Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Other Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 8/19/2012
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: E Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dskeigley, updated: 10/16/2014
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006
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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: Beginner
Posted by KidfromDeliverance, updated: 4/3/2016
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Notes: Thanks to Tom Adams for his help on this great tune from Vern Williams.
Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by tfaux, updated: 5/11/2014
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Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by tfaux, updated: 4/13/2021
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Notes: Traditional crooked tune from Québec, learned from fiddler Guy Bouchard and adapted to clawhammer.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G
Posted by Yigal Zan, updated: 11/26/2010
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Notes: Tuning: gDADE
Genre: Other Style: Other Tuning: Chicago (DGBE) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by cb56, updated: 3/12/2018
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD)
Posted by Yigal Zan, updated: 9/2/2011
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Notes: Double-D, capo at 2nd fret, aDADE
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Stephen Rapp, updated: 9/15/2022
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by chuckv97, updated: 3/16/2020
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Notes: Fairly straightforward Scruggs picking based somewhat on Ben Eldridge’s version. Capo 2 , spike 5th string at the 7th fret. Here is a video of me playing it. https://youtu.be/SYbDU8UbAe8
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Other Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by smitchinson, updated: 10/14/2014 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: A beautiful traditional Irish session tune. Played with triplets and melodic style. Great triplet practice tune.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD)
Posted by patmcg1960, updated: 11/11/2009 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: My first venture into writing.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jorta, updated: 6/17/2012
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Notes: Based upon Norm Edmunds version: http://slippery-hill.com/M-K/AEAE/Callahan-Edmonds.mp3. This is crooked and I don't know how to represent that in Tab - so where I hear the extra notes, I've added a note in the tab. Just play right through that and it should work out. Capo or tune to A.
Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/22/2006
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Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/22/2006
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Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/22/2006
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Genre: Ragtime Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: F Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Greg Gilbert, updated: 1/26/2021
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dbrooks, updated: 3/22/2023
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Notes: This is tab for the banjo backup to the vocal for "Calvary" by Mandolin Orange based on this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-BbgZvkcDA To match the key in the video put your banjo in double-C and capo to the 3rd fret. Tab for banjo introduction is posted separately.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dbrooks, updated: 3/22/2023
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Notes: This is the banjo intro for "Calvary" by Mandolin Orange based on this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-BbgZvkcDA
To match the key in the video put your banjo in double-C and capo to the 3rd fret. Tab for banjo backup for the vocal is posted separately.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD)
Posted by Yigal Zan, updated: 2/24/2016
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Notes: Double-D, capo at 2nd fret, 5th=a, aDADE
Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Bill H, updated: 2/16/2025
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Notes: aDADE or double C tuning, capo 2
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by littleton, updated: 5/11/2024
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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: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 11/17/2022
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Notes: This is usually played in D, but the tab (and video) is in Double C, so just capo 2 to be in D. Note: the tuning is Double C with the 5th string pitched down to an E (the "Half Shaved" tuning if in Double D). A video of me playing this rendition is posted on my YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/-GedrH7zbCk
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Jo Ban, updated: 4/17/2015 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Sawmill tuning (capo 2)
Genre: Old Time Style: Minstrel (Stroke Style) Key: G Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ManfredK, updated: 12/10/2016
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Notes: From the Briggs' Banjo Instructor, 1855
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A#/Bb Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by stan, updated: 7/23/2012 - 3 Member Comments
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by carlb, updated: 6/4/2013
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Notes: Capo 2. The Stephen Foster song.
Genre: Traditional Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 12/22/2016
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Notes: This is a simple tune geared more for beginner to intermediate players
Have fun with it............................Lynn
Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by littleton, updated: 3/5/2017
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Notes: A VERY easy version
Genre: Folk Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by littleton, updated: 4/7/2021
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Genre: Popular Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by the banjophile, updated: 5/25/2016
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/22/2006
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Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/22/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D
Posted by Yigal Zan, updated: 6/2/2012
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Notes: Double-D, capo at 2nd fret, 5th=a, aDADE
Genre: Ragtime Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 2/11/2018 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Here is a three-finger tab of rev. Gary Davis' Candy Man
Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/22/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/22/2006
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Genre: Classical Style: Unknown/None Chosen Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Deo, updated: 4/2/2014
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Notes: Not tab but score. I have no idea how he plays it.
By Edgar Meyer and Béla Fleck. From the Album Music for Two.
Took me a few days but it was worth it! Let me know what you think.
Cheers!
Genre: Other Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Dm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by OvrTheTop, updated: 9/4/2024
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Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Ben Asher, updated: 8/1/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Double C tuning, with a capo on the second fret, and the 5th string tuned to a (aDADE). Tune I wrote about one of my great-great-grandfathers, who was a whaler out of New Bedford and Nantucket. Give it a try, let me know what you think!
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by wesmont, updated: 9/20/2015
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Notes: A great Ballad that creates a melancholic atmosphere. It's just the melody with chord symbols
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006 - 4 Member Comments
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Genre: Jazz Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Cm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Stu D Baker-Hawk, updated: 11/27/2014 - 3 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Cm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 3/8/2016 - 6 Member Comments
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Notes: In memory of Bill Keith, whose recording of Duke Ellington’s Caravan on his 1976 album “Something Auld, Something Newgrass” introduced the tune to the world of bluegrass banjo and gob-smacked me when I first heard it. The tab is based on Keith’s arrangement, and it is mostly the way I have played Caravan for the last few decades. It is not a note-for-note copy of Keith’s version, but I did include a number of his nifty ideas, or at least my interpretation of them, that are worth examining. Note that in live performance Keith would start the tune with some appropriate noodling, and I have included a fragment in the tab. Note also that the Intro includes the banjo’s alternating between G7 and Ab Dim, whereas the backing instruments alternated between G7 and Ab7 throughout Part A of the tune. Finally, in his Outro to the tune Keith used a Keith tuner on the 4th string to go from D to C. If you don’t have a Keith tuner on your 4th string, you can just end it with a C note on the 2nd string 1st fret.
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 11/9/2010
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Notes: My arrangement of this traditional folk song, which has been recorded by pickers as diverse as Pete Seeger and Earl Scruggs. The first and third breaks should be played slowly, in the chordal style employing triplets, and you will probably need to employ the MIDI function on TablEdit to hear what they should sound like, because they way they look in tablature does not resemble how they sound. I like to play the second break at a faster tempo, and the contrast between the slow and fast breaks makes a more interesting arrangement, I think. The tablature shows the arrangement in drop C tuning, although it could be played just as easily in standard G tuning.
Genre: Other Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Gm Tuning: Open Gm (gDGBbD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by sadovsky, updated: 12/27/2011 - 4 Member Comments
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Genre: Classical Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Gm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BanjoBoy88, updated: 6/17/2024
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Notes: Transcribed from the original 4-part choral arrangement so that the four parts are now played by ukulele, mandolin, banjo, and guitar.
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Bm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JLouis Thiry, updated: 3/23/2020
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Tom Hanway, updated: 6/30/2014
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Notes: Similar to the rendition on my recording for Complete Book of Irish & Celtic 5-String Banjo, and in my BHO Music Files. Note fretting-hand fingerings: index (i), middle (m), ring (r), and pinky (p) fingers. I could have used (l) for little finger, but it looks too much like the "i" for index, so I opted for "p" (pinky).
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JanetB, updated: 1/29/2017
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Notes: Turlough O'Carolan (1670 - 1738) returned to the home of his youth when he was close to death. He played this tune to a tearful patroness, Mrs. Mary MacDermott Roe.
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JLouis Thiry, updated: 1/23/2020
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Notes: Another one by the famous Carolan, not really a folk piece but not really a classical one, neither. The style is not pure clawhammer, rather something like "clawpick" would be a better name as I use my index finger like a pick to get notes sequences clearer and so I can use my thumb on upbeats more easily. If that explanation's not the clearer, sure it is the shorter.
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JLouis Thiry, updated: 1/19/2020
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Notes: A beautiful harp tune by O’Carolan. May be a bit tricky at first sight, especially where the RH fingering is mentionned.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JanetB, updated: 9/13/2018
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Notes: One of Turlough O'Carolan's great compositions with a funny story. It honors Dr. John Stafford who prescribed O'Carolan whiskey for depression after another doctor prescribed him to not drink whiskey for his ailments.
