Genre: Other Style: Other
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/2/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Other Style: Other
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/2/2006
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Genre: Other Style: Other
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/2/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/2/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: E Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Jenry562, updated: 6/24/2018
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Notes: Here is Noam Pikelny's first break he took in this video of him playing Sad and Lonesome Day with Stuart Duncan. Just totally awesome! (Triplets on one string - use a forward roll TIM) Hope you enjoy :)
Reference video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eXkKKYqbUE
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dbrooks, updated: 1/17/2023
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Notes: Popular jig (6/8 meter) at our contra dances.
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 banjukebox, updated: 6/16/2017
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Other Style: Other
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/2/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by srselby, updated: 3/26/2010 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: After Laura Boosinger's performance on "Old Time Banjo Festival" CD. Note the skips where you let your thumb drum on the head but don't strike a string. You can add more brushes if you like; but keep it quite lean.
Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Julian44_4, updated: 1/20/2012
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Notes: arranged for banjo by Dale Allen Pfeiffer
Genre: Old Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 10/24/2011
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjukebox, updated: 6/17/2022
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Notes: Capo up Two
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Munnlos, updated: 2/13/2012
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Notes: This is a song from a video game called Black & White. The song is also known as Missionary or Missionaries.
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: 5/2/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/2/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 5/2/2006
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by phb, updated: 11/2/2011 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: My 4yo daughter has one of those electric mini pianos. I wanted to impress her a bit with my playing and also to practice some transcription skills and thus decided to arrange her favourite preset tune for banjo. It seemed perfect for some melodic banjo as it clearly seemed to be a fiddle melody. It also seemed so familiar but I didn't know the name. I asked a colleague who is a first violinist for a symphony orchestra and he thought it was a Scottish dance but didn't know the name either. Try googling a melody... Anyway, I eventually found out that the tune was called "Sailor's Hornpipe" or "The College Hornpipe" and in fact is a very popular fiddle tune. I guess I should feel stupid for not knowing...
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by AlBanjo38, updated: 11/20/2017
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Notes: Melodic (Not exactly Scruggs)
Genre: Bluegrass Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by michel braquemart, updated: 8/17/2020 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Folk Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Bluegrass Banjo Dude, updated: 8/23/2020
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Notes: What better example to measure yourself to than the master himself! Here is tablature for Bill Keith's version of Sailor's Hornpipe! Why play it on the fiddle when you can pick it on the banjo!
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by littleton, updated: 11/1/2022
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: F Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Patrick P., updated: 4/19/2019 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Sequenced by midi genius Barry Taylor. Enjoy the banjo harmony and the modulation F and C.
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Other Style: Other
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/2/2006
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Genre: Traditional Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Devon Wells, updated: 6/4/2011
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Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by delmando, updated: 2/19/2012
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjofool469, updated: 11/3/2014
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Notes: This is melodic clawhammer.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Open D (f#DF#Ad) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by AlBanjo38, updated: 3/29/2018
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Notes: Melodic (Not exactly Scruggs)
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by bellf, updated: 2/23/2019
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Notes: This is a simple arrangement that might be suitable for beginners. The arrangement consists mostly of quarter notes with the occasional run of eighth notes.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish 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: 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: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Other Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by stratovarious520, updated: 10/31/2023
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Notes: An amalgamation of ideas from Fleck, Vestal and myself. Bonus: play it in two different keys without retuning. Capo at 2, key of D (modulates to E).
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by littleton, updated: 11/1/2022
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Notes: French Canadian
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JLouis Thiry, updated: 3/16/2023
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Notes: Celebrate Saint Patrick's Day 2023
Genre: Traditional Style: Other Key: Am Tuning: Open Gm (gDGBbD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mwblake, updated: 1/17/2011 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: This is a traditional Finnish polka that I transcribed from the playing of a 10 year old Finnish accordionist on YouTube (traditionally this tune is played in Cm/Fm, but to fit well within the range of the banjo I have dropped the pitch by a minor third to Am/Dm) This is a great tune, with very easy guitar chords. The banjo is tuned to G minor tuning [GDGBbD] and played with the capo on the second fret. The first three parts are in A minor and the fourth part is in D minor. Have fun!!
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Em Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dbrooks, updated: 5/28/2022
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Notes: Cathy Moore's web site, Banjo Meets World, offered tunes from other cultures done clawhammer style. "Säkkijärven Polkka" from Sweden has four parts and offers lots of left-hand work (pull-offs and hammer-ons) as well as drop thumb.
This tune uses the tuning gEGBE, though she tunes to gDFAD and adds the capo to the 2nd fret while leaving the 5th string unchanged. Her web site is no longer updated, but you can view the videos and tips here: https://banjomeetsworld.wordpress.com/ She also provided useful tips for adding drive and syncopation to traditional old-time tunes.
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 Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 4/5/2023
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Notes: Note: Double C tuning, capoed up two (key of D, aDADE). YouTube video of me playing the tune: https://youtu.be/YgZRL-BvQXg
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mwblake, updated: 8/30/2009 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Capo II (Key of A) Arranged from a recording of a version by Chris Thile and John Hartford
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Jim Pankey, updated: 1/5/2015
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Notes: Custom Lesson for Greg Rich
Genre: Old Time Style: Classic Key: C Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Bobby Cohoon, updated: 3/19/2017
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Notes: The actual tuning is FDGCD (Sawmill with the 5th lowered to f). I play it capoed at 2 so if you do that your 5th string should be G. It is the tuning that a lot of us play Stoney Point in.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 2/13/2022
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Notes: Tab based on the YouTube instructional video of this tune by Alleghany JAM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8ZtuZ-h3rk&t=2s
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/2/2006
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Genre: Old Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 10/24/2011
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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: 11/17/2023 - 10 Member Comments
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Notes: This is based on the version of Sally Ann played by Bertie Dickens. However, she played it in clawhammer/downstroking style, whereas this rendition is in the up-picking style. A video of me playing this rendition is posted on my YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/SnKEnfDV9H8
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 12/21/2016 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Most bluegrass banjo players are familiar with Earl Scruggs's arrangement of Sally Ann played up the neck. However, the tune is also quite amenable to breaks down the neck. I have tabbed some variations of a low break to Sally Ann that you may find useful.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by jorta, updated: 3/19/2012
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Notes: Sharing a tab that a bunch of BHO members helped me put together. Comments and improvements welcome - still a work in progress.
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Traditional 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: 4/17/2020 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: With echoes of Bill Keith, Butch Robins, and John Hickman
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: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 5/22/2023
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Notes: Here is a clawhammer version of Sally Goodin' or Sally Goodwin or Sally Gooden or whatever it is called.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by seanray, updated: 10/6/2013
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Notes: Backup Tab for "The Session Book" - seanray.com
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/11/2020
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Notes: With echoes of Earl Scruggs, Alan Munde, and Byron Berline.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 7/15/2024
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Notes: Foggy Mountain Banjo Album
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Erwin, updated: 6/5/2020 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: My transcription of how Earl Scruggs plays this fiddle-tune on "Foggy Mountain Banjo". This tab differs enough from the transcription in Earl Scruggs' book not be an infringement of copyrighted material. Especially, in the book the 1st downbeat starts on the 5th note, in my transcription on the 9th note (1st note 3rd measure), giving the feel as if the whole song is shifted 1/2 measure, that is really the magic of this tune. Also, it has the advantage that the B part UTN (12th fret position) starts on the downbeat of a measure, not halfway through a measure, as it is transcribed in the book.
(with minor review for easier playing the DTN part)
Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) 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: Dm Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjukebox, updated: 11/9/2017
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Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Dm Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by littleton, updated: 12/20/2017
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Notes: One of my very favorite tunes!
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Cm Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JanetB, updated: 1/21/2019
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Notes: A pretty, but haunting old tune in Cm.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 9/4/2022
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Notes: Corresponding video demo on my YouTube channel (Jack Beuthin): https://youtu.be/10wh7UOAUnQ
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jkacur, updated: 5/22/2015
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Notes: Aren't the lyrics to that other tune, "Sally in the garden, sifting sand"? Either someone had a sense of humour changing that to "assisting Sam", or some hearing problems. I suspect it's the former. My source for this is "The Old-Time Fiddler's Repertory", - 245 Traditional Tunes, Compiled and edited by R.P.Christeson. This is mountain minor tuning capoed up two frets to match the fiddle. It's a departure for me since I normally arrange Irish tunes so I can play them at sessions, but I love old-timey music too. I don't think I had to change much for the banjo other than notate in cut-time instead of 2/4. Oh, and here is a cool link with the fiddler playing the tune. http://slippery-hill.com/RP/008-Sally.mp3
Cheers!
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjukebox, updated: 4/17/2020
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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: 5/2/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/2/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/2/2006
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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 mwblake, updated: 8/30/2009
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Notes: Yet another version of Salt Creek, with a little bit of chromatic single stringing, for a change. Capo II
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjofrog, updated: 11/17/2010 - 5 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 2/27/2014
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Notes: Fun jammers tune
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by banjo_don, updated: 12/15/2014 - 4 Member Comments
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Notes: This is my spin on the song Salt Creek. Enjoy, this is for all those who wanted a tab the way I picked it.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by banjo_don, updated: 12/18/2014 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Corrected Salt Creek I accidently left out a measure and fixed the chime at the end. enjoy banjo don !
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Lefty5string, updated: 2/5/2020
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Notes: Fairly simple arrangement in the clawhammer style with hammer ons, slides and pull offs but no drop thumbing. Capo 2 for fiddle in A.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stratovarious520, updated: 2/21/2021 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Capo 2
A friend of mine from YouTube asked how I would arrange this tune. This is pretty much the way I've always played it. Tony Trischka's Banjoland album was my first exposure to this Monroe instrumental, and as a kid, I tried to play it just like he did. Of course it evolved over time.
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: Intermediate
Posted by dholland, updated: 7/23/2014
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Notes: This is an up the neck version of Salt Creek. The chords are the way that my band plays it. I've played it chorded other ways as well. The second part is basically scales in the chords with a sort of melodic run down on the last two measures. Lots of room for personalized changes in this version. Enjoy. Thanks.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 11/26/2023
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Notes: As Butch Robins said, Bill Keith's playing changed the landscape for bluegrass banjo players. Salt Creek is one of his seminal pieces. In the first break I have tabbed my interpretation of some of Bill's ideas, and the second break is how I tend to play the tune.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 11/10/2014
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Notes: This is another tune that is fun to play with two banjos in harmony. The second part (Part B) is my inadequate attempt to approximate on the banjo Kenny Baker's arrangement on the fiddle.
Genre: Old Time Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Dave Nauman, updated: 8/4/2011
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Genre: Old Time Key: Am Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD)
Posted by janolov, updated: 10/24/2011
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Notes: The first variation is thumb lead, the second is index lead or clawhammer.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Double C (gCGCD)
Posted by Yigal Zan, updated: 9/18/2016
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Notes: Double-D, capo at 2nd fret, 5th=a, aDADE
Genre: Old Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 10/24/2011
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Notes: First version is straight thumb lead. The second variation can be played index lead or clawhammer.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 2/17/2015 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: John Reischman and the Jaybirds
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BigFiveChord, updated: 1/23/2019
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by chuckv97, updated: 11/11/2019 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Tab for John Reischman’s very nice tune. Capo 2, spike 5th string at 7. Some of the 2-4 slides can be hammered-on or slid 2-3,, your preference. Youtube has a few vids of it , and this is my video https://youtu.be/B8USMVULha8
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 7/18/2022
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Notes: This is my banjoistic take on a lovely instrumental written by mandolin maestro John Reischman. Note that in measures 3 and 4 I tried to faithfully capture the tune's timing.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/23/2023
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Notes: This is an improvisational banjo break for Reischman's tune. You can throw in all sorts of banjo noise -- as I did -- as long as it works in the chord structure. Note that I borrowed some passages from Reischman's improv on the mandolin.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by delmando, updated: 10/29/2014
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Notes: I picked up this lovely John Reischman tune at the Cornish Bluegrass festival; It fell so easily into a comfortable clawhammer arrangement.
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006 - 2 Member Comments
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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: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 4/12/2014
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Notes: My version of Salty Dog comprises two breaks, each with two parts. The first break is in pretty straight Scruggs style, with a down-the-neck and then an up-the-neck segment. The second break starts with a semi-melodic segment reminiscent of Allen Shelton's wonderful break on the recording of the song by Jim and Jesse, and the second segment incorporates elements (but is not a faithful copy) of Bill Keith's jaw-dropping break on his album "Living on the Mountain" with Jim Rooney, released in 1964 or thereabouts. If you haven't heard the album, you should grab a copy to hear marvelous banjoistics by a young Bill Keith. As to the melody of Salty Dog, you might ask what a C note is doing in an E chord. Perhaps the simplest answer is to think of E augmented. As to the perennial question "What is a salty dog anyway?", I will stay out of this one. Either it's a soft drink, or it's a pickled sausage, or it's something else altogether.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by phb, updated: 7/20/2018
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Notes: Transcribed from the Flatt & Scruggs recording.
