Genre: Country Key: C Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Jack Baker, updated: 11/8/2026
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Genre: Country Style: Other Key: A Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Jack Baker, updated: 11/8/2026
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Genre: Country Style: Other Key: Am Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Jack Baker, updated: 11/8/2026
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Genre: Country Style: Other Key: A Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Jack Baker, updated: 11/8/2026
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 11/8/2026
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Notes: A thumb lead two finger version of a popular Irish song. A video of me playing this rendition is posted on my YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/LA2_2FrqXak
Genre: Other Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Bm Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by KCJBanjo, updated: 11/8/2026
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Notes: Song by Sohta. gCGCD tuning (capo 2)
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by KCJBanjo, updated: 11/8/2026
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Notes: Song from the children's TV show 'The Backyardigans'. Double C tuning.
Genre: Folk Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by James_Murphy, updated: 11/7/2026
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Notes: Playing the Tab feels off side by side with the music, but sounds okay on its own.
Could use some extra flair, it's very basic, so anyone who wants to tackle a solo is welcome to it.
Video of the tune: https://youtu.be/wu1WPJALb94
Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Dm Tuning: Cm (gCGCEb) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by KCJBanjo, updated: 11/6/2026
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Notes: Based on the version by Rattle on the Stovepipe. aDADF tuning.
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by James_Murphy, updated: 11/4/2026
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Notes: This is Benjamin Tod's rendition of The Mountain by Steve Earle. This is the video:
https://youtu.be/eR04x5XXAwQ
Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Stringy D, updated: 11/6/2026
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Notes: This is my transcription of Mossy Bones' playing of Cold Frosty Morning. It is Sawmill tuning tuned down 2 half steps to fCFBbC. This is through the 1st A and B parts. I also include alternate licks on page 2 of the pdf and in the TableEdit file which pretty much covers all the variations throughout the tune.
Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Stringy D, updated: 11/4/2026
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Notes: This is one way I play Cold Frosty Morning. I play it is Sawmill gDGCD tuned down 2 half steps to fCFBbC sometimes, but sometimes in regular Sawmill or 2nd fret capo aEADE . The ending lick in parts A and B show 2 versions. Sometimes I play it one way, sometimes the other or sometimes both. The TablEdit file is fCFBbC.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by RB3, updated: 11/4/2026
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by KCJBanjo, updated: 11/2/2026
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Notes: gCGCD (capo 2)
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 11/2/2026
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Notes: A fairly straightforward, thumb-lead two finger rendition. A video of me playing this rendition is posted on my YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/F8MldeorYeI
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Stringy D, updated: 11/3/2026
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Notes: This is my attempt at transcribing Undone In Sorrow as played by Riley Baugus in his YouTube video and on his album Little Black Train's A Comin'. Know that there are subtle variations between the two versions. I also have made slight variations to better fit my playing style and level.
It is gEADE tuning on the YouTube video, gDGCD (capo 2 Strings 1-4) no capo on 5th string. He plays it in fDGCD (5th string down 2 half steps) on the album version which is the tuning I play it in.
This is the intro through the 1st verse. The verse is a basic bum ditty / drop thumb chord progression, with few embellishments, to make it easier to sing over. The TablEdit file is in fDGCD
Genre: Traditional Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Bill H, updated: 10/31/2026
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Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Bill H, updated: 10/31/2026
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Notes: Banjo is tuned: DADE
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Stringy D, updated: 10/30/2026
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Notes: This is my transcription of Mossy Bones' Version of Undone In Sorrow by Ola Belle Reed. He tunes his fretless way down, dADAB. This is Old G / Sandy River Belle tuning fCFCD tuned down 3 half steps. This tab is all the way up to the 1st verse. The rest of it is more or less the same thing with slight variations. I don't have a fretless banjo, it plays fine fretted. It also sounds good in fCFCD if you are already in that tuning.
Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Cm Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 10/30/2026
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Notes: This minor version of Paddy Works on the Railroad comes from Pete Seeger and Cisco Houston. The two finger arrangment is my doing, inspired by the Pete Seeger recording. A video of me playing this rendition is posted on my YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/4kcYATx0DJ4
Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Gm Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Stringy D, updated: 10/30/2026
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Notes: My transcription of Cluck Ol Hen as played by Mossy Bones. Note that he holds the 2nd string 2nd fret with his index finger through a lot of it even though he isn't sounding it.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by KCJBanjo, updated: 10/29/2026
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Notes: gCGCD (capo 2)
Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Stringy D, updated: 10/28/2026
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Notes: This is my transcription of Mossy Bones' version of Kitchen Girl as played on his YouTube video.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by E Field, updated: 10/27/2026
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Notes: This tune can be played as either clawhammer or 3-finger.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by corcoran, updated: 10/26/2026
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Notes: I have tweaked the tab I originally posted years ago of Dixie Hoedown, one of my favourite instrumentals, to align it with the chord structure of Jim and Jesse's original recording, with Jesse on fiddle and Bobby Thompson on banjo.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Am Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by KCJBanjo, updated: 10/26/2026
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Notes: gDGCD tuning (capo 2)
Genre: Folk Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 10/25/2026
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Notes: This is a 2-finger thumb lead (with some index lead) of the Australian folk song South Australia
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: F Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Stringy D, updated: 10/26/2026
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Notes: This is my transcription of Mossy Bones playing of Big Sciota on his YouTube video. It is in F tuning (fDGCD). It includes his ending / B Part variation.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Cm Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Stringy D, updated: 10/26/2026
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Notes: This is my transcription of Waterbound as played by Mossy Bones on the fretless banjo in his YouTube video. Waterbound is an original song written by Dirk Powell. The hardest part of figuring this out was getting Mossy Bones' tuning right which is d#CFA#C. This is Sawmill tuning (gDGCD) with strings 1-4 tuned down one whole step and the 5th string tuned down two whole steps making the 5th string a minor 3rd. In Mossy Bones' video, he is tuned slightly lower, like maybe a 1/4 step. I don't think this was intentional, I think he probably tuned by ear and not by a tuner. The notes in the tab in parentheses are ghost notes not meant to be struck. I put those in there to train me to keep my fingers in those positions on the fretboard. There are some sandbox variations in the video that are not tabbed out. This is the main structure of the Intro and Verses.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Stringy D, updated: 10/23/2026
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Notes: This is my transcription of Troubles as played by Mossy Bones in his YouTube video which is, per the title, based on the version by Kilby Snow. This tab is the intro through the 1st chorus. The bridge part he plays after the chorus is similar to the intro except he brushes the C chord is instead of the drop thumb lick. Mossy bones uses dynamics and tempo sway. Basically, to get it to sound right, you've got to feel it.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by KCJBanjo, updated: 10/22/2026
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Notes: Based on the version by Christian Wig and Mark Ward. gDGCD tuning (capo 2)
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