Genre: Popular Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Raul Cabezali, updated: 11/15/2014
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Notes: Chord work
Genre: Popular Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 8/9/2022 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Toto
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 4/23/2022
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Notes: This is a rather easy three-finger version of Everly Brothers' "All I Have To Do Is Dream" from 1958.
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 2/3/2025
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Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by waystation, updated: 8/22/2012
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Notes: Notes: This tab is included in my book, "Bluegrass Banjo from All Sides", which is scheduled for release by Mel Bay in September 2012. The book contains multiple versions of 15 tunes. "America the Beautiful" is presented here in two keys, G and C. This arrangement in C is easier to play than the G arrangement.
You can hear these two tabs played in my MyHangout MP3 library.
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by waystation, updated: 8/22/2012
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Notes: This tab is included in my book, "Bluegrass Banjo from All Sides", which is scheduled for release by Mel Bay in September 2012. The book contains multiple versions of 15 tunes. "America the Beautiful" is presented here in two keys, G and C. The arrangement in C is easier to play. This is the G arrangement.
You can hear these two tabs played in my MyHangout MP3 library.
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Greg Gilbert, updated: 9/7/2009
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Notes: Christmas song arranged in Scrugg's style
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by RB3, updated: 11/28/2024 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: The song, sung many times by Jim Nabors before the start of the Indy 500, is actually titled "Indiana", but most folk know it and refer to it as "Back Home Again In Indiana"
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Devon Wells, updated: 2/26/2010 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: E Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Jodebanjo, updated: 3/14/2013 - 11 Member Comments
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Notes: Pretty accurate version of the famous Big Country by Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. Includes the part where the clarinet starts playing. PDF version.
Edit 17-feb-13: Slight adjustment to measure 41
Edit 14-Mar-13: Added the Final licks in a seperate pdf and GP5
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Jodebanjo, updated: 2/20/2014 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: There is a great tab of Eager and Anxious on Banjohangout already. This is the B-part, as played on the Spectrum album. It is different from the live versions and i actually prefer this version. It is slightly more difficult than the one already tabbed out but a bit more fancy too.
Also included now is the intro from the Spectrum album.
The files are PDF.
Update 2/20/14: GP5 file included for B part incl small changes.
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Greg Gilbert, updated: 9/8/2009
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Genre: Popular Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 2/27/2022
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Notes: This 2F version of Blackbird corresponds to the recording on The White Album. You should be able to use this tab to play along. I've indicated chords above the tab lines, but note that in many cases the chords are ambiguous because I use only partial chords throughout the arrangement.
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 1/18/2012
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Notes: This is banjo - guitar duet of Paul McCartney's Blackbird. The guitar is from Paul's playing. The interesting is that he uses only 2-finger chords, fretting mostly the second and the fifth string, and uses the open third string as a kind drone. The banjo is a relatively simple 3-finger with mixed forward and backward rolls to match the rhythm of the guitar.
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mherring, updated: 5/21/2010
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Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 1/20/2020 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: This is an attempt to play Simon&Garfunkel's old hit. I started to work on this tune in the 1970's and at last I think I have come to something that can be presented for others. This arrangement is basically for a sole banjo where I have tried to pick up a little of the rhythm and of the harmonies in the song. I added a rather simple guitar accompaniment, mostly on the bass strings to give the right rhythm. The melody notes are to a large extend played by I/M pinches, where the melody note is played on the first string (middle finger) and the index plays a supporting harmony note below the melody note.
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Greg Gilbert, updated: 9/8/2009
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Notes: Old popular standard
Genre: Popular Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by the banjophile, updated: 5/25/2016
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Genre: Popular Style: Exercises and Licks Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD)
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 2/12/2016 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: An example of using a midi file to generate a tabledit file.
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mtbe, updated: 5/23/2022
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Notes: Written and performed by Jacob Langston
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI2hVJ6rgu8&ab_channel=JacobLangston
Genre: Popular Style: Other Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by freemanmaxwell, updated: 3/24/2021 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Cloud Country - Stardew Valley OST by ConcernedApe
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Cm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by Zephinie, updated: 8/11/2018
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Notes: Here is the solo Wes Corbett plays in "Crazy" with Jake Jolliff on YouTube. Lots of closed position single string!