Key: A#/Bb
Posted by crawdad, updated: 2/2/2010 - 5 Member Comments
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Genre: Ragtime Style: Classical Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by trapdoor2, updated: 11/27/2011
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Notes: TAB from original 19-teens banjo arrangement.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Gilles Rezard, updated: 12/6/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/22/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/17/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by James Stiltner, updated: 1/22/2013
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Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/22/2006
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Genre: Rock Style: Other Key: Am Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 8/29/2014
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Notes: an example of a raw midi input to tabled it from Guitarpro with no tweaks to make it more banjoistic for thread
http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/290503/
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Expert
Posted by BanjoSerge, updated: 3/31/2014 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is Bobby Thompson's cut of Casey Jones.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLCyvuY9Ujs
Genre: Folk Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 6/5/2023
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Notes: Here is a rather easy 3-finger version of John Hurt's Casey Jones.
Genre: Other Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yzzyxz, updated: 11/12/2016
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by heronhawk, updated: 6/16/2020
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Notes: A crooked Quebecois reel taught by Stephanie Lepine at Fiddle Tunes from the repertoire of Edouard Richard. I included recordings on banjo only, banjo&guitar, and guitar only. The banjo tab works well for clawhammer guitar when the guitar is tuned to double dropped D (DADGBD). Here is a link to a fiddle lesson by Andre Brunet for your fiddler friends to learn to play this tune: https://www.fiddlevideo.com/reel-a-castonguay-quebecois-fiddle-lesson-andre-brunet/
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Folk Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 1/13/2024 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx3utINrTbg
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Logan l banjo, updated: 1/13/2024
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Gm Tuning: Open Gm (gDGBbD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by heronhawk, updated: 1/2/2017
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Notes: 'Catharsis' is composed by Amy Cann. The dots are in Portland Collection vol 1. The mp3 is me playing it on a Gold Tone cello banjo. This you tube video shows someone playing a different arrangement on tenor banjo: https://youtu.be/TpiyqHLEC9I
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JanetB, updated: 1/21/2019
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Notes: Cathedral Forest is one of the original tunes previously unpublished or recorded, now in a new book called John Hartford's Mammoth Fiddle Tune Collection. He named it for the beautiful redwood forests of the California coast.
The tuning is what Adam Hurt calls SRB, Sandy River Belle, or it's one of the Cumberland Gap tunings -- fDGCD. Capo 2 for the key of G.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Open C (gCGCE) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JanetB, updated: 10/31/2016 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Ed Haley, the blind fiddler from West Virginia, lived with his family in Catlettsburg, Kentucky. John Hartford and Brandon Lee Kirk sought out information about him, but the upcoming biography is, unfortunately, "dead in the water." I found this tuning easier than double C.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjukebox, updated: 5/14/2017
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Notes: Source: Ed Haley via Adam Hurt
Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Blueberry, updated: 1/2/2014
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Notes: This is Cats in the Cradle- famous song by Harry Chapin. This is only the first level of the song. I do have access to several difficulty of levels- if you are interested, send me a PM.
I did not arrange this song. Song written by Harry Chapin, arranged by Richard Hefner.
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/22/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006
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Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by delmando, updated: 5/28/2013
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Genre: Classical Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by patmcg1960, updated: 9/17/2009 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Freddie.D.Holt, updated: 1/23/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by dskeigley, updated: 11/22/2014 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Other Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Eanna, updated: 7/3/2024
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Notes: This is just the intro to the banjo part of the song, which plays in a few places, I just found the song on the album Crock of Gold only yesterday, from what I can tell this is the only parts the banjo plays in, the rest is violin, guitar, etc. Putting this here just in case others find the song and like the intro.
Genre: Classical Style: Classical Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Maruko, updated: 5/31/2016
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Notes: My Version of Mr. Bachs Cello Suite #1.
Note the right Hand fingerings to save the Flow!
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/22/2006
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Genre: Other Style: Other Key: Dm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by BrentSims, updated: 12/7/2015
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Notes: This is one of two songs (the other is “And the Angels Sing”) that seem to transport me to a place beyond time and space. A place where the only things that exist are the melody, the love of my life and little old dysfunctional me. “Oh, how we danced on the night we were wed...” While I started with a MusicXML file that someone else wrote tweaking the melody for playing on the banjo is not point-and-click easy. I did the best I could. Hope you enjoy it. More importantly, I hope someone finds it useful enough to take to the next level. The MP3 was generated from the TAB - my playing is terrible...
Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/22/2006
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Genre: Country Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by DGriffinEvans, updated: 7/22/2024 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Fingerstyle guitarists will be familiar with the tune by Boudleaux Bryant, made famous by Chet Atkins. This version is in the key of C (or D with capo) played out of open G tuning. (Chet Atkins played it in F, with a capo on the fifth fret so he played chords from C.)
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Open C (gCGCE) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Bill H, updated: 4/29/2023
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by littleton, updated: 10/5/2022
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Genre: Country Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BanjoTJC, updated: 3/25/2017
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dskeigley, updated: 8/18/2013 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 11/5/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by howsy-bee, updated: 9/21/2018 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Almost note-for-note transcription of the video I recently posted: https://www.banjohangout.org/myhangout/videos.asp?m=d&catID=0&id=33898
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Banjowen, updated: 2/22/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: A tune as the late great Jimmy Arnold might have played it.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Banjowen, updated: 2/22/2012
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Notes: A tune as the late great Jimmy Arnold might have played it.
Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/22/2006
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Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/22/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Popular Style: Exercises and Licks Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD)
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 2/12/2016 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: An example of using a midi file to generate a tabledit file.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Im wit Beard, updated: 10/1/2013
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Notes: Just purchased Tabledit and used it to compose this new tune. A great piece of software and fun to use.
I hope the tune carries a flavour of the wonderful Cherokee people.
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/22/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/31/2007
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by CCABanjo, updated: 3/18/2012
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Notes: Two of the midi files are for "play along" to help with your timing while practicing the tune (one at 90 bpm and the other at 130 bpm).
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjukebox, updated: 5/2/2013
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD)
Posted by schlange, updated: 7/18/2014
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Notes: For the TOTW: http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/288316
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by HOWDYDOODY, updated: 11/27/2016 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by conic, updated: 10/2/2017
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Notes: This is my first tabs - part A and part B and it of the great cherokee shuffle as played by member "Alfidog" , the version as can be seen on youtube or in the video archive.
I have done this in excel because I know excel. Its saved as a 2 x Jpeg's.
Some of the measures look a bit odd but believe me it works a treat
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 11/10/2018
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Sam Alfano, updated: 6/18/2019
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Notes: A really solid version of Cherokee Shuffle that allows you to drive hard with your right hand Scruggs style and also incorporate nice melodic licks. I borrowed a bit from Scruggs and Keith for this arrangement.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Old Hickory, updated: 7/29/2019 - 6 Member Comments
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Notes: My attempt at transcribing Alison Brown's banjo solos in Sally Van Meter's version on The Great Dobro Sessions album. Tabbed out in response to request from Hangout member. I needed a challenge. Not saying this is 100% but it sounds pretty close. Please send comments or corrections.
Revised/corrected file 7/25/19
Recorded reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZD03yrvi3w&list=RDLZD03yrvi3w&start_radio=1
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Lefty5string, updated: 2/29/2020 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Fairly simple arrangement in the clawhammer style with hammer ons, slides and pull offs but no drop thumbing. Includes two variations on the B part. Some bluegrass versions have a shorter A part so if you want to do that version just disregard measures 9 and 10 and it will work fine. Capo 2 for fiddle in A.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by nirvano, updated: 12/16/2021
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Notes: Steve Huber is a wonderful banjo player and this solo is another proof.
It's the second solo from Team Flathead CD.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by littleton, updated: 12/27/2021
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Genre: Traditional Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stratovarious520, updated: 9/12/2022
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Notes: Capo 2. First break in the style of Bill Keith (Beating Around the Bush), 2nd break in the style of Alan Munde (Strictly Instrumental). B part of 2nd break is my own musings however. Happy picking!
Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ShhhItsASecret, updated: 4/21/2016 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Didn't see a clawhammer version in A. Here's how I do it, with some "Galax" use of the 5th string on the down beat.
Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/22/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by rdeanjordan, updated: 11/24/2023
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Notes: My version of Cherokee Shuffle borrowing elements from Bill Keith, Alan Munde, as well as many of my own inventions. Capo to 2nd fret (A). Hear it played here (without capo-ing to A): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMnl4Kfeohc.
Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/22/2006
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Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/22/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Lefty5string, updated: 2/29/2020
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Notes: This version has a shorter A part as often found in bluegrass jams. Fairly simple arrangement in the clawhammer style with hammer ons, slides and pull offs but no drop thumbing. Includes two variations on the B part. Capo 2 for fiddle in A.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/19/2016
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Notes: The Nashville fiddler Tommy Jackson wrote Cherokee Shuffle, and it has become a staple for bluegrass banjo players. For reasons lost in the foggy mists of time, my band Silver Spring (in Vancouver, B.C., mid-1970s) changed the E minor to an E major and renamed it Cherokee Strut -- and note that the tune is typically played in the key of A; thus we are talking F# minor and F# major. My tab includes 2 breaks, the first in conventional 3-finger style and the second incorporating more melodic sequences. This was how I played more than 15 years before Bill Keith released his terrific arrangement. The structure of the tune is AABB.
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Bm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Matthess, updated: 12/26/2016 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: This is the first track on Dave Hum's album "Traveling Light". It's called Chester's Tune. YouTube video > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6wveoDC2lg
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Bm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Matthess, updated: 12/26/2016 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: This is the first track on Dave Hum's album "Traveling Light". It's called Chester's Tune. YouTube video > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6wveoDC2lg
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 4/11/2015
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Notes: Bill Monroe / based on Tony Rice version capo 3
Genre: Jazz Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum) Key: C Tuning: Chicago (DGBE) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Throckmorton, updated: 5/10/2013 - 4 Member Comments
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Notes: For those who prefer Chicago Tuning I made this chart for chord shapes up the neck to the 12th fret for your basic jazz era repertoire. It includes as many 4 note chord voicing as I thought worked but I am no expert. I skipped most open chords to keep it simpler learning the movable shapes which you can transpose easy. It is organized by chord function so you can work with some substitutions as might fit chord solos or just regular accompaniment.
Difficulty: Expert
Posted by billcopeland, updated: 1/11/2010
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Notes: Reno Style
Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 11/6/2011
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Genre: Other Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ddale79, updated: 11/7/2011
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Genre: Old Time Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: D Difficulty: Expert
Posted by carlb, updated: 3/2/2014
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Notes: This is musical notation and not tablature.
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Devon Wells, updated: 2/26/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Hannes Fehringer, updated: 11/13/2010
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Notes: Source: Jim & Jesse, In The Traditon, Rounder 1987
Genre: Old Time Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by hum, updated: 2/2/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Here is my 3 part arrangement of this lively tune - I also play this in the video section on my BHO homepage - though in the video I am capoed on the second fret for key of A - more tabs at www.davehum.com
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 3/6/2012
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D 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: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Don Borchelt, updated: 5/3/2013
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Notes: This is Dr. Ralph Stanley's version of Chicken Reel, as played on the album Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys: Old Time Music, Jalyn Records, 1967.
Genre: Old Time Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Cwiiis, updated: 4/18/2015
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Notes: Transcribed from Ralph Stanley's performance on Pete Seeger's Rainbow Quest.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Open D (f#DF#Ad) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by AlBanjo38, updated: 11/20/2017
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Notes: Melodic (Not exactly Scruggs)
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Backing Track Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BanjoFret12, updated: 8/4/2024
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Notes: My favorite banjo artist, Dave Hum, has backing tracks and tabs for sale by his family on his website. I encourage you to buy them while you still can. I bought the tabs for Chicken Reel, but the tabs don't show how Dave plays his fancy chorus piece (for lack of better words to describe it). I figured the piece out and here it is. By the way, I made a nice backing track for this song, which you'll find in the MP3 section of this forum in a few different speeds. Enjoy!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 9/10/2012
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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: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 9/3/2012
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JanetB, updated: 3/18/2017
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Notes: For the old-time Tune of the Week, 2/17/17 this tune comes from the fiddling of North Carolina's Marvin Gaster.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JanetB, updated: 3/18/2017
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Notes: This additional tab for Chickens Crowing at Midnight also contains standard notation.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Dm Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by littleton, updated: 5/11/2024
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Dm 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: 11/10/2018
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Genre: Other Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 10/12/2011
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjukebox, updated: 2/23/2015
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C
Posted by Yigal Zan, updated: 4/27/2015
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Notes: Double D with 5th = g, gDADE
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Gm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Buxton, updated: 4/28/2017
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Notes: Reno and Smiley's "Chinese Breakdown." Recorded in G#. Complete song including back-up. Source can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpSFvyMoES8
Genre: Traditional Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 10/14/2011 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: This is basically the same version as my other Chinese Breakdown in C tuning, but now in G tuning
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by janolov, updated: 10/19/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 3/4/2012
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Genre: Bluegrass Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mwblake, updated: 9/14/2009
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Notes: There are two tunes called Chinquapin Hunting and this is but one of them! Single string/Melodic style, with down and up the neck variations.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjukebox, updated: 6/9/2017
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BigFiveChord, updated: 2/3/2021
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Notes: After the playing of Chris Pandolfi
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by littleton, updated: 12/27/2021
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Genre: Old Time Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mwblake, updated: 1/21/2015
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Notes: There are two completely different tunes called Chinquapin Hunting that are doing the rounds. Back in 2009 I uploaded a tab for the 2 part tune in D and this is the other one, a wonderfully unsquare three parter in A. It is actually only the 1st part that is unsquare, although none of it sounds very straight on first hearing. Capo II for the correct pitch. There is a rip roaring version of this by Bruce Molsky and pals on YouTube here: http://youtu.be/TYS7xyNW8Mc
Enjoy...
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mtbe, updated: 5/23/2022
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Notes: Written and performed by Jacob Langston
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI2hVJ6rgu8&ab_channel=JacobLangston
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/21/2022 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Here is a tune I wrote some years ago.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 12/22/2012
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Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/22/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006
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Genre: Classical Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by rdnether, updated: 12/31/2013
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Genre: Classical Style: Classical Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by rewop, updated: 8/22/2020
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Notes: This is the first part of Chopsticks. I found out after that Bill Knopf plays this and it is very similar. I then went on to learn his second part from You Tube. Unfortunately, unless Bill gives me permission I cannot put it on Banjo Hangout. Check his version out on YouTube, it is brilliant.
Genre: Jazz Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by seanray, updated: 5/26/2016 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This TablEdit file contains a few line clichés and a diminished run.
Genre: Classical Key: Am Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Patrick P., updated: 3/31/2019
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Notes: My friends guitarists love to play this tune.
Banjo transcription just to tease them ...
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Andyrhydycreuau, updated: 3/14/2025
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 12/6/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: My son plays this song in D on the fiddle so, this is what I came up with for the banjo accompaniment ..................Enjoy...........L.Williams
drop C tuning Capo 2 for key of D
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Stephen Rapp, updated: 12/21/2019
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Genre: Folk Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by DGriffinEvans, updated: 9/28/2023
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Notes: This is a clawhammer medley of three traditional English Christmas Carols: "The Holly and the Ivy", "Good King Wenceslas", and "Ding Dong Merrily on High". It is probably at the advanced-beginner level.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 9/13/2022
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Notes: A fiddle tune from Melvin Wine that I adapted to the banjo. I used the "John Brown's Dream" tuning which is the same as standard A (standard G, capo 2) but with the 4th string pitched down to a low A, a full octave below the 3rd string. This tuning creates a low, rumbly drone. A video demo is posted on my YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/NLTxvUi-ju8
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stan, updated: 10/23/2012 - 3 Member Comments
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Genre: Jazz Style: Other Key: F Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 12/6/2017
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Notes: Melody with Backup from
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Genre: Bluegrass Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Ian_banjo, updated: 10/21/2012
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Notes: This is just my attempt to write down the tune as I am having difficulty pinning down the second part. I would be grateful for any correction anyone could supply.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjukebox, updated: 10/28/2014 - 1 Member Comments
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Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/22/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by stan, updated: 7/22/2012
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Notes: this is a transition tune for those wanting to work on going from simple melody to a more roll oriented melody or break.
