Genre: Folk Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD)
Posted by Jim Yates, updated: 1/24/2011
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Notes: Some blues licks from bluesmen Yank Rachell, Sleepy John Estes and Earl Scruggs
Genre: Folk Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD)
Posted by Jim Yates, updated: 1/24/2011
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Genre: Old Time Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Jim Yates, updated: 1/25/2011
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Notes: This is a tune that I give to beginners for practice on the square (thumb in and out) roll. I learned it from Grampa Jones, but have also heard it done by Jim Kweskin. Google the words.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Jim Yates, updated: 3/18/2013
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Notes: I was inspired to learn this Charlie Poole song by Dean Barber's (FretlessinTexas) playing and singing of the tune.
Genre: Folk Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Jim Yates, updated: 7/16/2014 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is an old familiar tune by Lead Belly. I missed the C measure before the A measure and added it after. Sorry about the inconvenience.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD)
Posted by Jim Yates, updated: 1/23/2011
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Notes: Another request from one of my students
Genre: Country Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Jim Yates, updated: 9/3/2012
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Notes: I hope this is readable. I just wrote it out and photographed the tab on the kitchen table. The 5th string doesn't sound too good in the D section against the D chord, so I avoided it. If you want to add it, play it very softly. I'm not sure what 2 keys Johnny used, but it definitely needs a key change of some sort.
The site will only allow me to put one key, but I've given you both G and D.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD)
Posted by Jim Yates, updated: 1/25/2011
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Notes: Learned from Doc Watson's guitar playing
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD)
Posted by Jim Yates, updated: 1/24/2011
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Notes: This should be capo II or tuned up to aDADE in order to play with a fiddle.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD)
Posted by Jim Yates, updated: 1/24/2011
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Notes: Here's an Irish tune that I discovered while messing with double C tuning. Usually played in D, so get out your capo. Sometimes attributed to O'Carolin and sometimes to P.D.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD)
Posted by Jim Yates, updated: 1/24/2011
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Notes: Two tunes often played by Don Messer and learned from a book of his favourite fiddle tunes.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD)
Posted by Jim Yates, updated: 1/24/2011
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Notes: Laudenum Bunches / The Perfect Cure - Two English Jigs learned from Robin Williams' Oak publication English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh Fiddle Tunes. While these are played 3-finger style, it isn't really Scruggs-style, more melodic.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Unknown/None Chosen
Posted by Jim Yates, updated: 1/24/2011
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Notes: Laudenum Bunches / The Perfect Cure - The chords change very quickly in these jigs, so I've put them in a separate post to avoid cluttering the tab.
Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD)
Posted by Jim Yates, updated: 1/24/2011
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Notes: Learned from Norman Blake's first solo album Home In Sulpher Springs. Norman and Tut Taylor play it as a guitar/Dobro duet. Norman says,"Probably an old Scotch (sic) tune." I've included a harmony line inspired by Tut Taylor's Dobro.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD)
Posted by Jim Yates, updated: 1/24/2011
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Notes: This is a sample of what I might play behind a melody instrument.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD)
Posted by Jim Yates, updated: 1/25/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This old hymn was written by Port Hope resident Joseph Scriven. They recently refurbished the monument to him in the town park and had a Joseph Scriven Day celebration. Our jug bandwas invited to play one song, but since George Hamilton IV got dibbs on this song, we did Denomination Blues.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD)
Posted by Jim Yates, updated: 1/23/2011
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Notes: This is a sample of what I play behind the fiddle or vocal.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD)
Posted by Jim Yates, updated: 1/25/2011 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Tabbed at the request of one of my students. There are two versions here. I forget why I put the asterix in there, but it probably indicates that these two lines are almost the same thing, just found at different places on the fingerboard.
