Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by PorterBranch, updated: 11/3/2023
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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 Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjukebox, updated: 8/17/2014
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by LyleK, updated: 6/12/2013 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: aDADE tuning, 6/15/2013 TOTW, a Harry Elie fiddle tune from "Dear Old Illinois" (Harrison and Burgess, 2007)
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Tuning: Double C (gCGCD)
Posted by Yigal Zan, updated: 3/3/2012
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Notes: Double-D, capo at 2nd fret, 5th=a, aDADE. The tune is called also Old Ragged Coat, and some consider it a version of Boating Up Sandy. Bobby Taylor plays the tune with slightly different notes, calling it Ragged Shirt.
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Anurakt, updated: 12/27/2021
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Notes: Transcription based on Dave Hum's beautiful version of this medley:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnZXh1-oj4k.
This is the the tab of my version, slightly different notes, and different form. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGfso9Pa0Ek
First mp3 is of banjo + backing track, second mp3 is a backing track.
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/26/2006
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Genre: Ragtime Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/26/2006
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Other Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Duc7, updated: 10/2/2009
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Notes: Here's my arrangement of a popular old fiddle tune played out of C & F positions in standard G tuning, with the capo on the 2nd fret. I've added a 3rd part that many fiddlers play. Enjoy!
Genre: Ragtime Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 8/16/2012
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Notes: Some fiddlers that I played with almost always included the third part of Ragtime Annie which moves down to G....hope you like it .
Genre: Ragtime Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 8/22/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This time I included the guitar backup and a couple slight banjo revisions
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Open D (aDF#Ad) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by AlBanjo38, updated: 1/7/2018
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by littleton, updated: 11/1/2022
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by bango, updated: 10/3/2023
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by flyakfish, updated: 2/24/2021
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Notes: This is a melodic version in the key of "D" in standard open "G" tuning but with the 5th string "G" tuned up two frets to an "A" note. The first part with the 5th string tuned higher really allows you to play true to the melody, the fingering is easy and it really flows. By playing songs in "D" melodic style and tuning the 5th string to either an "A" note higher or an "F#" note lower you can get the same flow as songs played in "G". I have have posted several other easy examples for anyone interested.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjopeter, updated: 12/20/2020
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Notes: View instruction video on YouTube. Enter Keywords: banjo peter noorman.
Or visit my website for tabs and instruction videos: www.peternoorman.nl
Genre: Ragtime Style: Other Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Greg Gilbert, updated: 11/17/2018
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Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: F Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Devon Wells, updated: 10/11/2014
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Ben Asher, updated: 3/24/2013 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: I have an audio recording of this tune, played according to this tab, on my page...
Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by the goodhand, updated: 3/25/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: E Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by briar32, updated: 10/31/2011
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Popular Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mptjr13, updated: 3/24/2012 - 3 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by kmwaters, updated: 6/5/2014
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Notes: From Kermit's Greatest Hits
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by janolov, updated: 10/25/2014
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Notes: This is from the Muppet Show where my friend Kermit is singing the tune. Rainbow Connection is a tricky tune because it has a key change in the middle, where the orginal key is raised a halt tone. Here the tune starts in C major but in the second half there is a raise to Db major or C#major. I think the original goes in A major and raises to Bb major.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/26/2006
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Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mwblake, updated: 8/30/2009
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Notes: The Buddy Holly classic, arranged for simple rolling 3 finger style.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/26/2006
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 8/12/2012
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Notes: This traditional Irish tune played in the background of just about every fight scene in John Waynes movie "the quiet man". I watched that movie so many times that Rakes of Mallow became etched in my head.........enjoy
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 8/16/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: I found a typo in my first version-this is corrected version
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Castania, updated: 7/21/2010 - 3 Member Comments
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Other Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Studebaker Hawk, updated: 8/29/2009
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Notes: This wild & crazy arrangement is from the playing of Steve Martin, and can be found on Steve's old stand-up comedy album Let's Get Small.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: F Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by RG, updated: 12/30/2009
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Genre: Old Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 11/1/2011
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D
Posted by Yigal Zan, updated: 12/25/2012
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Notes: Double-D, capo at 2nd fret, 5th=a, aDADE
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD)
Posted by Yigal Zan, updated: 11/30/2010
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Notes: Capo at 2nd fret, 5th=a, aEADE
Other names: The Noonday Feast, Scatter the Mud (2nd setting in O'Neill's Music Of Ireland), Frehan's #2
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by heronhawk, updated: 9/17/2016
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Notes: Tuning is f#DGBD (open G with the 5th string tuned down a half-step to f#). Played on the cello banjo. Composed by Gordon Duncan. The sheet music is available on thesession.org. It's the second tune in this medley by Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhBT0V5V5Fg
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jbabb, updated: 3/5/2015 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by jbabb, updated: 3/5/2015
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/26/2006 - 5 Member Comments
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Genre: Rock Key: B Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by moose198, updated: 12/5/2020
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Notes: The basic repeated riff of off Rat of the City by Sidney Gish. I have done some horrible things tuning my banjo in order to play this with minimum effort, i'm so sorry. tuning is f#A#F#A#C#. heres a version of her playing live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzkseupDBjU
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ndlxs, updated: 5/27/2021
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Notes: From a recording by Green Berry Horton on the LP set "I'm Old But I'm Awfully Tough". Google the title to hear the source recording and my improv on this tune.
