Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Ben Asher, updated: 5/8/2013
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Notes: Here is a tune I wrote, named after the Biblical Nadav and Avihu. Like their story, the tune has an eerie, haunting feeling to it. Its played out of aDADE, but it doesn't sound like it.... Please give it a try, and let me know what you think - feedback and comments are always welcome! You can hear it in my video section on my page... Enjoy!
Genre: Folk Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by sam_bentley, updated: 7/17/2013
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Notes: Standard tuning, 5th String Capo on 7th fret.
Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Julian44_4, updated: 1/20/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: arranged for banjo by Dale Allen Pfeiffer
Genre: Old Time Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dholland, updated: 12/31/2014
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Notes: This is a popular fiddle tune around here so I tabbed it for 3-finger banjo. There is nothing tricky here so have fun.
Genre: Old Time Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jim109b, updated: 12/11/2016
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Notes: 3 finger picked arrangement of this fun Steve Rosen tune, more melodic in places and closer to the fiddle melody. Based on a Della Mae recording.
Genre: Old Time Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by AlBanjo38, updated: 9/12/2018
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by howsy-bee, updated: 4/20/2019 - 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 littleton, updated: 4/7/2021
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by littleton, updated: 4/7/2021 - 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 Harpist, updated: 1/9/2013 - 4 Member Comments
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Notes: A tune from Northumberland, England, from the fiddle playing of Barry Dransfield. There's a few variations in this - use or ignore, according to taste
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Stephen Rapp, updated: 10/30/2018
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Notes: A basic clawhammer tab version for Isham Monday's Nancy Dawson in Double D tuning.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by delmando, updated: 2/15/2012
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Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Patrick P., updated: 9/22/2019
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Notes: Choro usually played on mandolin adapted for banjo. Tab updated
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Dm Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stevieparker1, updated: 7/11/2010 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: D minor Tuning ( aDFAD )
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Dm Tuning: Dm (aDFAD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by schlange, updated: 8/25/2014 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: For our TOTW, tabbed by Jack Baker
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Dm Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjo321, updated: 8/8/2017
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Notes: I tabbed this in the adgbd tuning. it has a little different feel to it and it has a improvised blues break up the neck. I always liked this tune but I hated having to tune on stage so I rearranged this so all I had to do was spike the fifth string to A from G tuning.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Dm Tuning: Dm (aDFAD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by awal767, updated: 9/8/2019
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Notes: Here's Earl's first break from this fun tune, with his nice little harmonic tag at the end.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Dm Tuning: Dm (aDFAD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 4/14/2024 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: Here is a lovely original tune by Mr. Earl himself. It employs the D minor tuning, which Bill Keith also used in his stunning arrangement of Little Sadie. My version of Nashville Blues contains a particularly challenging single-string passage in measures 27 and 28, and I have shown the right-hand fingering I use when attempting to play it. Try it at your own risk.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Dm Tuning: Dm (aDFAD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/14/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Dm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Studebaker Hawk, updated: 10/9/2009
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Notes: If you've ever REALLY listened to Earl playing Nashville Blues on the Will The Circle Be Unbroken album, halfway through the song another banjo steps in the background and plays harmony (of sorts) to Earl's lead. This is John McEuen's 2nd banjo part to that song. NOTE: Song is in the key of Dm, banjo in Open Gm tuning, capo at 7th fret.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 10/19/2017 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Not the instrumental in D minor by Earl Scruggs, this jaunty little tune/song (not very bluesy IMHO, but what do I know) was written by the Delmore Brothers. The most popular recording is perhaps that by Doc Watson, who plays a couple of nifty guitar breaks. I have tried to capture the spirit of Doc’s guitar in breaks for the banjo. Nothing challenging here, just fun to play.
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: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/17/2006 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/15/2006 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by rustewey, updated: 11/20/2011
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Notes: I learned this version in Don Stover's livingroom in 1973
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 11/10/2018
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Genre: Country Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by James Stiltner, updated: 6/20/2013
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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: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Buxton, updated: 5/21/2023
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Notes: The guitar pro file will open and play in tabledit and tefview, however, you don't get lyrics in those formats.
Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by RJWMitchell, updated: 8/30/2013
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Genre: Other Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by RJWMitchell, updated: 8/2/2013
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Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by 5-String, updated: 5/23/2018 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: This is my interpretation of how Ned Luberecki played this tune on his YouTube video for the Deering Banjo Co., uploaded on July 3, 2014. Adjust settings so that chords are displayed as letter names only, tab is displayed at 4 bars per line, and view is scaled to 16th notes.