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: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by LyleK, updated: 5/30/2011
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Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by LyleK, updated: 7/8/2024
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Notes: from Bruce and Emmett's Drummers' and Fifers' Guide (1862)
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by zach w, updated: 12/8/2023
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Notes: this tune is in the key of G/C.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by KI4PRK, updated: 9/6/2009
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Notes: Here's a fiddle tune for the banjo, Cincinnati Rag. There's a little bit of cross-picking (crossing one right-hand finger over another) to accommodate the melody. The descending part over the "A" chord in the first section is also kinda hard. This version goes to an E-minor chord one time in the second part. This is the way Kenny Baker (among a few others) played it. I label this "Scruggs" style, but there is also melodic & single string in there.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 11/10/2019
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Notes: This is a great tune that I am surprised more people don't play. My arrangement is based on Bobby Hicks's outstanding fiddle break on Herschel Sizemore's recording "Back in Business." You should play this thing at a good pace; the tab is at a tempo of 240. Pay attention to the A chord in the first break, measures 12 and 13, which I based on Lee Marcus's tab that is no longer available on BHO. I based the A to D passages in the second break, measures 36-38 and 44-47, on a break of Sonny Osborne's that I heard many years ago -- "I Know What It Means to Be Lonesome" perhaps.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 11/15/2019
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Notes: Here is the tab of my attempt to approximate on the banjo the way Kenny Baker plays Cincinnati Rag on the fiddle. Hence there are more melodic sequences and fewer Scruggs cliches (licks, runs) than in the version of CR I posted previously. The tab is not note-for-note, both because the staccato of the picked banjo cannot capture the sustain of the bowed fiddle, and because I am not Noam Pikelny.
Genre: Traditional Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by SkinnyGeorge, updated: 9/13/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Very basic course of the melody.
Genre: Folk Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjofool469, updated: 1/22/2015
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Genre: Folk Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by dbrooks, updated: 7/13/2021 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This tab uses the fragment of clawhammer tab for "Cindy" in Pete Seeger's "How to Play the Five-String Banjo" book (p. 38) and provides tab for the rest of the verse and chorus.
Genre: Folk Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by dbrooks, updated: 7/13/2021 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: This tab describes the banjo introduction to "Cindy" from a clip from Pete Seeger's "Rainbow Quest" program (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vhTWMOebv8 ). Pete fingerpicks the intro and then plays clawhammer backup behind the singing with Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry. The folk picking pattern is: 1 2-and 3-and 4. Each measures start with a pinch (thumb and finger). Then thumb generally alternates between the 5th string and the 3rd string on the beat like the thumb bass on guitar. The 2nd and 3rd beats are made up of the thumb followed by a finger pick as eighth notes. The 4th beat is usually a single note played by the thumb.
Genre: Old Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 11/1/2011
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Genre: Folk Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BeeEnvironment, updated: 7/13/2021 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Pete's version of, "Cindy" for his 1950s banjo instruction book. It is a 3-finger version. Audio is from his banjo record, where he plays this exact song 3-finger style.
Genre: Rock Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 8/9/2022
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Notes: Neil Young
Genre: Old Time Style: Minstrel (Stroke Style) Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ManfredK, updated: 12/7/2016
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Notes: From the Briggs' 1855
Genre: Other Style: Classical Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by trapdoor2, updated: 2/27/2012
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Notes: Circus Parade, by Joe Morley
Genre: Folk Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 8/3/2015 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Old Time Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: F Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by sitison, updated: 10/27/2020
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Notes: I recently wrote "Clara of Cumberland" in honor of my mother in law who recently passed away. It is in saw mill tuning, but almost sounds like ragtime. My music theory is a little light so I will call it an "old time tune" instead.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by plumbman51, updated: 12/30/2009
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Notes: I wrote this because our church building didn't have a bell tower. I heard similar chimes off an old Pete Stanley number. It is played in a lot of chords so should be easy for a begginer to play after a bit. I usually play it faster than it is tabbed here.
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/22/2006
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Genre: Other Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/17/2006
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Style: Classical
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/22/2006 - 7 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Texasbanjo, updated: 2/2/2016
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Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by diddlediddlediddle, updated: 12/24/2013
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Notes: 4 Separate JPEG files:
Deck the Halls
Angels We Have Heard on High
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Jingle Bells
Genre: Traditional Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Jethro Aberdeen, updated: 6/25/2013 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: Corrected time signature.
kevin
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: F Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 5/25/2023
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Notes: F tuning (fDGCD). Rendition after Roscoe Parish. AKA, Cleveland Marching to the White House. Corresponding video demo on YouTube: https://youtu.be/RKWgtXrbvjc
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjukebox, updated: 7/6/2018 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Source: Emmett Lundy via James Bryan
Genre: Folk Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by RJWMitchell, updated: 5/11/2014
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Notes: In D (aDGBd), C (Drop C tuning) and C (double C tuning) and lead sheet
Genre: Folk Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: aDGBD
Posted by RJWMitchell, updated: 4/1/2016
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Notes: 2-finger thumb lead
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G
Posted by Yigal Zan, updated: 6/25/2012
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Notes: Double-D, capo at 2nd fret, 5th = a, aDADE
Genre: Ragtime Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Greg Gilbert, updated: 1/26/2021
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Notes: Great ragtime piece by James Scott, contemporary of Scott Joplin.
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006
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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: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Rawhide Creek, updated: 7/4/2014
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Notes: Not exactly the way Ralph Stanley played it, but an accessible and enjoyable way to get acquainted with a great, familiar tune. It's in the key of G Dorian, so there is one flat (Bb) in the key signature rather than the more conventional one sharp (F#).
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Rawhide Creek, updated: 7/11/2014
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Notes: A really easy way to break into "Sawmill" tuning (2d string raised to C) and have a nice tune to play. Nothing fancy here, just an accessible, good-sounding song. The key is actually G Dorian, so there is one flat (Bb) in the key signature rather than the more conventional one sharp (F#).
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 6/8/2022
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Notes: As I hear it, CMB is really a clawhammer tune that Ralph Stanley played 3-finger style, for whatever reason. Incidentally, a very nice version of CMB was recorded by the Kentucky Colonels on their classic album "Appalachian Swing," featuring sublime rhythm and lead guitar by the one-and-only Clarence White.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by BTS, updated: 5/1/2016
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Notes: This is wonderful version of Clinch Mountain Backstep from the playing of John Apfelthaler. Visit John's BHO page to the video of him playing it. It starts with a down the neck arrangement, followed by melodic and up the neck arrangements, and closes out with two more down the neck arrangements. It is packed from one end to the other with interesting licks and ideas, but remains true to the original tune.
I think this tab is very close to a fret for fret transcription. But be aware of one point. The fourth bar of the B section of Clinch Mountain backstep changes time signature to 6/4. When tabbing I couldn't get that to work with John's melodic arrangement. I contacted John who was kind enough to tell me that in his enthusiasm he had played through that part in 4/4. He was also kind enough to advise me how to correct the small error. So the tab won't quite match John's playing at that point in the tune. So follow the tab - particularly if you're playing it with other musicians.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 11/10/2018
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by egoldfinger, updated: 6/29/2019
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Notes: This is my best cut at a note for note transcription of Ralph Stanley playing this tune. It's my first time publishing here on Banjo Hangout so great to finally give something back after all I have gotten from the site! Note that Ralph uses a hammer-on for open string which is designated here as a bracketed note.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Lefty5string, updated: 2/27/2020 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: The popular Stanley bluegrass song in a clawhammer arrangement. Slides, hammer ons, pull offs but no drop thumb. Variations in A and B parts. Note this song has an extra beat of D in the B part if you are unfamiliar with it. Capo 2 for fiddle in A.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Am Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by littleton, updated: 10/24/2021
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Am Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by littleton, updated: 10/24/2021
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: G Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stratovarious520, updated: 2/5/2023 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: A little deviation from the norm. Raising the 2nd to C facilitates the lower register licks, and the droning C makes a nice ambient effect.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Am Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by heronhawk, updated: 6/25/2016
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Notes: Sawmill capo 2 (aEADE), clawhammer, Recording King RK-OT25, RIP Ralph Stanley
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BTS, updated: 8/16/2016
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Notes: This is a down the neck variation for Clinch Mountain Backstep inspired by John Apfelthaler's up the neck arrangement which I posted previously.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Unknown/None Chosen Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by bandzo, updated: 5/29/2011 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: As played by Ralph Stanley -- 1971",
transcribed and TablEdited by Jim Crowley {All Tabs}
Modified and Edited by Jack R. Baker (2003).