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: 4/26/2006 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by wmidkiff, updated: 5/8/2013 - 3 Member Comments
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Ben Asher, updated: 6/26/2012
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Notes: I have been teaching myself to play banjo for several months now, and wrote this song as a present for my mother, Rebecca, for her birthday. It is a short and simple tune, not difficult to play. Please feel free to modify it, or improve upon it as you wish; I only ask that if you make any changes or modifications to the tune, that you send me a recording of it...Thanks and enjoy!
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by squirtmb1, updated: 11/6/2022
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Notes: I converted Duane Eddy's Rebel Rouser from guitar sheet music... first time using the program... and this was my first-time transposing guitar sheet music to banjo tab. I only converted one page and have not yet figured out how to repeat measures 10-17. Comments are appreciated.
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A
Posted by Yigal Zan, updated: 7/26/2013
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Notes: Double-D, capo at 2nd fret, 5th=a, aDADE
Genre: Country Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by MarMarBaron, updated: 4/27/2014
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Notes: I tabbed this MYSELF, so it might not look perfect. I spent about 2 hours trying to get the tuning and the basic chords right, then about 5-7 hours actually writing it down....then about 1-2 hours going through it over and over and over again trying to make sure that it sounds ok. The only problem of mine would be that I just could not for the life of me figure out how to make using the computer so i did it the old fashion way, everyone else's tabs look MUCH neater then mine does but i don't care, personally. I'm just glad i am able to share it with you guys. Hope it sounds okay and thanks so much to anyone using it, it honestly means so much!!! :) xx
NOTE: This is based of of Taylor Swift's 'Red (Original Demo Recording)' that can be found on her RED Deluxe Edition CD. They are similar, but have some differences, mainly that this one sounds more country (in my personal opinion)
Tuning Open-G, Lowered 5th string, PLAY WITH CAPO on 4 (without using a capo on the 5th string). I have found that i have to re-tune just a little when i put on the capo. When you have the capo on the tuning will be f#F#BEbF#
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Traditional Style: Other Key: C Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Studebaker Hawk, updated: 8/29/2009
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Notes: This song can be found on many banjo compilation albums released during the 1960s and ‘70s. The arrangement features a mixture of three-finger picking and clawhammer (see tab notes). G tuning, capo at the 5th fret.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 3/13/2020
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Notes: I first heard Red Apple Juice played by the folk group The Tarriers, with a young Eric Weissberg on banjo, and shortly thereafter I heard it as Red Rocking Chair by the classic Country Gentlemen, with the supernal Eddie Adcock on banjo. This tab is my version, with two breaks. The first stays reasonably faithful to the melody. The second is a loose interpretation of Eric Weissberg’s break and makes use of D-tuners. Eric was not afraid to use D-tuners, and I celebrate his contributions to bluegrass banjo and, in particular, his inspiring me to learn to play it. Thank you, Mr. Weissberg.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/26/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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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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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by littleton, updated: 11/1/2022
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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)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/26/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Old Time 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: 10/12/2011 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Yeah, another version of RHB. This is a great old fiddle tune, played at almost all jams. I have tabbed out two breaks. The first is my attempt to capture the melody in standard "Scruggs" style (i.e., North Carolina three-finger style), with a few melodic riffs thrown in. The second is a more frankly melodic break. Lots of stuff here you can use in other tunes as well.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by harwoodw, updated: 3/20/2012
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Notes: Capo at the second fret.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/7/2014
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Notes: For the TOTW http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/281008 from Jack Baker
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjofool469, updated: 11/9/2014
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Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjukebox, updated: 12/15/2016
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Notes: AKA Little Beggerman
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Lefty5string, updated: 2/5/2020 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Fairly simple arrangement in the clawhammer style with hammer ons, pull offs and easy drop thumbing on the 2nd variation of the B Part. If you aren't into drop thumbing just do the 1st variation twice. Capo 2 for fiddle in A.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoy, updated: 6/11/2023
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Notes: This is my take on this cool fiddle tune. Open G tuning, Capo 2 frets to key of A. I've also prepared a simple YouTube Video to demostrate how this might sound, found here: https://youtu.be/-MHQSMDASUs
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by littleton, updated: 11/1/2022
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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: 11/1/2022
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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: Other Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by flyakfish, updated: 5/6/2022
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Notes: Tab is written in the Melodic style. Most often played in the key of "A" (Capo 2nd fret, tune 5th string to "A").