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: 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: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjofrog, updated: 8/23/2010 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: Composed by Tim O'Brien. An arrangement that I figured out. I don't think there are any pickup notes. I'm also not sure where the measures start and end, but the tab seems to be accurate in this arrangement. Anyway, it's a fun song to pick and sing.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 4/1/2020 - 4 Member Comments
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Notes: In this stressful time of a pandemic, why not learn a tune with a topical title, “Nervous Breakdown.” The tune was written and recorded in the mid-1960s by Bob Johnson on the album “Twelve Shades of Bluegrass” by Bob Johnson and the Lonesome Travelers. All I have been able to find out about Bob Johnson is that he was from Chattanooga, TN, he played for a short while with Bill Monroe – see the tape circulating among collectors of the Blue Grass Boys at Bean Blossom, 13 April 1958 – and he retired from music in 1967. You can hear Johnson’s recording of Nervous Breakdown on youtube.com. Bob Black also recorded it on his delightful album “Ladies on the Steamboat.” Nervous Breakdown has an odd but appealing chord structure, and I have somewhat arbitrarily broken it into 2 parts, A and B
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Don Borchelt, updated: 3/23/2023 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: This is a banjo lesson I prepared for a student the years ago, based on the Country Gazette's live recording of this Delaney & Bonnie song. I may have simplified Alan Munde's picking here and there to accommodate my student's playing level, I can't remember. Note that the TEF file has all of the tracks, not just the banjo. Note that the banjo is capoed on the 4th fret.
Genre: Rock Style: Unknown/None Chosen Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Ieuan, updated: 6/11/2012 - 8 Member Comments
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Notes: Bill Knopf's arrangement of Fleetwood Mac's 'Never going back again' from the album Rumours.
Genre: Popular Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 10/29/2020 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is a clawhammer version of the film song "Never On A Sunday" from 1960. I have tried to make clawhammer interpretations of the Bouzouki parts (intro and ending) based on the bouzouki playing but adapted to clawhammer banjo. Sometimes there is a break in the middle, and the intro or ending may be used for the break too.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by kingo5string, updated: 2/9/2013
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Notes: The is Doug Dillard's break(s) which are split with the mandolin. The tune is in D, so Doug capos up seven (7) frets.
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/15/2006 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: A#/Bb Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by KI4PRK, updated: 9/6/2009
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Notes: The Frank Wakefield mandolin tune, "New Camptown Races", arranged for melodic style banjo key of Bb, uncapoed. It's very hard, IMO, to get it to sound really smooth but it still sounds really good. No fancy ending for this one :P With Rhythm Guitar & Bass rhythm track. The triplets are played by carefully brushing your thumb down across the strings in time with the triplet.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A#/Bb Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Old Hickory, updated: 12/15/2014
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Notes: Dec 15, 2014: Uploaded corrected file. Fixed a note error. // My transcription of Mike Munford's solo on the Frank Wakefield CD "Ownself Blues." Lots of tricky stuff. Thanks to the note isolation and i.d. feature in Transcribe software, I'm fairly certain I have the notes right. Of course, the fingerings could be different.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A#/Bb Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by 21stCenturyBanjo, updated: 4/29/2018
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Notes: Written By Frank Wakefield
Sheet music by 21stCenturyBanjo
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Jazz Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Ragaisis, updated: 12/17/2012
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Notes: Jean Luc Ponty's New Country. It's a great progressive style tune for the banjo. Timing is strange since Ponty will go from 4/4 time to 3/4 time over the VI an V chords and then back to 4/4. So watch out for that. It's played in the key of A, but I've tabbed it in G so you'll need to Capo 2.
Genre: Other Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Dm Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jlambert180, updated: 8/27/2023
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Notes: My first original song for banjo. Capo on 2 for Dm key.
Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Julian44_4, updated: 1/20/2012
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Notes: arranged for banjo by Dale Allen Pfeiffer
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Bill H, updated: 6/5/2022 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: Tuning is aDADE or double C tuning, capo 2. This is a bright fun tune to play.
