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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stigandr5, updated: 4/27/2012
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Notes: My arrangement of TOTW: 4/27/12.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stigandr5, updated: 4/22/2012
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Notes: My arrangement of TOTW: 4/20/2012.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stigandr5, updated: 1/30/2012
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Notes: Based on #358 in "Alawon John Thomas" (ed. Cass Meurig). 18th-century Welsh fiddle tune played on clawhammer 5-string banjo. Enjoy!
Genre: Folk Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by stigandr5, updated: 5/24/2014
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Notes: 2-finger arrangement of TOTW 5/24/14.
Genre: Folk Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stigandr5, updated: 1/30/2013
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Notes: Based on #405 of "Alawon John Thomas" (ed. Cass Meurig). A Welsh tune. Enjoy!
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stigandr5, updated: 1/30/2012
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Notes: Arrangement of a traditional Welsh fiddle tune for clawhammer banjo.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stigandr5, updated: 5/31/2012
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Notes: My arrangement of the TOTW: 5/18/2012.
Genre: Other Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stigandr5, updated: 10/24/2014
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Notes: Taken from "Alawon John Thomas," (ed. Cass Meurig) #312. A Welsh tune of old stock that shares a title with a popular sea chantey. TOTW 10/24/14. Enjoy!
Genre: Folk Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Difficulty: Expert
Posted by stigandr5, updated: 11/25/2012
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Notes: Look at me being all big, brassy and calling one of my own compositions expert-level!
This song came to me during a period of wakefulness in the middle of the night. Enjoy!
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stigandr5, updated: 6/9/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: My arrangement of TOTW 6/8/2012. Enjoy!
Genre: Folk Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by stigandr5, updated: 5/31/2014
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Notes: Arranged for 2-finger index-lead, but would work well as straight clawhammer too.
Genre: Classical Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stigandr5, updated: 1/30/2012
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Notes: An arrangement for clawhammer banjo of a tune found in an 18th century Welsh fiddler's manuscript. This tune is #51 in "Alawon John Thomas," a modern edition of the manuscript. Edited by Dr. Cass Meurig. This tune is most likely John Thomas's interpretation of a minuet written by Jean-Claude Leclair.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stigandr5, updated: 1/30/2012
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Notes: This is an arrangement of #46 "Prussian March" as recorded in "Alawon John Thomas" (ed. Cass Meurig), an edition of an 18th century Welsh fiddler's manuscript.
Genre: Folk Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stigandr5, updated: 3/31/2014
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Notes: Collected from Fletcher Fulk of Clay County, IL. Appear in "Dear Old Illinois."
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stigandr5, updated: 1/29/2013 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Enjoy!
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stigandr5, updated: 2/21/2012
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Notes: SOTW 2/24/12
A Breton folksong and sea-shanty!
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stigandr5, updated: 1/30/2012
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Notes: Traditional Welsh fiddle tune arranged for 5-string banjo.
Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stigandr5, updated: 11/25/2012
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Notes: Arranged by N.A. Wendte for 2-finger playing in gDGAD tuning. Enjoy!
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