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by aliengrass, updated: 10/12/2014 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: RedHairedBoy.tg
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjukebox, updated: 5/5/2023
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Notes: Source: Lella Todd
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by alubin, updated: 8/9/2010
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Notes: A fiddle tune I wrote in open-D AKA Reuben tuning.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 12/7/2013
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Notes: Here are two clawhammer versions of Gary Harrison's Red Prairie Dawn. The first is an easy beginners version and the second is a little more trickier.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JanetB, updated: 8/19/2017 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Garry Harrison, Illinois fiddler, composed several tunes, including Red Prairie Dawn, my favorite of his. He also collected the traditional music published recently as Dear Old Illinois -- a very extensive collection worth studying.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by pickenchicken23, updated: 7/28/2020
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Notes: Red Prairie Dawn is an oldtime tune written by Illinois Fiddler, Garry Harrison. I enjoy playing this tune clawhammer, but also love it fingerpicking. It just fits really nice on the banjo, melodic style. Hope you enjoy!!
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: Tune composed by Garry Harrison. Open G tuning, capoed up 2 (aEAC#E). Accompanying video demo on YouTube: https://youtu.be/dZ5s9ibo6nI
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by 5th string nut, updated: 11/5/2009 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by HOWDYDOODY, updated: 4/30/2016
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by rossnickerson, updated: 5/5/2019
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by chuckv97, updated: 9/27/2024
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Notes: An easy arrangement for advanced beginners. Video is in the video library.
Genre: Folk Style: Other Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 10/2/2017
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Genre: Old Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by janolov, updated: 10/24/2011
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Julian44_4, updated: 3/14/2011 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Tabbed by Dave Dry / Bob Little
From the playing of Dianne Jones
Genre: Old Time Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Em Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JoeDownes, updated: 8/10/2011 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: I took the key and basic arrangement from the Red Clay Ramblers version, off their record called "A Lie Of The Mind".
I arranged it similar to Scruggs Nashville Blues. D minor tuning capoed up 2: bEGBE.
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: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dskeigley, updated: 3/8/2014 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by rossnickerson, updated: 5/4/2019
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Genre: Traditional Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by toolmaker, updated: 3/20/2020 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Red Wing is a great banjo/fiddle tune. This tab is a mixture of Scruggs and Melodic style. If you're just starting to learn melodic style, this song can help you. I put left & right hand fingering in as a suggestion. (On TablEdit I put in fiddle & back guitar.) I also put in a p.d.f. of the banjo break.
Genre: Traditional Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stratovarious520, updated: 12/11/2021
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Notes: A most satisfying arrangement (for me, at least). I combined phrases from a few of my favorite pickers, and added some things myself that tied them all together. Even though the melody is closely followed, there are a few fresh ideas. Enjoy, and adapt this to your own picking.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by jimrichter, updated: 7/28/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Open D (f#DF#Ad) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 12/8/2023 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Open D tuning
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Greg Gilbert, updated: 12/5/2018
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Notes: This is an arrangement in the key of A without using a capo.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 6/12/2018
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by rlanselle, updated: 3/31/2019 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Capo 2 to AEAC#E
Genre: Ragtime Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 12/23/2011
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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: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 8/8/2013
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Notes: Redwing is a nice simple tune that is common in jams. However, for some reason it was never immediately obvious to me how to find the melody of the B part of Redwing. You could say that I had trouble winging it. Anyway, eventually I sat down and worked the B part up quite deliberately. The first break is pretty straight Scruggs style, whereas the second break is more improvisational.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BTS, updated: 6/13/2015 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is a wonderful version of Redwing as played by John Apfelthaler. Check out the videos on John's BHO home page to hear him playing it. First time around is Scruggs style, followed by melodic and up the neck arrangements. The down the neck arrangemnt is reasonably straightforward while the melodic and up the neck arrangements are reasonably challenging.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by DC5, updated: 9/20/2018 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: This is my first attempt at working out a song and writing the tab. I think it's for beginner, but it might be beginner/intermediate. There is one drop thumb and a few hammer ons and pull offs.
Genre: Bluegrass 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: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by littleton, updated: 4/7/2021
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Old Hickory, updated: 1/25/2023
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Notes: My arrangement of this popular instrumental piece, pretty much as I played in this YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKdxRa705o8&t=9s
Because I didn't play exactly as I had intended, this tab was my attempt to transcribe my own playing and figure out what I actually did. The differences between what I intended to play, what I did play, and what I've tabbed are only a few notes at best. And now, five years later, I don't remember where they are.
The ascending run in the second half of the "A" part in the third time through was my mis-constructing from memory an Alan Munde lick that you can find online. I like my way, so I've never swiched to Alan's even after learning it.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/27/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Don Borchelt, updated: 6/14/2015 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is my transcription of a tune composed and performed by BHO member Jim Reed, in a video he posted on 1/26/12. I was just discussing the tune with BHO member John Steele in the BHO Chatroom (6/15/15), and we disagreed about how Jim plays the opening measure of the B part. I went back and listened to it again, and decided John was right. So I have revised the tab accordingly.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Frailblazer, updated: 9/23/2012
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Notes: This tab is based on Jim Reed's YouTube performance of his original tune - Reed's Hornpipe which can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1l5Hn3GEio&feature=plcp
I downloaded the video, re-synced the audio and then extracted the audio to a separate file. The Amazing Slow Downer was used on the audio track while observing the video. This should be a pretty accurate transcription of Jim's performance.
