Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by littleton, updated: 11/28/2022
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by heronhawk, updated: 4/17/2015
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Notes: "The story of my old rooster" by Yvon Mimeault from his CD "Y'etait temps". This is a Quebecois tune that is played often in the Olympia session. According to the story, when Yvon was young he walked across the farmyard and was attacked by the old rooster. Yvon, with injured leg and pride, pulls out his sling-shot and faces the rooster. As the beast turns its head sideways to look him in the eye — roosters turn sideways for a face to face — Yvon takes a shot. The bird, hit in the head, falls to the ground. Yvon, after making sure nobody saw him, leans it against a fence where he can discretely keep an eye on it. After a while, the rooster, who was only knocked out, gets up and staggers back to the henhouse, to the relief of Yvon. The next morning, as usual, the old rooster hopped on a fence to wake up the whole farm, but he was now singing out of tune.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Am Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ndlxs, updated: 2/24/2023
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Notes: Two French-traditional style tunes for clawhammer banjo that are hypnotic and rhythmic.
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Traditional Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 9/14/2012
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Notes: La Bastringue is a popular fiddle tune and is fun to play on the banjo..
This tab I send out to those great Canadian musicians that I was deeply honored to play music with in years past. Many of them are gone now.....but their music lives on....
Hope you like it.........Lynn
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dholland, updated: 2/1/2013
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Notes: This is really a French Canadian fiddle tune. Played in open G tuning capoed 2 frets.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by AllanJ, updated: 12/5/2016
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Notes: There are some nice tabs of this tune already but I thought I'd throw mine into the mix too!
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by littleton, updated: 2/5/2021
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Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Bill H, updated: 3/4/2023 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Tuning is aDADE or double C, capo 2
The first A and B parts are fairly basic and the A2 and B2 parts have some added triplets and is a bit more melodic.
Genre: Folk Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Difficulty: Expert
Posted by stigandr5, updated: 11/25/2012
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Notes: Look at me being all big, brassy and calling one of my own compositions expert-level!
This song came to me during a period of wakefulness in the middle of the night. Enjoy!
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JLouis Thiry, updated: 12/22/2018
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Notes: From the playing of Northumbrian piper Pauline Cato
Genre: Other Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by sproino, updated: 11/15/2015
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Notes: To honor France after her tragedy.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ronh2510, updated: 5/12/2021
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Notes: Got a request from a French customer of mine (he lives in France and bought all 4 of my Banjo Tab books) to tab out the French National Anthem in Scruggs style. Well, here it is. Straight ahead arrangement - shouldn't prove too difficult for the Intermediate player. Watch the chords in bars 16 and 18 Gm and Eb. If you hold the chord shapes down in each bar as you roll through them it should help.
Genre: Traditional Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mwblake, updated: 1/22/2015 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: This is a Québécois tune, written in the 1930s by Joe Bouchard [no - not the Blue Oyster Cult bassist, but a Joséph Bouchard, of Quebec] that I thought could benefit from a banjo arrangement. I originally thought it was a Cajun tune, as I first heard it by Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys on their fantastic album "Trace of Time". This arrangement is a transcription (more or less) of Dave Greeley's 1st fiddle solo from that recording. It's not terrifically easy but is attainable - and it sounds great when you get it up and running! Have fun.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by heronhawk, updated: 11/23/2016
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Notes: Tuning is open G with 5th string tuned down to f# (f#DGBD). This is a Quebecois tune composed by Rejean Lizotte. I played it here on two banjos - Goldtone cello banjo and Ramsey Woody.
Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by heronhawk, updated: 9/20/2014
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Notes: Québécois waltz from the Olympia Quebecois session repertoire. I recorded myself over our Quebecois band 'Les Gens Des Chutes'.
Genre: Other Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by BanjoBoy88, updated: 6/17/2024
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Notes: From Bela Fleck's "Double Time" album. It's a duet with a cello; the cello part is included here also. I tried to make it as easy to play as possible; please do let me know if there's a better fingering I could've done in either hand.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by LyleK, updated: 5/14/2010
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Notes: A.K.A. Waynesboro, the tuning is "Old G" (gDGDE)
Genre: Classical Style: Classical Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Lauck, updated: 3/2/2011
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Ron C, updated: 5/14/2013
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Notes: This is not my original tab in that it is based on what I had learned and played 15 years or more ago. I don't recall the sources, so can't give attribution. Ron
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 7/29/2022
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Notes: I have dusted off my tablature of Lady of Spain, which I worked out some decades ago. Note that my arrangement opens and closes with a vamp pattern. Lady of Spain is a standard number on the accordion – I’m talking to you, Lawrence Welk -- and it just sounded more complete to me with a cheesy intro and exit. Note also that the V chord -- i.e., G -- progresses to a G augmented. If you're going to go cheesy you might as well go whole hog (if I might mix metaphors). So put on your dancing shoes, strap on the old accordion, and everybody polka.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G
Posted by Yigal Zan, updated: 11/19/2013
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Notes: Double-D, capo at 2nd fret, 5th=g, gDADE
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G
Posted by Yigal Zan, updated: 9/26/2017
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Notes: Tuning: gDADE.
Based On Lonnie Robertson's fiddling.
Tab and Notes at,
https://www.hangoutstorage.com/banjohangout.org/storage/tabs/l/tab-lady-on-a-steam-22694-5146122692017.gif
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Jo Ban, updated: 2/7/2016
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Notes: O' Carolan tune. Easy to play
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by carlb, updated: 11/30/2023
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by carlb, updated: 11/30/2023
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Genre: Classical Style: Classical
Posted by patmcg1960, updated: 10/15/2009
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by EulalieBlue, updated: 4/22/2020
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Notes: Lake Erie is a less common fiddle tune published in Elias Howe’s Musical Companion, The Third Part, 1842. The tune probably falls into the general category of northern tunes, and the playing style is clawhammer with a small amount of double-thumbing on the inside strings.
