Genre: Folk Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: Am Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by DGriffinEvans, updated: 11/14/2024
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Notes: Gypsy Jazz purist might be appalled, but this is a 5-string banjo version of the song “Tears” (also called “Muri Wachsella an u Sennelo Weesch”) by Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli. This is an old European folk song, but I can’t find much about its history. The arrangement is in Am with Am tuning (a E A C E). Django played it in Cm (which I think is the most mournful key); Chet Atkins and Mark Knopfler, and many others, play it in Am. The bridge changes to the major key.
I did not indicate a playing style because I prefer to play it with some upstrokes, but it can be played entirely with clawhammer strokes.
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