Is that the version on Live from the Mountain Stage?

I'll be playing/singing Lorena at a historical reenactment next month but either clawhammer or more likely two-finger thumb lead. But I am curious as to what you mean by "arrangement?" The picking pattern? How the song is laid out verse to verse? Or something else? banjered

The Osborne Brothers did a version of it on the album When the Roses Bloom in Dixieland that could give you some fine ideas directly from Sonny Osborne. Also, The Seldom Scene recorded an instrumental version a couple of times. Check on YouTube and you can find their version which may be some help although there is no banjo break on either version I found.

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Originally posted by banjered

I'll be playing/singing Lorena at a historical reenactment next month but either clawhammer or more likely two-finger thumb lead. But I am curious as to what you mean by "arrangement?" The picking pattern? How the song is laid out verse to verse? Or something else? banjered

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Sorry, I meant break. Such as the banjo arrangement played that follows the structure of the melody before the verse begins. 

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Originally posted by Nopix

Is that the version on Live from the Mountain Stage?

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Yes, such as here: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gg3qB3ca3k&list=PLKdQA-R5uwjv71KQbTwmDWX8rZyiPHv9D&index=2

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Originally posted by Culloden

The Osborne Brothers did a version of it on the album When the Roses Bloom in Dixieland that could give you some fine ideas directly from Sonny Osborne. Also, The Seldom Scene recorded an instrumental version a couple of times. Check on YouTube and you can find their version which may be some help although there is no banjo break on either version I found.

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Osborne Brothers version sounds promising, although I couldn't hear a banjo part to the Seldon Scene's recording. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NqlqWiyZ3c&list=PLCh-OyD1wso0ga46cUPH9CRPQIBbTO8iL&index=2

I play and sing Lorena. I don't do tab, so I can't help you there. However, it's a fairly easy song to learn. Figure out the melody on the banjo and the add frills that make it sound like bluegrass. As long as the melody is at the forefront, then the filler notes can be nearly anything that fits the chord structure.

some help

Thank you for your responses. I like your arrangement, Rick. Always good advice Sherry.

I guess one of my main dislikes of the John Hartford version is that his break doesn't modulate to the minor key after the first half of the verse. It just goes plugging away in the major key. I'll noodle with it though, in relation to the melody.

Lorena works well out of G in G tuning but also out of the key of C also in G tuning, if that helps. banjered