Chord shapes and fingerings are noted when appropriate.
The style of this tune is Melodic Bluegrass.
Enjoy!
- Ric
Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by tfaux, updated: 11/30/2013
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Notes: A French-Canadian crooked reel, learned from Guy Bouchard.
Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by heronhawk, updated: 2/17/2015
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Notes: Played on a cello banjo, a French-Canadian crooked reel, from the repertoire of Guy Bouchard. Tab by Tom Faux available at this link:
http://www.banjohangout.org/tab/browse.asp?m=detail&v=19849&ie6fix=1
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by heronhawk, updated: 11/6/2016
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Notes: Tuning is open G with the 5th string tuned to f# (f#DGBD). This is a Quebecois tune composed by Louis Beaudoin for Lisa Ornstein and and Lisa Beaudoin. I played it here on two banjos: Goldtone cello banjo and Ramsey Woody. The dots are in Portland Collection vol. 3
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Double C (gCGCD)
Posted by Yigal Zan, updated: 2/26/2012
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Notes: Banjo tuned in Double-D (capo at 2nd fret) with the 5th tuned "g" - gDADE
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by heronhawk, updated: 1/15/2017
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Notes: From the repertoire of Louis Beaudoin, collected by Lisa Ornstein. Sheet music is at http://www.mustrad.udenap.org/partitions/TQ491.jpg along with a recording by La Bottine Souriante.
Tuning is open G. Sounds better with the fifth string tuned to f#. Andres Brunet playes the A part four times, La Bottine Sourinte play it three times. Here I play the A part four times. Here is Andres Brunet playing it on the fiddle: https://youtu.be/a9KOtSPnpos
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dholland, updated: 2/1/2013
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Notes: French Canadian fiddle tune. Played in key of D with aDGBD tuning. PDF files are for page 1 and 2.
Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Mtngoat, updated: 7/15/2021
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Notes: Reel Eugene is a French-Canadian reel from the repertoire of Montreal accordion player Joseph Arthur Pigeon (1884-1966).
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: Another French Canadian Fiddle tune. Played in the key of D without capo in regular G tuning.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D
Posted by Yigal Zan, updated: 11/26/2010
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Notes: Capo at 2nd fret (5th at 7th or peg up) aDADE
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/27/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by chuckv97, updated: 5/20/2024
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Notes: The popular song written by banjo player Scotty Wiseman of Lulubelle and Scotty, the country music duo of the 1940’s and 50’s. My video of this is in the BHO video library.
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 SCFActg, updated: 2/5/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Popular Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Bm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by the banjophile, updated: 6/19/2016
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 2/5/2012
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Gm Tuning: Open Gm (gDGBbD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Nevada Dan, updated: 10/7/2012 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: This song has morphed into many different versions throughout the years. John McEuen first composed it in the 1960s as 'Dismal Swamp'. It later got some new life breathed into it when he rearranged it in the late-1970s and recorded it as 'White Russia' on the self-titled album 'The Dirt Band'. Later still it resurfaced once more in what we know today as 'Return to Dismal Swamp'. In my tab I've incorporated all the known versions of this song into one arrangement. It's a great banjo tune from the mind of John McEuen and it's worthy of your interest.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/27/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by 5th string nut, updated: 11/5/2009
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Notes: Tuning: F#DF#AD
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Open D (f#DF#Ad) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 7/1/2024 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Open D (aDF#Ad) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/14/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/27/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ndlxs, updated: 8/16/2018
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Notes: Arranged by Andrew Alexis; first part is traditional, the second part I wrote.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Open D (f#DF#Ad) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dbrooks, updated: 10/31/2022
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Open D (f#DF#Ad) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 4/1/2015
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Notes: For my banjo students, here are some variations on Reuben in open D tuning. Some of it is very straight Scruggs style, and some is something else.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Other Key: Am Tuning: Double C (gCGCD)
Posted by Yigal Zan, updated: 6/5/2011
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Notes: A minor/modal; capo at 2nd fret, aDADE
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/27/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: C Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by motomatto, updated: 11/2/2009 - 5 Member Comments
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Notes: This is from the Deviation and Places (compilation) albums. I took the original tab that was posted here and fixed a few things. I think it's pretty close to the original now.
There's a video of Bela playing this (back in the New Grass Revival days) at youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4hSqg6xkrw
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Dm Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by littleton, updated: 11/1/2022
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Notes: Klezmer banjo!
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Dm Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by littleton, updated: 11/1/2022
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Notes: Klezmer banjo!
Genre: Other Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Classical Style: Classical Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Ian_banjo, updated: 8/4/2011
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Notes: This is from the Gilbert & Sullivan operetta "Ruddigore".
Genre: Traditional Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jim109b, updated: 10/16/2018
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Notes: Fairly straight version, kept that way so as when the fiddlers get hold of it, I can maybe keep up. Key modulates between D and A.