The TablEdit is NOT an TablEdit file but a MuseScore file. Please rename it from .tef to .mscz naming format after download to use in MuseScore.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Logan l banjo, updated: 10/6/2023
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G
Posted by Yigal Zan, updated: 1/28/2014
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Notes: Double-D, capo at 2nd fret, 5th=g, gDADE
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 5/25/2023
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Notes: G tuning capoed up two (key of A). A video of me playing this rendition is posted on my YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/WYqdNj449kQ
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoy, updated: 10/25/2019 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is a tune I wrote several years ago which was inspired by a musical phrase (a "lick") I heard on one of Sam Bush's albums. It's amazing what a lick can inspire. So I named the tune after Sam. It's a fun tune to play so I thought I'd throw it out there for whoever might be interested. I hope you enjoy :)
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by larrytanner, updated: 3/16/2010 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: Arrangement by Jessie Baker, as played on his Yessir! CD. If you have not heard this young man, go out and buy his CD. You will be glad you did.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 8/6/2024
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Notes: San Antonio Rose is a classic western swing tune that works well as a bluegrass instrumental. After listening again to Bob Wills's recording, I discovered that the tab I posted in 2020 had omitted a subtle part of the melody, the part with the words "It was there I found, beside the Alamo, enchantment strange as the blue up above." Thus I have added it to the tablature as Part B.
Genre: Country Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 12/23/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: F Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoy, updated: 4/4/2023
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Notes: Bela Fleck's 1988 album "Drive" for me personally was a seminal moment in trying to learn banjo. I had never before heard a banjo do what Bela was doing, how he was approaching and utilizing the banjo in original compositions. Every tune on that album is a masterpiece in my opinion and certainly changed my view of what a banjo is capable of ... not that I could ever hope to achieve that level of musicianship, but definitely opened my mind and ears on what banjo can do beyond lead and backup ... So this is my half-fast attempt at this masterpiece, something I'll never perform publicly or in any gig but is fun to absorb nevertheless. It is a very cool tune. I greatly enjoyed trying my hand at it and creating the tablature, and I hope you enjoy it much as I have. ***** I have created a YouTube video where I layered three banjos, just having fun with the tune, but it will give you an idea of how the tablature sounds for the lead banjo part ... FOUND HERE https://youtu.be/Wn-Ul7sUQKs
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/2/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/2/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/2/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/2/2006
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Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/3/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 10/8/2011
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Notes: Sandy Boys is a great old-timey tune associated with the playing of a renowned fiddler from West Virginia, Edden Hammons. But its origins are probably in the minstrel shows of the 19th century. I became familiar with the tune from a tab that Don Borchelt posted on his web page (http://www.banjr.com/tablatures.htm) some time ago, and I have since encountered it in jams. The version I have posted here is very much for the bluegrass banjo, with both Scruggs-ish and melodic elements.
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 6/26/2015 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: I tuned the banjo to double C tuning, and capoed the second fret for key of D. Then I brought the fifth string up to A . This is an easy arrangement
because it's almost all thumb in and out, and is played at a moderate tempo. Hope you like it.
Lynn
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Tom Berghan, updated: 4/7/2010
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Notes: Notes: Arranged by Tom Berghan copyright 2010. You are free to save the file and to perform the piece but not to record it for commerical purposes. Tom Berghan Apr 07, 2010
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G#/Ab Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by SuperCoolDude, updated: 7/11/2014
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Notes: George Stoneman's version from the album "Clawhammer Banjo Vol. 1". Played in Old G tuning, gDGDE. One of my favorite songs to accompany fiddle with.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 5/25/2023
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Notes: A video of me playing this rendition is posted on my YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/zLbz-vspVKc
Genre: Traditional Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/3/2006
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Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Julian44_4, updated: 1/20/2012
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Notes: arranged for banjo by Dale Allen Pfeiffer
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 2/13/2022
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Notes: A fiddle tune from the great Henry Reed. Generally played in A modal, but I pitched it down to G modal. A YouTube video of me playing this version is at: https://youtu.be/5ujuKLGgMA8
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 corcoran, updated: 8/14/2012
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Notes: This is fairly close to Bill Keith's rendition of the tune, recorded with Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys in 1963. It is played at a nice moderate tempo, not too rushed. Neil Rosenberg and Charles Wolfe's discography of Monroe states that Monroe learned a version of the tune from an old-time fiddler who lived in southern Indiana/northern Kentucky. It is close to the tune "I Don't Love Nobody," and you can find versions of the latter in the BHO tab archive.
Genre: Other Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/3/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Other Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/3/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by waystation, updated: 12/2/2017 - 5 Member Comments
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Notes: I always teach Santa Claus around this time of year, even though the tune has nothing to do with the season - it's named after the town of Santa Claus, Indiana. One of my students expressed an interest in doing an octave break, and I had a lot of fun putting this together with him. My goal was to keep the melody of the tune and the feel of Bill Keith's classic break, just an octave higher.
The arrangement turns out to be a great lesson in mixing notes fretted on high frets of low strings with open string notes on the first and second strings. The open notes, besides being integral to the melody, also give the player time to move from one left hand position to the next.
Since the whole break takes place above the seventh fret, even radical left hand movements aren't actually that big, so the arrangement is easier to play than it first seems. Some of the left hand positions are unusual and fun to play. My favorites are the beginning of the B part, from measure 17 through 19, and the descending D chord arpeggio in measure 9. The melody notes are highlighted in the tab, so you can focus on those, but listen to the tab before you start playing it to get a good idea of how the melody pops out of these unusual left hand positions and right hand rolls. I offer this break in the spirit of Bill Keith. I hope he'd like it.
If you're familiar with my Mel Bay book, "Bluegrass Banjo from All Sides", this tune falls between level B and level C. I consider it an advanced intermediate arrangement, but if you're comfortable with melodic licks up the neck - or even if you aren't - give it a try. Merry Christmas!
Genre: Popular Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by DGriffinEvans, updated: 9/27/2023
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Genre: Other Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/3/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Texasbanjo, updated: 10/7/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 10/16/2012 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: It's time to start early and polish up those Christmas tunes......hope you like it..
L.Williams.
Genre: Other Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Ira Gitlin, updated: 12/17/2017
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Notes: See my YouTube video of this arrangement.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish 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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Notes: Traditional Romanian
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by JAH, updated: 8/17/2016
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by delmando, updated: 2/19/2012
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by littleton, updated: 7/29/2017
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Notes: This tune was collected as "Old Reel" by Samuel Bayard from Sarah Armstrong in 1943. For lots more info, see http://www.toddclewell.com/sarah.html
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 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 jack_beuthin, updated: 5/8/2022
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Notes: I also posted a recording of myself playing this tune (mp3, not video).
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Joe Connor, updated: 9/15/2014
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Notes: Another Steve Martin clawhammer tune. The syncopation in measures 1 and 5 is the key to this song.
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Other Style: Other Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by loganp516, updated: 4/27/2016
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Notes: *** DUE TO TablEdit DEMO ONLY SAVING 16 MEASURES, The last two notes were cut off. They are:
1st string 12 and then 1st string 14***
Tab I put together for the tune Saria's Song from the popular video game series "Legend of Zelda".
Genre: Other Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by xsalad_bar, updated: 3/30/2014 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: I couldn't find this song tabbed out for banjo so I went ahead and tried it myself! The tune is from the game Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Cheers!
Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by heronhawk, updated: 10/1/2014
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Notes: Québécois tune from the Olympia Quebecois session repertoire. The title means 'jump of rabbit' and in a few places it is supposed to sound a bit bouncy like a rabbit jumping.
Genre: Country Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: E Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 12/18/2015
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Notes: A quick breakdown of the different parts to the song
Genre: Other Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G#/Abm Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 12/18/2015 - 1 Member Comments
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 10/3/2017
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Notes: I wrote Sawmill River Parkway in the mid-1970s while living in Vancouver BC and playing with the band Silver Spring. SRP is the name of a highway in New York State, and it was mentioned in the Nero Wolfe mysteries written by the great Rex Stout, a series I still read avidly. You may find, as I do, that the descending double stops that constitute the B part of the first break are useful in backup. A recording of SRP from a practice tape is available on the media tab of my BHO webpage.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 11/14/2019 - 5 Member Comments
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Notes: I dredged up the tab for this tune that I wrote in the 1970s, corrected a few errors, and added a bass track.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/3/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/3/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by pmcd22, updated: 3/2/2010
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Duc7, updated: 12/6/2012
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Notes: Here's a lovely little gem from the great Eric Weissberg that I rediscovered recently on an old LP. It's a little wonky in spots, but that's what makes it such a fun tune to play.... I hope you like it - Skip.
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 3/30/2022
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Notes: This tab is a supplement to my YouTube video, "The Modal Versatility of the Double C tuning" (https://youtu.be/ZozqXWiy_lU). It shows scales for the Ionian (major), Mixolydian, Dorian, and Aeolian (minor) modes in the key of C, as played in the Double C tuning. Each scale starts on the open 4th strong (low C) and moves through two octaves, across all four strings, up to the 10th fret of the 1st string (high C). The modes are arranged to show how the scale is modified from each proceeding scale (a down-pointing arrow indicates how a fret position is changed from one mode to another (e.g. the C mixolydian scale is produced by flattening the 7th note of the C major scale).
Genre: Other Style: Exercises and Licks Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 3/17/2014 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Traditional Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: Am Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by tom nelson, updated: 11/16/2011
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Genre: Folk Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Am Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 3/5/2013
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Notes: This tune is in 6/8 time but it's relatively easy to play on the banjo.
A guitar player friend of mine is always playing this song so I decided to get off my backside and learn it..----besides, it's fun and everyone (knows it if they are over the age of forty LOL) Hope you like it Lynn Williams
Genre: Folk Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Am Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 3/15/2013
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Notes: I found errors in my first tab. This is a cleaned up version.LW
Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by the banjophile, updated: 6/19/2016
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Genre: Classical Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by CBSplayer, updated: 7/17/2014 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Domenico Scarlatti Keyboard Sonata in C major k. 159. Here's the first part to Scarlatti's Keyboard Sonata k. 159. I hope to have the second part tabed out soon.
Copyright 2014
Genre: Classical Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by CBSplayer, updated: 7/17/2014
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Notes: 2nd part to Scarlatti's Keyboard Sonata in C major k. 159. Copyright 2014
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/3/2006
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by littleton, updated: 11/1/2022
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Notes: Swedish
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD)
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 1/27/2014 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is a fun little tune to play and it's a great song for St. Patrick's day. Hope you like it......Lynn
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Dave Nauman, updated: 2/7/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Adgardad, updated: 3/17/2010
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Notes: This song is from Bobby Hicks album "Texas Crapshooter" (available @ Amazon.com). The banjo break is very well put together, not too terribly hard to play and just fun to put under your fingers. Key of G capoed at the 2nd fret to put it in A.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JanetB, updated: 12/29/2016 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: Bill Monroe wrote the tune Scotland, honoring his roots. Kenny Baker fiddled it with the Blue Grass Boys and I learned listening to him.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by RB3, updated: 9/16/2022
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by hickorysmokebbq, updated: 1/7/2012
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Notes: I did not create these. I found them somewhere thought I'd share.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by From Greylock to Bean Blossom, updated: 2/15/2016
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by James Stiltner, updated: 3/24/2013
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish 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: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish 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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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Other Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/3/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Steven Moore, updated: 4/4/2015
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Notes: I slowed down and tabbed out Béla Fleck's See Rock City. Should be note for note. Email me with questions or requests: stevenmoore.banjo@gmail.com.
Genre: Other Style: Other
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Other Style: Other
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Other Style: Other
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by billcopeland, updated: 1/11/2010
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Notes: Reno Style
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 8/4/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stan, updated: 7/22/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by LyleK, updated: 12/21/2010
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Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Julian44_4, updated: 1/20/2012
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Notes: arranged for banjo by Dale Allen Pfeiffer
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by carlb, updated: 6/4/2013
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Notes: Tuning - gDGDE
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by carlb, updated: 4/19/2016
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Notes: Tuning: gDGDE (it's not in Eric's list)
Wrote this tab about 30 years ago, but should help with the sound file I uploaded a short time ago, not that it's exactly as I played it in 2000, but it should be close.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 4/16/2023
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Notes: A video of me playing this rendition is posted on my YouTube Channel: https://youtu.be/4eQFuh9bX8A
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by CBSplayer, updated: 1/1/2014
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Notes: My variation of Noam Pikelny's solo on Senor from Dierks Bentley's album Up on the Ridge.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Julian44_4, updated: 2/1/2016
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Genre: Unknown/None Chosen Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by J-Walk, updated: 12/12/2011
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Notes: Tab contributed by Walt Koken. This tune is on his "Hei-Wa Hoedown" album.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by stratovarious520, updated: 5/26/2023 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: A bouncy ditty from Larry's 1980 album Power Play. There are some weird triplet licks in the second break, but they will surely build your chops.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: Dm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Lukino_Bali, updated: 6/9/2022 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Finally.... for you
Genre: Other Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Dr.Ken, updated: 12/29/2009 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: I worked this tune out on my own, but oddly enough it feels like it could be a real tune. I think it would be excellent for beginners since there is an easy-to-learn "walkdown" consisting of a forward/reverse roll and barre chords.