This is my first tab post on this forum so I don't know the routine. Nevertheless, I am including the fiddle tune in parallel so the player who reads notes can actually see what they're aiming for. The arrangement is deliberately sparse and I would add quite a bit more rhythmic banjo noise in actual practice. In a few cases I added a note or two in the arrangement to make the tune more banjo-friendly.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjukebox, updated: 2/2/2023
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Notes: Capo 2
Genre: Other Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Gm Tuning: Open Gm (gDGBbD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ssalter, updated: 7/13/2013
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Notes: Lamma Bada is a very popular Arabic folk tune. Ideally there would be a few half-tones in there, but what can you do on a banjo. Also, this is missing the B section -- I'll fix that some day. Still, fun for variety.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by pmcd22, updated: 3/1/2010
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Genre: Popular Style: Other
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/7/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/7/2006 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by LyleK, updated: 3/21/2010
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Notes: AKA "Coming Down from Denver"
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dbrooks, updated: 2/14/2023 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This an arrangement of the jig, "The Lark in the Morning," as played by Noah Cline. Noah has reviewed the tab and given me permission to post the tab. The tab is based on this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bHzingnhUo
A higher quality version from Noah's CD can be found here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnijZjdxKLE
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 2/15/2023 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is a nice 6/8 jig for clawhammer, as played by Noah Cline.
The triangle ? in the tab indicates a clawhammer down stroke with the preferable clawhammer finger (index or middle finger). There are six 1/8 notes in the measure and the clawhammer strokes are on the 1st, 3rd, 4th, and 6th notes. It requires a little other rhythm than the usual clawhammer bum-pa-di-ty rhythm in 4/4 or 2/4.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G
Posted by Yigal Zan, updated: 12/4/2012
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Notes: A-modal, capo at 2nd fret, 5th=a, aEACE. On their "Farewell To Connacht" album, Na Filí plays a version of this tune naming it Paddy Hughes. The tablature reflects my jig-playing right hand style of the 2003 era.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish 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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Notes: Irish jig
Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Harpist, updated: 11/21/2013
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Notes: Traditional Shetland fiddle tune in D. Sawmill tuning EDAEa
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by BasicBoston, updated: 11/12/2010
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Studebaker Hawk, updated: 10/9/2009
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Notes: A Hobart Smith song as transcribed from the playing of David Holt. Tuning: f-D-F-C-D. NOTE: The first five notes on the midi playback are the open strings (5th thru 1st) to assist you in re-tuning your banjo. Enjoy.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by florianfreax, updated: 6/7/2016
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Notes: From Tim Eriksen's BANJO, FIDDLE and VOICE. fCFCD tuning.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: F Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Frailblazer, updated: 7/6/2011 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Tuning: fCFCD
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: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/7/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/7/2006
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Genre: Folk Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 9/13/2014 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Here is a Scruggs style version of Tom Paxton's song The Last Thing On My Mind. I have included also a guitar finger-style break (if you watch the TablEdit file.
Genre: Folk Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 10/3/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by hairyk, updated: 12/22/2023
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Notes: notation, tab, chords and lyrics
Genre: Rock Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by sinnie5, updated: 5/9/2015
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Notes: by Jack White
my first post so cut me some slack haha, enjoy.
Genre: Folk Key: D
Posted by RJWMitchell, updated: 5/9/2014
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Notes: Tabs in C (Drop C tuning), D (Drop C alt - aCGBd), D (aDGBd), Plus lead sheet
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Hilary Dirlam, updated: 2/16/2011
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Notes: Try this out!
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 9/4/2022
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Notes: A fairly straightforward 2F version of this popular tune/song. Note that the chorus/B part switches between thumb and index lead. A corresponding demo video is on my YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/xGqx5Hz_uhI
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 9/6/2022
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Notes: A video demo of this clawhammer version is posted on my YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/TkL48Oze4qE
Genre: Classical Style: Unknown/None Chosen Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Patrick P., updated: 10/17/2019 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Just to change a little ...
Genre: Other Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/7/2006
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Genre: Other Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Bm Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JLouis Thiry, updated: 1/23/2020
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Notes: Mædieval dance and drinking song.
f#DGBD tuning which I call “Tourdion Tuning”, my favorite and most melodious above all. This is an excerpt from my banjo book "Jiggin’ Banjo, une sélection de Morceaux Ternaires & Syncopés”.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/7/2006
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Fortune, updated: 7/21/2021
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/7/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Steelydan, updated: 7/28/2013 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Beginner version of a classic hymn. Song played (real slow) in the new True Grit movie. An excellent bluegrass (scruggs) up tempo version (Grascals) can be heard at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po0sNw3chkk&list=AL94UKMTqg-9A1fD9d3I9E4vOznSLr1TzC
Added a version with lyrics. Feel free to sing along and play with the Grascal song.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by webadage, updated: 9/2/2013
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Genre: Other Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ronh2510, updated: 2/22/2021
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 12/12/2012
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Notes: Also known as "Leather Britches," this is a great jam tune. I love the pinches in Part A, because they give it extra drive. Perhaps the only tricky bit is found in measures 10 and 26, and I have indicated the right-hand picking pattern, which involves playing the 2nd string with the thumb and then crossing over and playing the 3rd string with the index finger, a pattern than Alan Munde occasionally uses (at least to my ear) to good effect.
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/7/2006
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Dave Nauman, updated: 2/7/2010
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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: Traditional Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by n2banjos, updated: 7/1/2013
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Notes: Traditional fiddle tune in relatively easy melodic style
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 10/29/2017 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: original is fiddle and banjo this is banjo only
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Dm Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Expert
Posted by mwblake, updated: 2/12/2013 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Fantastic fiddle tune by Aubrey Haynie, from his album "Doin' My Time". I have transcribed Bela Fleck's solo break, to the best of my ability. You could have fun wrestling with this one. It ain't easy, but...
