Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Patrick P., updated: 4/18/2019
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Notes: Happybanjodude has made a great arrangement of this song. He tunes his banjo gD#G#B#D#, i used the same notes but in standard tuning. This is not my arrangement just a transcription !
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Peter Vipulis, updated: 4/16/2019
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Notes: 5th String Capo 7.
Not sure if it was recorded separately, heard some things that he was/wasn't playing (shrug).
Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyewFTUg7kM
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjukebox, updated: 4/13/2019
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Genre: Old Time Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: E Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Mooooo, updated: 4/12/2019
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Notes: Here's an interesting version by the Foggy Mountain Boys in the key of E using Open G tuning with the 5th string tuned to g#. Here's a YouTube for reference, have fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EinAwyQ3Xc
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Jack Baker, updated: 4/11/2019
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Notes: The melody really starts on the 1st. beat of measure 2. No need to fuss about it...Great tune by Earl.
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Jack Baker, updated: 4/10/2019
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Jack Baker, updated: 4/10/2019
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Dm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by 21stCenturyBanjo, updated: 4/6/2019
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Notes: Noam's version of Lonesome Moonlight Waltz off the Noam Pikelny plays Kenny Baker plays Bill Monroe album
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Open C (gCGCE) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Jack Baker, updated: 4/3/2019
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Open C (gCGCE) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Jack Baker, updated: 4/3/2019
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Open C (gCGCE) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Jack Baker, updated: 4/3/2019
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by DarrenJ, updated: 3/31/2019
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Notes: If you’re looking for a fun tune that combines melodics, single string, and a swing feel, look no further than Alan O’Bryant’s Big Cow in Carlisle. After hearing this on the radio, I quickly perused the Hangout for the tab but only found someone’s request for it. YouTube only offered the recording by the Nashville Bluegrass Band. Still green in the world of transcribing banjo tunes, I decided to take on the challenge. After several slowed down listens, thanks to YouTube’s speed setting, I feel I have a solid representation of the tune.
In the first, full measure, I use my pinky for the hammer-on to facilitate an easier maneuver for the ring finger on the 3rd string-7th fret and the middle finger on the 2nd string-2nd fret, but if that isn't comfortable for you, do what is! At the 2nd ending, make sure to bring out the syncopated line with the 5-4-3 on the D string. Alan does this so well, the open 3rd and 1st strings are hardly noticed.
Be sure not to rush the hammer-on at the down beat of the B section. It isn't anticipated as a 16th note, and your picking index finger jumps up to the 4th string to execute the slide in the following measure. Release the string with your fretting hand, making that note staccato (note the rest) as well as the following two quarter notes on the 1st string. The same is true for the following two quarter notes on the 2nd string at the 8th fret. Listening to the recording will help immensely.
Note the single string in m. 23. Pretend you're Wes Corbett, and start with the index finger since you've just used your thumb. I heard in an interview he taught himself single string and started with his index. You can transition to a more traditional thumb lead using the middle finger on the 2nd string, but it changes the tone pattern (plastic vs. metal pick).
The form of the tune is a bit uneven: A1-A2-A1-A2-B-A2. In the second grouping of A sections, another instrument alternates with the lead. However, the banjo's ending break is shortened, leaving out the two middle A sections, rendering the form A1-A2-B-A2.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Mooooo, updated: 4/1/2019
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Notes: Terry Baucom's break to this song by Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver. Here's a recording for reference, have fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXf-KavkrD0
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by rlanselle, updated: 3/31/2019 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Capo 2 to AEAC#E
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by rlanselle, updated: 3/31/2019
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Jack Baker, updated: 3/29/2019 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Classical Key: Am Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Patrick P., updated: 3/31/2019
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Notes: My friends guitarists love to play this tune.
Banjo transcription just to tease them ...