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006
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Genre: Traditional Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Dm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by John Harper, updated: 9/8/2013
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Notes: A guitar player friend of mine plays Shady Grove in Dm. I had worked out a version in Em that is similar to others posted here and had started working on a high break. I had an "Ah, hah!" moment when I realized that my high break used no open strings and didn't involve the 5th string. This arrangement, while pretty simple is totally moveable up and down the neck so you can play in Am, Bm, Cm, Dm, Em, etc. It's in Tabledit and pdf. I sometimes do a hammer-on as opposed to a slide for the first measure as it bluegrasses it up a bit. If that's too hard just start on 3rd string 7 fret.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by frfiddle, updated: 10/9/2013
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Gm Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjofool469, updated: 2/8/2015
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Cm 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: G Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ndlxs, updated: 2/18/2021
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Notes: This tab is an approximation of the two finger style played by Lee Sexton. Despite what the library says, the tuning is Cumberland Gap tuning: fDGCD, or GEADE if the capo is placed at the 2nd fret and the fifth string is raised.
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) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/13/2023
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Notes: This is not the version of Shady Grove in a minor key that might be played by a folk singer with a dulcimer – not that there’s anything wrong with that! Instead this is the bare-bones hard-driving bluegrass version in a major key, as played by, among others, Bill Monroe (on the CD “Bluegrass Masters, from the Newport Festivals”), Flatt and Scruggs (on vol. 9 of the DVD “Flatt and Scruggs TV Shows”), and Doyle Lawson (on the eponymously titled CD “Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver”). I have tabbed 2 breaks, with lots of improvisation in the breaks, including a Fleck-ism at the end of the second break.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Gm Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by dbrooks, updated: 8/5/2021
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Notes: Two basic versions of "Shady Grove" - one with basic melody and one that adds a few hammer-ons and pull-offs.
Genre: Old Time Key: Am Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 10/24/2011
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by brownsdream, updated: 4/16/2020
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Notes: I was introduced to Wade Ward's masterful banjo playing on John Cohen's album High Atmosphere. The collection features an amazing cast of ballad singers and banjo pickers from Virginia and North Carolina. As a teenager, I learned my first two banjo pieces off of it. The first was Fred Cockerham's "Fortune," and the second tune was Wade Ward's "Shady Grove." Scroll down just a little bit more to listen to the latter. I highly recommend checking out the entire album, it's brilliant!
Benjamin Wade Ward was born near Saddle Creek, Virginia on October 15, 1892. His parents both came from the area around Independence, Virginia. When Wade was ten, his father purchased a farm overlooking the Peachbottom Creek meadows, and moved the family there. Wade lived out his life on that farm. He died there, on his porch, at the age of 79 on May 29, 1971.
Wade Ward's musical journey started on the banjo when he was eleven, and he added the fiddle at the age of sixteen. His father, Enoch, played fiddle, and his mother, Rosomund, was a ballad singer. Wade learned fiddle and banjo from his older brother, David Crockett Ward, who was twenty years his senior. The two brothers made a lot of music together, playing square dances at weddings, corn shuckings, and house raisings. Wade played with the Buck Mountain Band and the Grayson County Bog Trotters at public land sales, local Republican party meetings, Moose Lodge functions, and on the radio. Over the years, he also made music with his nephew (and Crockett's son) Fields Ward, as well as Uncle Charlie Higgins, Dale Poe, members of the legendary Lundy family, and Glen Smith.
Genre: Folk Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by dbrooks, updated: 10/4/2023
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Notes: This tab is based on the recording by Elizabeth Cotton. She plays it in Bb in the video, so capo at the 3rd fret to match her key.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1ViAIdO3i4
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by carlb, updated: 11/16/2017
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Notes: While it's an A tune, it plays more easily in double D (aDAde). Published in the Banjo NewsLetter in January, 1977.
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Traditional Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 1/20/2020 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Here is a threefinger version of the old hymn composed by Robert Lowry 1864
Genre: Traditional Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Traditional Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Popular Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: F#/Gbm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by heronhawk, updated: 7/15/2018
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Notes: A greatly simplified version of this song by Sting and Dominic Miller. I tuned the 5th string to f#. Here is the acoustic version by Sting and Dominic Miller: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6VyvTaX8NE
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dbowman, updated: 9/20/2010
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Genre: Popular Style: Other
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjofrog, updated: 11/6/2010
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Notes: An old Jim and Jesse song. This arrangement is not as complicated as their recording, but I think it'll do since I can't find it tabbed anywhere else.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JohanOhman, updated: 10/27/2011
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Notes: This is Allen Sheltons break from Jim & Jesse´s version of the song
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Ira Gitlin, updated: 10/31/2011
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Traditional Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by tom nelson, updated: 6/30/2011
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Notes: This could be played with the Em version for a little variety.
Genre: Traditional Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by tom nelson, updated: 6/30/2011
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Notes: This can be played with the G version for a little variety.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by John Harper, updated: 3/26/2010
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Notes: Key of C in G tuning for when the singers like that key. A short exercise in 3rds.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Devon Wells, updated: 10/13/2009
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Notes: In open D tuning with a high A. Have fun!
Genre: Country Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Claude Grassley, updated: 4/13/2020
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Notes: I included the first verse & chorus
Genre: Classical Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by rewop, updated: 5/10/2020
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Notes: This is the first 16 bars (of 88) of the Arrival of the Queen of Sheba. It is written in Bb so you have to capo up 3 frets. On the last 6 notes of bar 4 is where the oboe comes in so you may want to experiment with this (up the neck or chord it). Also bar 11 should start off from D but I've worked around that. If you want to play the original you'll have to scrap the capo and play Bb (but keep the 5th string Bb). Good luck if you want to learn the rest. It is very long but I am working on the next bit and may post this soon. The idea is to keep it simple and easy to learn.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD)
Posted by Jim Yates, updated: 1/24/2011
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Notes: Here's an Irish tune that I discovered while messing with double C tuning. Usually played in D, so get out your capo. Sometimes attributed to O'Carolin and sometimes to P.D.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JanetB, updated: 12/14/2016
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Notes: The first song written by the famous Irish harpist Turlough O'Carolan (1670 - 1738), the translated title means Big Hill, Little Hill and the lyrics described a battle between two fairy groups. The composition was so remarkable that it began a lifetime as a successful bard in the days when harpists traveled from manor to manor, earning their living providing entertainment.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Duc7, updated: 12/31/2012 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 2/13/2022
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Notes: A fiddle tune from Gaither Carlton. Presented as TOTW on 30 November 2018. I've also posted an audio file of this rendition, which is done in a thumb lead (mostly) two-finger style.
Genre: Jazz Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by KI4PRK, updated: 2/8/2010 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Here's an old pop tune & jazz standard from the 20's, the "Sheik Of Araby" ("The Sheik"). Makes a great banjo and "jam" tune, not too complicated a progression and not a difficult melody, though it sounds really cool. Has a Rhythm Guitar & Bass rhythm track. Have fun!
Genre: Jazz Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jcland, updated: 6/7/2014 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: This old swing standard really sounds good when played at an up tempo speed. It is from the playing of Bill Peck, a great banjo player in Los Angeles. I tabbed out his playing as best I could with his permission. Hope you enjoy playing it as much as I do. It is in the key of D played in G tuning with the 5th string tuned up to A. I also uploaded the Lead Sheet for the chords.
Genre: Folk Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by glennw, updated: 8/9/2013
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Notes: Here's an intermediate level clawhammer arrangement of the sea shanty "Shenandoah." Hope you like it.
-Glenn Weiser, www.celticguitarmusic.com
Genre: Folk Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by SixBs, updated: 5/10/2015
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 8/14/2016 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Also known as "Shenandoah Valley Breakdown," this is a classic instrumental by Bill Monroe. He recorded it with Bill Keith on banjo in 1963, the version most of us are familiar with. However, there is a radio tape of Monroe playing on the Opry Jamboree from December 1958, with Joe Drumright on banjo, and rumor has it that Monroe had to phone Drumright to play it over the phone to teach it to Keith just before they recorded it in 63. A concert tape from 1977 of the Blue Grass Boys with Bill Holden playing a marvelous version on banjo is also floating around. (Apparently by then Monroe had discarded his dictum that there can be only one guy named Bill in the BGB). My arrangement comprises three breaks and incorporates elements from these different players. The first break is loosely based on Bill Keith's recorded version with Monroe. The second break is a nifty melodic arrangement that is my version of the way Bill Holden played it. The third break is from a 1981 concert recording of Bill Keith, in which he introduced another outstanding take on the tune. Capo up 2 and play it in A.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD)
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: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Open C (gCGCE)
Posted by dhavlena, updated: 12/15/2010 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: My version of Shenandoah Falls.
Does anyone know the origins of this tune?
Thanks Dennis Havlena dhavlena@gmail.com
www.DennisHavlena.com
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jorta, updated: 6/6/2012
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Notes: My version of Shenandoah Falls based upon the ABC notation found here: http://abcnotation.com/tunePage?a=www.math.dartmouth.edu/~doyle/docs/waugh/w1/0073
Feedback and changes welcome.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by rlanselle, updated: 8/14/2019
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Notes: Tuning GDGBD Capo 2 = AEAC#E
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mwblake, updated: 11/1/2012
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Notes: A pretty tune that works well played a trifle faster as a jig. Thus, I have written it out in 6/8 time.
Genre: Traditional Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stan, updated: 3/10/2010
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Notes: Stan Slack;scslack@juno.com
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Julian44_4, updated: 2/2/2016
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Genre: Other Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Gm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by heronhawk, updated: 4/23/2017 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: This is a Klezmer waltz. Tuning is gDGBbD (Gm). Banjo in this recording is me, and the accordion is Jesse Partridge.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by dbrooks, updated: 10/21/2022
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Notes: This Darley Fulks tune was Tune of the Week on October 21, 2022. This version is based on the playing of John Harrod and Jesse Wells - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSrSFwTgQ48
Genre: Jazz Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum) Tuning: Tenor Standard (CGDA) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mastomo, updated: 5/17/2020
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Notes: This is a transcription from one of Eddy Davis's video.
Wish you a lots of fun with it :-)
Eddy Davis's video https://youtu.be/-csf1uXXFmQ
My own version on YouTube https://youtu.be/og32imol71I
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Don Borchelt, updated: 5/23/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This simple but elegant tune is among the many that come from the legendary West Virginia fiddler Henry Reed, through Alan Jabbour.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Tim Sander, updated: 6/5/2012
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Notes: Tab by Roy L. Smith from an arrangement by Silberberg.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Tim Sander, updated: 6/7/2012
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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
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Gm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by geckoberry, updated: 7/16/2021 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: All breaks of Alison Brown's shoot the dog! There's a lot of single string, time signature changes, and triplets in here, so good luck!
Geckoberry :)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Julian44_4, updated: 3/17/2012
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Notes: TablEdited by Gregg Shadel learned from Dwight Diller
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JanetB, updated: 8/24/2016
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Notes: Here are two versions of Shooting Creek as played by Alan Jabbour who learned them from West Virginian fiddlers Henry Reed and Oscar Wright. It was Wright who introduced Alan to Reed when Alan was a grad student long ago.
Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by trick420, updated: 1/26/2011
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Notes: Play it nice and lazy. Easy tune, so maybe you should sing along?
Lyrics:
Short life of trouble
A few more words to part
Short life of trouble, dear girl
For a boy with a broken heart
Remember what you promised
Not more than a week ago
You promised that you'd marry me
Standing in your mama's door
* Refrain
Now you've gone and left me
I don't know what I'll do
I'd give this world and half of my life
Just to be married to you
* Refrain
Now you've broken your promise
Go marry whom you may
In this old world so big and so wide
I'll ramble back some day
* Refrain
My right foot's on the platform
My left foot's on the train
I'm leaving you and this lonesome old town
To never return again
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 3/9/2023
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Notes: A version embellished with pull-offs, drop thumb, ASPOs, and the Galax Lick. YouTube video to go with this tab: https://youtube.com/shorts/xzq5Bg2E2MA?feature=share
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 Buxton, updated: 10/5/2010
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Notes: Video of the tabbed song is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FgpQyk5ibw&feature=related
Notes are accurate, timing may be a little off.