NB. Spike the 5th string to A - tuning: aDGBD
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Other Key: Dm Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by smitchinson, updated: 10/20/2014
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Notes: Fiddle tune by Johnny Cunningham (UK). Waltz time. Typically played first in a set with the Pernod Waltz (also uploaded here). Worth a listen to Johnny's rendition on his "Relativity" album. mp3 on my music page.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by littleton, updated: 11/28/2022
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by littleton, updated: 11/28/2022
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Freddie.D.Holt, updated: 1/21/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by stratovarious520, updated: 2/6/2021
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Notes: Another blistering instrumental of Jimmy's from the Rainbow Ride album. I thought the intro was a combination of triplets, but the exceptional ear of howsy-bee (Hans Holzherr) pointed out my mistake(s)! The 3 breaks Jimmy takes are all essentially the same, so I only included one and the ending. Have fun with this one.
Genre: Folk Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Letsfrail61, updated: 1/29/2019
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Notes: This piece I wrote all in melodic clawhammer style. So every note is a part of the melody and the whole thing has to be played very even, but not too fast. Enjoy it! Gerry :)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Ragtime Style: Other
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/7/2006
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Expert
Posted by JLouis Thiry, updated: 2/26/2020
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Notes: Written in D Major, this quadrille (jig) is played in fact in A mixolydian (no G#) played on aDGBD tuning without a capo. If someone has a nice chord progression to propose, I'll be glad to add it.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by heronhawk, updated: 1/2/2017
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Notes: Quebecois tune written by Jean Duval. Sheet music is available at https://thesession.org/tunes/2590. Here it is played by Catherine Planet (fiddle), Dejah Leger (guitar), and Greg Pelletier (banjo) at a Quebecois jam session at the Festival of American Fiddle Tunes in Port Townsend Washington in July 2016 https://youtu.be/Z85RDwcDjso
Genre: Folk Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD)
Posted by RJWMitchell, updated: 5/15/2014
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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: 7/14/2018
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Notes: A Quebecois tune from the repertoire of Aime Gagnon. Taught at Fiddle Tunes by Stephanie Lepine. This tune is meant to evoke the feeling of the waves of the St Lawrence River.
Genre: Jazz Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD)
Posted by Jocko MacNelly, updated: 11/17/2011
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Notes: This is a gorgeous solo that Lester Young (aka "Prez") played in 1950 over the chord changes to "pennies From Heaven." Clicking the youtube link should get you there. Performance notes and further discussion are on my BHO blog page. Enjoy!
Genre: Popular Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by the banjophile, updated: 5/19/2016 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Greg Gilbert, updated: 10/23/2009
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Notes: Christmas tune
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: F Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Paulie Ray, updated: 12/12/2012
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Notes: This tune has a lot of chord voicing to bring out the melody.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JFraboni, updated: 1/14/2022
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Notes: I tabbed this from the playing of Tommy Jarrel (on a recording made by
Brad Leftwich). I tried my best to be the most accurate possible as an exercise to grasp a bit of his playing. Please let me know if you think improvements could be made.
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Ragtime Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by AllanJ, updated: 7/19/2014
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Notes: Not my normal genre but this is my version of this great rag. I go up an octave in the middle and back down for the end as the tune goes below bottom D.
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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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Expert
Posted by TheBanjoPrince, updated: 10/28/2011
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Notes: Visit my site at www.StewartTylerMay.com for more melodic clawhammer tabs.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Julian44_4, updated: 2/21/2012
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Notes: Learned from Chris Via
Modified and TablEdited by Robert Fentress
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 10/12/2022
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Notes: This is a straightforward melodic version of Liberty — including harmonics — that is relatively easy to play. I quickly worked it up after hearing friends play a twin-fiddle arrangement. Note that it is in the key of D but played in standard G tuning.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by littleton, updated: 11/28/2022
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by littleton, updated: 11/28/2022
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by flyakfish, updated: 2/24/2021
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Notes: This song is played melodic style in the key of "D" in standard "G" tuning but with the 5th string lowered one fret to F#. This makes it easy to play and very flowing melodic style by not repeating the same string. This tuning works for many songs played melodic style in "D". I haven't seen this tuning here so I am posting several for examples.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/7/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Devon Wells, updated: 10/1/2012
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 4/26/2014
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Notes: Liberty is a fun tune and relatively easy to play in drop C tuning. Capo the second fret for the key of D which is the preferred key for fiddlers. Hope you like it. Lynn Williams
Genre: Other Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by seanray, updated: 3/6/2015 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Some random licks & phrases that go outside the usual Bluegrass realm.
Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JanetB, updated: 11/19/2016
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Notes: Playing in 6/8 jig time with clawhammer style is possible -- not commonly done, but still fun. This tune is one mentioned by the author Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867 - 1957) in one of her Little House on the Prairie books.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjofrog, updated: 12/4/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/26/2014 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: For the TOTW. This song is aka "Life Is Like a Mountain Railroad." Original tab by Stan Slack, modified by Jack Baker.
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 8/9/2022
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Notes: The Osborne Brothers
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by dbrooks, updated: 5/4/2022
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Notes: This tab is based on the playing of Joe and Odell Thompson - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyO24hRGv1Q
Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by kevinwholmes, updated: 5/21/2012
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Notes: Transcribed for banjo from traditional Shaker melody.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Lefty5string, updated: 3/6/2020
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Notes: Fairly simple arrangement of this Cold Mountain Soundtrack tune as done by Reeltime Travelers. It has some drop thumb but is slow and still quite easy to learn with slides, hammers and pull offs. www.lefty5string.com
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Jodebanjo, updated: 7/31/2016 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Updated finger positions. Much better playable.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by kmwaters, updated: 8/22/2015 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Simplistic melodic of the great old wartime tune.