Genre: Traditional Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Bill H, updated: 3/16/2024
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Genre: Traditional Style: Other Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Tom Hanway, updated: 6/9/2015
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Notes: Here is the setting (for my mp3) using Double D tuning (Double C-Capo II) for ‘New Five Cents’, the Old Time reel that goes under interchangeable titles. The titles create confusion since there are two main branches in Old Time and further regional, local and bluegrass variants. The A Part is pretty close in most versions with one noticeable variation – either dipping down to an A-note or rising up to F# in the second and sixth measures. This variation is found in both Old Time and Bluegrass versions and a G chord is sometimes played in these spots. It’s in the B Part (fifth and sixth measures) where the melodic contour branches in one of two directions – either dipping down from the fifth (A) to the tonic (D)/D chord, or, as Paul Warren played it (New Five Cents), using a G-note double-stop with a B-note)/G chord, then up to an A-note/A chord and moving upwards happily in major second intervals. Many (but not all) Old Time versions (‘New Five Cents’, ‘Ruffled Drawers’ or ‘Buffalo Nickel’) tend to keep dipping down to the low D-note/D chord and use fewer chords than Bluegrass versions which are based on Paul Warren’s version.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjukebox, updated: 3/26/2020
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Notes: Source: Doc Roberts
Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 11/1/2022
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Notes: The first and second part is mainly based on Wade Ward. The third part is an own "idea" where the melody is played an octave higher and I use Galax lick a lot.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 8/4/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 8/4/2011
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 2/13/2022
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Notes: TOTW (clawhammer) for Dec 30, 2016. Banjo tuned aEAC#E.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 6/3/2021 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: NYC is very nice tune that was written by Tony Trischka, who recorded it in the mid-1980s. It has been rattling around in my brainpan for quite some time, and I finally committed it to tablature. My tab of the tune is not identical to Tony's version, but it does follow it fairly closely. Note that, to my ear at least, Tony tunes the fifth string to F#, although it also could be tuned to A or even G. If I got it wrong I am sure someone will correct me. Note also the lovely descending note pairs in measures 14 and 15. For some reason I find that passage really moving.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Banjopikr, updated: 2/10/2022
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Notes: Here's a backup line to the song, based on the Flatt & Scruggs version but added a few forward-backward rolls here and there. Tune is in drop C.
Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Banjo Bones, updated: 5/2/2017
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Notes: English folk dance tune published in John Playford's English Dance Master 1651. Recorded with lyrics as Come You Not From Newcastle? by Shirley Collins in 1958.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jkacur, updated: 5/21/2015
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Notes: Irish Polkas can be somewhat boring musically, although you can play them quite vigorously and audiences usually tends to like them. This is one I decided to tab from a slow session that I play in. I believe I found a new purpose for this polka when it comes to banjo playing. This polka could be renamed "A Study in Alternate String Pull-Offs". Working on technique can be quite boring, but when you have a little tune behind it it becomes fun again. Almost every measure of this piece can be played with one or two alternate string pull-offs. If you have your hand is in first position, then you will practice the alternate string pull-off with your index finger. If you shift to the second position, then the alternate string pull offs are now down with the middle finger. So, play this tune to get a work-out and practice your alternate string pull-off technique! Have fun!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by banjomikey, updated: 12/10/2009 - 6 Member Comments
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Notes: This is probably my favorite banjo instrumental. written by Richard Underwood, the original banjo player for The Johnson Mountain Boys. I think the beauty is in the straight forward simplicity of the tune.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Ira Gitlin, updated: 3/15/2016 - 5 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 Andyrhydycreuau, updated: 9/23/2023 - 1 Member Comments
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Classical Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Lukino_Bali, updated: 11/12/2013 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: I wrote this tablature because I love this song
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/15/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by agentheath, updated: 11/30/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: As played by John Mark Batchelor.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by bango, updated: 10/12/2023
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/14/2024
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Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/15/2006
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Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/15/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/15/2006
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by heronhawk, updated: 3/30/2018
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Notes: Composed by Randal Bays.
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ndlxs, updated: 11/18/2022
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Notes: Tune written in 1974 by Curtis Carlisle Bouterse.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjukebox, updated: 11/21/2022 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Written by Curt Bouterse.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: E Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by RadMuz, updated: 2/27/2024
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Notes: The Infamous Stringdusters
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/3/2016 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: My tab comprises two breaks, the first close to Earl Scruggs's and the second more improvisational. Scruggs's break is one of the most straightforward and elegant of his early recordings with the Foggy Mountain Boys, and I love it. If you take a listen to the Foggies' recording, note that they tuned their instruments up a half step. Hence they sound like they are playing in G#, although they are playing out of G position.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by banjotom2, updated: 8/28/2012
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stan, updated: 12/31/2009
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Notes: Stan Slack
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stan, updated: 5/20/2013
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Genre: Rock Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Gm Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Peter Vipulis, updated: 11/23/2019 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Great medieval-style arrangement by AB Junior. Made very slight modifications to make it fit the meter. For reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpvrLjakcjA
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Bm
Posted by phb, updated: 5/9/2011
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Notes: This is my first transcription ever so there will be a lot of mistakes. I did this as an exercise because people on the BHO keep telling us beginners that transcribing recordings teaches a lot (haven't noted much of a change yet... ;).