Genre: Traditional Style: Other Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by schlange, updated: 10/17/2013
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Notes: This tab goes with this lesson: http://www.banjohangout.org/blog/30853
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 4/6/2023 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Here is an easy clawhammer version of the old fiddle tune (and banjo tune) Shortnin' Bread. It is more or less based on the recording by Dykes Magic City Trio from 1927
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by howsy-bee, updated: 2/14/2021 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Bill Keith's high break on Should we tell him? from Banjoistics, 1984, typical for Bill's integration of melodic into Scruggs style, which can only be termed 'Keith style', although that was the initial name for purely melodic style.
Genre: Old Time Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 10/24/2011
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Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 10/30/2009
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by kevinwholmes, updated: 3/3/2011
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Genre: Unknown/None Chosen Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by janolov, updated: 7/3/2012
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Notes: This is an easy version of Shouting in Jerusalem. Mike Seeger plays this on his True Vine album and he based hes playing on Josh Thomas. Mike plays on a gourd banjo tuned down to three steps to E: eBEG#B. I think Josh Thomas paled a resonator banjo in standard G tuning. This is a simple arrangement, to some part based on Mike Seeger, but to most part my own ideas how to play a simpified Shouting In Jerusalem.
Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Bill H, updated: 2/29/2024
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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: 2/9/2015
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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 delmando, updated: 10/29/2014 - 2 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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Notes: This is about smelting iron, not roasting animals.
Genre: Old Time 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: Traditional Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mwblake, updated: 9/23/2009
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Notes: A rollicking melody! This arrangement is a simple adaptation for 3 finger style banjo from the version played by Bruce Molsky, Aly Bain, Jerry Douglas, Phil Cunningham, Russ Barenberg et al at the 'Transatlantic Sessions 4' at Celtic Connections in Feb 2009. It has a mixture of single string and melodic styles. I hope you enjoy it!
Genre: Other Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Gm Tuning: Open Gm (gDGBbD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ianhobba1, updated: 5/7/2021 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: A Secondary school student wanted to learn the banjo, he liked this tune played by Jens Kruger, so I embarked on a quest to tab the beautiful tune (beautifully played by Jens and band). Matthew learned it from my tab and nearly had it down, but finished school and went off to University ... what a blow.
Genre: Folk Style: Classical Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Jocko MacNelly, updated: 1/26/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Here's the Yale Women's Slavic Chorus singing this at the Parents' Weekend concert in the fall of 2010. I was "there" for this, but as we were running late, I dropped off Madame and spent the next 45 minutes driving around New Haven looking for a parking spot, then running around campus asking for directions, finally dashing up just as everyone was leaving!
http://youtu.be/4jV6rNuorxM
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BanjoBoy88, updated: 6/17/2024
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Notes: A few breaks of Shuckin the Corn, with full Scruggs rolls. Some of it was taken from the "Earl Scruggs and the Five-String Banjo" book, but I added and edited some of it for ease of learning to play.
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006 - 3 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Tenor G (DGdg) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Mirek Tim Patek, updated: 11/5/2009
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by schlange, updated: 11/3/2014
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Notes: For our TOTW (http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/293881) from Jack Baker.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by schlange, updated: 11/3/2014
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Notes: For our TOTW (http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/293881/) from Jack Baker.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 11/20/2021 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: The tab includes some ideas I have accumulated through the years.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by nitehawk0z, updated: 7/27/2020 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: Scruggs book only provides the details of the 1st break. I methodically went through the 2nd and 3rd breaks to tab them out, I believe it's 100% accurate.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 3/1/2019
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD)
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: Ragtime Style: Classic Key: Cm Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by trapdoor2, updated: 8/15/2016
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Notes: A delightful bit of fun from the master, Joe Morley.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Bill H, updated: 3/17/2023
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Notes: Played in the key of D--aDADE or double C tuning capo 2
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 3/16/2023
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Notes: Played in two-finger style, using both thumb- and index-lead. A video of me playing this rendition is posted on my YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/HyJsxirXyGg
Genre: Popular Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum) Key: G Tuning: Chicago (DGBE) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by cb56, updated: 6/9/2017
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Notes: Old tin pan alley song
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by rwsansom, updated: 10/2/2020
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Notes: From the The Osborne Brother's 1973 Ru-be eee release. https://youtu.be/BGqclVqpXm8. I love Sonny's latin syncopation in this song! The song is originally in B, with a capo on the 4th and 9th frets, but the transcription is in open G. I also added backing guitar and bass tracks to the TablEdit file.
Genre: Old Time Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Joe Larson, updated: 4/9/2016
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Notes: This is my Bluegrass version of an old fiddle tune I learned from my friend Wilson Mabe. There's more information in this archived topic here: http://www.banjohangout.org/archive/287141
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by BasicBoston, updated: 12/14/2010
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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: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Traditional Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Devon Wells, updated: 6/4/2011
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Genre: Popular Style: Classic Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ronh2510, updated: 12/20/2021
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Genre: Traditional Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Devon Wells, updated: 10/11/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Popular Style: Other Key: C Tuning: Open C (gCGCE) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Devon Wells, updated: 12/4/2014
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Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Julian44_4, updated: 1/20/2012
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Notes: arranged for banjo by Dale Allen Pfeiffer
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Adgardad, updated: 3/16/2010 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is the version of "Silver Bell" played by Bela Fleck on the album "Fiddle Tunes for Banjo".
It is just the banjo part. There is a low first solo and then right into the 'up the neck' break and then back down to a slight variation of the first part again, and then a quick tag ending.
Be sure to listen to the recording to get the tempo, chords and the overall feel of the song in the proper context.
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Traditional Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 11/20/2014
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Notes: Roland Swinton, a talented and highly seasoned Adirondack fiddler played this tune in D. It's a great tune....
and this arrangement is composed of mostly standard Scruggs rolls. Enjoy
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Greg Gilbert, updated: 9/21/2009
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Notes: Popular Christmas song in the key of G
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Paulie Ray, updated: 12/12/2012
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Notes: A waltzing Xmas tune!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dskeigley, updated: 8/18/2013 - 2 Member Comments
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Ragtime Style: Other
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Country Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by tinkersdam, updated: 3/16/2014
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Notes: Song by Jack Rhodes and Dick Reynolds. I first heard this tune thanks to an mp3 by BHO member 'Erbus'. I enjoyed it immensely and decided to try my hand at my own arrangement. I also added a backing track midi file that can be used to play along.
Genre: Country Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Claude Grassley, updated: 4/17/2020
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Notes: Originally covered by country artist Wanda Jackson in 1956. Many covers over the years. The folk group, The Seekers from Australia covered it in the key of G.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 8/4/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Country Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 4/21/2024
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Notes: A country classic covered by many recording artists. This two finger rendition (mostly thumb lead) is adapted from Wanda Jackson. A video of me playing this rendition is posted on my YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/csZsxFOcJyA
Genre: Other Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Other Style: Other
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Fathand, updated: 1/5/2013 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is a simple backup technique for beginners. Alternate Thumb followed by a "pinch" using the Middle and Index fingers on first 2 strings. Alternately, you could follow thumb by pinching the 1st and 5th strings.
This also works fairly well to accompany oneself singing easily.
Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by littleton, updated: 3/5/2017 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: a little bit of drop-thumbing but still a simple arrangement
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 12/16/2015
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Notes: Paul McCartney song originally in the key of B. Tune down a half step to play with recording. This tab is of the different parts and is made for a backup to a vocal.
Genre: Country Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Claude Grassley, updated: 4/2/2020
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Notes: Many covers but Guy Mitchell had first hit with it in 1956. He sang it in the key of D.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Gm Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by JLouis Thiry, updated: 3/8/2018 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: A curious and dark funeral march where the last beat of most bars is silent. Rarely heard in sessions.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by AllanJ, updated: 10/8/2010 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Northumbrian pipe tune often played inn pub sessions.
Genre: Folk Style: Other Key: Cm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjohn2, updated: 7/24/2016
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Notes: This is only the solo and ending parts. A student of mine wanted to learn this beautiful song.
I think it is Stuart Duncan playing an open back banjo.
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: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Banjopikr, updated: 7/6/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Banjopikr, updated: 7/6/2010
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Country Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by James Stiltner, updated: 2/9/2014
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Notes: Tab Window Must Be Maximized.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by nashvillebanjo, updated: 1/27/2013 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Writer Todd Taylor From The Hal Leonard Pickin Over The Speed Limit Book
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Other Style: Other
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Traditional Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Bm Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 4/19/2015
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Notes: Based on the Tennessee Ernie Ford arrangement.
Bm tuning f# B F# B D
Genre: Ragtime Style: Classical Key: Cm Tuning: Open C (gCGCE) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by trapdoor2, updated: 10/29/2011
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Notes: Norton Greeop's classic tune (just in time for Halloween!). Not difficult but there are some Index-lead bits that are somewhat tricky and perhaps some unfamiliar chord positions. The A and B parts are in Cm, the Trio is in C and then there is a D part in F.
Genre: Ragtime Style: Classical Key: Cm Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by trapdoor2, updated: 10/29/2011
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Notes: Here's the TablEdit file.
Genre: Other Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by riffraff, updated: 7/30/2022
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Notes: First draft. Very simple tune. Going to add some background stuff as soon as I figure it out.
Genre: Old Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by JanetB, updated: 5/25/2017
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JanetB, updated: 5/25/2017
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jbabb, updated: 5/19/2013
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jbabb, updated: 7/5/2013 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: This is the revised version of the tab that I posted before. I made the changes after watching Ron play this at a festival. Either way will sound the same but this new version is an easier way of getting the notes.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by kenperlman, updated: 1/24/2011
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Notes: with ken perlman workshop
Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Crusty, updated: 2/15/2013 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Really basic CH tune that's suitable for a beginner's first song.
Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by littleton, updated: 3/5/2017
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Notes: VERY EASY - good first tune for a rank beginner
Genre: Traditional 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: The first song I teach my banjo students once they learn the D7 chord. A great song to practice striking different strings with the clawhammer stroke. An alternate ending is shown to match the melody of the words "skip to my Lou". It involves a single hammer-on and pull-off.
Genre: Other Style: Other
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Other Style: Other
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Popular Style: Other Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Studebaker Hawk, updated: 10/17/2009
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Notes: Yes, it’s THAT “Skippy” from the iconic 1960’s Aussie television series. I used to love this show… still do!
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dbrooks, updated: 1/7/2023 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This tune was Tune of the Week in the Clawhammer forum on 1/6/2023 (https://www.banjohangout.org/topic/387943). Check out the link for more information about the tune, including a link to Earl Phelps' original recording. I found the notation on Jim's Roots & Blues website helpful also (https://jimsrootsandblues.com/skunk-in-the-collard-patch/).
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by The Cosmic Surfer, updated: 6/27/2023
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by heronhawk, updated: 9/23/2016
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Notes: Tuning is open G with the 5th string tuned down a half step to f# (f#DGBD). Gold Tone cello banjo and Ramsey Woody
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Andyrhydycreuau, updated: 5/22/2023
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006 - 2 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: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by larrytanner, updated: 12/23/2009 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is based on the Jimmy Mills version, from his My Dixie Home CD.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stratovarious520, updated: 3/16/2022 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: I really enjoyed piecing this one together. Some classic Osborne/Mills, and some more modern ideas from Hans Holzherr and myself. Capo 2, and jam away!
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006
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Posted by Harpist, updated: 11/21/2013
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Greg Gilbert, updated: 9/15/2009
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Notes: Popular Christmas tune in Scrugg's and Melodic styles
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by RadMuz, updated: 1/18/2023
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Genre: Jazz Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Greg Gilbert, updated: 12/15/2018
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Notes: Fun tune to play. Written by Benny Goodman.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Open D (aDF#Ad) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by banjorino, updated: 7/3/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by HSmith, updated: 9/3/2021 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is my favourite tune from my favourite album, Bela Fleck's 'Drive'! This tab is very loosely based on an uncredited Guitar Pro tab, but my preferred fingering choices are very different and, I think, much more natural and easier to play. The original tab included a harmony banjo part which I've removed to avoid confusion. Hope you enjoy it!
Genre: Folk Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Crusty, updated: 1/12/2014 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Folk Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by banjo_brad, updated: 10/2/2020
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Notes: The old Kingston Trio, Pete Seeger and Beach Boys song done Clawhammer style. One of my first attempts at writing tablature. Never got around to adding the lyrics to the tab - it is now on that list.
Genre: Folk Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by banjo_brad, updated: 10/2/2020
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Genre: Folk Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 10/5/2020 - 4 Member Comments
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Notes: This is an attempt to get some West Indian rhythms into the old tune Sloop John B.