The video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-wkL_eiCpU
Genre: Popular Style: Unknown/None Chosen Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by guilec, updated: 1/6/2010 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: It's not perfectly written, but after you play it, you'll be able to figure it out. Contact me if needed.
Genre: Popular Style: Other Key: Dm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Greg Gilbert, updated: 11/14/2018
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Notes: Christmas song from the Nutcracker Suite
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoy, updated: 6/27/2021
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Notes: This is my arrangement for 5-String Banjo of this tune "Dance With Me" made popular by the band Orleans in the early 1970s. Good songs are ageless! I have also created a YouTube video to give you an idea of how this sounds, found at https://youtu.be/badtIDqcUnE
Genre: Popular Style: Classic Key: F Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Devon Wells, updated: 11/24/2014
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Genre: Popular Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD)
Posted by eagleisland, updated: 11/10/2011
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Notes: Approximation of opening lick to Miranda Lambert song "Desperation" per request of BHO member EarlsGranada
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by RB3, updated: 6/3/2022 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Most folks know the song as "Dixie", but the title is actually "Dixie's Land".
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by RB3, updated: 7/4/2024 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Popular Style: Minstrel (Stroke Style) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 9/20/2014 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: single note
Genre: Popular Style: Other Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Gregor_Badeda, updated: 5/23/2019
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Notes: Also known as "vergiß es nie"; Christian song.
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mtbe, updated: 5/23/2022 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: Tab by Bill Knopf.
Genre: Popular Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ronh2510, updated: 8/29/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: Here's a Tab for that great Buddy Holly tune Every Day. This falls nicely on the Banjo in G tuning.
The B part of the tunes gets 'up the neck' but don't be put off as the picked notes are all in the chord shapes for Bb and Eb.
Check Youtube for 'stratpac' for a video clip of me playing this arrangement.
Have fun
Ron H
Genre: Popular Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ronh2510, updated: 8/29/2011
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Notes: Here's page two for this great Buddy Holly tune.
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: E Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 11/1/2017
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Notes: Harry Nilsson
Genre: Popular Style: Other Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by chrisbenninger, updated: 3/27/2011
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Genre: Popular Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by soundaperature, updated: 9/16/2019 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is culled from a guitar tab. It could use some "banjo-fying".
Genre: Popular Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Greg Gilbert, updated: 9/20/2009
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Notes: Traditional Christmas tune, arranged for the beginner.
Genre: Popular Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mwblake, updated: 9/14/2009 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: Simple melodic arrangement of the Christmas classic. Felicitations of the season!!
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by eagleisland, updated: 3/22/2018
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Notes: Steve Earl tune. The verse and chorus are set up as Scruggs-style backup. The instrumental break incorporates melodics.
Genre: Popular Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dbrooks, updated: 10/4/2021
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Notes: This arrangement of the classic song by John Hartford is based on a video by Mike Iverson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF7ZecJyvic. (Cut and paste the link into a browser.) Mike plays the song in B (capo 4), but this tab is in open G. This tab uses a lot of syncopation via m-skips (or ghost strokes followed by drop thumb). Mike is a talented and generous performer and teacher who offers lessons and workshops in Utah and online: www.banjoutah.com.
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by RB3, updated: 7/1/2022 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: The songs in the medley are: The Yankee Doodle Boy, Give My Regards To Broadway and You're A Grand Old Flag, in that order. The first and last are in the key of G; the second is in the key of C.
Genre: Popular Style: Classical Key: A#/Bb Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by tom nelson, updated: 6/22/2012 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Devon Wells, updated: 10/29/2010
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Notes: I ain't afraid of no ghosts!!
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by RB3, updated: 7/25/2024 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is the Gillette Cavalcade Of Sports theme that was played at the beginning of the Friday Night Fights at Madison Square Garden in the Forties and Fifties
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A#/Bb Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by KI4PRK, updated: 2/8/2010
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Notes: Here is a well known pop tune from the teens by George Cohan, "Give My Regards To Broadway". I have it arranged here in the key I found in a book of piano tunes, and it is a good key for the tune. Has a whole lot of inside, square (un-syncopated) rolls. Has a single string lick, and the ending is a great Don Reno "rake" ending, used on such tunes as his (Rural Rhythm) recording of "Limehouse Blues". Has a Rhythm Guitar & Bass rhythm track. Have fun!