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: 4/29/2006
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Other Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Greg Gilbert, updated: 9/5/2009
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Other Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Tom Hanway, updated: 10/25/2015
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Notes: This is for Bill Keith, my hero, friend and mentor. Here is a legato arrangement in Celtic Fingerstyle (G tuning, no capo), not unlike Bill Keith's bluegrass version but adding rhythmic and melismatic ornamentation in the form of triplets and double cuts (double-grace notes). Enjoy!
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Open D (f#DF#Ad) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by AlBanjo38, updated: 3/22/2018
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Notes: Melodic (Not exactly Scruggs)
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by bango, updated: 2/27/2024
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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: 11/16/2022
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Notes: This is based on the version played by Lauchlin Shaw, A.C. Overton and Wayne Martin on the Going Down to Raleigh album. A video of me playing this rendition is posted on my YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/GmFJj_Z6-E8
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Bill H, updated: 11/18/2022
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Notes: Tuning is aDADE or double C tuning, capo at 2
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 10/25/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stratovarious520, updated: 2/9/2021
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Notes: Another quick mover. Maybe not quite as flashy as some of his stuff, but a great chord progression, and it's great fun to play!
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: 4/29/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Maruko, updated: 4/1/2015
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Notes: Played with Kapo 2nd Fret Key of A
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006 - 4 Member Comments
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by littleton, updated: 4/7/2021
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by littleton, updated: 4/7/2021
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum) Key: Em Tuning: Tenor Irish (GDAE)
Posted by Yigal Zan, updated: 11/4/2016
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman0254, updated: 11/22/2009 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Here is an example of what I offer from my site at http://www.leemarcusmusic.webs.com/
Genre: Country Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by fredwilton, updated: 11/5/2021
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Notes: Ring of Fire
Written by June Carter & Merle Kilgore
Originally performed by Johnny Cash
This song is composed in the clawhammer style for newer clawhammer players. It's a G, D7, C classic!
Genre: Rock Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjukebox, updated: 10/23/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Clawhammer version of the Grateful Dead's "RIPPLE"
Genre: Other Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 6/28/2024
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Notes: Composed by Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter. My two finger rendition here. A video of me playing this rendition is posted on my YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/jCv5aIpht5k
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Other Style: Other Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by loganjameshart, updated: 6/11/2022
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Notes: An arrangement of the main theme from the hit videogame "Hunt: Showdown" by Crytek.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BanjoTom1, updated: 2/27/2014 - 2 Member Comments
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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 SCFActg, updated: 12/29/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 12/29/2011
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Notes: ANOTHER VERSION
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 9/5/2024
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Notes: This is a wonderful tune by Bill Monroe. I have included two versions of the B part, a low break and a high break. I play it either way, although the version low on the neck is easier when the stage is dark (and I can't see where the positions are higher up on the neck). To accommodate the fiddle, the tune is played in A, with the banjo capo on the second fret.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BanjoNikopolis, updated: 12/11/2013
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Notes: My own version of the Bill Monroe/Kenny Baker tune off of the album Kenny Baker plays Bill Monroe. Hope you enjoy! Soon I'll also work out a tab that mimics the mandolin, and then hopefully can work out the actual banjo line from the album.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A 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 Yohansen, updated: 9/19/2024
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Genre: Ragtime Style: Other
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 10/8/2014
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Notes: Enjoy............Lynn
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by littleton, updated: 4/7/2021
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by littleton, updated: 4/7/2021
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Genre: Old Time Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BigFiveChord, updated: 10/30/2018
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Genre: Old Time Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mwblake, updated: 2/16/2019
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Notes: A jolly little [slightly crooked] tune written by Jim Childress in the key of A [Capo II, 3 finger melodic banjo arrangement]
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by littleton, updated: 12/27/2021
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/23/2016 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: I wrote this tune in late 2009 and named it after one of my favorite paintings by my favorite artist, who I happen to be married to. (For a glimpse of her art, go to www.jancorcoran.com). The tune wrote itself as I fiddled -- okay, "banjoed" -- with the chord progression, and I managed to incorporate the use of Keith tuners. I hope you like it.
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006
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Genre: Ragtime Style: Other
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006
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Genre: Other Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by BanjoNikopolis, updated: 6/5/2013
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Notes: A request from Reddit. The main banjo line/riff for the song Beggars Guild by the band Roadkill Ghost Choir.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Greg Gilbert, updated: 9/7/2009
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Notes: In the style of Carl Jackson
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: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by AllanJ, updated: 12/29/2010
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Notes: English dance tune.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Mark Johnson, updated: 4/1/2011
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Notes: From the fiddling of Owen "Snake" Chapman, arranged by Mark Johnson.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Am Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by littleton, updated: 11/1/2022
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Genre: Rock Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 11/3/2019 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This a a tab of Bill Hailey' Rock Around Clock.
The song was written by Max C. Freedman och James E. Myers around 1952 and first recorded by and recorded by Bill Hailey in April 1954 on Decca. It was first recorded by Italian-American band Sonny Dae and His Knights on March 20, 1954, and Haley recorded it the first time April 12, 1954.