Genre: Popular Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dennism, updated: 9/15/2013
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Notes: Plaintive, bittersweet, great backstory. My first posting...
Genre: Popular Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 8/4/2024
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Notes: A popular song with both German and Allied troops during WWII. A video of me playing this rendition is posted on my YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/3xcmMCZ9wa0
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by kmwaters, updated: 7/19/2011
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Genre: Classical 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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Notes: by Henry Purcell
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 6/8/2023
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Notes: A tune from Luther Davis. I play it in C even though it is normally played in D (just capo up 2). You can see me playing this and Ways of the World on YouTube as part of the "Luther Medley": https://youtu.be/H9lY4xjOEzI
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 8/4/2024
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Notes: From Luther Davis. Normally fiddled in the key of D, I just left off the capo and played in C. A video of me playing this rendition (in a medley with Ways of the World) is posted on my YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/q4_OVt3MpVQ
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A
Posted by Yigal Zan, updated: 2/20/2016
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Notes: A-modal, capo at 2nd fret, 5th=a, aEADE
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ScottK, updated: 1/28/2010
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Notes: Comes from the playing of Luther Davis and Roscoe Parish
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/8/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G#/Ab Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by KI4PRK, updated: 9/6/2009 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Yes, it's Limehouse Blues (a jazz tune) and it's in Ab (without a capo), but this is a bluegrass version complete with some standard Reno variations. Has a bluegrass guitar rhythm track & a bass rhythm track. The rolling parts aren't that hard, actually, but the single string can be a little tricky. The double stops are played by brushing down on the strings with your thumb.
Genre: Ragtime Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by bango, updated: 6/24/2014
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 7/15/2012
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by littleton, updated: 11/28/2022
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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: 11/28/2022
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Am Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by littleton, updated: 11/28/2022
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Am Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by littleton, updated: 5/11/2024
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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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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Jazz Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by sdevries, updated: 12/19/2009
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Genre: Popular Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 12/18/2015 - 3 Member Comments
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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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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish
Posted by Yigal Zan, updated: 3/28/2012
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Notes: The Road To Lisdoonvarna, set in 4/4 reel time, once in its native key of E and once transposed up to A
Genre: Rock Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: E Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 12/23/2021 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Doobie Brothers
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjojason88, updated: 6/11/2013
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Notes: Based off of Dwight McCall's recording of the song.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/8/2006
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by srselby, updated: 2/15/2010
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Notes: After the playing of Cathy Fink
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by srselby, updated: 2/15/2010
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Notes: Midi files for the tab
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JanetB, updated: 3/10/2014
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Notes: Check out Banjo Hangout's Tune of the Week for 12/27/13 for information about this tune, including some Grand Old Opry history.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by littleton, updated: 11/28/2022
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Genre: Folk Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A#/Bb Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by freemanmaxwell, updated: 6/28/2020
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Notes: Little Bird, Little Bird by Elizabeth Mitchell - I can't believe I couldn't find a tab of this song, so here's one. It's not perfectly accurate but I hope it can serve as a good jumping-off point for others.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by garry-tabedit, updated: 4/5/2011 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Couldn't find a decent tab on the internet, and so I transcribed it.
It's in drop C tuning, and I have only tabbed the instrumental breaks as the verses are the same minus the melody, plus I only have a demo version of tab edit, which has restrictions on the bars I can export...
Have fun, and check out more tabs on my blog:
http://banjosarecool.blogspot.com/
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stigandr5, updated: 6/9/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: My arrangement of TOTW 6/8/2012. Enjoy!
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C
Posted by Yigal Zan, updated: 1/13/2014
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Notes: Double-D, capo at 2nd fret, 5th=g, gDADE
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/8/2006
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Genre: Folk Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by SixBs, updated: 11/23/2014 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Simple frailing version
Genre: Folk Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 2/14/2014 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: This tune should be played in Pete Seeger's so-called basic strum ("bum - di-ty"): index finger plucks up, hand brushes down and thumb plays the fifth string.
Genre: Folk Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by littleton, updated: 12/27/2021
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Genre: Folk Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by littleton, updated: 12/27/2021
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/8/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Jacob Underwood, updated: 2/23/2015
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Notes: Here is an intermediate banjo solo for Bill Monroe's "Little Cabin Home on the Hill." It's pretty straightforward, employing the use of several classic Earl Scruggs licks. Mastering some of the classic elements of this solo can help the intermediate player prepare for a more advanced level.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 10/12/2022
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Notes: This tablature contains some variations that you might find useful. My main reason for posting the tab is to highlight the G-D-G turnaround in measures 30 and 31, a brilliant lick from the playing of Bill Keith that works well in many songs.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/8/2006
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Dm Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by olddammike, updated: 4/15/2023
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Notes: 5th string is dropped to f. fDGCD
https://youtu.be/2-8j1kxVtgM
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by kmwaters, updated: 10/9/2018
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Notes: Might need a tweak in the codas, but I set the reading list a bit to improve things a little.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stratovarious520, updated: 6/30/2021
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Notes: My arrangement of the A.P. Carter song, taken to the banjo realm by Earl's Foggy Mountain Banjo album. I also have a video in the archives of this version.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 7/5/2024
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Notes: Foggy Mountain Banjo
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/30/2013 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: My arrangement comprises 3 breaks. The first is pretty much straight Scruggs, the wellspring from which all bluegrass banjo flows. The second and third are more improvisational.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Andyrhydycreuau, updated: 4/9/2024
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Genre: Other Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by JanetB, updated: 12/5/2015
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Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JanetB, updated: 12/6/2016
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Notes: A favorite to play around Christmas. It's my mother's favorite, too. We always get someone to play a drum, too.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Fortune, updated: 2/3/2010
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by davebanjojo, updated: 7/4/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by agentheath, updated: 4/26/2012
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Notes: Ben Eldridge kickoff solo from Live at the Cellar Door
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Banjowen, updated: 2/22/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: A tune I wrote many years ago for a banjo player who used to come to our weekly jam, Jimmy found learning the banjo very hard and eventually give it up, but I always admired his efforts.