Genre: Popular Style: Classic Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ronh2510, updated: 12/20/2021
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Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 11/26/2018 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: transcribed from original recording
Genre: Popular Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Greg Gilbert, updated: 9/7/2009
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Notes: Christmas standard
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Anurakt, updated: 11/22/2021
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Notes: Arrangement based on arrangement by Greg Gilbert
My version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFyRbaeNzFk
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A#/Bb Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 7/30/2012
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Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 12/12/2015 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Devon Wells, updated: 2/26/2010
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Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by sadovsky, updated: 4/7/2014
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Genre: Popular Style: Other Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by coltoncrawford, updated: 4/30/2020
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Genre: Popular Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Cm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 2/9/2014 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by RB3, updated: 11/28/2024
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Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Paulie Ray, updated: 6/29/2024
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Notes: I worked this out for a student today and I think it's pretty close to the original. Maybe even smoother than the original, if I do say so myself!
Genre: Popular Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Claude Grassley, updated: 6/10/2020 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: I think Elvis sang it in Bflat but here I've tabbed it in C with standard open G tuning.
I think a beginner can handle this. (I consider myself a beginner). I'm including 3 files:
1. A tabledit tef file (include lyrics to first verse)
2. PDF tab (includes lyrics to first verse)
3. PDF Lyrics with chords
I think the melody is easy to pick out so I think you could modify this to any style of playing easily.
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 8/24/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Popular Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: F Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by anteater, updated: 4/25/2015
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Notes: Pretty straightforward. The only comment I would make is that the 8th notes directly after the 8th rests should be played with the thumb (i.e. drop thumb). All the other notes follow the basic bum-ditty intuition in terms of forefinger and thumb use.
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Dills, updated: 12/6/2017 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: I'm A Believer, written by Neil Diamond, performed by The Monkees. Banjo arrangement by me.
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Ian_banjo, updated: 7/23/2011 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: "The Yankee Doodle Boy", also well-known as "(I'm a) Yankee Doodle Dandy" is a patriotic song from the Broadway musical Little Johnny Jones written by George M. Cohan. The play opened at the Liberty Theater on November 7, 1904.
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by RB3, updated: 5/20/2022 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by wilbanjo, updated: 1/15/2020 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: capo 2nd fret .
Genre: Popular Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: F Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by the banjophile, updated: 10/7/2016
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Notes: Played in key of F out of standard G tuning. Stay off the 5th string!
Genre: Popular Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by the banjophile, updated: 10/7/2016
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Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 4/29/2013 - 7 Member Comments
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Notes: Here is an own arrangement of In The Mood. Most of it is based on Glenn Miller, but the third part is influenced by Jim Mill's banjo version.....
Genre: Popular Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by JPC59, updated: 5/15/2014 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: I don't remember where I got this from, but it was arranged by Hugh Willingham.
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by RB3, updated: 6/24/2022 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Popular Style: Other Key: F Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Greg Gilbert, updated: 9/8/2009
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Notes: Popular song from the 1940's
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by eagleisland, updated: 3/23/2017
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Notes: Tossed out this morning in response to a request for it. Largely melodic style Errors may and probably are included, and there may be easier ways to play it than written here. Note: in segments like Measure 14, where you see the fourth, third, second and first string played sequentially, the way to handle that is with a square roll (T-I-T-M).
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by schlange, updated: 12/12/2014
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Notes: For our TOTW http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/295974 from Jack Baker
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoistic, updated: 10/24/2018 - 4 Member Comments
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Notes: No tricky stuff here. Fun to play once you get it down. Check out my video of this; it's arranged a bit differently, but the playing is, basically, as shown in the tab.
Genre: Popular Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by the banjophile, updated: 2/12/2017
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Genre: Popular Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by jimmartin1984, updated: 8/13/2024
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Notes: I messed up the timing on the tab but the tab is correct if you already know how the song goes
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by RB3, updated: 6/17/2022
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Notes: The song is also often titled as "Year Of Jubilo".