I chose "No Title Yet Blues" because I like it a lot and there are few tabs of it to be found. This is the 1st break from the Alan Munde recording, unfortunately I haven't got the original Weissberg/Brickman recording (I'd love to get that and the the other recording from the "New Dimensions" that aren't on the "Deliverance" soundtrack, if anyone knows where to find them...).
The tuning turned out to be a D tuning with the 4th string dropped by a minor third to a B note.
I wish I could play this tune well. Before this I had never played anything in D tuning (just got my banjo 8 months ago) so this will take me some time to play reasonably well...
The tab was written using a free linux tab editor called songwrite2. Unfortunately it is still a very simple program which is why I couldn't add most of the embellishments.
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Style: Other
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/15/2006
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Am Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by dbrooks, updated: 8/14/2024
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Notes: This clawhammer tab is based on Abigail Washburn's recording on the CD "Tales of a Traveling Daughter." The syncopation may be a little tricky for some. If so, treat the eighth-note rest and thumb note as a one-beat rest.
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Ragtime Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjohn2, updated: 7/23/2016 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: My version of Nola. There are others but this is the only one in Tabledit so far.
Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Am Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by littleton, updated: 10/24/2021
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Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Am Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by littleton, updated: 10/24/2021
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/15/2006
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjukebox, updated: 4/18/2019
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Notes: Written by "Fiddlin'" Arthur Smith
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 7/11/2020
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Notes: There are 2 tunes with the name North Carolina Breakdown. This is the other one (if I may borrow Bill Evans’s joke about Chinquapin Hunting, another pair of different tunes with the same name). Perhaps the better known NCB is a fiddle tune by Arthur Smith. The other one, the tune I have tabbed here, is a fine banjo creation by Sammy Shelor, the Grand Poobah of Punch. The first break is a fairly straightforward rendition of the tune, the second is the way I often play it, and the third is my attempt to capture some of Shelor’s improvisations.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Adgardad, updated: 3/21/2010
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Notes: Another nice Scruggs/Bluegrass style tune by Bela Fleck. This was from one of the "Tasty Licks" albums (the 2nd one I think). Bela is so well known for the jazz and newgrass stuff that I think a lot of us forget that the man can lay down some really sweet bluegrass banjo as well.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 10/28/2021 - 5 Member Comments
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Notes: When exiting a Bob Dylan concert on a cold clear Saskatoon night in November 1997, I was gobsmacked by a virtuoso performance of the Northern Lights, shimmering, crackling, and popping in the sky, all of which inspired me to write this tune. I posted the tablature on BHO shortly thereafter. The ascending run of triplets was an attempt to convey the sense of the shimmering and rippling of the Lights. In 2008 with my band Knee Deep, I debuted the tune at, fittingly enough, the Northern Lights Bluegrass and Old-Time Music Festival. Note added in 2021: Northern Lights Breakdown is a crooked tune, one that has varying numbers of beats in some of the measures. I have revised the tab, to reflect this and to clean up some errors.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by blugras77, updated: 5/21/2019
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Notes: Transcribed from Rob McCoury's album, "The 5 String Flamethrower."
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Popular Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Studebaker Hawk, updated: 10/25/2009
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Notes: This Beatles classic is perfomed in the key of D with the banjo tuned (5th to 1st string): a-D-A-A-D. This unique tuning gives the banjo a very heavy drone-string/dulcimer-like feeling.
Genre: Folk Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Mark W Andersen, updated: 3/15/2017 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: E Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ianhobba1, updated: 9/28/2021 - 4 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/14/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by kmwaterstx, updated: 10/19/2019 - 3 Member Comments
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Genre: Other Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jmoliver, updated: 12/30/2012
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Genre: Country Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by RJWMitchell, updated: 7/1/2013
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Notes: performed at 160 BPM (chrochets per minute)
Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/15/2006
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Genre: Popular Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by dbrooks, updated: 7/30/2023
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Notes: This is fairly basic tab that may help someone get started on this tune. The tab is for clawhammer, but it is mostly chords which can be played in most any style.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Duc7, updated: 8/18/2019
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Notes: One of my students was looking for a version of this tune for the banjo, so I came up with this arrangement - enjoy! Skip
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/15/2006
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Genre: Traditional Style: Classical Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 3/4/2012
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Notes: This is an old Swedish "polska" that use to be sang and danced (around the Christmas tree) during Christmas.
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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