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/8/2006
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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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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by allisondas, updated: 11/26/2011
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Notes: The original recording is in the key of C, but I was unwillingly to list it in C b/c that's just a capo crime. In the vamp section, Ralph plays a few awkward rolls.
Genre: Traditional Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by RickyDoo, updated: 3/28/2013
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Notes: Got this out of my head using Tabledit.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 4/27/2020 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: Here are 3 breaks.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 4/14/2018 - 4 Member Comments
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Notes: as played on the album "The Best of The Best" - Ralph Stanley (Federal Records fed-0528-2)
G tuning - capo 5
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 9/2/2012
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Notes: Here is two clawhammer versions of Little Maggie. The first is how I play it, the other is a Round Peak version, based on Tommy Jarrell's playing.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 10/20/2011
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Don Borchelt, updated: 4/5/2013 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: This version of Little Maggie is in D Modal tuning (aDGAD), basically the same idea as G "Sawmill" tuning, in that the string normally tuned to the 3rd degree of the scale is raised instead to the 4th degree; in this case, the 3rd string, normally F# in Open D tuning, is raised to G.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/8/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by kmwaters, updated: 12/19/2013 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: First Break Bill Emerson arrangement.
Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by kmwaters, updated: 1/5/2014
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Notes: Minor edits from the last time I posted this song.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by kmwaters, updated: 2/3/2014 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Capo up 2 on all strings - cleaned up a little from previous posts.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by RB3, updated: 7/9/2022
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by ChuckJo, updated: 8/7/2012
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Notes: Stuff that might make this tune more difficult: Besides the syncopations, there are open-string pull-offs in measures 8, 9, 10, and 17.
Big Scioty, which commemorates the Scioto River, is one of my favorite tunes, made especially special since it runs through Columbus, Ohio where I used to live. At some point, I decided that the Olentangy, the smaller of the Columbus' two rivers (they join near downtown) deserved its own tune, so I made up this one, Little Olentangy (Composed on the fiddle by Chuck Levy © 2006, arranged for the banjo © 2012). According to Wikipedia, the river now known as the Olentangy was originally known as the "Keenhongsheconsepung" which literally translated as "stone for your knife stream" based on the shale found along its shore. Early settlers translated this to "Whetsone River". In 1833, the Ohio General assembly passed legislation intending to restore the original native American names to some Ohio waterways, but mistakenly gave Whetstone River the name "Olentangy", Delaware for "river of red face paint" which had actually belonged to the river that is now known as Big Darby Creek. Little Olentangy appears on Scratching and Clawing, my first CD, on Red Dog Records, 2006.
I am playing clawhammer style, on a Bart Reiter banjo. The pot is an old Vega Tubaphone, with a new 5-string neck.
Genre: Folk Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jim109b, updated: 10/16/2018
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Notes: Mando buddy of mine is ALWAYS playing this John Reischman tune, so I thought I'd work out an arrangement for banjo. Fun tune, chord structure is a bit unusual. TAB is 98% done, you may have to tweak the odd bit.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjukebox, updated: 1/13/2023
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Notes: Capo Two
Written by John Reischman
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Dave Nauman, updated: 2/17/2010 - 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 janolov, updated: 12/1/2013
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Notes: Little Rabbit is in the same family as John Brown's Dream (for example Tommy Jarrell) and Jimmie Johnson (as Dwight Diller prefers to call the tune). This version is based on an old recording by Crockett's Kentucky Mountaineers. This is an advanced version with Galax lick and drop thumb.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Tom Hanway, updated: 8/26/2015 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Here is a Scruggsy arrangement for the OT tune, with some melodic and Celtic-style flourishes.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by janolov, updated: 12/1/2013
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Notes: Little Rabbit is in the same family as John Brown's Dream (for example Tommy Jarrell) and Jimmie Johnson (as Dwight Diller prefers to call the tune). This version is based on an old recording by Crockett's Kentucky Mountaineers. This is an easy beginner version based on simple "bum-di-ty" pattern and some hammering-on and pull-offs. The tuning is aEAC#E or standard G tuning gDGBD with capo on 2nd fret (and fifth string tuned up to a or spiked/capoed at the 7th fret).
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Open C (gCGCE) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by skoobee, updated: 9/11/2010
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Notes: I first heard SilasBanjo play this on You Tube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlDuk5NLprQ) and fell in love with it (It's been my ringtone ever since!) I went in search of a TAB to help me learn it and eventually pieced together a version, just ever-so slightly different from his wonderful version.
It evolves each time I play it, but it's very catchy. This is my latest incarnation (but one - changed the b-part to be more like the Silas one). I believe the original writer to be Michael Fox, but correct me if I'm wrong!
