Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ndlxs, updated: 7/20/2020
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Notes: Updated from my older tab; this is my best guess at how Murphy Gribble played it in his unique 3 finger style.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ndlxs, updated: 10/16/2020
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Notes: Three Irish polkas, from the playing of Tommy Thompson and the Red Clay Ramblers on "Stolen Love".
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ndlxs, updated: 3/25/2022
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Notes: Clawhammer Tune of the Week for March 25, 2022
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ndlxs, updated: 12/3/2021
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Notes: from Lonesome Ace String Band, it is an unusual version of Billy in the Lowland.
Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Am Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ndlxs, updated: 12/21/2018
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Notes: Tune is in gDGGD tuning, capo'ed at the second fret.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ndlxs, updated: 2/18/2021
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Notes: This tab is an approximation of the two finger style played by Lee Sexton. The tuning is Cumberland Gap tuning, a variant of Sawmill tuning with the fifth string tuned down:
fDGCD or GEADE if a capo is placed at the 2nd fret
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Am Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ndlxs, updated: 12/21/2018
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Notes: in gDGGD tuning, capo'ed at the second fret. 2nd and 3rd string are the same note.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by ndlxs, updated: 6/28/2019 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Based on Rick Good's version of Omer Forester's masterpiece.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Dm Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ndlxs, updated: 12/1/2015 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This song commemorates the Easter Rising of 1916, which ultimately resulted in the Irish Free State. I play on 5 string banjo, clawhammer style, in a aCGCD tuning.
The video of me playing this can be heard here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rvcC43XeZg
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Am Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ndlxs, updated: 2/24/2023
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Notes: Two French-traditional style tunes for clawhammer banjo that are hypnotic and rhythmic.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ndlxs, updated: 10/15/2021
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Notes: Stephen Foster melody of his song Nelly Bly, also used for gold miner song Miss Ella. See clawhammer tune of the week October 15, 2021.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ndlxs, updated: 4/23/2020
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Notes: From "Dear Old Illinois - Traditional Music from Downstate Illinois", page 295, as collected by Garry Harrison from Cliff Pulliam of Latona, Illinois.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by ndlxs, updated: 5/31/2019
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Notes: Clawhammer version!
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ndlxs, updated: 11/18/2022
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Notes: Tune written in 1974 by Curtis Carlisle Bouterse.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ndlxs, updated: 5/27/2021
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Notes: From a recording by Green Berry Horton on the LP set "I'm Old But I'm Awfully Tough". Google the title to hear the source recording and my improv on this tune.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ndlxs, updated: 8/16/2018
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Notes: Arranged by Andrew Alexis; first part is traditional, the second part I wrote.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ndlxs, updated: 2/18/2021
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Notes: This tab is an approximation of the two finger style played by Lee Sexton. Despite what the library says, the tuning is Cumberland Gap tuning: fDGCD, or GEADE if the capo is placed at the 2nd fret and the fifth string is raised.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ndlxs, updated: 1/4/2020
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Notes: Arrangement by Andrew Alexis
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD)
Posted by ndlxs, updated: 6/24/2022
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Notes: Arrangement of fiddle tune "Wild Goose" by Andrew Alexis; learned from a recording of Uncle Dave Sturgill and the Skyland Strings.