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by seanray, updated: 10/5/2013
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Notes: Backup Tab for "The Session Book" - seanray.com
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Studebaker Hawk, updated: 8/29/2009
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Notes: This is the version McEuen played on the old Nitty Gritty Dird Band recording "Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy". Standard G tuning, capo at the second fret.
Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/22/2006
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Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/22/2006
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Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/22/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by brudford, updated: 5/8/2010 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/17/2006
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D
Posted by Yigal Zan, updated: 5/28/2012
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Notes: Double-D, capo at 2nd fret, 5th=a, aDADE
Genre: Popular Style: Other Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by freemanmaxwell, updated: 3/24/2021 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Cloud Country - Stardew Valley OST by ConcernedApe
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006
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Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 4/2/2024
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Notes: This is my bluesy, two finger take on Cluck Old Hen. A video of me playing this tune is posted on my YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/qztD0qwmXSA
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/22/2006
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Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/22/2006 - 4 Member Comments
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by brudford, updated: 3/12/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by kmwaters, updated: 10/20/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Nice arrangement by Ron Block
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Bill, updated: 1/17/2016
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Notes: I was asked to provide a tab of the way that I play this tune in Sawmill tuning. So, here it is, the basic tune and some variations. Enjoy!
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Gm Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by littleton, updated: 1/20/2018
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Am Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by littleton, updated: 10/24/2021
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by carlb, updated: 2/5/2023
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Notes: Tab is article from June, 1984 Banjo NewsLetter
I've corrected the incorrect tuning that was originally published by modifying the original scanned page.
Tuning: gDGcd (capo 2) or aDAde
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Am Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 10/19/2024
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Notes: This rendition is based on the fiddling of Henry Reed. G sawmill tuning, capoed 2. A video of me playing this rendition is posted on my YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/utUoPY90aWE
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Am Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 10/19/2011
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by brownsdream, updated: 4/12/2020
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Notes: Here's the beginner version of "Cluck Old Hen" that is taught on my instructional website, https://twofingerbanjo.com/. I use the thumb-lead style for this and all my tabs (unless otherwise noted).
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/5/2020 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: From an unreleased tape. Bill's version is close to the 1927 recording by The Hillbillies.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dskeigley, updated: 11/30/2016 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Tom Hanway, updated: 11/17/2017
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Notes: Parts A, B, C (1st JPEG) and parts D, E and F (2nd JPEG): Educational tab based on the bagpiping tune by Canadian Neil Dickie, and keeping with free-use guidelines (not for money). This version is in the key of G, while Neil's piping version is in A. (c) Copyright 1983 by Neil Dickie, SOCAN.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 12/15/2023
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Notes: This is a clawhammer version of Manon Campbell's fiddle tune "Coal Creek". This tune has no connection with Coal Creek March or other Coal Creek songs and tunes, but it seems to have a connection to Oscar Wright's or Henry Reed's versions of Shootin Creek. There has probably been lyrics to the tune, and the lyrics seems to have a connection to Sugar Hill.
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006
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Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD)
Posted by adamsk, updated: 12/30/2015 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Based on Boggs version. Intro is abbreviated and the timing is off. I took a little liberty with the arrangement, but it's pretty true to Boggs. Open G, 3-finger.
Tuning: Open D (f#DF#Ad)
Posted by adamsk, updated: 12/26/2015
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Notes: Based on Roscoe Holcomb's version of the song, but influenced by the playing style of Dock Boggs. Open D, 3-finger.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Open D (f#DF#Ad) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by pedram, updated: 3/21/2024
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Notes: This is based on Nora Brown's version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc3T6LZvJiY
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Open D (f#DF#Ad) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by janolov, updated: 10/19/2011
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjukebox, updated: 3/30/2017
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/22/2006
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Genre: Country Style: Backing Track Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 5/31/2024
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Notes: Loretta Lynn - Bobby Thompson banjo
Genre: Country Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by the banjophile, updated: 7/28/2016
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by littleton, updated: 5/11/2024
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Genre: Folk Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 3/25/2023
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Notes: Here is a clawhammer version of Rev. Gary Davis' wellknown song Cocaine Blues. There are several versions of Cocaine Blues by Gary Davis or referring to Gary Davis, so there are a lot of variations out there.
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' "Coke Oven March", also on a Field Recorder's Collective CD ("Dock Boggs Recordings From Reed Martin") as "Banjo Chimes". Tuning is "Graveyard" Open-D tuning, f#DF#AD. The notes at the 12th fret are harmonics (chimes). Not too easy and not too hard. A great old time three finger piece.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Am Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Dave Nauman, updated: 2/7/2010
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/22/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Steve Parker, updated: 4/1/2010
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Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by delmando, updated: 5/10/2013
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Am Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/24/2022 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Here is my current take on CFM, with some variations you might find useful. For example, the ascending passage in measures 61 through 63 works in other tunes such as June Apple.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Am Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by janolov, updated: 10/20/2011
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Gm Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Jack Baker, updated: 2/24/2025
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Notes: www.frettedinstrumentsnyc.com
Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD)
Posted by Dan N, updated: 1/31/2010 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: As played by Obray Ramsey. On the recording he is tuned down a half-step to F#.
Genre: Folk Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Gm Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Noah Cline, updated: 3/24/2021
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Notes: Optional tuning: fDGCD
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/22/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BanjoTJC, updated: 6/24/2015
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by chuckv97, updated: 2/12/2025
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Notes: Intermediate level TAB of a Hank Williams classic. Video is in the video library which includes the TAB
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dbrooks, updated: 2/7/2010
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Notes: This is tab written by Tom Berghan based on the ABC version of Coleman's March by John Lamancusa on the Fiddler's Companion web site.
Genre: Old Time Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Open D (aDF#Ad) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Don Borchelt, updated: 5/3/2013
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Notes: This is another "he played his fiddle for the last time, and then they hanged him" tune. The banjo is tuned to open D (aDF#AD), which as we all know, is sometimes called Graveyard Tuning. How appropriate.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjukebox, updated: 9/10/2015 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by heronhawk, updated: 2/1/2019 - 5 Member Comments
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Notes: Tuning is double D (aDADE). Legend has it that Coleman played it on his guitar as he was sitting on his coffin while being carted away to the noose in the 1880s, having been wrongfully accused by his live-in sister-in-law of murdering his wife.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JLouis Thiry, updated: 10/26/2018
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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: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dbrooks, updated: 2/7/2010
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Notes: This is tab of Coleman's March by Tom Berghan based on the ABC notation by Michael Anthony on the Fiddler's Companion web site.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 8/18/2024
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Notes: Use Double C tuning, capoed two. A YouTube video of me playing this rendition is at https://youtu.be/7CAzvRi_OuQ
Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by the goodhand, updated: 10/3/2011
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Am Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dbrooks, updated: 5/21/2024
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Notes: This tab for the jig, "Coleraine," involves use of drop thumb and left-hand licks to accommodate 6/8 time. The suggested right-hand approach is to use a downstroke on beats 1-and-3 and 4-and-5 The middle beats may be played by the left hand with hammer-ons and pull-offs or left silent.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Am Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by dbrooks, updated: 5/21/2024
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Notes: This is an easier tab for the jig, "Coleraine," relying less on drop thumb and left-hand licks to accommodate 6/8 time. The suggested right-hand approach is to use a downstroke on beats 1-and-3 and 4-and-5 The middle beats may be played by the left hand with hammer-ons and pull-offs or left silent.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A
Posted by Yigal Zan, updated: 3/17/2015
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Notes: Double-D, capo at 2nd fret, 5th=a, aDADE
Genre: Rock Style: Other Key: F Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 10/26/2014
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Notes: In response to a song for a wedding
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/22/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mwblake, updated: 6/1/2010
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Notes: Nice session tune! This is a melodic version in the key of G. Rocks along nicely and is not too tricky. Have fun!