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Jazz Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by AZJerry, updated: 8/30/2009 - 3 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 6/12/2012 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Posted by Yigal Zan, updated: 3/16/2012
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Notes: Selected notes based on transcription of Wilson Douglas' fiddling. An A-modal tune, banjo tuned Double-D, capo at 2nd fret, 5th=a, aDADE
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/8/2006
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD)
Posted by Jim Yates, updated: 1/25/2011
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Notes: Learned from Doc Watson's guitar playing
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Jeepeedee, updated: 4/30/2018
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Notes: Based on Hilarie Burhans' tutorial on youtube
Genre: Folk Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Dm Tuning: Dm (aDFAD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Peter Vipulis, updated: 5/22/2019 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Bill Keith live at the Newport Folk Festival. Includes just the first 3 verses to be concise. Each one varies a little, and is mostly repeated later. Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqPQ7ZSoZmg
Genre: Old Time Key: A Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 9/20/2014
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Notes: This tab shows Little Sadie in two-finger thumb lead style and easy threefinger style (Scruggs style). It is played in sawmill tuning.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Am Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 10/11/2022 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by adolphuscusins, updated: 2/19/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: I tabbed this out from watching the video at:
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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Notes: A Pennsylvania tune - the quirkiest tune ever!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by bandofothers, updated: 2/11/2011 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Folk Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Bryan Daste, updated: 7/25/2012 - 7 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 10/27/2021
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Notes: Live and Let Live was one of Bill Monroe's signature songs, and it's a good one. My tablature is for a pretty straightforward break -- nothing surreal here. But there is lots of room for improvisation.
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: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A#/Bb Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 9/21/2016 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Here is a nifty break by Bill Keith, from the Keith and Rooney album of the same name. When I first heard it, in 1963 or 1964, I was quite impressed. It is simple and elegant, and it contains some novel ideas (for the time). Keith and Rooney played it in A#/Bb, and I have tabbed it in that key.
Genre: Folk Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ScreamingVegetables, updated: 3/29/2024
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Notes: This instrumental was created by Pete Seeger on the 12 string guitar. My banjo arrangement was cobbled together from Seeger's version, Leo Kottke's and other YouTube versions. I first wrote it in music notation, then created tabs for the banjo mostly in Melodic style. I used Musescore 4 which is a free app for Windows, Mac and Linux. I'm not sure what I'm able to upload as this is my first time uploading. If this fails, I am at DonBrunetti1943@Gmail.Com (put "Seeger LC" in the subject line and I'll send you the relevant file via your email address).
Genre: Jazz Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Adgardad, updated: 3/1/2010
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Notes: Great song from a hugely underknown and underrated banjo player named Fred Geiger. This is off of his 1978 album "Nice Work if You Can Get It. I was glad to see a video of Fred on the Hangout and glad that he is still out there playing and pushing the envelope.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 7/31/2024 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: This is from the famous front porch tape Steve Arkin and Bill Keith made of Bobby Thompson’s playing in 1964. The quality of the recording is low, and I could not always clearly hear what Thompson was playing. So take it FWIW. Liza Jane must at one time have been a popular name, resulting in at least 3 songs or tunes in country music. There is Ole Liza Jane, which Merle Travis recorded as a nonsense song and Don Stover recorded as a lovely banjo tune (https://www.banjohangout.org/tab/browse.asp?m=detail&v=26264). There is also Goodbye Liza Jane, which I associate with Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys (https://www.banjohangout.org/tab/browse.asp?m=detail&v=27278). And then there is Bobby Thompson’s version, which seems to exist in a Universe all its own.
Genre: Folk Style: Other Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BeeEnvironment, updated: 8/25/2021 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: By Pete Seeger
Genre: Folk Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Am Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by littleton, updated: 10/24/2021
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Genre: Folk Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Am Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by littleton, updated: 10/24/2021
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Am Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Devon Wells, updated: 2/26/2010
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by fivestring61, updated: 5/22/2010 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by skoobee, updated: 9/12/2010 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: A simple arrangement of Loch Lomond. Used to help my acolyte learn chord positions and changes. Nice and simple/
Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 11/6/2022 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: A demo video of me playing this rendition is posted on YouTube: https://youtu.be/rtD35yQrQP4
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: 4/15/2006
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Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/15/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by gulyrob, updated: 11/5/2013 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Here is one of my favorite songs, from Dave Hum. I struggled a lot with TAB. Enjoy it!
Dave Hum version of youtube Locust Hill (2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1mwnUJvtNU
Genre: Folk Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Devon Wells, updated: 2/26/2010 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by littleton, updated: 11/28/2022
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 4/27/2023
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Notes: Normally this is played in D, but I like it pitched down to C (no capo) when I play this as a solo banjo piece. Here's a link to a YouTube video of me playing this as part of a medley with Mississippi Sawyer: https://youtu.be/wO8_9cGpFCU
Genre: Ragtime Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mwblake, updated: 1/23/2020 - 4 Member Comments
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Notes: A fabulous Ragtime/Classical flavoured ditty, written and arranged by my friend and fantastic banjo player Paul Bienek from Gloucestershire UK. It's reasonably painless to learn too!
Have fun!!
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by BasicBoston, updated: 11/10/2010
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Notes: Just trying to help beginners just starting out to be able to play something they can identify with. I know I had a hard time starting out trying to figure out songs when I never heard them before. Just basic melodys, put your embloishments where you like
Genre: Traditional Style: Classical Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Petey, updated: 7/9/2011
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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: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by MY MUSIC LESSONS ONLINE, updated: 9/8/2011
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by BrentSims, updated: 1/11/2016
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Notes: When I was growing up my Mother sang her version of “Danny Boy” to me multiple times a day during my entire childhood. Londonderry Air is the nane is the name of the tune the lyrics of "Danny Boy" are set to. It's the first tune I learned to play on my banjo. I hope someone finds this tab useful. Both the MIDI and the mp3 were computer generated.
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BanjoJeff, updated: 3/1/2013 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A#/Bb Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 8/12/2021 - 7 Member Comments
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Notes: The Osborne Brothers recorded Lonesome Feeling in the 1960s. On youtube you can find excellent versions that are more recent, such as those by Josh Williams, Dean Osborne, and the the 2018 IBMA All-Star Jam. The latter features an outstanding lead vocal by Nick Dumas and impressive banjo work by Justin Moses. My tablature contains 2 breaks, the first the way I tend to play it and the second an approximation of Justin Moses’s break. I found it difficult to hear and decipher parts of Moses’s break; so navigate it at your peril.