The song is an easy 12 bar blues and it is rather easy to play back up- just follow a boogie-woogie pattern or a 12 bar blues pattern, and it is easy to improvise around the tune.
This tab contains the main melody and some suggestions for variations following the main melody. It is some kind of three-finger with some easy Scruggs licks. I also included banjo versions of the guitar breaks. The tab (TablEdit and midi files) contains a simple guitar back-up.
- The first verse is simply the melody.
- The second verse is a up-the-neck variation of the melody where I tried to incorporate some basic threefinger rolls-.
- The first solo break is based on the guitar break but transferred to banjo to make it easier.
- The third verse is a more chordal version with melody and back-beat chords on the banjo. This variation sounds good even without guitar back-up.
- The fourth verse is simply a repetion of the second verse, because I had no inspiration to develop it further.
- The second solo break is is based on the guitar break but transferred to banjo to make it easier. It is mostly based on chords and follows a typical 12 bar blues.
- The fifth verse is a variation of the first verse but with more rolls and three-finger licks incorporated.
Genre: Traditional Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 3/2/2018 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: A study in thirds and sixths that uses no open notes so as to make it easy to play in any key by moving the melody up or down the neck.
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
Posted by Yigal Zan, updated: 10/30/2012
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Notes: Double-D, capo at 2nd fret, 5th=a, aDADE
Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by WayneConrad, updated: 7/11/2015 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Arranged by Wayne Conrad.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD)
Posted by Yigal Zan, updated: 6/18/2017
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Notes: Double D, capo at 2nd place, 5th=a, aDADE
Genre: Folk Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by janolov, updated: 7/7/2022 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: I made this tab to illustrate the discussion in this thread https://www.banjohangout.org/topic/384281. It can be played either clawhammer or 2-finger Index Lead. The first part/version is rather easy and stright-on while the second version is a little more elaborated with some fill-in licks and some easye melodic embellishments.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Open D (aDF#Ad) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by rustewey, updated: 9/14/2018
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Notes: I have tried get this as close to Don's recording as I can.
It will play as a loop for practice.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006
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Genre: Traditional Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Expert
Posted by crishergirl, updated: 9/11/2014 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is an old timey song and sounds somewhat celtic when played at speed.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by littleton, updated: 12/27/2021
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Bill H, updated: 3/26/2023
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Notes: aDADE tuning or double C, capo 2
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006
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Genre: Folk Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 8/8/2012 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: This is a clawhammer version of John Denver's Rocky Mountain High.
Genre: Country Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by geckoberry, updated: 1/8/2022
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Notes: Jkroener asked me to tab this out on the "Need a Tab?" forum:
https://www.banjohangout.org/topic/380335/#4843806
Here's AB Junior's video the tab is based off of:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEHmVUN_REM
I included both breaks he plays, and for singing, any roll that fits within the chords will work fine. I tabbed it out like he played it, but if you have spikes, it sounds nice to spike at the 7th.
Have fun pickin!
Genre: Folk Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Banjo Jordan, updated: 4/8/2014
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum) Key: Dm Tuning: Tenor Irish (GDAE) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 12/11/2020
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Notes: Irish Tenor tuning - The Dubliners
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ChuckJo, updated: 8/24/2013 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This version of Rocky Road to Dublin comes from Fiddler Wilson Douglas of Clay County West Virginia. Wilson was born in 1922 on a farm in rural Clay County in an area known as Rush Fork. Sometime in the early 1980’s, Kate Brett and I decided to visit some older players in West Virginia. We were looking for Wilson, and happened to stumble upon David Morris, who arranged a meeting. I did not know Wilson well, but he had a fierce feeling and a deep passion for old-time music that was moving and inspiring. Wilson Died at age 76 in 1999.
Wilson recorded “Rocky Road to Dublin” on “The Right Hand Fork of Rush’s Creek”, Rounder Records 0047, recorded and produced by Guthrie T. Meade and Mark Wilson, 1975 , re-released on CD in 2005. Wilson plays this tune in the key of G on the recording. When I worked it out on the fiddle, it seemed to fit best with the fiddle tuned “GDgd”.
The album notes say this: ‘The title has been used for at least one jig and a polka, presumably referring to the Irish city. Wilson says, “that tune was composed about Dublin, Virginia. That was the only trail at that time through Virginia and they named the town Dublin”’.
Wilson’s recording actually starts on what I would call a fragment of the “B” part, and then goes to the “C” part, before going to the “A” part. (The tune ends on the “C” part). I have recorded the tune with the “A” part first, the “B” part second, and the “C” part third. The “A” and “C” parts repeat, but the “B” part is only played once.
Towards the end of the recording, Wilson plays a variation on the “A” part. The first time I play through the tune, I play it straight, but the second time through, I play the “A” variation. For variety, I created some up-the-neck variations for the third time through before returning to the theme the last time around.
Note that an “R” in the tab indicates a roll (Galax Lick), and “()” in the tab means the note is to be played quietly or may be skipped entirely, at the discretion of the banjoist.