Genre: Ragtime Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 7/19/2014
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Tom Hanway, updated: 6/15/2015
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Notes: I have this exact tab recorded note-for-note in the BHO music files, played to a piano backing track so that I could put in bass movement and chords in order for the syncopated figures to be heard against the normal downbeats and strong beats. I also play this with a considerable amount of swing (bounce) which gives the tune an even more syncopated feeling. This is a cakewalk, similar to ragtime, though it could be sped up and played as a driving breakdown. Playing tip: as tempo increases, the more the bounce (degree of swing) tends to even out. The focus here is to demonstrate syncopation and accenting in Scruggs-style picking. Big thanks to Taj Mahal for this lovely tune.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Tom Hanway, updated: 6/15/2015
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Notes: I have this exact tab recorded note-for-note in the BHO music files, played to a piano backing track so that I could put in bass movement and chords in order for the syncopated figures to be heard against the normal downbeats and strong beats. I also play this with a considerable amount of swing (bounce) which gives the tune an even more syncopated feeling. This is a cakewalk, similar to ragtime, though it could be sped up and played as a driving breakdown (see other tab). Playing tip: as tempo increases, the more the bounce (degree of swing) tends to even out. The focus here is to demonstrate syncopation and accenting in Scruggs-style picking. Big thanks to Taj Mahal for this lovely tune.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Open C (gCGCE) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 9/23/2024
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Notes: This is my interpretation of Taj Mahal’s well known version of Colored Aristocracy. He puts a lot of skipped note syncopation into it. I’ve captured some, but not all of that syncopation. However, I think this should give you the basics of how he played this tune. A video of me playing this rendition is posted on my YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/7Le5VF0yNfA
Genre: Old Time Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by gazzaj, updated: 5/24/2011
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Notes: Arranged into 3 finger picking old time style.
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Steelydan, updated: 9/18/2013
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Notes: This tune is in Sawmill tuning, with some drop-thumb. I don't know what key Sawmill is in, I suppose it is G modal, so I'm calling it G. Capo 2 and it's played in A modal (AEADE). I"ve linked the mp3 within the PDF file, but can be located at the middle of the URL link @ http://stringband.mossyroof.com/
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by wilbanjo, updated: 5/31/2011
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Notes: This is just the verse , all the breaks in the song were from the verse.This song is from the Dueling Hearts Cd , If the Lord be Willing. www.duelinghearts.net
Genre: Rock Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Bm Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Banjo Island, updated: 1/31/2013
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Open C (gCGCE) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by LyleK, updated: 12/29/2010
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Notes: Last (?) TOTW for 2010. From John Beland's transcription of the Lewis brothers.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Duelington, updated: 3/16/2023
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Notes: Alan Munde's break to Coming Down From Denver. This is transcribed from Byron Berline's album, "Dad's Favorites."
The 5th string is tabbed two frets higher than you would play it. This is so the note sounds right. The proper fret is notated in text above.
Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/22/2006
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum) Tuning: Tenor Irish (GDAE) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JAH, updated: 2/7/2016
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Genre: Other Style: Other
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/13/2006
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by cjkiser, updated: 5/18/2014 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by jkacur, updated: 5/14/2015
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Notes: Fun tune, common at sessions. There are some tricky techniques needed to play this melodic clawhammer style. In particular, I am using a lot of m-marppegios, the ones in the B-part are totally fun to play, but the ones in the A-part are trickier, because you have to prepare to drop-thumb too. As I said, the tune is lots of fun, so enjoy!
Style: Other
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/22/2006 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Bob Frost, updated: 2/17/2010 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: The "Other" playing style is three-finger melodic.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Other Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mwblake, updated: 11/9/2011
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Notes: A great reel in E minor. The right hand fingering is a bit tricky in the B part as it chops and changes about a lot, but I have included the right hand fingering in all the places where one might come unstuck. It's bound to drive you mad! Again, credit has to go to Mike Stangland, from whose tab I have adapted this. Guitar tab is included too. Have fun!
Martin
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum) Key: Em Tuning: Tenor Irish (GDAE) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JAH, updated: 2/11/2015
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman80, updated: 1/13/2018
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Notes: Traditional irish tune arranged for 5-string bluegrass banjo
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD)
Posted by Tono, updated: 9/18/2010
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Genre: Folk Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 9/1/2022 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is a two-finger index lead (2FIL) version of the old folk song Copper Kettle. It has been recorded by several different artists and the tune occurs in both 4/4 and 3/4. This version is my own interpretation in 3/4 time.
Genre: Folk Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by dbrooks, updated: 8/31/2022 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This clawhammer tab is loosely based on the folk version by Joan Baez, though the key and the rhythm have been made simpler. Joan may play this in the key of D#.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glMQXjy46J8
Genre: Folk Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Am Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 9/5/2022
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Notes: This clawhammer version is more or less based on Chet Atkin's version (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SIf7RW3f48 ). I have tried to transfer Chet's version to clawhammer banjo, even if it is big differences between Chet's alternate bass guitar and cllawhammer banjo.
The second part (B Part) is played with three-finger forward rolls instead of the clawhammer rhyrhm.. You can play the A part instead if you don't master the forward roll.
The tuning is aCGBD which is good for tunes in Am: Copper Kettle starts in the key of C, but modulates to Am in the middle of the tune. (I have avoided the fourth string so also aDGBD would work, but be careful to not play the fourth string open.
Genre: Country Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by robhyder, updated: 12/26/2019
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Lewistaylor565, updated: 6/29/2018 - 1 Member Comments
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Open D (f#DF#Ad) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/18/2015
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Notes: From Jack Baker for our TOTW http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/303792
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Open D (f#DF#Ad) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 10/29/2017 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Earl Scruggs open D tuning f# D F# A D (originally tuned up a fret) - complete
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Open D (aDF#Ad) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Laverne, updated: 12/1/2016
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Notes: I rarely post anything but I've been working with Audacity for the last couple of days and made this MP3 from a recording. This is my Clawhammer version pretty much unedited of Cora is gone.
Genre: Other Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Banjowen, updated: 9/5/2009 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: A tune that I wrote for my Grandson Corey. (capoed 2)
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by LyleK, updated: 4/29/2010
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Genre: Old Time Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Banjostray, updated: 3/14/2016
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Notes: Two finger thumb lead beginner arrangement.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 5/16/2023
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Notes: A video of me playing this rendition is posted on my YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/dxK57wBqpwM
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by trick420, updated: 3/23/2011 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: Cornbread and Butterbeans - CCD version. No embellishment, just the basic progression.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by dbrooks, updated: 11/6/2022
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Notes: This tab is based on the tune by the Carolina Chocolate Drops - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbxMDsJPXKw
Genre: Folk Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by littleton, updated: 11/6/2022
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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: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Gm Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JLouis Thiry, updated: 3/25/2023
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 10/31/2014
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Notes: I've always had fun with this tune.Throw in a couple of lyrics and let her fly...............
Lynn
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by bigburlybug, updated: 5/1/2014
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Notes: Thanks to Tater Joe for this
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by jkacur, updated: 6/5/2015
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Notes: My source was "The Old-Time Fiddler's Repertory - 245 Traditional Tunes", Compiled and edited by R.P. Christeson. This arrangement is fairly true to the fiddler's transcription, except in the 2nd and 6th full measures of the B-part where I added some notes and chords to make the quarter and half notes sound more interesting. I also changed the time signature from 2/4 to cut-time. Fun, fairly easy piece to play. Note that this is the fiddle tune and not the song from "O Brother Where Art Thou?" Cheers!
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by KI4PRK, updated: 2/15/2010
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Notes: Dock Boggs' "Country Blues", from his original 1927 recording (he also recorded a similar version for Folkways in the 1960's). One of the finest old-time banjo & singing records ever. This is his second break to the tune (slightly more audible than the first break, which is probably the same). Tuning is D-Modal low bass, f#CGAD. A fairly quick old time number. Not too hard, and not too easy, either.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by James Stiltner, updated: 3/19/2013
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Posted by adamsk, updated: 5/7/2015 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: Based on Dock Boggs Folkways recording. f#CGAD, about a half-step low on the recording. He adds/omits square rolls in a couple of places throughout the song.
Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Chad Jones, updated: 6/4/2016
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Notes: "Country Blues," based on the playing of Dock Boggs. This is the main bit I use to accompany my singing. I have several variations (some subtle, some not so subtle) I play for instrumental breaks, which I hope to commit to tablature. Feel free to play with the timing--add an extra beat or so here and there. Or cut some short. Have fun with it. Play it fast or slow--it all sounds great!
Measures 5, 11, and 14 contain a figure that consists of a hammer on and plucked note sounding simultaneously. You may omit either one. They are the same note, so it will sound fine. Measures 9 and 18 also contain a simultaneous hammer on and plucked note. You may omit the plucked note. Additionally, I often slide into the notes at the 5th fret, 4th string, such as those in measures 5, 11, 13, and 17 (sometimes more, sometimes less).