The first part shows a strumming pattern
1 Brush down with hand
2 Brush down with thumb
3 Brush up with index
4 Brush down with hand
5 Brush down with thumb
6 Brush up with index
7 Brush down with hand
8 Brush up with index
If there is eight 1/8 notes in a measure the brush down with hand is emphasized or the 1, 4 and 7 note.
The second part is a kind of clawhammer, also giving the emphasizing on 1, 4 and 7 note. A lot of drop thumb is involved and the drop thumb on note 4 should be loud.
Genre: Folk Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 7/30/2015 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: fun tune............hope you like it....Lynn W
Genre: Other Style: Other Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by cuberous, updated: 12/10/2014
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Notes: This is my first attempt at writing out a tab. I beleive some of the note values are not correct in some of the measures. Any corrections and/or comments would be appreciated. The tab is written for the tune as posted by Don Lewers in the BHO music archive.
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Other Style: Other
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 3/4/2012
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Notes: Små grodorna, often called The Frog Dance is an old Swedish song and dance for children and parents. It is danced around the Christmas tree in Christmas and around the Maypole in Midsummer.
Genre: Rock Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Plock61, updated: 1/9/2014
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Notes: Le morceau commence par la ligne de basse puis le banjo commence sur deux notes (fa#-si) répétées deux fois, puis commence les accords dans l'ordre suivant :
F Eb Ab Cm
Avec ça vous devriez vous en sortir, le morceau n'est pas difficile, deux notes sur les deux premiers accords, puis on plaque les accords complets et enfin on déroule les arpèges quand la voix commence.
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Unknown/None Chosen Style: Minstrel (Stroke Style) Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by trapdoor2, updated: 8/10/2012
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Notes: Smith's Reel from the 1871 Converse method
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Geoff Keymer, updated: 4/1/2020
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Notes: Melodic style, close to the fiddle arrangement.
Genre: Popular Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 4/24/2021 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: The Platters, a literal rendition study in bends.
Genre: Old Time Style: Other Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by cgbnjo, updated: 5/24/2012
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Notes: A three-finger melodic version of Snake Chapman's Tune.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JanetB, updated: 8/14/2016
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Notes: This tune was re-named from Home with the Girls in the Morning, popularized by the great Texas fiddler and band leader Bob Wills. Interesting history is found on the old-time Tune of the Week on Banjo Hangout: http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/321609.
Another title is Won't Come Home Until Morning as played by Greg Hooven.
Genre: Folk Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by coltoncrawford, updated: 11/9/2020 - 2 Member Comments
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by JTrevorJ, updated: 4/12/2016 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: My first attempt at arranging a tune for Clawhammer. Capo at 2nd fret.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by OvrTheTop, updated: 8/17/2024
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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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: Intermediate
Posted by JanetB, updated: 4/28/2014
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Notes: Tune of the Week, 4/25/14. Originally collected by Samuel Bayard in his Hill Country Tunes book (on-line now) from the playing of southwest Pennsylvanian fiddler Sarah Armstrong.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Kernel, updated: 5/2/2014
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Genre: Other Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Rawhide Creek, updated: 7/11/2014
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Notes: This is a genuine "Tin Pan Alley" tune from 1913 by Percy Wenrich (pronounced WIN-rick) that works really well on the banjo. The II chord (A) provides a little spice in the A part, and the thumb gets more than the usual workout in the B part. I learned it in 1981 and I'm still partial to it. Warning: You'll like it better if you don't know the hokey words . . .
Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by kellyweeks55, updated: 10/16/2012
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Notes: This is my version of Snow Drop. I made the arrangement for my beginner students to try and help bridge the gap into the intermediate skill level.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Gm Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by littleton, updated: 1/20/2018
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Patrick P., updated: 1/20/2019
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Notes: Played by Alan Munde
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Open C (gCGCE) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by davebanjojo, updated: 7/9/2010
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Open C (gCGCE) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 1/15/2024
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Notes: Snowdrop is an old banjo tune that Kirk McGee made famous. Most people play it clawhammer today, but Kirk used a mixture of up-picking and three-finger. This is an attempt to catch his playing.
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Other Style: Other
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by delmando, updated: 2/16/2012
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Greg Gilbert, updated: 12/7/2018
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Notes: Played in the style of Vic Jordan. Key of C. Capo two frets for D.
Genre: Traditional Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stratovarious520, updated: 12/22/2022
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Notes: Vic Jordan's arrangement of the Tommy Jackson tune. Played in C position, capo 2.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by 5stringJim, updated: 11/2/2016 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is the version that should have been in BNL November 2016. Pretty accurate, this is the key and tuning Vic used.
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Other Style: Classical
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjukebox, updated: 6/7/2024
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Genre: Classical Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjukebox, updated: 1/21/2023
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Notes: Written by Juventino Rosas
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: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 6/11/2020 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is my version of a jaunty tune by Don Reno.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 8/4/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by RJWMitchell, updated: 8/29/2013
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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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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006
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Genre: Traditional Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/25/2007
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Other Key: F Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by KI4PRK, updated: 9/6/2009 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: I was messing around, playing fiddle tunes in the wrong keys, and I figured out that Soldier's Joy works very well in the key of "F". So here it is. Careful at jams :P Complete with Rhythm Guitar & Bass backup tracks. Uses a couple unorthodox techniques, such as "cross-picking" (crossing one right-hand finger over another) & dropping the middle finger inside. Have fun!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Tenor C (CGdg) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Mirek Tim Patek, updated: 11/5/2009
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by foxtrotyankee, updated: 7/14/2010
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by littleton, updated: 6/28/2017
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Open D (f#DF#Ad) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by AlBanjo38, updated: 3/24/2018
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Notes: Melodic (Not exactly Scruggs)
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dbrooks, updated: 7/3/2022
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Notes: This tab is in response to a request for tab of Glenn Carson's version in his duet with his son, Russ., on Russ's YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PlLSt_yMe4&t=79s ). This represents what I hear in Glenn's first break. It may not look at all familiar to Glenn since it's more of a skeleton than a full representation of what Glenn is playing.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by littleton, updated: 6/28/2017
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Notes: A super EASY version
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by flyakfish, updated: 5/6/2022
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Notes: This is a melodic version in the key of "D" played in open "G" tuning but with the 5th string tuned down one fret to F#. This makes the fingering easy and helps from repeating the same string for more flowing melodic. I haven't seen this tuning here before so I am posting several of my song arrangements for melodic players to experiment. A mostly standard version just to highlight the tuning which I think you will like.
Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 2/13/2022
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Notes: The tab is close the the rendition of Soldier's Joy I contributed to the BHO Jukebox.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 5/11/2023
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Notes: Key of D, Double C tuning capoed 2. A video of me playing this rendition is posted on my YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/ddaR4tqWBZc
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/20/2006
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Open C (gCGCE) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Nevada Dan, updated: 12/4/2014
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Genre: Old Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 10/24/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoy, updated: 7/17/2020 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is a couple of variations I do on this cool old traditional fiddle tune. I came up with the melodic break for Part B many years ago and get to polish it off every now and then. I have an MP3 of this tune in my audio archive which lets you hear a lot of what I have tabbed out in action :). Enjoy!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 9/8/2022
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Notes: It can be instructive to compare arrangements of a tune by different masters, and the tab shows versions by 3 of the best. It is in drop C tuning, capo at 2, and the structure of the tune is of course AABB.
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 7/15/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: When I worked out this arrangement I was reflecting on the playing of Doug Dillard--I stole a few of his rolls for this popular tune because DILLARD ROLLS WORK :) hope you like it.........
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 8/16/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: revised version
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by AndyW, updated: 1/25/2018 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: Capoed to double D.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Other Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BanjoNikopolis, updated: 12/11/2013 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: A friend Requested I make a banjo version of Peter Gabriel's 'Solsbury Hill'. I think I'm pleased with the result, and this one seems easy to play, so i'll post it here for anyone who wants it.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjopeter, updated: 12/20/2020
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Notes: Visit my website for tabs and instruction videos: www.peternoorman.nl
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Country Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Open D (aDF#Ad) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Nevada Dan, updated: 6/5/2016
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Notes: Based on the playing of John McEuen from the old Nitty Gritty Dirt Band album "Uncle Charlie and His Dog Teddy." This is just the opening line to the song but the remainder of the song can be done using a basic clawhammer 'bum-diddy' right-hand rhythm following the prescribed chord progression.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman0254, updated: 11/22/2009 - 2 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: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Steelydan, updated: 7/18/2013 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: (Scruggs Style) Key of G (Capo to Voice). Beginner. 1st measure is intro. Play thorough betwee : and 1 1st time and play through without intro with 2 for finish. Tabbed by hand and dug up from old archives I have. Enjoy.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by wesmont, updated: 3/8/2016
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 10/8/2011
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Notes: Here is a lovely straightforward version of the tune, played by the guy who wrote it, the noted songwriter Earl Scruggs. It is way less ornate than J. D. Crowe's versions (posted on BHO as well), and provides a nice contrast to J. D.'s take on the tune. If you want to learn to play Somehow Tonight, I suggest that you start with Earl's version and then move on to J. D.'s.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A#/Bbm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 10/12/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: In my continuing quest to understand the genius of J. D. Crowe, I have tabbed two versions of one of his signature tunes, “Somehow Tonight,” written by Earl Scruggs – and who knew that the Scruggsmeister is a wordsmith? The first break is from Crowe’s recording with the Bluegrass Album Band (BGAB), the version most of us are familiar with. Note Crowe’s repeated use of multiple thumb strokes on the fourth string, a cardinal feature of his blues style. The second and third breaks are from Frank Godbey’s legendary recording of the New South at the Red Slipper Lounge of the Holiday Inn, Lexington KY, November 1974. I really prefer Crowe’s attack on this version of the tune. Note how his second break from 1974 ends with a blues riff that goes off in the ozone. I am not sure that I got it completely right, but it’s reasonably close.
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Other Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: F#/Gbm Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Devon Wells, updated: 9/28/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Wyatt Custom Banjo, updated: 9/22/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Banjowen, updated: 4/20/2010 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjojason88, updated: 6/11/2013
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Notes: Second String D-Tuner:
High Stop: "C" Note
Lower Stop: "B" Note
Between the first break and the second break, you must quickly tune the second string down from a "C" note to a "B" note and leave it there for the duration of the second break.
After the second break, quickly tune the second string from the "B" note back up to the "C" note.
Because I could not figure out how to put all banjo breaks on one module, they are split between breaks. All breaks should be played by one banjo and see notes in the tab to understand how to play the song.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/22/2016 - 6 Member Comments
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Notes: Here is a bluegrass arrangement of “Over the Rainbow,” often referred to as “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.” I play it in the key of C, standard G tuning, although some versions I have heard (e.g., Eddie Shelton’s) are in the key of G. But I think C works better on the banjo. I am aware that there are alternate chord structures for this tune, particularly for the B part. This version works for me, but your mileage may vary, and feel free to come up with your own arrangement.
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 2/14/2016
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Notes: I saw in the forum that some pickers wanted a Scruggs style version of Somewhere over the rainbow.
Here's my meager version. Hope you like it.......Lynn
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Steven Moore, updated: 3/17/2016
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Notes: A simple version of (Somewhere) Over The Rainbow as I played it many years ago when I was 15. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF7PDuKOOhA
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by greggweltybanjo, updated: 9/25/2016
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Genre: Other Style: Other
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Banjowen, updated: 2/22/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: A self composed tune that I wrote for a friends wife.
Genre: Other Style: Other
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Other Style: Other
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by jkacur, updated: 5/16/2015 - 4 Member Comments
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Notes: The source of this tune is "Old Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes" by Jeff Todd Titon, number 154. This tune is clearly derived from Green Fields of America, but it has it's own charm too. It's a little crooked - for example 6 measures in the b-part) I've presented a bare-bones arrangement here that is pretty close to the fiddle transcription.(you should of course ornament to your taste) Exceptions are, there appears to be a typo in the last measure of the A part with a figure reproduced, that I removed, and I changed a double low "e" to an "e" plus high-g-drone, and I also found it fun to slide from the low e to the g instead of try some manoeuvre like an overly long reaching hammer-on, or an m-arpeggio. For the quarter notes in the first full measure, you can simply add the high-g drone, or you can actually play the notes as in Greenfields of America. Lot's of fun to play, cheers.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 6/25/2023
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Notes: I learned this from Larry Edelman, who learned it from the Canote Brothers. Accordingly, Sophie (a Portland OR-based fiddler/violinist) composed this in F, but the Canote Brothers transposed it to G.
A video of me playing this rendition is posted on my YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/pRhas3v6dlM
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 alducks, updated: 3/28/2017
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Notes: Banjo and simple Bass modules to play along with Jimmie Martin's version on youtube. Insert your own backup instead of the banjo solo if you want to. Again...no guarantee on accuracy but it works.