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Dm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Dave Nauman, updated: 2/8/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Dm Tuning: Open C (gCGCE) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by delmando, updated: 2/12/2015 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Dm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/26/2018
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Notes: My first post ... I hope somebody finds this arrangement enjoyable. Tabledit
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Dm Tuning: Open Gm (gDGBbD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Studebaker Hawk, updated: 10/9/2009 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Transcribed from the playing of John McEuen on the Will The Circle Be Unbroken (Vol. I) album. Second 'B' part variation from a later Vassar Clements recording featuring a break by McEuen. Capo all the way up to the 7th fret.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Dm Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Expert
Posted by jimrichter, updated: 12/10/2023 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: In the style of Courtney Johnson
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/15/2006
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 11/2/2023
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Notes: From John Salyer. Key of A using G sawmill tuning capoed 2. A video of me playing this rendition is posted on my YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/HUEU4xdcYIw
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 11/2/2023
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Notes: A clawhammer rendition based on the John Salyer's fiddle version. Tab is in G modal. Just capo two for A modal, where it is normally played by fiddlers.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Am Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 6/4/2014
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Dm Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mwblake, updated: 8/16/2017 - 5 Member Comments
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Notes: The classic Kenny Baker/Bill Monroe fiddle tune. A beautiful, interesting melody. I've never heard another banjo interpretation of it. This is mine. I hope you like it. [NB. Spike the 5th to A]
Update: Noam Pikelny has since recorded this tune on "Plays Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe" - check it out, it's awesome!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by littleton, updated: 11/28/2022
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Dm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Bill H, updated: 2/23/2023
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Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Em Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by DGriffinEvans, updated: 10/17/2023 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: I have just uploaded a clawhammer version of “Lonesome Moonlight Waltz” by Bill Monroe, in Em/D tuning (g D G B E). (Obviously tune down a full step to play it in Dm, although I play it on a long-neck with capo on the first fret.) Once I can play it up to tempo, I’ll post a video.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Dm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by 21stCenturyBanjo, updated: 4/6/2019
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Notes: Noam's version of Lonesome Moonlight Waltz off the Noam Pikelny plays Kenny Baker plays Bill Monroe album
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/15/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Banjoker, updated: 10/14/2012 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Banjo break with guitar and bass.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by howsy-bee, updated: 11/5/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Tab for the video in the media archive.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/15/2006
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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: 3/18/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/15/2006
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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: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 11/14/2019 - 7 Member Comments
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Notes: Lonesome Road Blues is common in jams, and it's a favorite of mine. My tab comprises some variations on how you can play it.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 4/6/2022 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: I have revised my tab of LRB by adding an additional down-the-neck break that comprises some passages you might find useful.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 10/20/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Lonesome Road Blues or Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad with clawhammer banjo and guitar accompaniment.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 1/6/2014 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Old Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by janolov, updated: 10/30/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 7/15/2024
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Notes: Foggy Mountain Banjo Album
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/15/2006
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Genre: Country Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 2/15/2024 - 2 Member Comments
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Posted by Lewistaylor565, updated: 11/15/2018
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Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Julian44_4, updated: 1/28/2012
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Notes: TablEdit by David J Payne
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006
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Genre: Classical Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by coltoncrawford, updated: 9/9/2019
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/15/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 5/28/2012
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Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Studebaker Hawk, updated: 8/29/2009
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Notes: John McEuen's banjo break to the old Marshall Tucker Band instrumental. Played in the key of D, the banjo is tuned to a D tuning (a D F# A D).
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: E Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dbrooks, updated: 6/20/2021
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Notes: This tab is based on a version by Willie Watson. He plays Drop C tuning (gCGBD) capoed at the 4th fret for the key of E. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxTxPUHeF0Q
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/15/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Traditional Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by phb, updated: 3/8/2014
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Notes: One of my first banjo break arrangements ever, I think it has some rough spots but it isn't all bad either :)
Genre: Country Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Crusty, updated: 7/26/2015 - 1 Member Comments
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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: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by HOWDYDOODY, updated: 4/28/2016
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 2/13/2022
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Notes: This is a basic two-finger thumb lead version. Nothing fancy and appropriate for beginners, but hopefully still pleasing enough for someone more experienced with the style, and a basis for trying some variations.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by wesmont, updated: 4/16/2016 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: I made this one after watching a lesson at Tony Trischkas School of Banjo at artistworks.com with him & Bill Evans about developing solos. I also like to give credits to Alan Munde. His teaching about "Roll Logic" is so helpful.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/15/2006
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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: 2/13/2017
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Notes: Watch out for the rests and the many skip notes
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by n1wr, updated: 12/3/2011
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by delmando, updated: 12/31/2014
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Notes: I used to play this tune years ago on the Bouzouki. Was reminded of it recently & here's a melodic clawhammer interpretation of the tune as I remember it.
Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by littleton, updated: 11/28/2022
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Notes: Irish waltz
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JLouis Thiry, updated: 4/16/2017
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Genre: Other Style: Other
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/15/2006
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Genre: Old Time 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: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: E Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Buxton, updated: 11/21/2017
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Notes: John Hartford's version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0cdmHXWYr8
Tuned in open E 1st string E, B,G#,B,E. All breaks.