Allen Sisson recorded an entirely different melody titled “Rocky Road to Dublin”. Another version comes from Clyde Davenport.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A
Posted by Yigal Zan, updated: 2/14/2013
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Notes: A Mixolydian, Double-D, capo at 2nd fret, 5th=a, aDADE
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JanetB, updated: 3/15/2017
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Notes: This nice tune was played by fiddler Bob Walters and included in R.P. Christeson's Old-Time Fiddlers' Repertory book as unnamed tune #107.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjukebox, updated: 7/21/2020
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD)
Posted by Yigal Zan, updated: 2/21/2011
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Notes: Tuning: Double-D, aDADE
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Popular Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by the banjophile, updated: 7/13/2016
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoy, updated: 12/31/2020
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Notes: A BHO thread popped up about wanting ideas for playing this tune in the Key of D. So here is an idea for the intro only, playing in open G tuning.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 10/12/2011
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Notes: Not everyone can sing Rocky Top in G, A, B flat, or B. One guy I have picked with (Vic the Butcher, who is the biggest ... but I digress) can sing it only in D. Well, it works well in D, in G tuning with the fifth string tuned up to A (slip it under the model railroad spike at the seventh fret). The only tricky bits in my arrangement are in the chorus. If you have difficulty figuring out how it should sound, give a listen to the TablEdit MIDI file.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/29/2006
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Genre: Folk Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Richard Pickstock, updated: 10/18/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Unknown/None Chosen Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Jocko MacNelly, updated: 3/24/2013
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Notes: This is an "etude" as much for me as anyone else - I'm studying "Bach language" and "banjo language," and playing around with modulation - all part of getting me where I want to go compositionally. I like it at quarter = 175, with the middle section a little slower. In any case I think a metronomic approach to this might not conform to "the composer's intent." I'll learn to play it and letcha know! :o)
The chicago-capoed-at-the-fifth-fret tuning is because I originally wrote this on my ukulele.
Copyright now, me.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjofrog, updated: 8/23/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Andy Campbell, updated: 11/4/2016 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This was copied from a pdf of a Jack Hatfield version
"Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms" is an American traditional song. It seems to have developed from lyrics in the cowboy song "My Lula Gal",[1] itself a development of bawdy British and Appalachian songs generally known as "Bang Bang Rosie" or "Bang Away Lulu.
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: 4/29/2006
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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 Yohansen, updated: 9/14/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 10/12/2011
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Notes: This is a bluegrass classic, similar to Nine Pound Hammer. The first break is my interpretation of Joe Drumright's break on Bill Monroe's 1964 recording. The second break is my own. Monroe plays the song in the key of B.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/2/2006
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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: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/14/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Buxton, updated: 6/30/2018
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Notes: Martha White show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUnK_3kAUYI
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by GlennM, updated: 5/27/2019 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Not sure if i got all the fingering correct. My ead is not thinking good but it sounds ojk.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by gcpicken, updated: 5/23/2023
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Notes: Collection of what may be considered "Standard Rolls"
Genre: Popular Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 9/24/2013 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Classical Style: Classical Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD)
Posted by patmcg1960, updated: 10/13/2009
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by mikejboulder, updated: 2/12/2012
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Notes: TamZeb - I posted the tab files on the tab archive at;
Sorry for the repost. User error.
http://direct.hangoutstorage.com/banjohangout.org/storage/tabs/r/tab-ronbishline-tag-16773-454311222012.tef
Genre: Classical Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Am Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Chapucero, updated: 4/29/2020 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: *It's my first time using tab software, and I see GP7 files aren't supported here. Exporting to GPX or TEF screwed up some things, so for now it's just a PDF file of banjo and rhythm guitar parts, with an MP3 from GP7. If you want the GP7 file, just email me*
Guitar Pro 7 makes the capo language kinda vague. Hope it's clear enough!
A really fun tune to play with a group! Tried to keep it true to form, but couldn't help having some banjo fun in a few spots. Listen side by side with any quality piano recording, and you'll immediately spot them...
I find the F#m (Em relative to capo) stuff to be particularly useful in the vocabulary box. It's also fun quoting the motif in appropriate spots (extended Jerusalem Ridge jam, anyone?). Swinging the motif at the end is pretty neat, too.
Enjoy!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/2/2006
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Bobby Cohoon, updated: 3/16/2017
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjukebox, updated: 4/6/2020
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Notes: From Clyde Davenport Via Carl Jones
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 8/16/2022
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Notes: A 2F arrangement of a beautiful waltz that comes from Roscoe Parish. A video of me playing this rendition is in my video collection here.
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 2/13/2022
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Notes: Tune comes from John Salyer. This 2-finger version alternates between thumb and index lead. A video of me plying this rendition is on YouTube: https://youtu.be/_eQqDZ3D4CA
Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ScottK, updated: 10/9/2009
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Notes: A John Morgan Salyer old time fiddle tune arranged for clawhammer banjo.