Genre: Other Style: Other
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Popular Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 11/2/2023
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Notes: Here is a arther easy version of Paul Simon's and Art Grafunkel's old hit SOUND OF SILENCE. It is played with three fingers but it is not exactly Scruggs' style. It is played rather slow so you can play several adjacent 1/8 notes with the same finger.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by littleton, updated: 12/20/2017 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Written by Linda Littleton in the style of Jay Best.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Open C (gCGCE) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by CCABanjo, updated: 4/6/2016
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Genre: Traditional Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/2/2015
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Notes: Tab by Jack Baker, for our Scruggs TOTW: http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/300249/
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ShhhItsASecret, updated: 4/4/2020
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Notes: Standard roll, melodic, and up-the-neck (roll) variants. Adapted from old-time, clawhammer versions of the tune.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 11/10/2021 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: I have been listening to a lot of the Osborne Brothers lately, and I was reminded of this simple but enjoyable tune. It's a great choice for jamming.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 7/31/2024 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: A video of me playing this rendition is posted on my YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/4-HxHWTMINE
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 6/3/2024
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Notes: This is my best approximation of how Morgan Sexton played this tune in an Appalshop video I watched on YouTube. A video of me playing this rendition is posted on my YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/8QKCj-T3AP4
Genre: Folk Style: Other Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BeeEnvironment, updated: 10/3/2021
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Notes: As tabbed by Pete Seeger, himself, in 1959, for the book, "The Goofing Off Suite", published by Hargail Music Folk Anthology.
Genre: Folk Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Matthess, updated: 12/8/2018
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Notes: Song by the band Flook, tabbed out for 5 strong banjo.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by chuckt808, updated: 9/20/2013 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: I couldn't find a clawhammer version of South Australia so between knowing the chords and finding the melody somewhere online in the key of C, I came up with this in D. Note that you should tune the 5th string to A for this to sound right. It's largely based around the melody and I'm pretty much a straight novice but the second half, or "Rolling king" part, is fun to play and I'm quite proud of it. I may re-upload once I figure out how to add lyrics in TablEdit. I welcome any and all questions, complaints, suggestions, comments, etc.
Genre: Folk Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: aDGBD
Posted by RJWMitchell, updated: 5/13/2014
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by drifter, updated: 6/11/2013
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Notes: Transcription from Charlie Walden's arrangement
Genre: Other Style: Other
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/10/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by eagleisland, updated: 1/4/2013
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Notes: Our dobro player wanted to add this song. Learned it from the Jerry-Douglas-produced "Tribute to Tut Taylor" album. There was no banjo part on it, so this is what I came up with.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Dave Nauman, updated: 2/7/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 6/29/2013 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: This is my take of this neat song that I learned from Fred Warner, a great musician (fiddle and banjo) playing friend of mine . Hope you like it..........L.W.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/25/2015 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: SF is one Bill Monroe's weirder tunes, but it is a gem.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: E Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Cwiiis, updated: 1/14/2016 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Inspired (but pretty different to) Blake Williams's break on the Live From Mountain Stage album, and with a few bars borrowed from Casey Henry playing Northern White Clouds (which has a basically identical B part to Southern Flavor).
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Em Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 5/8/2017 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: This is a clawhammer version of Bill Monroe's Southern Flavor. It is played in standard tuning but with the fifth string tuned down three half steps to E (equal to first string second fret). A rhythm guitar and a mandolin part is included in the tab, but the mandolin is silenced in the midi file.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JanetB, updated: 5/8/2017 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Bill Monroe wrote this classic and plays it different every time through. I've chosen one version and enjoy playing it this way.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by fivestring61, updated: 4/24/2010 - 4 Member Comments
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Notes: High break I arranged for this Bill Monroe tune... note this is played in natural Em but I capo at the second fret and capo/tune the 5th to B.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by fivestring61, updated: 4/24/2010 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: First of two breaks I arranged for this Bill Monroe tune... note this is played in natural Em but I capo at the second fret and capo/tune the 5th to B.
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: E Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 4/25/2015 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Glen Campbell
notice GM7 tuning f# D G B D
Genre: Old Time Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: D Tuning: Open D (aDF#Ad) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by EmilLevy, updated: 4/6/2021
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Notes: Tuning is actually adaad instead of adf#ad, I could not click that option. The tab is the southern soldier. A civil war song from the south. Best preformed by the Second South Carolina String Band (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUajwtw2Esc) check them out they are awesome. This tab is only the melody notes, so that i and other folks who are interested can adapt it to whatever style you like, I am trying to adapt it to scruggs style. Ive recreated this in tabledit based of the video and I also used a clawhammer tab(https://jamalongtranscriptions.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/transcription-The-Southern-Soldier-clawhammer-banjo.pdf) which I recently found, I wouldn't have got it without that tab cause im only a few months into playing. Some folks might get upset by the lyrics or the fact that it was a confederate song, but for me that doesn't take away at all from this beatiful song, and i hope y'all can enjoy it just as a piece of music :)
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish 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: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish 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: Jazz Style: Unknown/None Chosen Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Deo, updated: 2/23/2014
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Notes: Banjo and Bass Tabs. No solo, folks.
By Béla Fleck and the Flecktones. From the album Béla Fleck and the Flecktones.
If you like it, rate it! If you don't, leave it alone =D
Cheers!
Genre: Folk Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Dm Tuning: Open Gm (gDGBbD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by coltoncrawford, updated: 6/22/2023
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Open C (gCGCE) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 9/9/2022
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Notes: Art Rosenbaum's version of Spanish Fandango, from the LP Folk Banjo Styles (1962)
Genre: Classical Style: Classical Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 9/10/2022 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: The guitar part is a direct transcription of Henry Worrell's version from 1866. The banjo part is a direct transposing of the guitar part to the banjo.
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/10/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/10/2006
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Genre: Classical Style: Other Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by rileycrow, updated: 5/23/2022
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Notes: Commonly known as Romance from My Chemical Romances first studio album 'i brought you my bullets you brought me your love' or also known as the classical guitar piece: Spanish Romance.
Genre: Folk Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by asphillips, updated: 9/19/2011
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JanetB, updated: 5/7/2014
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Notes: Based on an interpretation of the playing of Adam Hurt.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Tom Hanway, updated: 5/3/2016
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Notes: 'Speed the Plough' is a very old traditional tune that has morphed into many other tunes. This is for 5-string banjo enthusiasts who love a good fiddle tune from the days of yore.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: F Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjukebox, updated: 1/19/2024
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Notes: Tune one full note down from Open G to fCFAC
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 6/1/2023
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Notes: A video of me playing this rendition of Speed the Plough is posted on my YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/shorts/v5L2ZsNDiaI
Genre: Other Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Cm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by kevinwholmes, updated: 5/20/2012
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Notes: Copyright 2008, Kevin W. Holmes. Use for non-commercial (non-monetary gain) purposes permitted.
Genre: Folk Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by dbrooks, updated: 7/15/2023 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: "Spider Home" is a tune from the folk punk group O'Death. This tab attempts to approximate the banjo backup on the recording. The slam-jam nature of punk music presents a challenge for the tab writer. I have indicated the fingering for the intro and first part which are played at a moderate tempo. In the sections after that, I just indicate the 3-note chord positions and leave it to the user to determine whether to strum, pick 2- or 3-note arpeggios, or both. The tab is based on this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb7Ff3x0ncE . I used Chordify for suggested chords - https://chordify.net/chords/o-death-songs/spider-home-chords . The user is encouraged to find their own path as banjo support for this song.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Gm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by heronhawk, updated: 3/30/2020 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Played here on a cello banjo. This tune was composed in the 1970s by Brendan McGlinchey in a pub in Dublin while drinking coffee waiting for a flight to London after a two week trip around Ireland with friends had gone very badly. Here is a video of McGlinchey playing it first as and air and next as a reel: http://youtu.be/d9xnvijV7Y4
Genre: Rock Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by terje_t, updated: 6/18/2013
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Notes: Béla Fleck's banjo solo on the Dave Matthews Band song Spoon, from the album Before These Crowded Streets. The solo starts at 2:38.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Other Key: E Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by tklassen, updated: 11/13/2013
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Genre: Other Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/10/2006
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Julian44_4, updated: 6/26/2011
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Notes: arranged for banjo by Dale Allen Pfeiffer
Arrangement by Fred Bradbury
Melodic Clawhammer Arrangement by Bob Solosko
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
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: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dholland, updated: 2/11/2013 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Old Time fiddle tune in D with aDGBD tuning.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 3/11/2023
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Notes: The tab corresponds to a YouTube video in which I play Spotted Pony in both 2F and clawhammer styles (https://youtube.com/shorts/1q8576NwPJo). My 2F version uses both thumb and index lead. In the video I play each part only once (only had 60 seconds). Typically the tune structure is AABB.
Genre: Old Time Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum) Key: D Tuning: Tenor C (CGdg) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Mirek Tim Patek, updated: 2/24/2011
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Genre: Old Time Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum) Key: D Tuning: Tenor G (DGdg) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Mirek Tim Patek, updated: 2/24/2011
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JanetB, updated: 3/1/2017 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: One of fiddler James Bryan's best tunes from Bob Carlin's Banging and Sawing CD.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by zach w, updated: 9/7/2023
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BanjoTJC, updated: 2/2/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: I made this one up. The up the neck version is on youtube. You can go straight there by clicking the URL.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjukebox, updated: 5/13/2023
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Other Style: Other
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/10/2006
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Genre: Rock Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by tanstevo, updated: 7/30/2012
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ndlxs, updated: 1/4/2020
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Notes: Arrangement by Andrew Alexis
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Noah Cline, updated: 5/13/2022
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Notes: By Chris Germain. Tab is written out in A, but have heard and played it in G as well.
Genre: Old Time Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by seanray, updated: 6/22/2012
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Here is my arrangement of this old fiddle tune which is not very popular amongst Scruggs style banjo players. This is probably due to the fact that it's a bit tricky to play. The harmonic structure over the A chords implies an Em tonality which creates an interesting tension.
Genre: Old Time Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BigFiveChord, updated: 9/26/2019
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Notes: Arranged from John Hartford's fiddle playing
Genre: Old Time Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Dave Nauman, updated: 10/29/2020 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Am Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by littleton, updated: 10/24/2021
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Am Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by littleton, updated: 10/24/2021
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mwblake, updated: 9/14/2009
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Notes: Melodic arrangement
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Other Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by smitchinson, updated: 10/14/2014
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Notes: Melodic version, arranged to match Irish Fiddle, so played more as a traditional Irish session tune than the usual bluegrass interpretation.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Greg Gilbert, updated: 10/7/2018
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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: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JLouis Thiry, updated: 3/22/2015 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: A last one to close St Patrick's Day week as Ireland win Six Nations title.
Not much 5th string in this crooked jig with its 14 measures B-part and really fun to play.
Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Dm Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Barry Crannell, updated: 6/5/2016 - 1 Member Comments
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Other Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Duc7, updated: 9/22/2009
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Other Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Duc7, updated: 10/2/2009
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Notes: Here's a straight-ahead melodic version of a classic fiddle tune.
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: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2014
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Notes: From Jack Baker, for our BG TOTW: http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/284564
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Chris Yohn, updated: 3/6/2016
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Notes: double-D tuning aDADE
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by The Cosmic Surfer, updated: 6/27/2023
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Notes: Just a few variation for an old tune...
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Traditional Style: Classical Key: Gm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD)
Posted by tom nelson, updated: 6/22/2012 - 5 Member Comments
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Genre: Rock Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Joseba Andoni, updated: 1/21/2013 - 3 Member Comments
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Genre: Popular Style: Other Key: Am Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by nealsotn, updated: 2/2/2015
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Notes: Second hack at this- Sounds pretty good on a Guitanjo or deep resonator banjo.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JanetB, updated: 1/19/2017
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Notes: First heard on piano by Adam Hurt on his new CD, Artifacts, this clawhammer version is based on the composer, Craig Johnson's, original version. It's fun to play and quite pretty.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Other Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Bill H, updated: 7/24/2022
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Notes: This is a tune written by Cape Bretton fiddler Jerry Holland. It is tabbed out for five string banjo in three-finger style.
