Banjo Hangout Newest 100 Songs

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What I worked out in gEADE tuning for playing clawhammer with piano at a contra dance. (it's for a dancing, so it's fairly long) From a couple of years ago, first dance from long break of Covid. Was a bit rough.

Playing around with gDGDE tuning. Also experimenting using BandLab app and some of built in fx and processing for mastering... to demo what it does (it is a bit much)

This was an experiment using iPhone and BandLab app for quick multitrack in kitchen.

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Old Kentucky crooked fiddle tunes are intriguing and Hiram Stamper is an authentic learning resource in my book. Bruce Greene recorded this one and it was tricky to arrange. I got some help listening to George Jackson, the New Zealander old-time player that's a pleasure to hear.

Clair De Lune by Claude Debussy, written in 1890

From the playing of an Alabama fiddler, Paisley Hagood. Mostly he plays ABAB, which is kind of a treat after always playing AABBAABB. The high note in the A part gives it an ancient tone feeling for me.

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I found this on a tape I thought I'd lost. It's a twin-banjo version of 'Home Sweet Home', recorded in 1978 with two cassette players! Just the once through.

Played in 3 finger bluegrass style. Key of G. Played on a 1930's vintage 10 3/4 Slingerland open back pot fitted with a new 5 string neck.

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Slow Melody in 3/4 time from the year 1924. Edited by Rob MacKillop. I find that melody good for playing and learning with accents.

It's rare to work on a jig with clawhammer. This is a sweet tune with a real Irish (to my ears) melody. Its minor tones make it a bit bittersweet.

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Based on the playing of the Leslie Riddle and the Carter Family, the melody resembles White House Blues, an earlier song, and is included in a Tune of the Week featuring the latter. This recording was made when my husband, Kit, and I were performing locally at events focusing on local history. We liked choosing old-time tunes and songs and have a informal front porch sound. Plinky & Plunky with our mandolin and banjo played a lot together until Kit's stroke.

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Played on newly constructed parts banjo. Key of G

This old standard is played clawhammer style on a banjo I built which features internal-to-the-rim head tensioning, an internal resonator, and a Helix-style laid up rim made from carob wood.

Country blues

Classic clawhammer tune played on my new Stone Banjo Company Half Fretless banjo.

Tune written for my daughter. Played on my new Stone Banjo Company Half Fretless banjo!

Really fun tune played on my new Stone Banjo Company Half Fretless!

Based on the playing of George Landers, fCFCD or thereabouts...

Self arrangement

Self arranged version of the song

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key of A and played on a short scale 5 string banjo

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From around the year 1800, Jamie Allen is named for the Northumbria bagpipe player, Jamie Allen. It is played as a march in New England these days.

1921

1921

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spaghetti western theme banjo improv 2nd half

A Tune of the Week with various titles and styles, but popularized most by a Canadian string band as Kiley's Reel, whose style is normally notey and energetic. For the final B part, I combined this clawhammer arrangement with its minstrel roots in the last time through on the B part.

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This Tune of the Week, Echoes of the Ozarks comes from a 1920's recording by Kansas fiddler Sam Long. His fiddling was said to be smooth and rhythmic, but I found this piece too crooked to easily play along with him. It also has lots of syncopation. It's said to resemble Little Old Log Cabin in the Woods.

classic country song recorded by Lefty Frizzell in 1959

aDAde Learned, originally in G, from "Echoes of the Ozarks" On Volume III (https://www.discogs.com/release/5408109-Various-Echoes-Of-The-Ozarks-Volume-III)

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The Tune of the Week features a contemporary old-time composition by one who is super talented at it -- Arnie Neiman. He truly loves his dog and the tune Walking the Dog is a happy one, with Arnie's ability to create something unique amidst so many hundreds of tunes in our repertoire.

Raw sound file for new album "Raging Seaward"

The river title is familiar, but this is a unique tune by "Papa Jake," a Virginia fiddler recorded by David Bragger of the Old Time Tiki Parlour. The TOTW presenter went up the neck, so I thought that would be an added challenge this week. The tuning is open C here, gCGCE. Normally the tune is played in the key of D.

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My abbreviated version of Seeger's classic anti-war anthem with a I/vi/IV/V bridge added for color.

A tune from Ohio with a title referring to the old way of logging where a horse pulled the log attached to a chain. It's a good drop thumb workout for us clawhammer players.

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As played by Missouri fiddler Lyman Enloe, tuned in what is called open C, but on a cello banjo, so that you are hearing Cowhide Boots in its normal key, which is G. (dGDGB)

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From Marcus Martin's fiddling aDAde

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As learned from NC fiddler Marcus Martin, Wake Robin resembles a couple of other tunes. It's short and sweet.

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