune, after many years there are still many possibilities for variations. The first version is a simple and more or less faithful adaptation of the melody that can be found in Miles Krassen's "Appalachian Fiddle". In the second the melody is a syncopated personal adaptation accentuating the mixolydian color of the tune.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JLouis Thiry, updated: 8/10/2019
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Notes: Two tabs in one ! one with a bare banjo arrangement, a second one with triplet ornaments
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JLouis Thiry, updated: 3/16/2023
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Notes: Celebrate Saint Patrick's Day 2023
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Gm Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by JLouis Thiry, updated: 3/8/2018 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: A curious and dark funeral march where the last beat of most bars is silent. Rarely heard in sessions.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JLouis Thiry, updated: 3/22/2015 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: A last one to close St Patrick's Day week as Ireland win Six Nations title.
Not much 5th string in this crooked jig with its 14 measures B-part and really fun to play.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JLouis Thiry, updated: 4/16/2017
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Notes: From The Bothy Band
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by JLouis Thiry, updated: 8/4/2021
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Notes: Not really a hornpipe, not the structure of a rag, maybe a rustic dance probably of Northumbrian origin. Good for Morris dancing. Good for "dots and triplets" players but may be a bit difficult as it requires lot of hard work from right hand, enjoy…
Listen to my playing here.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Am Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JLouis Thiry, updated: 3/22/2023
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Notes: An untitled reel by Altan with a strong oldtimey flavor with reminiscences of a canadian song. First part in Am, 2nd in AM
Genre: Other Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JLouis Thiry, updated: 1/19/2020 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: A cajun waltz
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JLouis Thiry, updated: 12/22/2018
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Notes: AKA "The Cliff Hornpipe" adapted in the clawhammer style from three fingers playing of Pat Cloud - Banjo Newsletter / jn 1978
Genre: Popular Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JLouis Thiry, updated: 3/14/2020
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