The style is Dock Boggs' 3-finger up picking. The index finger plays the 2nd string, the middle finger plays the 1st string, and the thumb plays the 3rd, 4th, and 5th strings. The melody is spread across the main strings, and the drone is used more sparingly. The tuning is f#CGAD.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 8/21/2014
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Notes: Original guitar part and transcription to banjo
Genre: Country Style: Other Key: G Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mariusz44, updated: 8/13/2014
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Notes: Except mp3 file it's only part of this song - mandolin solo from Ricky Skaggs version, written and performed by Albert Lee on guitar
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Freddie.D.Holt, updated: 6/4/2010 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Adapted for banjo from guitar tab by Brennen Enrst (this web sight/guitar tabs) a great little peice of music by Mr. D. Reno. Give it a try.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by geckoberry, updated: 1/17/2022 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Wilbanjo asked me to tab this out on my "Need a tab?" forum:
https://www.banjohangout.org/topic/380335
Here's the video I tabbed from:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpSRrO45X3I
Have fun!
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by littleton, updated: 11/6/2022
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by littleton, updated: 11/6/2022
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by gary vann, updated: 5/18/2010 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: my version of county clare in standard g tuning , i think it is close to the original , does any one have the chords ?
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Am
Posted by Yigal Zan, updated: 4/11/2012
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Notes: Double-D, capo at 2nd fret, 5th=a, aDADE
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Am Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Stephen Rapp, updated: 1/29/2021
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Genre: Other Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum) Key: Dm Tuning: Tenor Standard (CGDA) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jkgarner, updated: 9/17/2014
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Notes: A simple Christmas Carol coming England in the 1500s.
My arrangement is melody chord fashion for Tenor Banjo (standard tuning) and is played on 3 strings.
Enjoy!
(also available for Irish tuning)
Genre: Other Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum) Key: Dm Tuning: Tenor Irish (GDAE) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jkgarner, updated: 9/17/2014
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Notes: A simple Christmas Carol coming England in the 1500s.
My arrangement is melody chord fashion for Tenor Banjo (Irish tuning) and is played on 3 strings.
Enjoy!
(also available for Standard tuning)
Genre: Other Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 6/4/2023
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Notes: Made this up while coming off of Covid rebound (fortunately, it was short-lived). A video of me playing this tune is posted on my YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/F8rbhjIaOBM
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Noah Cline, updated: 5/13/2022
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Notes: About how I play it.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Steve Parker, updated: 1/13/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by BanjoSerge, updated: 7/11/2014 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is Cowboys and Indians, as played by Bill Emerson on his album, Home of the Red Fox.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Cm Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoy, updated: 2/27/2021 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: I picked this tune sometime Fall 2020 at a jam session up in Shelby, NC. Until then it had never been on my musical radar at all. A cool tune by Bill Emerson. This is my take on it, and I give a few different roll ideas in the tab. I've also made a YouTube video which can be found at https://youtu.be/pvbJzjVniUw
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Double C (gCGCD)
Posted by Yigal Zan, updated: 11/6/2011
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Notes: Double-D, capo at 2nd fret, 5th=g, gDADE
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/22/2006
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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.
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/22/2006
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Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Cm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Zephinie, updated: 8/11/2018
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Notes: Here is the solo Wes Corbett plays in "Crazy" with Jake Jolliff on YouTube. Lots of closed position single string!
The video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-wkL_eiCpU
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/22/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: F Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 10/25/2022
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Notes: Crazy Arms is a wonderful classic country song. Ray Price's version in particular comes to mind. My band Knee Deep plays it in the key of F, to accommodate the singers' voices. Although F is somewhat unconventional in bluegrass banjo, it nonetheless can be very effective, as seen in the playing of Allen Shelton, J. D. Crowe, and others. My break is structured in the chordal style of repetitive triplets, and the tablature is more comprehensible if you listen to it in the MIDI function of TablEdit. Note that the C chord contains a short passage of an ascending thirteenth chord, a nifty creation of Sonny Osborne’s that mimics a pedal steel.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stratovarious520, updated: 2/15/2021 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: By request, Jimmy's abbreviated version of Howdy Forrester's "Wild Fiddler's Rag. All 3 breaks are essentially the same. I have however included 3 different ways to do the triplet lead-in to the Eb chord. Enjoy!
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 4/26/2020
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Notes: Crazy Creek was written by Tommy Jackson, who was a fiddle mainstay in Nashville recordings from the 1950s and beyond. I was inspired by Bill Keith’s version of CC, but this is the version I came up with, which I have been playing for many decades. Note added in April 2020: I added a bass track.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stratovarious520, updated: 4/23/2023 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: A Tommy Jackson fiddle tune. The first break is in the style of Bill Keith, the second is based on Ben Eldridge's playing (although he called it Cross Country). Capo 2.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: E Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by KI4PRK, updated: 11/25/2009
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Notes: Here is the Don Reno banjo tune "Crazy Finger Blues". I believe Don "invented" the unique tuning used for the song, g#EG#BC#, or open D ("Reuben") tuning up a whole step with the 1st string lowered. It's a fun, pretty simple & fairly easy banjo tune that is impressive. The "Crazy Finger" part is almost slap-your-self-in-the-forehead easy. But it sounds hard. I've also included most of the other variations Don does in the tune. Be sure to check out the original recording by Reno & Smiley; it's great! For the part where the banjo & the fiddle split the break, just barre @ the 12th for the E chord, 5th for the A chord, & 7th for the B chord, & it's thumb —index/middle on the 3rd and 2nd/1st strings, played to the rhythm of the song. An excellent "Jam" tune. Has a Rhythm Guitar & Bass rhythm track. Have fun!
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006
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Genre: Old Time Style: Backing Track Key: E Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 5/3/2023
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Notes: This tab is the backup guitar part that goes with my clawhammer tab for Crazy Tune. I used this in my YouTube video of this tune: https://youtu.be/P5OKPb8WQnQ
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 2/23/2025 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: From Owen "Snake" Chapman and Paul Smith. A video of me playing this rendition is posted on my YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/P5OKPb8WQnQ
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by banjokit, updated: 10/23/2011
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Notes: Chords for Creep, you can strum or pick, forward rolls work best. Not sure about tuning but chords seem about right. Uploaded for fun and not meant to be perfect.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Am Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JanetB, updated: 3/4/2021
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Notes: Turlough O'Carolan (1670 -1738) composed Cremonea. It may have been named after a palace in Northern Ireland and translates as Heart of Emania. The fourth string is tuned up to an E to harmonize better with the key of Am.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by heronhawk, updated: 5/30/2020
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Notes: Crested Hens (Les Poules Huppées) is an ethereal melody composed in 1983 by French hurdy-gurdy player Gilles Chabenat. Here it is played clawhammer style on a Ute banjo
Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Julian44_4, updated: 1/19/2012
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Notes: arranged for banjo by Dale Allen Pfeiffer
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by littleton, updated: 12/27/2021
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006
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Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by tomhaugen, updated: 4/20/2010 - 7 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stevieparker1, updated: 4/29/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Terkku, updated: 10/29/2010 - 9 Member Comments
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: E Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by tonet, updated: 10/30/2010 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Old Time Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by brudford, updated: 10/1/2011
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Notes: Two finger Thumb lead .
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by jbs325is, updated: 3/11/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Get the Backing Track, MP3 and Chord Chart at LaynePublications.com.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Jacob Underwood, updated: 3/17/2015
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Notes: Here is a basic version of "Cripple Creek" for the intermediate picker. Also included is the "Shave and a haircut - two bits" ending.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by littleton, updated: 3/5/2017
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Notes: a VERY easy version
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by littleton, updated: 3/5/2017
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Notes: 1st & 3rd lines are super easy; 2nd & 4th lines are an advanced beginner version
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 11/10/2018
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by BanjoBoy88, updated: 6/17/2024
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Notes: Easy Cripple Creek, but with real Scruggs rolls. Accurate note values and section endings/repeats. Designed to use for learning to play.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Lefty5string, updated: 2/5/2020 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Fairly simple arrangement in the clawhammer style with slides, hammer ons, pull offs and easy drop thumbing. The first pass is the basic version everyone does. It is almost note for note like Jim Pankey's version on his Youtube channel. Go look it up if you want to see a great lesson on it. The second pass is kind of a Banjo in the Hollow melodic drop thumb A Part with complimentary variations on the B Part.