Genre: Popular Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by janolov, updated: 10/21/2024 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: To understand the tab, it is essential to know about Floyd Cramer’s piano style. His style has a lot of different features but it is at least to things that should be mentioned in this context:
1. Slip-note piano. He had a special way to attack melody notes in which a passing note slides almost instantly into or away from a chordal note. hitting a note and sliding almost simultaneously into the next. He explained it gave more of a lonesome cowboy sound. It is a kind of grace note and banjoist do sometimes similar when hammer on a slide to a melody note.
2. Harmony notes to the melody. Floyd Cramer often played a harmony note (as a tenor part) a third, fourth or fifth above the melody note.
I have put together a tab in the key of C (the original key is C) but in standard G tuning. In theTablEdit file I added a rhythm guitar track, a bass track and drum track to get a richer sound in the midi file. The guitar, bass and drum tracks may be used as a backing track when learning the tune.
Genre: Popular Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by the banjophile, updated: 5/19/2016 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Greg Gilbert, updated: 10/23/2009
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Notes: Christmas tune
Genre: Popular Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dennism, updated: 9/15/2013
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Notes: Plaintive, bittersweet, great backstory. My first posting...
Genre: Popular Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 8/4/2024
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Notes: A popular song with both German and Allied troops during WWII. A video of me playing this rendition is posted on my YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/3xcmMCZ9wa0
Genre: Popular Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 12/18/2015 - 3 Member Comments
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Genre: Popular Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by the banjophile, updated: 2/13/2017
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Notes: Watch out for the rests and the many skip notes
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by RB3, updated: 3/24/2023 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Popular Style: Classic Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Lukino_Bali, updated: 4/13/2023 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: You wanted me to write tablature for this, so here it is. Enjoy
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by rdsmachine, updated: 8/30/2023
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Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Bm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 9/4/2013 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is my version of the theme from M*A*S*H, also called "Suicide is Painless". I is in the key Bm, which seems to fit better than than you expect.
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Duc7, updated: 1/19/2012
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Notes: Here's a fairly easy arrangement of a Beatles classic in a chord melody style. The verse is in D and the chorus is in Dm. Don't let the chord names scare you, they're mostly two or three note shapes, with not too many big stretches.
Hope you enjoy it!
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: F Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Devon Wells, updated: 10/1/2012 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Dm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Jan-L, updated: 11/2/2023
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Notes: I have tablature printed out by Bill Knopf for a long time, and I've been trying to find this tab online but haven't been successful, so I decided to transcribe it in guitar pro :)
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Studebaker Hawk, updated: 10/2/2009
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Notes: Based on the playing of Mark Casstevens, this is the banjo arrangement from the Ray Stevens recording. You'll need to capo all the way up to the 7th fret to match the recording.
Genre: Popular Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by tom nelson, updated: 12/2/2011
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Genre: Popular Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 4/13/2023 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Here is a clawhammer version of Richard Rodgers' and Lorenz Hart's old classic Mountain Greenery. I have tried to keep the original chords and I counted 20 different chords (Icounted G and G7 as different chords and corresponding for other) which are exceptional for a clawhammer tune. I also added the melody line to make it easier to understand and learn the clawhammer part. In the tef file the melody is played by a clarinet.
Genre: Popular Style: Unknown/None Chosen Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 3/17/2025
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Notes: Here is a medley with music from six classic movies.
Film 1.
Film: Laurel and Hardy (several films 1927 – 1945)
Tune: Dance of the Cuckoos, composed by Marvin Hatley
Film 2.
Film: Pink Panther (several films, first film 1963)
Tune: Pink Panther Theme, by Henry Mancini
Film 3.
Film: The Third Man (1949)
Tune: The Harry Lime Theme by Anton Caras.
Film 4.
Film: The Sting (1973)
Tune: The Entertainer by Scot Joplin (1902).
Film 5.
Film: Dr Zhivago
Tune: Lara’s Theme a.k.a. Somewhere My Love composed by Maurice Jarre
Film 6.
