Banjo Hangout Newest 100 Bluegrass (Scruggs) Songs

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.

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

Reference recording for the tab posted--view my tabs here.

Reference recording for the tab posted--view my tabs here.

Ralph and Christopher Schut are two dutchmen living in the Czech Republic. They play bluegrass together in two bands, G-runs 'n Roses (www.g-runs.com) and The Rustic Robots. This recording features Ralph on guitar, mandolin, banjo, lead & baritone vocals, and Chris on upright bass and tenor vocals.

Ralph and Christopher Schut are two dutchmen living in the Czech Republic. They play bluegrass together in two bands, G-runs 'n Roses (www.g-runs.com) and The Rustic Robots. This recording features Ralph on guitar, mandolin, banjo, lead & baritone vocals, and Chris on upright bass and tenor vocals.

This arrangement of Big Mon mixes melodic, Scruggs, and single-string approaches.

Another recording from the 'Cross Country' days, this one featuring Bob Pett as lead vocal.

My melodic version of Cumberland Gap.

A melodic banjo tune I wrote for my dog, Reese's. I had some help from a friend on Fiverr!

Own Arrangement

A nice tune by Rock Barley out of Kalamazoo Michigan, played on a converted 1922 Vega Model M Tubaphone.

Played on a vintage arch top resonator banjo. Key of G

Squirrel Hunters- Salt Creek - Sooke River BG Fest - June 16-17, 2006

Beginner banjo picking

Beginner picking of an old song.

Beginner Banjo

This radio broadcast from 1956 includes some interesting variations on Scruggs's approach to the tune.

my foreign comrades and I giving the old gem a go around.

27 no hole raised head gibson style 4

We played this live during the Lion's Jam Hootenanny, an annual concert of scratch bands formed by the members of the Lion's Jam in Braunschweig, Germany. One half of our scratch band are locals from the Braunschweig jam session, the other half come from the Berlin area. Some people from Braunschweig show up regularly at our jam and vice versa which is why we formed this scratch band to celebrate our friendship. We named the scratch band "The A2 Riders" because of the Autobahn #2 that connects both cities. On the recording I play banjo and sing which is a very rare thing for me to do.

Made the banjo myself. Demonstrating 3 styles, no finger picks. Details at https://www.banjohangout.org/topic/390003/2/#4975101

A favorite Bluegrass song

Reference recording for the tab posted--view my tabs here.

Devil's Dream & Sailor's Hornpipe - Harry J Miller, Kendall Carson and Stillhouse Gang at Edward Milne School, Sooke, BC Concert - Jan 29, 2005

Haven't posted a song in a long time. I actually play this as a finger exercise on piano but it sounds neat on banjo too.

Reference recording for the tab posted--view my tabs here.

I've played this one for a long time. I recorded this version on the "The Feinberg Brothers" CD in 2015.

I wrote this one for the "Party for One" CD by the Feinberg Brothers. I think the melody has a uilleann pipes sound to it. I'm not sure anyone else does, though!

A tune off the Feinberg Brothers CD "Party for One." Played in G Tuning.

lick from song

Wrong National finger pick

OK National finger pick

OK National finger pick Unknown

I've always thought this cool instrumental by Tommy Emmanuel would lend itself to banjo, so this is what I came up with. Starting from scratch last Friday and over the weekend, I finally settled on this adaptation of the tune. Tommy does this tune in different keys, and it's easy to find examples of him playing this in D, Eb, E, F, and G, depending on where he puts his capo. I decided on D to grab the lowest note on the banjo. I rendered an MP3 of my tab, to full speed of ~130 bpm, about where Tommy plays it. For what it's worth, I hope someone gets something from this. Reference recording for the tab posted--<a href='/tab/browse.asp?m=detail&v=25974'>view here</a>.

Happy New Year All!

New Tears Eve song played by Victor Sadovsky

Reference recording for the tab posted--<a href='/tab/browse.asp?m=detail&v=25838'>view my tabs here</a>.

Our arrangement of H C L

A few F#dim Licks

Test between 2 banjos - Stelling Golden Cross and prewar TB3 conversion to flattop. Which is which??

Old 1971 radio recording

This is my recording of me playing Jerusalem Ridge including the backing track I practice this song with. The recording was made with a Zoom H5 situated about a meter away from the banjo using the X/Y mike the Zoom comes with. Using audacity, I normalised the volume, added some compression and a little reverb (in this order). I think there is too much pick noise and I suspect something is wrong with the compression setup. The backing track seems to mask some of the deficiencies in my playing.

Steven Moore - Bent to Fly (featuring John Cowan)

Top Tension CannonBell without Resonator

Top Tension CannonBell with resonator

A Beatles song we never performed, but we liked the way it turned out ....

Bluegrass with tuba accompaniment and solo recorded at one of our jam sessions.

Our last jam session took place on the terrace of the restaurant where we usually play. A tuba player passed by on his bicycle, stopped to listen and was invited into the session. This is the first tune we played together.

fun old Canadian fiddle tune

another of my instrumental originals

Here's my latest original.

Fun tune to play.

Here's a fun tune to play.

Clip from the podcast

I first heard this lovely tune a few weeks ago in a jam session and it showed up twice in other sessions. Hence, it was time I learned this tune. I set up a backing track and played with it until I was happy with my arrangement.

I composed this tune back in 1991.

An original tune I wrote several years ago and love to pick.

Recorded by the 8th Avenue String Band

Arrangement for banjo: Bill Keith

My rendition on banjo and fiddle of a popular Bluegrass traditional tune titled "Groundspeed".

Reference recording for the tab posted--<a href='/tab/browse.asp?m=detail&v=25311'>view this tab here</a>. 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.

traditional bluegrass

Gospel song that was recorded and performed by the Shenandoah Cutups

Love song and wish could do it some justice...Dubbed with me playing Banjo/Mando