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Mooooo, updated: 3/31/2019
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Notes: All four of Earl's breaks to this Bill Monroe classic. Here's a YouTube link for reference that you can slow down and pick along with. Have fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HioToEDKl_E
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JanetB, updated: 3/27/2019
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Notes: Banjo Judy is presenting Peekaboo Waltz for the old-time Tune of the Week on March 29, 2019. Tab of Judy's clawhammer version by Yigal Zan.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by BTS, updated: 3/23/2019
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Notes: This is a tab of a version of Old Joe Clark by The Smoking Stone Band. The introduction is highly unusual and wonderfully imaginative. The main body of the tune is more "Trad" than bluegrass feel to it. You can hear the original on the bands Soundcloud page here https://soundcloud.com/smokingstoneband/old-joe-clark. GP5 and PDF versions.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Mooooo, updated: 3/19/2019
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Notes: Lamar Grier's Break from the Bill Monroe recording. Here's a reference so you can hear how it goes. Have fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cicIsVAwODU
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 3/15/2019 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Here are two clawhammer versions of Home Sweet Home. It is mainly based on Mack Woolbright's three-finger version from 1927 but transfered to clawhammer. One of the versions is based a kind of "clawhammer backward roll" and is very close to Woolbrights three-finger version! The other version is a more straight clwhammer.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 3/15/2019
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Notes: Frank Jenkins recorded this in1927 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0S3d5aTMMk. He played banjo in the band Da Costa Woltz's Southern Broadcasters in the 1920s. He later formed his own band, the Pilot Mountaineers, in which he played fiddle, his son Oscar played banjo, and Pop Stoneman played guitar. Frank Jenkins plays his version in the drop C tuning (standard C tuning) and he uses mostly a forward roll. He also plays a nice variation with strumming that can be heard in the recording, but it is not included in my tab - yet.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 3/15/2019
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Notes: This is my interpretation of how Mack Woolbright played the "Home Sweet Home" breaks the the recording of "The Man Who Wrote Home Sweet Home Never Was A Married Man" made 1927 by Charlie Parker and Mack Woolbright on Colombia 15236-D: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfpAMkcL2ow . Earl SCruggs' version is based on Mack Woolbright's version. In his book “Earl Scruggs and the 5-string banjo” (1968) Earl tells: “There were several three-finger banjo pickers I admired who lived near our Flint Hill community. There was Mack Woolbright, a blind banjo picker who recorded with Charlie Parker on the Columbia label in the late 20’s. I remember him from a visit he made to my Uncle Sidney Ruppe’s home; rocking in a rocking chair and picking “Home Sweet Home” in the in the key of C. The G7 chord he played in this number was one of the most thrilling sounds I had ever heard. I was about six years old (1930) and I wondered how a blind person could play so beautifully.”
Genre: Other Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by nealsotn, updated: 3/10/2019
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Notes: ***** This is a work in progress, will never really be done ;) *****
Sounds good on guitar body (ex. Doc Fossey), but "not bad" on banjo (even open-back). Don't play it too fast.
Everything here is just a suggestion, or what happened to feel right at the time-
Radio Lead-in becomes backdrop @ meas 12.
Solo @ meas 12-20. Still working on this...
Chords/Accomp after meas 21 are packed to save space.
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by heronhawk, updated: 3/11/2019
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Notes: An Irish slip jig arranged for clawhammer banjo
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Mooooo, updated: 3/8/2019
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Notes: Bill Emerson's Opening Break. Here's a Video for reference, Have fun: https://youtu.be/Io5HCUoW1KY?t=774
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 3/7/2019
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Notes: An Exercise in the use of GUIDE TONES
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Am Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by heronhawk, updated: 3/3/2019
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Notes: A jig composed by Randal Bays.
Here is youtube of Randal Bays playing it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iufzkrDaB4
Dots are at https://thesession.org/tunes/14392
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Mooooo, updated: 3/2/2019
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Notes: Herb Pedersen's break from the Old and in the Gray LP. here's a link for reference, have fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz_-CMapzrY&feature=youtu.be
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 3/2/2019
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