Capo 2 for fiddle in A.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/24/2020 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: My version of Cripple Creek, with a few flourishes you might find useful in other tunes.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Logan l banjo, updated: 9/26/2023
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by LyleK, updated: 12/3/2024
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Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by RJWMitchell, updated: 3/14/2014
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Notes: mucking around last night and fell into a 2-finger thumb lead version of a generally well known Banjo lead and a melodic backing to Cripple Creek, put em together with an end tag and there it is. The three note chords in it are an up-strum.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dbrooks, updated: 3/7/2024
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Notes: In response to a request, here is some tab for Andrea Verga's "Cripple Creek" with the slides and syncopation. Andrea plays the tune in the key of E on a low-tuned gourd banjo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtYy2ujYLzc. The tab represents what I hear more than what I can see in the video.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Backing Track Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BenGran, updated: 6/21/2018
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 6/16/2024 - 5 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Exercises and Licks Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BenGran, updated: 6/21/2018
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by BenGran, updated: 6/21/2018
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by zurwell, updated: 8/23/2023
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Notes: Here's a simple little up the neck run for beginners. From the Z man. Enjoy!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Buxton, updated: 12/21/2016
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Notes: Complete tab of FMB recording.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by seanray, updated: 10/5/2013
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Notes: Backup Tab for "The Session Book" - seanray.com
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 5/1/2023
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Notes: This version has a lot of "Round Peak" elements in it. A demo video of me playing this rendition is posted on my YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/2M_Sbzcr6e4
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 10/19/2011
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Genre: Unknown/None Chosen Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
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 Devon Wells, updated: 6/4/2011
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Tuning: Open Gm (gDGBbD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Yamr3, updated: 12/14/2024
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Notes: I saw this on Reddit done by u/so_once_was_i. I liked the way it sounds and played; so, I made a quick tab for it for myself and everyone to play.
Tune your B string down a half step to Bb.
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD)
Posted by patmcg1960, updated: 1/8/2012
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Stephen Rapp, updated: 8/10/2018
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Notes: A unique 3-part version of Cripple Creek from Marion Thede's Fiddle Book.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by toolmaker, updated: 3/7/2020 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: I wrote the song in 2010. It's a good song to work on your inside rolls. I also put in suggested fingering but use whatever is good for you. I put guitar backup in also. The ending is a little crazy but good left hand exercise.
Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Bill H, updated: 2/26/2023
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Notes: This Canadian Reel is popular in New England. This version comes from NH fiddler Shana Aisenberg.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006
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Genre: Old Time Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by John Andrus, updated: 9/24/2020 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Here's a waltz I wrote in honor of Cross Ranch State Park in North Dakota, home of the Missouri River Bluegrass Festival for many years. The only tricky part of the tune is dragging the right hand index finger across two strings in the measures with right hand fingering identified.
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: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoy, updated: 11/6/2019
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Notes: This is my version of this fun traditional fiddle tune. Part A is fairly straightforward, and I've included two different melodic versions for Part B for you to mess around with. I hope you enjoy.
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Gm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Dave Nauman, updated: 2/7/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mwblake, updated: 9/7/2018 - 13 Member Comments
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Notes: I have tried to accurately transcribe the playing of Alan O'Bryant on the Nashville Bluegrass Band's recording of this song [on their album "Twenty Year Blues"] although there are a couple of places where I remain unsure of exactly what he played [bars 28 & 29 being one!]. Most of it is bona fide though, I would say, with a melodic A part and single string B part. A great medium paced tune with lovely cascading melodies. Enjoy!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Gm Tuning: Open Gm (gDGBbD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/23/2020
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Notes: This gem was written by Bill Monroe, who reportedly told Lamar Grier, his banjo player in the mid-1960s, "This will be a good tune for you." Grier apparently did not like CtC, because it is played at a loping pace slower than most banjo instrumentals and does not employ any of the standard banjo rolls or licks. I think it can be a fine tune for the banjo, and my tablature was influenced by
Butch Robins's outstanding arrangement, particularly the DTN break.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD)
Posted by Yigal Zan, updated: 12/6/2016
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Notes: Key of D, Double-D, capo at 2nd fret, 5th=a, aDADE
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 10/19/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Bill, updated: 4/9/2015
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Notes: I rated this tune for intermediate because there are a couple of drop thumb notes. These can be handled with hammer-ons instead.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by pepefuster, updated: 10/30/2016
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Notes: Based on Kenny Wertz performance on The Scottsville Squirrel Barkers Blue Grass Favorites
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006
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Genre: Folk Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dbrooks, updated: 12/27/2020 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This tab is based on Rhiannon Giddens version where she plays a minstrel banjo in low D tuning (dADF#A). This tuning has the same intervals as open G tuning (gDGBD), so the tab will work for that tuning also. The tab is based on this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moGDevGfmp0
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by banjopaolo, updated: 12/25/2020
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Notes: tuning is aDGAD
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Fathand, updated: 7/26/2016
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Notes: Posting for Stanleytone who has technical difficulties
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Logan l banjo, updated: 10/16/2023
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 10/9/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: My arrangement features a judicious mixing of forward rolls and backward rolls. Pay particular attention to this in the second break, the last section of which (the slide up the fifth fret of the first string) is pretty similar to a break of Earl Scruggs's on a concert recording of Flatt and Scruggs. The tag after that section is my own. It is worthwhile to incorporate backward rolls -- typically M-I-T with a first-string lead -- into your playing, because they add extra tension and interest, in my opinion.
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by schlange, updated: 6/11/2014 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: Tab from Jack Baker for our Tunetorial of the Week.
Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by rossnickerson, updated: 5/4/2019
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Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006
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Genre: Popular Style: Unknown/None Chosen Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by guilec, updated: 1/6/2010 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: It's not perfectly written, but after you play it, you'll be able to figure it out. Contact me if needed.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Am Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JLouis Thiry, updated: 4/16/2017
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Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD)
Posted by Chad Jones, updated: 6/10/2016 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: "The Cuckoo," based on recordings by Clarence Ashley. The song begins with an index finger rake across the four main strings, followed by thumbed 5th string. I open with the instrumental break and play this bit between each verse. During the verse, the banjo plays a sort of riff rather than strict melody. Clawhammer, gDGCD.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by littleton, updated: 1/14/2017
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by howsy-bee, updated: 7/4/2018 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 11/16/2019 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: My arrangement of Cuckoo’s Nest is in the key of D, in open G tuning. Most of the A part is drawn from the tab posted by Hans Holzherr (Howsy-Bee). The B part is based on some ideas from Butch Robins’s recording and the tab posted by Jack Baker (edited from an earlier tab by Jim Crowley). I gratefully acknowledge all.
Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Bill H, updated: 1/4/2025
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Notes: aDADE tuning
Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Julian44_4, updated: 1/19/2012
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Notes: arranged for banjo by Dale Allen Pfeiffer
Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Julian44_4, updated: 1/20/2012
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Notes: arranged for banjo by Dale Allen Pfeiffer
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by littleton, updated: 5/11/2024
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G
Posted by Yigal Zan, updated: 11/28/2010
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Notes: Tuning: Double-C, capo at 2nd fret but 5th=g - gDADE
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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Notes: Web Link to hear this played by Tom Berghan http://www.hangoutstorage.com/jukebox.asp?site=Banjo+Hangout&URL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ebanjohangout%2Eorg%2Fmyhangout%2Fmedia%2Dplayer%2Faudio%5Fplayer%2Easp%3Fisjukebox%3Dno%26musicID%3D17833
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: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: F Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Jack Baker, updated: 2/20/2025
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Notes: www.frettedinstrumentsnyc.com
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: 10/5/2013
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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 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: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum) Key: D Tuning: Tenor Irish (GDAE) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 1/15/2022
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Notes: Irish Tenor tuning
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by KCJBanjo, updated: 3/3/2025
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Notes: Cut Knife Hill - John Arcand - Played in GEADE tuning. Clawhammer arrangement taken from the original sheet music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_BG3gMmZk8
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by GaryPuckett, updated: 9/26/2016
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Notes: A waltz I wrote for a wedding processional. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions, and best of luck!
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