Film: The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957)
Tune: Colonel Bogey by Kenneth J. Alford (1914)
Genre: Popular Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 12/18/2015 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by RB3, updated: 5/6/2022 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Popular Style: Unknown/None Chosen Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by moose198, updated: 11/29/2020
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Notes: Spent a day transposing this from guitar, hope someone else might get something from this too. EDIT: there were a lot of mistakes so i fixed it up some.
Here's a video of the original song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejzzO51e4xI
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Buxton, updated: 5/21/2023
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Notes: The guitar pro file will open and play in tabledit and tefview, however, you don't get lyrics in those formats.
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by 5-String, updated: 5/23/2018 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: This is my interpretation of how Ned Luberecki played this tune on his YouTube video for the Deering Banjo Co., uploaded on July 3, 2014. Adjust settings so that chords are displayed as letter names only, tab is displayed at 4 bars per line, and view is scaled to 16th notes.
Genre: Popular Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 10/29/2020 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is a clawhammer version of the film song "Never On A Sunday" from 1960. I have tried to make clawhammer interpretations of the Bouzouki parts (intro and ending) based on the bouzouki playing but adapted to clawhammer banjo. Sometimes there is a break in the middle, and the intro or ending may be used for the break too.
Genre: Popular Style: Classic Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ronh2510, updated: 12/20/2021
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Genre: Popular Style: Classical Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by tom nelson, updated: 4/9/2011 - 3 Member Comments
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Genre: Popular Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by the banjophile, updated: 10/9/2016
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Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Devon Wells, updated: 10/11/2014 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Popular Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Crusty, updated: 5/9/2013 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Jodebanjo, updated: 10/29/2014
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Genre: Popular Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 1/15/2012 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Proud Mary from Credence Clearwater Revival, played in atwo finger style.
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: F Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Devon Wells, updated: 10/11/2014
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Genre: Popular Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mptjr13, updated: 3/24/2012 - 3 Member Comments
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Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by janolov, updated: 10/25/2014
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Notes: This is from the Muppet Show where my friend Kermit is singing the tune. Rainbow Connection is a tricky tune because it has a key change in the middle, where the orginal key is raised a halt tone. Here the tune starts in C major but in the second half there is a raise to Db major or C#major. I think the original goes in A major and raises to Bb major.
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mwblake, updated: 8/30/2009
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Notes: The Buddy Holly classic, arranged for simple rolling 3 finger style.
Genre: Popular Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Bm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by the banjophile, updated: 6/19/2016
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Genre: Popular Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by the banjophile, updated: 7/13/2016
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Genre: Popular Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 9/24/2013 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Popular Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 10/30/2011
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Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by RB3, updated: 4/23/2025
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Notes: The song was released by Bob Wills in 1939 as an instrumental. A couple of years later it was re-released with lyrics with the title, New San Antonio Rose.
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: 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: Popular Style: Classic Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ronh2510, updated: 12/20/2021
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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: 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: 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: 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: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Old Hickory, updated: 12/15/2024
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Notes: My original 5-string banjo arrangement of "Somewhere," composed by Leonard Bernstein for the Broadway musical West Side Story."
This tab is the arrangement I perform in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQdA5lgZrVs&pp=ygUXc29tZXdoZXIgNS1zdHJpbmcgYmFuam8%3D
A few notes may vary. And sometimes I don't use the picking fingers indicated in the tab, even though the tab reflects my intent and how I played as I tabbed. Oh, well.
Feel free to contact me with questions.
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: Popular Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 2/2/2025
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Notes: My two finger rendition of this popular song based heavily on the 3F picking of John Curtis (on YouTube). A video of me playing this rendition is posted on my YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/kV4W6oZYrno
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: 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: 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: 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: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by RB3, updated: 4/28/2023
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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: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by LParker, updated: 9/16/2009 - 2 Member Comments
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Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by RB3, updated: 8/17/2020
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Genre: Popular Style: Classical Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by John Andrus, updated: 9/24/2020 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: Here's my version of the 7th inning stretch classic written in the back of the Fergus Falls, MN Hospice Volunteers bus on our way to Target Field to be recognized at the Harmon Killebrew Hospice game. In deference to the memory of Harmon's batting skills, I tried to put some swing into the tune by playing it in 4/4 rather than the usual 3/4.
