Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by KI4PRK, updated: 2/15/2010 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Dock Boggs' "Cumberland Gap". There are two tabs here, the first is from his Folkways recordings, and the second is from "Dock Boggs Recordings From Reed Martin", on Field Recorders Collective. The first is a spry, very well played version with lots of energy and is Dock's unique three-finger style at it's best. The second is much slower, and can almost be played with two fingers, and is much easier. Tuning is "Cumberland Gap" D-tuning, f#BEAD.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Tom Berghan, updated: 7/16/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum) Key: G Tuning: Tenor G (DGdg) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Mirek Tim Patek, updated: 2/24/2011
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G
Posted by Yigal Zan, updated: 7/28/2011
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Notes: A-modal, capo at 2nd fret, 5th=g, gEADE
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jbs325is, updated: 3/11/2012
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Notes: Get the Backing Track, MP3 and Chord Chart at LaynePublications.com.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Treetops, updated: 8/19/2012
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Notes: Played tuned to f#BEAD from the playing of Stella Kimble
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by carlb, updated: 9/24/2012
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Notes: These three tabs are in different keys and different tunings.
Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjukebox, updated: 4/17/2014
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Notes: Capo up two to get to the Double D tuning.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Evangeline07, updated: 11/5/2014
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Notes: This is one of the more advanced intermediate tabs I learned a year or so ago. Great arrangement
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by HOWDYDOODY, updated: 12/16/2016
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by rossnickerson, updated: 5/5/2019
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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: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Bill H, updated: 11/6/2022
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by littleton, updated: 5/11/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 6/12/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 6/13/2021
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Notes: Don Reno
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by seanray, updated: 1/17/2026
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Notes: Backup Tab for "The Session Book" - seanray.com
Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by trick420, updated: 1/21/2011
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Notes: This is transcribed from Kyle Creed's version on Clawhammer Banjo Volume 1.
Tuning is gCFBbEb. Creed either capos to the first fret or tunes up to g#C#F#BE though.
Enjoy!
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 10/19/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Jack Baker, updated: 9/8/2026
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Difficulty: Expert
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 6/14/2024 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 11/5/2022
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Notes: Here are some variations of Cumberland Gap, played in two-finger thumb lead style, and in fDGCD tuning. (I use to capo on second fret to play in G.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 8/21/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by 5-String, updated: 6/20/2022 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: This is my interpretation of how Earl Scruggs played this tune on the "Foggy Mountain Banjo" album. All lead breaks and backup are included. The tab is written such that you can follow along with the recording. Chords are notional, i.e. not necessarily exactly what the banjo is playing at any given moment, but what I think the basic chords are for the general tune, for each bar. Adjust settings so that chords are displayed as letter names only, tab is displayed at 4 bars per line, and view is scaled to 16th notes. The first few blank measures are there to maintain the chord & bar patterns (4 bars per phrase) such that each phrase starts at the beginning of a line.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 6/25/2023
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Notes: I learned this from Larry Edelman, who learned it from the Canote Brothers. Accordingly, Sophie (a Portland OR-based fiddler/violinist) composed this in F, but the Canote Brothers transposed it to G.
A video of me playing this rendition is posted on my YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/pRhas3v6dlM
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