Key of A: capo 2
Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by RJWMitchell, updated: 10/5/2013 - 1 Member Comments
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Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD)
Posted by RJWMitchell, updated: 10/23/2013
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Notes: Sung in B flat - capo on 3rd fret, capo 5th string at 8th fret.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Ben Asher, updated: 9/11/2012
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Notes: This tune is called "Stanton Town," and its played out of aDADE. Its an original composition of mine, please feel free to check it out, and to play it... if you make a recording, I'd really love to hear it! You can hear me playing it in the "Videos" section... Enjoy! :)
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen Style: Classic Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by trapdoor2, updated: 8/10/2012
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Notes: Stanwood's Favorite from the 1871 Converse
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum) Key: Bm Tuning: Tenor Irish (GDAE) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by albert52, updated: 9/20/2011
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Notes: Here is a tune that has stuck with me for over ten years now, and is a staple for me when I play at Old folks homes and such. On the fiddle I treat it as a ballad style, and on the Tenor Banjo more of a dance tune. I have heard many Irish bands play this tune at "sub-light speed", and then again have heard fiddlers play it quite slowly and sweetly. Hope you enjoy AJ
Reference recording for the tab posted-- AJ's Music Page
Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Am Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by tfaux, updated: 11/14/2011
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Notes: Traditional Irish tune for clawhammer.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Am Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by littleton, updated: 10/24/2021
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Am Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by littleton, updated: 10/24/2021
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Am Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Dave Nauman, updated: 2/7/2010 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by MissKristen, updated: 1/16/2018
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Notes: This is one of my favorite traditional Irish tunes to play on the Irish tenor banjo and mandolin. I decided to create a simple melodic style arrangement of the song for five string players. The tune is played in both 6/8 and 4/4 (a particularly good version by The High Kings even switches between the two) so I included both a 6/8 and a 4/4 version. Note that both versions use the exact same notes. Only the note duration varies between the two.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Am Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by heronhawk, updated: 8/2/2015
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Notes: Played as a waltz. Tuning is aEACE (Gm capo 2). Tab by Mike Iverson is available at http://www.bluesageband.com/Tabs.html
Genre: Other Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/10/2006 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Unknown/None Chosen Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by tom elder, updated: 6/23/2010
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Genre: Other Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 1/19/2014
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Notes: The opening monologue theme music melody line
Genre: Other Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Violanjo, updated: 7/8/2022
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Notes: Jerry Goldsmith on banjo!
Genre: Other Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by gunshydog, updated: 12/27/2012
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Notes: This is my very first attempt at using TablEdit, so the timing is off but the notes are there and it gets you close...
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Am Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by jorta, updated: 6/8/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Not exactly how I play it anymore, but enough to start for someone interested in the song.
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/10/2006
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by vega0119, updated: 2/18/2013
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stratovarious520, updated: 2/25/2021 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Bob Black's arrangement from his Ladies on the Steamboat album.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by rdeanjordan, updated: 1/2/2024
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Notes: A melodic style arrangement of this great fiddle tune as played by Bob Black.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JohanOhman, updated: 10/27/2011
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Notes: A melodic break played by Allen Shelton with Jim & Jesse
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JFraboni, updated: 1/14/2022
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Notes: I tabbed this from the playing of Fred Cockerham (on "Stay All Night… and Don't Go Home"). I tried my best to be the most accurate possible as an exercise to grasp a bit of his playing. Please let me know if you think improvements could be made.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by RJWMitchell, updated: 9/3/2013
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Notes: Melody in both D and G and separate lead sheet in 'D' for the Furey's hit 'Steal Away'. I have added my own arrangement banjo tabs in D and in G. Plus the 'G' arrangement with lyrics. 1st verse is repeated as chorus.
Genre: Jazz Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Close-shave, updated: 8/1/2019 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mbeaky, updated: 3/27/2022 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is a gem of a song by John Hartford; as fun to play as it is to sing. The first break is a Tabledit version of Jayme Stone's transcription and ends on the first beat of measure 32. The rest is my arrangement of this classic.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 6/26/2023 - 3 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mwblake, updated: 1/22/2015 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: I play this great John Hartford song with my band "The Grass Snakes" and this is a fairly accurate transcription of what I play. There's nothing very tricky here - a little bit of syncopation in the b part, but it's all quite attainable, with a bit of practice. A favourite song at my gigs and I hope you enjoy learning it!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 3/1/2019
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by dbrooks, updated: 6/16/2023 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This clawhammer tab aims to capture the joy of John Hartford's 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: 5/10/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/10/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/10/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Ragtime Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/10/2006
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Genre: Ragtime Style: Other
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/10/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Tom Hanway, updated: 2/21/2016
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Notes: Scruggs's version from the Martha White Radio Show, June 1953.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 10/22/2011
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/10/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by GBftp52, updated: 5/20/2013 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: This great tune has been recorded most notably by Alison Krauss and John Denver. But I have heard this tune played by many bluegrass groups over the years with the most recent being a local group we watched at a restaurant a few days ago. Here is one of my breaks for the Key of G.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/11/2023
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Notes: I have added an ending (outro) to the tablature of my tune Stemwinder, which I first posted on BHO years ago. Incidentally, "Stemwinder" is the name of a provincial park in British Columbia
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Don Borchelt, updated: 4/6/2014
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Notes: Clawhammer style, no drop thumb.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjukebox, updated: 9/1/2017 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Capo up two.
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dbrooks, updated: 2/7/2023 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This tab is for Willie Watson's version of "Stewball," as played in this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IepDAEnvBFY
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Bm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 10/18/2017
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Notes: SteelDrivers - capo 2 waltz
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/10/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 8/24/2016 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: After I watched "The Big Lebowski" once again, this simple tune emerged from a cloud of smoke (just kidding!). To me it reflects the zen of The Dude, who, as we all know, Abides.
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Yohansen, updated: 9/26/2018
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Dave Nauman, updated: 3/25/2010
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Notes: A great and seemingly little known Bill Monroe instrumental.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Gm Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by rlanselle, updated: 10/13/2019
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Zephinie, updated: 8/15/2018
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Notes: (Capo 2) Melodic/SS arrangement of Stoney Lonesome as played by the Bluegrass Album Band.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 7/4/2017
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Notes: Here are the takes on this classic Bill Monroe tune by two great banjo players, Noam Pikelny and Bill Keith. Pikelny's version is from the album "Noam Pikelny Plays Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe," and it is faithful to Baker's version on fiddle. I have included two of his interesting variations on the B part that mirror Monroe's composition. Keith's version is from "The Grass is Greener," and it is less tied to the fiddle break. It's more interpretive, if not downright surreal. Capo up 2 to play in A.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 4/18/2016 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: SMT is a lovely tune employing Keith/Scruggs tuners. Walter Hensley wrote it and recorded it as Stoney Mountain Twist and Walt's Breakdown, and more recently J. D. Crowe recorded it as Stony (sic) Mountain Twist. The tab I have posted is more or less my own arrangement, not faithful to either Hensley's or Crowe's. For Part C, where you crank up your Keith tuners (twisters), I have tabbed it to show the melody notes without tuners, but I added the protocol for using Keith tuners above the tab. So you can still play it if you do not have Keith tuners, although it sounds much better with the tuners. (It was a real bear to get the timing accurate on Part C, by the way).
Genre: Old Time 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: Old Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 10/24/2011
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/10/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by carlb, updated: 5/11/2013
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Notes: Tuning - gDGDE (Old G)
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by VioletMoon, updated: 5/15/2020
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Notes: This is a simple tabbed interpretation of a banjo version of the tune as taught/played by David Bragger who was inspired by Vernon Spencer's fiddle version of the tune. (See TOTW for 15 May 2020).
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Jazz Style: Other Key: F Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by owsley, updated: 11/12/2013
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Notes: Written by Thelonious Monk
Genre: Other Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: Gm Tuning: Open Gm (gDGBbD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by blubottl, updated: 7/11/2010
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Notes: Straw Foot by 16horsepower/David Eugene Edwards.
Based on David Eugene Edwards' solo performance found on youtube (link in tab).
He plays a "thumb lead" style with index on bright D string and thumb for the rest.
To get a feel of the song i suggest checking out youtube. It's really helpful in picking out small variations in the song, which I found too meticulous to put in the Tab.
I haven't copyrighted the tab in any way, feel free to distribute, but be kind and put in a nice word for me if you do so ;)
Enjoy!
Genre: Country Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 8/20/2015 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: It ain't really bluegrass, but it's fun to play and sing..... hope you like it......Lynn W
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by stratovarious520, updated: 2/3/2021 - 4 Member Comments
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Notes: Keeping the Jimmy theme going. Another barn burner (about 300bpm in Tabledit) that showcases the late, great Jimmy Arnold. A warmup is suggested before tackling this one full speed!
Genre: Traditional Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by kevinwholmes, updated: 7/6/2011
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Notes: I play this a bit differently than the TAB, based on other versions I've heard.
Genre: Folk Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by john fincher, updated: 7/15/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is 32 bar in 6/8 or Jig time. Players wishing to using it as a dance tune may choose to split it into high and low parts with repeats.
Genre: Jazz Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Fathand, updated: 1/11/2018
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Notes: PDF Lead sheet requested by ah0558
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: Intermediate
Posted by LyleK, updated: 9/29/2013
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dbrooks, updated: 5/9/2021
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Notes: This tab is based on the video by Banjojukebox - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHaC4p1unuc
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stratovarious520, updated: 8/6/2022 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: I realized when I was learning this tune, the only tablature around is from an old Banjo Newsletter, and from the Masters of the 5 String Banjo book. The Masters book only has the first break. So, I made my own. Please note that this is adapted for my own (in)abilities and taste. Also, Mr. Munde recorded this initially (Together Again for the First Time, 1977) with capo at 2.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Open D (aDF#Ad) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 5/29/2020 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: In the immortal words of W. C. Fields, who was not a banjo player. He was, however, an entertainer who started his career in vaudeville as “The World’s Greatest Juggler” and went on to write and star in a number of very funny if slightly bizarre films (e.g., “The Fatal Glass of Beer,” “The Bank Dick,” “You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man,” “Never Give a Sucker an Even Break”).
Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/10/2006
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by KI4PRK, updated: 2/15/2010
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Notes: Dock Boggs' "Sugar Baby", from his original 1927 recording. This was his first recording. Tuning is G-modal, though Dock uses it for the key of D. The guitar accompaniment is in D-major, which sounds really cool against the modal banjo melody. A very easy piece with only one short, simple roll. Literal tuning is f#C#F#BC#, which is G-modal (gDGCD) down a half-step.
Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Posted by Chad Jones, updated: 6/4/2016 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: After Dock Boggs, but does not follow Boggs exactly. Tuning is f#DGCD. 3 finger up picking style.
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/10/2006
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Genre: Old Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 10/25/2011
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Genre: Old Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 10/25/2011
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD)
Posted by Yigal Zan, updated: 11/6/2011
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Notes: Based on Wilson Douglas' fiddling, Double-D, capo at 2nd fret, 5th=a, aDADE
Genre: Old Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 10/25/2011
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Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Julian44_4, updated: 10/28/2011
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Notes: Tab By Maya Whitmont TablEdited by David J Payne
Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Julian44_4, updated: 10/28/2011
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Notes: TablEdited by David Payne
Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Julian44_4, updated: 10/28/2011
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Notes: TablEdited by David Payne
Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Julian44_4, updated: 10/28/2011
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Notes: TablEdited by David Payne
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Other Key: A Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Joe Larson, updated: 6/21/2016 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 6/10/2023
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Notes: This is based on the John Ashby version of Sugar in the Gourd. A video of me playing this rendition is posted on my YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/ECk5u1ffHcs
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/23/2006
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Genre: Ragtime Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/10/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/10/2006
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish 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
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/10/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Classical Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Close-shave, updated: 8/1/2019
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Notes: Tabbed for a duet, but of course the melody can be played alone.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by carlb, updated: 6/5/2012
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Notes: Tuning: aDAde
A tab I wrote in about 1980 and never published (in the old style of the Banjo Newletter tabs). Give it a try.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjukebox, updated: 10/9/2019
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Gm Tuning: Open Gm (gDGBbD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by chuckv97, updated: 8/8/2019
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Notes: A very nice instrumental by Willie P. Bennett,, Denis Lepage on banjo. Link : https://youtu.be/9FoEll_l_bQ
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen Style: Classical Key: Gm Tuning: Open Gm (gDGBbD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by tom nelson, updated: 4/9/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This was started from a simple melody line from banjotom
Genre: Popular Style: Other Key: E Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 6/12/2020 - 5 Member Comments
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Notes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBDKOXyP_DE
open C#mM7 tuning (spooky)
Genre: Jazz Style: Other
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/10/2006
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Genre: Jazz Style: Other
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/10/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Unknown/None Chosen Style: Classical Key: Am Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by tom nelson, updated: 1/24/2012
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Notes: One song is with rolls and the other with more chords.
try both my Summertimes and tell which one you like and why
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by banjohn2, updated: 7/23/2016
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Notes: This is based on the playing of Scruggs with Monroe in september 1946
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Joe Connor, updated: 2/14/2016
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Notes: Another great Steve Martin clawhammer tune.