Genre: Popular Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 11/20/2020
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Notes: Melody line only
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Petey, updated: 7/9/2011
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Genre: Popular Style: Unknown/None Chosen Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Sagar, updated: 4/24/2011
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Notes: Eric Clapton arr for banjo by Cyril Kovac
Genre: Popular Style: Classical Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by tom nelson, updated: 5/6/2011
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Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Davey Mac, updated: 11/11/2010
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Notes: A little bit of tricky right-hand fingering, but nothing to worry about. The tune is supposed to repeat into itself then start again in the key of "A" -- I've so far been unable to work out how to do that without stopping and whacking a capo on the second fret! Any imput/suggestions welcome!
Genre: Popular Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by DGriffinEvans, updated: 2/8/2023
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Notes: This is an arrangement of “The Lonely Goatherd” from the “The Sound of Music.” I didn’t include the outro “Ho-di lay-ee…” part. A video of the arrangement (played with a capo on 2nd fret) can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CSiKCYycYA
(Note that I indicate that playing style is clawhammer, but I play it using Seeger-style up-picking.)
Genre: Popular Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by jack_beuthin, updated: 2/2/2023
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Notes: This arrangement is mostly clawhammer, although the Intro and Interlude are played in a rudimentary 3F style (indicated on tab). Letters above the tablature lines indicate chords. This is set in the key of C, but played in the standard G tuning. A video of me playing something close to this arrangement is posted on my YouTube channel (Jack Beuthin): https://youtu.be/SDy69TvzHKM
https://youtu.be/SDy69TvzHKM
Genre: Popular Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by the banjophile, updated: 7/25/2021
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Genre: Popular Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by sharmutat, updated: 11/28/2018
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Genre: Popular Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by mwblake, updated: 12/16/2020 - 6 Member Comments
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Notes: Great tune, with a few tricky-ish chokes and more than 3 chords!
** Additional note [Xmas 2020] **
I wrote the original tab for this in 2006 when I hadn't been playing long. It consequently had a few fingering errors, so I have just updated it, making it easier to finger, hopefully without losing any of the essence of the tune. I have made a short video of it, which you can view on this site or via YouTube here:
https://youtu.be/NBCP3B_Elbw
Genre: Popular Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: F Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Andyrhydycreuau, updated: 8/4/2020
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Notes: This is in standard g, but tuned down to fCFAC. Fingering / fretting is the same if you want to play in standard G.
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 8/18/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Popular Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by nwalling27, updated: 8/22/2024
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Notes: First time arranging a song for clawhammer banjo and figured this one would be fun to start with.
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by fanyy-b, updated: 10/19/2009 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Popular Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dennism, updated: 10/11/2013
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Notes: Love this tune, novice tabledit user, clumsy with entering repeats and such. Maybe someone with talent will improve my tab. Excuse too my iggernance, I only think I've tabbed it in key of G. Written by
Genre: Popular Style: Other Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by rileycrow, updated: 5/19/2022
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Notes: Trailer Park Boys (alternatively, Left My Heart In San Francisco (the tune it was based on).
Melody part tabbed and chords on separate part.
Genre: Popular Style: Other Key: Dm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by rileycrow, updated: 5/19/2022
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Notes: Just a skeleton of the main melody in case anyone more skilled than me can attach an accompaniment - show me if you do!
Genre: Popular Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by tom nelson, updated: 9/10/2011
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Notes: By Harry Belafonte, Alan Greene and Malvina Reynolds about 1957
Genre: Popular Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by the banjophile, updated: 7/18/2016
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Genre: Popular Style: Other Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by travis92, updated: 5/4/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 10/29/2011
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Genre: Popular Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by JLouis Thiry, updated: 3/14/2020
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Genre: Popular Style: Classic Key: Em Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by ronh2510, updated: 12/20/2021
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Genre: Popular Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by DGriffinEvans, updated: 9/27/2023 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: This is a banjo arrangement of "Welcome Christmas" from "How the Grinch Stole Christmas."
Fah who for-aze, dah who dor-aze to everyone!