Genre: Traditional Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: E Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 5/20/2014 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: e B E G# B youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0cdmHXWYr8
Genre: Rock Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by jeremywokka, updated: 1/20/2024 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: The smash hit Argentinian "rola" about drinking to forget a lost love, and only making yourself sadder. If I had to pick only one song to sum up the genre of "Rock en Español" in the 1990s, it would be this classic. This song is incredibly popular to cover on the guitar because it's a very simple strumming pattern and very fun to sing along to. (If you've never closed out a bar at 4:30am with the entire crowd singing 'Y YO ESTOY AQUI/BORRACHO Y LOCO', you're missing out). Naturally, I wanted to make a banjo version, but I got a bit carried away and while this starts as a laid-back rock song, the banjo line quickly becomes Scruggs-style bluegrass. I've included the "unaltered melody" as a muted track in the GP5 version so you can see how much extra stuff I threw in there and take out whatever you don't want to keep.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/24/2014
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Notes: For the TOTW (http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/281986), from Jack Baker
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 8/13/2023
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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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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Julian44_4, updated: 1/20/2012
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Notes: Dale Allen Pfeiffer, Donald B Zepp,
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Julian44_4, updated: 12/1/2011
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Notes: Lyle W Konigsberg, Tom Joad
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/16/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/16/2006
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by carlb, updated: 3/23/2023
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Notes: Tuning aEAC#E
Setting to Ed Haley's fiddling
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Chicago (DGBE) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Harpist, updated: 12/30/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: E Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Tim Ogden, updated: 9/20/2020 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: Tuning is
e C# F# B C#
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dbrooks, updated: 12/23/2023
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Notes: The tab is based on Jason Romero's playing in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQLVx7pbZgc The tuning is gEADE (or fDGCD with the capo at the 2nd fret). I have made some edits and added chords as of 12-17-2023.
12-23-2023 - With the help of Jack Baker, I have added a TablEdit file with guitar backup.
Genre: Folk Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: F Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Andyrhydycreuau, updated: 5/20/2022 - 5 Member Comments
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: E Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dbrooks, updated: 12/23/2023
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Notes: At Jack Baker's suggestion and with his help, this tab uses the tuning in Jason Romero's original version - eC#F#BC#. This is, in essence, a lower-tuned version of fDGCD.
Genre: Folk Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BanjoGat, updated: 2/19/2013 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: As played by Mississippi John Hurt, transcribed for banjo.
Genre: Folk Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by jcland, updated: 1/20/2015
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Notes: Louis Collins as requested. Song is played with a simple Travis picking style. Popular versions were done by Mississippi John Hurt and Jerry Garcia.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/16/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/16/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/16/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Posted by schlange, updated: 4/16/2006 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 4/2/2023 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Their version of Love and Wealth is one of my favorite songs by Flatt and Scruggs. They did not release a studio recording on the song, but a recording of a live radio broadcast from the early 1950s is available on the bootleg LP “Kings of Bluegrass, Vol. 2.” (The LP’s liner notes are from Ben Dover, which happens to be the name of a character in Chevy Chase’s “Fletch” movie). In contrast, J. D. Crowe produced a studio recording of the song on the recent album “Crowe and Wasson.” It is instructive to compare the versions by these two masters. They are generally similar, with some notable exceptions: Compare Scruggs’s nifty C passage in measure 4 to Crowe’s more conventional C passage in measure 21. Scruggs handles the A to D transition in measure 15 in an unconventional way, with only 2 notes, whereas Crowe carefully plays the melody in measure 32. Scruggs played the song in the key of B, and Crowe's is in the key of A. The tablature is in G.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Bendan, updated: 6/20/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 11/18/2017
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Notes: Here are two of my breaks to Love Come Home, both including some moderately difficult licks. Pay particular attention to the C and D chords, several of which I borrowed from recordings by other players. I have labelled the sources of the licks that I borrowed. Note also that the trick in the first IV (C) chord of the second break is to emphasize the alternation between the first string 2nd fret and first string open -- this alternation is the effect I am trying to achieve. I highlighted this in the MIDI by selecting "ringing note" for those notes.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/16/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/16/2006 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by RB3, updated: 3/24/2023 - 1 Member Comments
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/16/2006
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Genre: Traditional Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by drobertz, updated: 10/5/2017
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/16/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Claude Grassley, updated: 4/8/2020
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Notes: Simple Bill Monroe tune clawhammer style. The same 8 measures repeat throughout both the verses and chorus as far as I could tell. I imbedded the lyrics but they don't match up real well in tabledit
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/16/2006
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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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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/16/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/16/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Kstevensmd, updated: 10/18/2019
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Notes: I hope you like it!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/16/2006
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JanetB, updated: 5/11/2017
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Notes: One of Jay Ungar's lovely original compositions.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by dbrooks, updated: 5/25/2024
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Notes: This tab is for the Tune of the Week, 6/24/2024.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by PaddyThePicker, updated: 10/23/2013
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Notes: Original Composition by Patrick Callanan. It sounds best capoed up 2 to play in Double D
Genre: Jazz Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Adgardad, updated: 3/2/2010
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Notes: Another tab from the jazz-jo wizard Fred Geiger. The banjo capos at the 4th fret. I threw in some simple guitar chords so you could see how it sounds with accompaniment.
Genre: Other Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by phb, updated: 7/3/2011
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Notes: This is the title song from the children marionette theatre play "Jim Knopf & Lukas, der Lokomotivführer" ("Jim Button & Luke the Engine Driver, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpSlht21WI4) arranged in the melodic style. I arranged this tune for several reasons: I loved to watch the series when I was a child, my daughter loves to watch it now and I have been playing some melodic style material for some time now so I decided I could arrange this tune as an exercise. Massive public demand for an arrangement of this tune certainly was not the reason... ;)
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 5/13/2023
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Notes: A video of me playing this rendition is posted on my YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/VR0YAZR_N4E
Note that in the video I am playing a minstrel banjo and even though it is in the relative Double C tuning, the banjo is pitched down 5 half steps even, making it a Double G tuning.