Genre: Ragtime Style: Classical Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by trapdoor2, updated: 1/8/2011
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Notes: "Sunflower Dance" is one of the American Banjo Fraternity's most common tunes. It was written by H. Rowland in the 1880's and originally titled "With The Tide Schottische". First recorded by Fred Van Eps in 1905 for Edison. Catchy tune!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/10/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/10/2006 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by agentheath, updated: 5/5/2013 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: 2nd break (~3:18) by J.D. Crowe with the Grascals in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IE2gLELpBc
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by schlange, updated: 11/10/2014 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Sonny Osborne's arrangement, tabbed by Jack Baker.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by dbrooks, updated: 8/20/2023
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Notes: This clawhammer tab is based on the recording by the Osborne Brothers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNQj9Gq-9MI ). They play it in B, so capo at 4th fret to match the video.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 8/20/2023
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Notes: Capo 4 to play along with Osborne Brothers recording.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 11/29/2022 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: The version of SSotM that Earl Scruggs played on is from a recording of an Opry radio broadcast in the late 1940s by Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys. Lester Flatt sang it as a solo number, and Scruggs took a lovely up-the-neck break. Note the transition from G to C in measures 5 and 16, wherein Scruggs seems to be playing a chromatic passage with the notes G - Eb - D - C. As far as I can tell, he picks Eb rather than E. Does this make Scruggs the Father of Chromatic Banjo? You be the judge. The recording I took this from can be found on youtube. Although the recording seems to be in the key Bb, I have tabbed it in the key of G.
Genre: Popular Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stratovarious520, updated: 10/30/2021 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: An old standard, covered by the Country Gentlemen (Eddie Adcock) and before them, Les Paul. I tried to incorporate some of the iconic (to me) parts, whether it be Waller's chromatic guitar riff, Duffy's opening mando notes and quasi-bendy thing, Adcock's single string work, or Ben Eldridge's Scruggsy break. There is also a scalar descending thing from Bela, some of my own musings, and Les Paul's dramatic ending. Have fun with it, and make it your own!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by RB4picker, updated: 12/20/2017 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Other Style: Other
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/10/2006 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Jazz Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: F Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mikemoyes2, updated: 10/3/2014 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: I know there is a version of Sunset on the archives already but I tried to tab something out in accurate rhythmic notation including the solo from the studio album. (Live Art version coming next perhaps?)
I did this sibelius so I don't have bends or hammer ons but I trust you can figure it out!
Enjoy!
Mike
Genre: Country Style: Other Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD)
Posted by RJWMitchell, updated: 2/6/2014 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Tabs for Banjo, Baritone Uke and Soprano/Concert Uke. Lyrics and chord sheet.
Genre: Other Style: Other Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by banjovy, updated: 9/22/2009 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: The 1st part of the theme. single string style.
Genre: Popular Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum) Key: D Tuning: Chicago (DGBE) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by barchi, updated: 1/19/2013
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Genre: Other Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dakkers, updated: 8/4/2018 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: The tab is split into 2 parts because Tabledit doesn't let unregistered versions save over 16 measures in a single file (also: there's that annoying watermark). There's both the PDF and the Tabledit files.
Note that this is only the "B section" of the song - the first section of the song is more of a Scruggs-style melody, which I haven't learned yet.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 11/28/2015
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Notes: The Osborne Brothers 1966- capo 2nd
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: F Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dbrooks, updated: 2/26/2023
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Notes: "Susan's Gone" based on Dirk Powell's version on the CD, Appalachian Picking Society. This version in F requires tuning to fCFCD.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dbrooks, updated: 2/26/2023
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Notes: "Susan's Gone" based on Dirk Powell's version on the CD, Appalachian Picking Society. This version in G doesn't require tuning to another key, such as fCFCD.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 6/8/2020 - 6 Member Comments
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Notes: Sushi is a fine fiddle tune written by the great Kenny Baker – the most elegant bluegrass fiddler, in my opinion – and it works well on the banjo. You can see Mr. Baker playing Sushi here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Noi625ZhRR8&feature=youtu.be The version on the video comprises only 2 parts, whereas the recording of Sushi by Saskatchewan fiddler J. J. Guy on his album “Cadillac” includes a third part. My arrangement for the banjo includes all 3 parts.
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Other Key: Am Tuning: Open C (gCGCE) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjo24f, updated: 4/6/2015
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjo24f, updated: 8/25/2013
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Genre: Other Style: Other
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/10/2006
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum) Key: D Tuning: Tenor Irish (GDAE) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by albert52, updated: 9/4/2011
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Notes: Started hunting through some old arrangements and updating them.
Thought someone may enjoy this.
AJ
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum) Key: Em Tuning: Tenor Irish (GDAE) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by banjoman80, updated: 1/24/2019
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Notes: Irish jig for tenor banjo
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Bm Tuning: Double C (gCGCD)
Posted by Andyrhydycreuau, updated: 3/20/2024
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Notes: Double C tuning with a capo on the second fret.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dbrooks, updated: 3/23/2024
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Notes: Swallowtail Jig in 6/8 time requires a different clawhammer stroke where the downstroke (m) plays the 1st and 3rd note of each triplet. The middle note can be played with a hammer-on, pull-off or drop thumb, depending on where the note is on the fretboard. The tab indicates the downstroke (m) and middle note (h, p, t) in Part A. Triplets can also be handled by skipping the middle note using a quarter note and eighth note pair rather than three eighth notes in a triplet. Ken Perlman suggests thinking of:
"hickory dickory dock" (triplet) vs "the mouse ran up the clock" (quarter note paired with eighth note)
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Tom Hanway, updated: 4/16/2013
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Notes: The prototype Tom Hanway Stelling Swallowtail is named for this jig, also the reel, and the book Swallow Barn. Here's the whole tune in E Dorian mode with melodic and rhythmic variations using grace notes, plus some picking-hand options.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Tom Hanway, updated: 4/10/2013
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Notes: This is an exercise in Celtic fingerstyle banjo illustrating possible melodic variations for the opening phrase of this jig, also comfortable fretting-hand and picking-hand options. This is in E Dorian (a mode using the same notes as D Major).
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Dm Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dbrooks, updated: 6/19/2024
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Notes: This tune was written by John Balch and recorded on his CD, -HOT-Biscuit Jam. This tab by David Brooks is based on the recording - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9K1ptIK25o. John Balch's own tab and MP3 can be found here - https://www.banjohangout.org/topic/397933. The tuning is fDGCD raised to gEADE with the capo at the 2nd fret.
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G 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 Key: D Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 5/19/2024
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Notes: A waltz composed by Rayna Gellert and recorded on her Ways of the World album. This is set in the key of D, but I used the standard G tuning (gDGBD) lowered five half steps to play in that key. A video of me playing this rendition is posted on my YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/EHIpCE2jYKo
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 5/14/2024 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Jerry Reed, Larry McNeely
Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Cm Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 10/23/2014
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Notes: This is a nice traditional Swedish Christmas tune, in Swedish named Staffansvisan (Saint Stephan's song).
Genre: Folk Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by littleton, updated: 1/20/2018
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Notes: VERY EASY
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Jethro Aberdeen, updated: 6/18/2018
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Notes: Corrected sound module- thanks Jack, sorry it took so long to correct.
Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 12/25/2023
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Notes: This two-finger arrangement involves both thumb lead and index lead. A video of me playing this rendition is posted on my YouTube channel. However, in the video I am pitched down five half steps (key is shifted from G to D). Video link: https://youtu.be/QzuStjENj9k
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D
Posted by Yigal Zan, updated: 11/1/2012
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Notes: Double-D, capo at 2nd fret, 5th=a, aDADE
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stan, updated: 9/18/2011
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Notes: Bluegrass Gospel
Genre: Traditional Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by RJWMitchell, updated: 8/24/2013
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Genre: Rock Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Carter_ir, updated: 10/30/2022
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Notes: lead guitar from Sweet Child O' Mine written as a banjo tab
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Other Style: Other
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/10/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 8/13/2015 - 5 Member Comments
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Notes: Bill Emerson is one of the all-time greats on bluegrass banjo IMHO, and over the years he has written a bunch of memorable tunes. Perhaps his signature tune is Sweet Dixie, which he recorded when he was with Jimmy Martin in the 1960s. Emerson had written and recorded the tune earlier than that, however, and Martin’s name was included because he was the leader of the band. In any case, Sweet Dixie is a great driving piece that every bluegrass player should include in his or her repertoire. It is formed around a percussive series of pull-offs on the first string, and buddy it is effective. It’s normally played in the key of D; so capo up 2 and go to town.
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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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/17/2006
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Genre: Other Style: Other
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/10/2006
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Genre: Traditional Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by fingerbuster, updated: 1/25/2012 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Jazz Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 5/11/2013
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by llscracker72, updated: 10/23/2013 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: capo at the 7th fret
Genre: Jazz Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: F Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by schlange, updated: 12/20/2013
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Notes: This accompanies this tenor banjo lesson from Mike Currao: http://www.banjohangout.org/blog/31101
Genre: Other Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by wilbanjo, updated: 6/30/2018
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Notes: Eddie Shelton
Genre: Other Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: F Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Expert
Posted by wilbanjo, updated: 6/30/2018
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Notes: This is from Bill Keiths Break starting about 2:05 on this video ,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SQxRx4Iigo
Genre: Traditional Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stratovarious520, updated: 11/14/2021
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Notes: An elaboration of some ideas from Hans Holzherr (howsy-bee). In the process of making it playble for me, I came up with a few new ideas. A very "bouncy" version indeed! As always, make it your own, and have fun with it.
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by RB3, updated: 4/28/2023
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Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by RJWMitchell, updated: 8/30/2013 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Folk Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by SixBs, updated: 9/11/2013
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Genre: Unknown/None Chosen 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: Standard G tuning, capoed 2 (key of A). A lovely tune from Walter Lile. This is a fairly melodic banjo rendition. You can watch a video of me playing this tune on YouTube: https://youtu.be/iJFyOLf_XyU
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjukebox, updated: 11/8/2018 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: The tune was written by Rob Pine and Jim Mullany
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by stratovarious520, updated: 3/20/2021
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Notes: This piece epitomizes (to me) Ben's joyful approach to banjo. It's a knuckle buster at his tempo. Pay careful attention to his syncopation...melody notes fall in strange places!
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/10/2006
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Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 10/30/2009
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Notes: This tab includes two versions of Sweet Sunny South. The first is based on the fiddling of Henry Reed, and the second is based on Tommy Jarrell's banjo playing.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by phill, updated: 3/23/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: I based this version on a more traditional style giving it an old timey feel. There is a lot of thumb work in it.
Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Crusty, updated: 10/3/2015 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: G modal in Open G tuning
Genre: Old Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 10/25/2011
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Notes: Two versions: the first is based on the fiddling of Henry Reed, the second is based on Tommy Jarrell
Genre: Classical Style: Classical Key: F Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Ian_banjo, updated: 6/28/2013
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Notes: This is an orginal by Alison Brown. I don't know if this is exactly the way she plays it, but it is note-for-note pretty much the same. A tricky finger buster this, but a terrific exercise to get your left hand moving around the fingerboard. If that wasn't enough, it is a delicious gentle tune that moves through several keys.
Genre: Folk Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by dbrooks, updated: 11/6/2022
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Notes: This tab is based on the song by Loudin Wainwright III - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne6eS_SmccQ
Genre: Popular Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Studebaker Hawk, updated: 10/2/2009
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Notes: This is how the song's author, Loudon Wainwright III, plays it on clawhammer banjo. Capo on the 2nd fret. The song is easy and fun. If you just ate, don't forget to wait 1/2-hour before you go swimming! Enjoy.
Genre: Jazz Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by rhutson, updated: 1/24/2015
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Notes: Feel free to add comments for this ROUGH draft. I tabbed this about 5 years ago and used to play it about 3/4 the speed that Vestal plays it on the bluegrass 2000 cd. As far as the key, I thought it was A but it might be Dmaj7-9. I'm a Scruggs picker but was so inclined to learn this song so I just messed with it a little. Scott uses a lot of technique on this song and his touch and timing are so good that it makes it a great song to listen to. I might try to play the version I tabbed to give some insight on what I translated and there are a couple of phrases I play a little different than the tab but it's about 99% of what I play now.
part 1 Dmaj7-9, Dm7-9, G7, Fmaj7, Bb9#11(b5) Dmaj7-9, Dm7-9, G7, G/A
part 2 Bm7 Cmaj7, C#m7, F#7, Bm7, E7sus, G/A
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/10/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by stan, updated: 7/24/2012 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Both High & Low breaks!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD)
Posted by James Stiltner, updated: 12/31/2013
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Genre: Folk Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by RJWMitchell, updated: 7/5/2015
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Notes: Sheet music and banjo arrangement
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Unknown/None Chosen Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Sagar, updated: 7/6/2011
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Notes: arr for instruments Cyril Kovac may 2005
original arr by Vidar Hansen 1982
Genre: Popular Key: C Tuning: Tenor Standard (CGDA) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by pddngtn, updated: 1/3/2010
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jenorma1, updated: 3/19/2016
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Notes: tuning: gDGDE (old G)
Genre: Other Style: Other
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/9/2006
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G
Posted by Yigal Zan, updated: 11/26/2010
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Notes: Tuning: gDADE
