Old-Time Festival Tunes for Clawhammer Banjo (Book + Online Audio)
This book and extensive online audio recording is intended to be a tune repertoire book. It includes over 100 Old-Time festival favorites. Some are cliche, others unusual, some easy, some difficult. The book contains 2 lines of tablature (one basic and one advanced) as well as standard notation and suggested chords. The basic version should be playable by those with general clawhammer skills. The advanced version will require more time and finesse as it is more ornamental (often more than just melodic) and ...more
Product Number:
20313M
Format:
Book + Online Audio
Skill Level:
Beginning-Intermediate
Notation Type:
Standard Notation and Tab
Pages:
248
Binding:
Perfect Binding
Size:
8.75 x 11.75
ISBN:
0-7866-8754-1
ISBN13:
978-07866-8754-1
Publisher:
Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
Date Published:
11/30/2015
This book and extensive online audio recording is intended to be a tune repertoire book. It includes over 100 Old-Time festival favorites. Some are cliche, others unusual, some easy, some difficult. The book contains 2 lines of tablature (one basic and one advanced) as well as standard notation and suggested chords. The basic version should be playable by those with general clawhammer skills. The advanced version will require more time and finesse as it is more ornamental (often more than just melodic) and may include less than intuitive ways of playing some passages. Includes access to online audio.

(Mr.) Fischar's Hornpipe      
Banjo Tramp      
Big John McNeal      
Big Scioto      
Bill Cheatem      
Billy in the Lowground      
Black Eyed susie      
Black Eyed Suzie-anna      
Blackberry Blossom      
Boatman      
Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine      
Bonaparte's Retreat - 1      
Bonaparte's Retreat - 2      
Breakin' Up Christmas      
Broken Down Gambler      
Buffalo Gals - common melody in G      
Buffalo Gals - in A      
Bull at the Wagon      
Camp Chase      
Candy Girl      
Cherokee Shuffle - aka Lost Indian      
Chinese Breakdown      
Cindy      
Colored Aristocracy      
Cotton Eyed Joe      
Crow Creek      
Cuckoo's Nest      
Cuffy      
Dinah      
Dry and Dusty      
Durang's Hornpipe - festival version      
Durang's Hornpipe - old fiddlers' version      
Ed Haley's Lost Indian      
Flop Eared Mule      
Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss aka Suzanna Gal; Western Country      
Flying Indian      
Georgia Railroad      
Grasshopper Sitting on a Sweet Potato Vine      
Green Willis - aka The Raw Recruit      
Half Past Four      
Hangman's Reel - in A      
Hangman's Reel - in C      
Hollow Poplar      
Icy Mountain      
Indian Eat the Woodchuck      
Jaybird      
Jeff Sturgeon      
Jenny Git Around      
Jimmy in the Swamp      
John Brown's Dream      
John Brown's March      
John Henry      
John Lover's Gone      
John Stenson's #2      
Johnny Cope      
Johnny Don't Get Drunk      
Joke on the Puppy - aka Rye Straw      
Julianne Johnson      
Jump in the Well My Pretty Little Miss      
Jump Jim Crow      
June Apple      
Kansas City Reel      
Kitchen Girl      
Leather Britches      
Liberty      
Little Billie Wilson      
Little Rabbit      
Liza Poor Gal      
Logan County Blues      
Lost Indian - 1 - straight major version      
Lost Indian - 2 - crooked modal version      
Lost Indian - 3 - in D - crooked      
Magpie      
Martha Campbell      
Mole in the Ground - aka Tempy      
Monkey on a Dogcart      
Muddy Roads      
New Five Cents      
Nixon's Farewell      
North Carolina Breakdown      
Old Bunch of Keys      
Old Joe Clark - 1 - major      
Old Joe Clark - 2 - modal      
Old Mother Flanagan      
Pike's Peak - aka "Rat Cheese" or Natches Under the Hill      
Possum in a Well      
Possum on a Rail      
Quince Dillon's High D      
Rachael - aka Texas Quickstep      
Ragtime Annie      
Railroading Across the Rocky Mountains aka Marmaduke's Hornpipe      
Red Haired Boy      
Reuben's Train      
Rochester Schottische      
Rocky Pallet      
Roscoe      
Rush and the Pepper      
Saint Anne's Reel      
Sally Anne Johnson      
Sandy Boys - Burl Hammons' version      
Sandy Boys - Edden Hammon's version      
Sandy River Belle      
Sarah Armstrong's Tune - aka Old Reel      
Shuffle About      
Smith's Reel      
Staten Island Hornpipe      
Sugar in the Gourd      
Texas Gals      
Tom and Jerry      
Too Young to Marry - aka - Sweet Sixteen; aka - My Love is But a Lass      
Wake Up Susan      
Walking In MY Sleep      
Washington's March      
Ways of the World      
Whiskey Before Breakfast      
Whistling Rufus      
Yellow Rose of Texas      

 
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