Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by howsy-bee, updated: 1/4/2020 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: 3 breaks in 2 registers.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by howsy-bee, updated: 2/15/2019 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Low and high break.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by howsy-bee, updated: 4/3/2023
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Notes: A mix of low and high passages. Tab of my banjo break on the Bluegrass Coalition video project, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar1yDjqpTXQ
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by howsy-bee, updated: 4/18/2018
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Notes: After some considerations, I undid the changes after the bass break, and left the others.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by howsy-bee, updated: 9/21/2018 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Almost note-for-note transcription of the video I recently posted: https://www.banjohangout.org/myhangout/videos.asp?m=d&catID=0&id=33898
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by howsy-bee, updated: 7/4/2018 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by howsy-bee, updated: 9/1/2016 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: From Bill's recording with Muleskinner, 1973. While being quite a short break, it's filled with "Keith signature licks".
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: F Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by howsy-bee, updated: 3/5/2022 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Bill Keith's two breaks on Red Allen, Frank Wakefield and the Kentuckians' 1964 Smithsonian Folkways recording.
Tuning: aDGBD; Capo: 3; 5th string capo: 8
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by howsy-bee, updated: 6/14/2016 - 3 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by howsy-bee, updated: 11/9/2019
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Notes: After playing Fisher's hornpipe out of G with capo at 7 for years, I decided to arrange it for open G, 5th string capoed at 7 with the possibility to play both a high and a low break.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by howsy-bee, updated: 2/8/2018
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Notes: www.banjo-tabs.com
Genre: Country Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Expert
Posted by howsy-bee, updated: 4/27/2022 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Tabledit version of Bennett Sullivan's banjo transcription (https://www.tunefox.com/blog/app/gentle-on-my-mind-buddy-emmons-pedal-steel-solo-for-banjo/) of Buddy Emmons' ingenious pedal steel break on John Hartford's original recording (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbZHIoaapmE from 3:30).
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by howsy-bee, updated: 8/11/2019 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: A melodic yet relatively easy version in 3-finger picking.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by howsy-bee, updated: 11/5/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Tab for the video in the media archive.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by howsy-bee, updated: 8/30/2021 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: (Fairly) accurate transcription off Jimmy Arnold's "Riding With Ol' Mosby" album, with thanks to Greg Crisp.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by howsy-bee, updated: 4/20/2019 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by howsy-bee, updated: 2/14/2021 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Bill Keith's high break on Should we tell him? from Banjoistics, 1984, typical for Bill's integration of melodic into Scruggs style, which can only be termed 'Keith style', although that was the initial name for purely melodic style.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: E Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by howsy-bee, updated: 1/1/2021
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Notes: One of Ben Freed's wonderful compositions! The tuning is eDGBD, key of E.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A#/Bb Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by howsy-bee, updated: 10/1/2019 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Low and high break.