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Fortune, updated: 8/7/2021
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Steelydan, updated: 9/2/2013 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Inspired from the movie "Outlaw Josie Wales", this tab delves heavily into drop-thumb. The drop-thumb measures are shown as alternate measures at bottom right. I've included the lyrics as song by Bobby Horton and a youtube link at bottom. Substitute the drop-thumb measures to add melody to the tune as you get comfortable with the song.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/2/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 3/11/2020 - 7 Member Comments
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Notes: This is my attempt to capture Scruggs's break on a youtube recording, presumably from an Opry radio broadcast, of Flatt and Scruggs with Stringbean, posted on BHO by Dick Bowden. As Dick points out, Scruggs did not play a break on the original recording of RoOK with Bill Monroe on 27 October 1947. So it is a delight to hear his take on the break. The quality of the live recording is not great, however, and it is hard to hear exactly what Scruggs is doing. So wade in at your peril.
Genre: Folk Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stigandr5, updated: 3/31/2014
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Notes: Collected from Fletcher Fulk of Clay County, IL. Appear in "Dear Old Illinois."
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by kevinwholmes, updated: 12/28/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Banjowen, updated: 4/2/2011
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Notes: The first tune that I composed which uses D-tuners, with special thanks to Bill Breen (Just Bill) who helped me with the arrangement.
Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/2/2006
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Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Julian44_4, updated: 1/20/2012
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/2/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/2/2006
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 3/31/2023 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is my version of Fred Cockerham's Roustabout. Fred played it in drop C tuning (gCGBD), tuned up to steps to (aDAC#E) and in the key of G (with a Mixolydian flavor). In this tab I tuned to drop C and capoed at second fret. The guitar accompaniment is in the key of A without capo.
There are at least three recordings of this tune (County Records Clawhammer Banjo and two from Field Recordings. It is played a little different on each recording, and also varies a lot in the same recording.
Genre: Country Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by RJWMitchell, updated: 11/8/2013 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: 2 finger style, Melodic.
Part A = bars 1 - 8. B = 9 - 16.
The song is normally sung either AB, AB, or B, AB, AB, B.
Genre: Country Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by RJWMitchell, updated: 11/8/2013 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: 2-finger style. With a third finger brought in for the pinched chords.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by KI4PRK, updated: 2/15/2010 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Dock Boggs' "Ruben's Train", from his Folkways recordings in the 60's. This is a very simple, easy piece, with some very weird notes in it. You almost have to listen to the recording before playing it. Tuning is "Graveyard" open-D, f#DF#AD.
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stratovarious520, updated: 1/30/2021
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Notes: From "Strictly Arnold". Note the tempo should be about 160, not 88...I forgot to save it before uploading. It has a 'swing" flavor to it, and loads of fun to play!
Genre: Popular Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 10/30/2011
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Genre: Traditional Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Devon Wells, updated: 11/21/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: The reindeer with the red nose. Check out my video files for a clip of this one.
Genre: Traditional Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by kmwaters, updated: 11/20/2013
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Notes: Intermediate Scruggsy
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 a straightforward setting using Double D tuning (Double C-Capo II) for 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 mmuussiiccaall, updated: 2/18/2015 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Bryan Sutton
Genre: Rock Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jcland, updated: 2/21/2021
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Notes: Had this song going through my head so I decided to tab my own arrangement out with my morning coffee.
Pay attention to the syncopation at the beginning and throughout the song where noted. You can see where the syncopation changes are in the TablEdit Tab.
Did not bother with the break since it would be just a generic G-C-G-D-G riff. Since this is done in a bluegrass style, I ended it with just a simple tag ending.
Enjoy.
Genre: Old Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 10/24/2011
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Notes: Two version of J.E. Mainer and his Mountaineers Run Mountain". The first is thumb lead. The second is index lead but can also be played clawhammer.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/2/2006
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by kevinwholmes, updated: 1/28/2011
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Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by banjopaolo, updated: 12/12/2021
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Genre: Other Style: Other Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ButchRobins, updated: 2/29/2020
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Notes: From Butch Robins' Rounder Records album "Fragments of My Imagicnation".
Listen here: https://soundcloud.com/butchrobins/rural-retreat
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Gm Tuning: Open Gm (gDGBbD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Nevada Dan, updated: 11/26/2014 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Popular Style: Classical Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by trapdoor2, updated: 6/28/2011
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Notes: Rustic Dance, by CR Howell...probably 1890's (no copyright on my edition). Very popular piano piece, almost the definition of the cartoon "happy dance" of the 30's.
Genre: Popular Style: Classical Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by trapdoor2, updated: 6/28/2011
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Notes: Just the TablEdit file for Rustic Dance. See the .pdf version for notes.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dpetervan, updated: 2/10/2011
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Notes: Includes the first verse lyrics with the up the neck backup
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by littleton, updated: 11/1/2022
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by littleton, updated: 11/1/2022
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by carlb, updated: 5/11/2013
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Notes: Tuining - aDADE. This version could be played for a dance as it's regular.
Genre: Folk Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD)
Posted by RJWMitchell, updated: 4/1/2016
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Notes: 2-finger thumb lead
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