This collection presents 8 “classic” themes arranged for clawhammer banjo in G and G minor tunings. From Pachelbel and Bach to Rossini and Fauré, the tabs and performance notes in this book cover some 200 years of music history. Using a style of playing more commonly associated with old-time and folk music, Jacob Waller demonstrates how to play these easy-to-advanced pieces with his online recordings. The selections range from the relatively simple “Gallop Infernal/Can-Can” by Offenbach to the more challenging “Badinerie” by Bach.

While this may be the first time you have seen the words “Classics” and “Clawhammer” in the same book title, all clawhammer players will find value in these arrangements and the author’s insightful program and performance notes.

Includes access to online audio.

Reading the Tabs in This Book

Playing Techniques

Tabs

- Easier Pieces

- Jacques Offenbach, Orpheus in the Underworld, “Galop Infernal”

- Johann Pachelbel, Canon in D

- Intermediate Pieces

- Gioachino Rossini, William Tell, Overture, “Finale”

- Gabriel Fauré, Pavane

- Difficult Pieces

- Antonín Dvořák, Symphony No 9, Movement IV

- Johann Sebastian Bach, “Badinerie”

- Johannes Brahms, “Hungarian Dance No 5”

- Johann Sebastian Bach, “Toccata (sans Fugue) in Dm”

About the Author

AUDIO CONTENTS

Galop Infernal

Canon in D

William Tell, Overture

Pavane

Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, Movement IV

Badinerie

Hungarian Dance No. 5

Toccata