Note that the single string section in measures 8 and 9 (and 16 and 17) is tricky, because it involves crossing the thumb over the index finger I have tabbed the right-hand fingering I employ. The A part is similar to Joe’s tab, with the addition of drop C. I find the sound of the C position more pleasing than versions out of the D position, and accordingly I have modified the tab for drop C tuning. Notes: Some years ago, Joe Larson posted a tab for a lovely version of Forked Deer in standard G tuning, played from the C position with the capo at 2. Posted by corcoran, updated: - 5 Member Comments Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: Drop C (gCGBD) Difficulty: Expert Please visit: Contact: Deer in Drop C Tuning As a first impression of the book you can enjoy my composition Foochow's Shanghai.Īs always you have a piano accompaniment on CD in three different speed levels. Handy), Pepper & Salt (Ralph Colicchio), Foochow's Shanghai (Christian Loos), The Savoy Rag (Pete Mandell), The Ghost Of The Banjo (Roy Smeck) & My Lady Jazz (A.J. II deals with wonderful compositions for the tenor banjo, which present the banjo in all it's characteristics. This tune was published in my second music book for the tenor banjo.Ĭhrille's Hot & Jazzy Melodies For The Tenor Banjo Vol. It should adapt an Chinese touch, in style to Chinatown, My Chinatown. Notes: Foochow's Shanghai has been my first compostion for the tenor banjo, which I have dedicated to my good Scottish banjo friend Bill Somerville from Glasgow. Genre: Jazz Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum) Key: G Tuning: Tenor Standard (CGDA) Difficulty: Intermediate Although similar to Huber's version, this is my own arrangement of Five in the Morning and not a note-for-note transcription of his. The structure of the tune is AAB, and I have included a second version of the B part, this one up the neck. So you can still play it if you do not have Keith tuners, although it sounds much better with the tuners. (For simplicity I will refer just to Keith tuners.) It is problematic to tab the Keith tuner changes in TablEdit, and so I have followed my usual practice: I have tabbed the tune to show the melody notes without tuners (i.e., the notes as played on fretted strings 3 and 4), but I added the protocol for using Keith tuners on open strings (2 and 3) above the tab. Notes: Here's a lovely little tune with a great title written by Steve Huber of Huber Banjos fame, and one that involves use of Keith/Scruggs tuners. Posted by corcoran, updated: - 2 Member Comments Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate I highly recommend listening to the original recording! Has a Rhythm Guitar & Bass rhythm track. I like to put a D-tuner on the low D, set the stop down to slightly above a C, and bend from the b7 up to the D in the second part, to replicate FA Smith's slide there. There are a lot of bends in this tune, to replicate the many slides Smith used in the recording. It's not particularly hard, and because it is slow the single string parts can (and should) be played by picking repeatedly with the thumb rather than TI or TIM (I have included right-hand fingering in this tab for this reason). It is quite slow, and has a march-like quality (in rhythm, not melody!), which is slightly less exaggerated in the original recording by the use of sock-rhythm guitar rather than the standard bass-chord bluegrass/old time rhythm guitar.
It is one of the most haunting tunes I know, making extensive use of that odd flat-five note (Ab in this case).
Notes: Here's Fiddler's Blues, an old Fiddlin' Arthur Smith tune in D. Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish Style: Other Key: D Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
I shamelessly like this tune in Eb much better than drop-C tuning, key of C. This tune will definitely take some practice, but it's a real firecracker once you get it right. The single string licks are mostly standard Reno single string licks, although there's one of my own at the beginning of the 5th break. The other hard lick is the tag lick such as the one in measures 3 & 7. 5567, 4th to 1st strings) sound in open-G down the neck this is a real STRECH! It took me a looottt of practising to be able to make the chords up to speed, but it is worth it it's a real neat sound. The key should not be as much a subject of worry as is the intense hand contortions needed to get the drop-C chord (e.g. Notes: Farewell Blues, an old swing tune made famous as a bluegrass banjo instrumental by Earl Scruggs, in a more jazz-worthy key: Eb major, although like Earls version it has that funky b3 major chord instead of the swingy b3 diminished chord. Posted by KI4PRK, updated: - 5 Member Comments Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D#/Eb Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert
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