Oh… and here is a link to a video of the song. I played it with a mute on the banjo to increase the sustain (which I now regret): https://youtu.be/Thfxcr12i8c
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by RB3, updated: 4/3/2023
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Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by RB3, updated: 7/22/2022
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Notes: I was watching the movie "For Me And My Gal" on the Turner Classic Movie channel and I heard Judy Garland and Gene Kelly do this song. I liked the melody, and I thought it might work with Scruggs style banjo.
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by RB3, updated: 6/11/2022
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Notes: I'm not sure that the chord progression is correct; it's my best guess.
Genre: Popular Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 3/25/2023
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Notes: "Whispering" is a popular song, first published in 1920 by Sherman, Clay & Co., of San Francisco. The initial 1920 copyright and first publishing attributes the lyrics to Malvin Schonberger and the music to John Schonberger.
Genre: Popular Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mwblake, updated: 11/23/2016 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Felicitations of the season... the old Irving Berlin classic for 3-finger style banjo, as played by me in the Christmas Banjo Challenge 2016...
Genre: Popular Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by billfromamerica, updated: 11/25/2020
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Notes: I used a clawhammer tab from a user named janolov for reference. Thanks to janolov for getting me started!
Genre: Popular Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 10/30/2011 - 1 Member Comments
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Genre: Popular Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by dbrooks, updated: 5/27/2021
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Notes: This clawhammer tab is based on the cover of the Tom Petty song, "Wildflowers," by the Wailin' Jennys. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XhVILjWkNg )The level is beginner/intermediate. They play the tune in the key of B, using open-G tuning (gDGBD) capoed to the 4th fret. I indicate the chord shapes for G tuning. The actual chords for G, C and D7 capoed would be B, E and F#7. This tab is based on the banjo introduction and can be used to back up the vocal, though strumming chords works as well. The mid-song instrumental breaks follow a different pattern.
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Am Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by banjoy, updated: 3/2/2022
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Notes: This is a tune I picked up within the last 20 years and came up with an ever-evolving banjo version. I never tried to emulate
any particular version of this tune nor have I tried to emulate a drop-thumb approach. My brain doesn't work like that.
My approach is to simply play the tune in a Scruggs-based style which works just fine. In writing this tab I realized
that I rarely play the tune the same way twice and pull from a body of licks on-the-fly as I play it.
So, in this tab you will see I offer several variations for the same phrases which appear throughout the tune. This is a fun tune to play and I've noticed over the years that it's becoming more commonplace, part of a growing shared repertoire at jams and get-togethers.
Genre: Popular Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by DGriffinEvans, updated: 9/28/2023
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Notes: Winter Wonderland is a good Christmas song for advanced beginners. This version includes some double thumbing that is good for beginners because the thumb hits the same note that was just picked.
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by SCFActg, updated: 8/13/2011
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Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Jethro Aberdeen, updated: 11/10/2013
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Notes: By Rita Macneil
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Greg Gilbert, updated: 9/6/2009
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Notes: Old popular standard, usually played on the 4-string tenor or plectrum, arranged in Scrugg's style for 5-string.
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Devon Wells, updated: 2/26/2010
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Genre: Popular Style: Unknown/None Chosen Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by tom nelson, updated: 11/15/2011
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Genre: Popular Style: Other Key: F Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by pluckerdude, updated: 3/18/2013
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Notes: Beatles tune Yesterday in key of F
Genre: Popular Style: Classic Key: F Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by MauriceHaire, updated: 10/3/2016
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Notes: This is my version of Yesterday in F major .
Check it out on my You Tube Channel bluegrass banjo
Genre: Popular Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 10/19/2012
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Notes: This is a clawhammer version of Beatles' Yesterday. It should be played rather fast, but softly and sweetly without drive.
The arrangement contains some drop thumbs and Alternate String Pull Off, but these can be skipped if you think it too advanced.
Genre: Popular Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Dm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mmuussiiccaall, updated: 12/27/2014
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Notes: capo 5 for recording
Genre: Popular Style: Other Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by janolov, updated: 8/8/2013 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: This banjo arrangement is based on the bouzouki playing by Mikis Theodorakis' original version in the film, and is more or less a straight transcription. I have added a simple guitar accompaniment.
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