An amalgamation of styles that I attempted to sew together with my own thread.

Recorded by the 8th Avenue String Band

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

Clip from the podcast

Subject A of a three part blind sound comparison

traditional bluegrass

Devil&#39s Dream & Sailor&#39s Hornpipe - Harry J Miller, Kendall Carson and Stillhouse Gang at Edward Milne School, Sooke, BC Concert - Jan 29, 2005

Beginner picking of an old song.

Gospel song that was recorded and performed by the Shenandoah Cutups

Beginner Banjo

Just my quick take on this cool old fiddle tune. This is two banjos, one serving as a drone bagpipe-like rhythm backup ... tons of fun to play.

lick from song

Beginner banjo picking

This radio broadcast from 1956 includes some interesting variations on Scruggs&#39s approach to the tune.

Fun picking with my son (vocals, mando) and daughter in law (vocals, fiddle).

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

another of my instrumental originals

New Tears Eve song played by Victor Sadovsky

I composed this tune back in 1991.

I wrote this one for the &#34Party for One&#34 CD by the Feinberg Brothers. I think the melody has a uilleann pipes sound to it. I&#39m not sure anyone else does, though!

Traditional

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.

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

Jolly Old Saint Nicholas (Performed Upon a 2X4)

A favorite Bluegrass song

Top Tension CannonBell without Resonator

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

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.

Our arrangement of H C L

Reference recording for the tab posted--<a href=&#39/tab/browse.asp?m=detail&v=25838&#39>view my tabs here</a>.

My rendition on banjo and fiddle of a popular Bluegrass traditional tune titled &#34Groundspeed&#34.

Old 1971 radio recording

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

Here is a mid-1950s recording of Earl Scruggs backing up the fiddle on Blackberry Blossom.

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

Pretty simple really, we practiced this, never sang it in public, it was good fun figuring out the banjo part. Think we recorded it about 15 years ago, have fun if you like it, and thanks if you do. I&#39ll post tab as well.

I uploaded this yesterday but was decided I could do better. This new version is cleaner overall and I added a bass line (banjo down 1 octave in post production)

Happy New Year All!

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

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

I&#39ve been meaning to work up something for this tune for years now, so I finally just did it. This pretty much follows Paul McCartney&#39s arrangement which varies a little each time through. Here&#39s my simple arrangement on this beautiful tune, played on two banjos (one overdubbed another). I will be posting tab for this very soon...

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

We played this live during the Lion&#39s Jam Hootenanny, an annual concert of scratch bands formed by the members of the Lion&#39s 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 &#34The A2 Riders&#34 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.

Part C of a three part blind sound comparison

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)

Here&#39s my latest original.

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

Wrong National finger pick

27 no hole raised head gibson style 4

Traditional Christmas Song

Reference recording for the tab posted--<a href=&#39/tab/browse.asp?m=detail&v=25286&#39>view tab here</a>. This is my original arrangement of this beautiful tune by Paul McCartney. In working this up I discovered that Paul does not always play it the same way, occasionally adding in some transitional or &#34bridge&#34 measures before the 3rd and 4th verses, and sometimes only before the 4th verse. This version is the latter. Anyway, this is a fun tune to play and beautiful to hear. I hope you enjoy.

I&#39ve 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&#39s 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&#39s worth, I hope someone gets something from this. Reference recording for the tab posted--<a href=&#39/tab/browse.asp?m=detail&v=25974&#39>view here</a>.

Here&#39s a fun tune to play.

Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys were in concert in Madison, WI, 13 February 1967. His duet with Peter Rowan is haunting, and Monroe was at the top of his game vocally. Banjo: Lamar Grier; fiddle: Richard Greene; bass: James Monroe; guitar: Peter Rowan.

I&#39ve played this one for a long time. I recorded this version on the &#34The Feinberg Brothers&#34 CD in 2015.

OK National finger pick

Haven&#39t posted a song in a long time. I actually play this as a finger exercise on piano but it sounds neat on banjo too.

I&#39m a beginner and this is My first experimental record after 9 months of playing banjo (newer played anything else) Recorded with Gold tone EB-5 electric banjo via USB PC Guitar Rig 6 tech info. Gold Tone EB-5 (tweaked stock) strings J.D. Crowe Signature 91/2 - 11 - 12 - 20 - 91/2 tailpiece Deering truetone preamp Fender Mustang micro Ernie Ball picks / Blue Chip

From a Flatt and Scruggs broadcast on WSM radio, Spring 1956 -- one of my favorite songs by the Foggies. Earl puts on a clinic of banjo backup..

This is a beautiful original tune by Boone, NC son Pete Washburn. This was recorded in March 2011 at (now defunct) band practice. The lineup is: Me (on my custom top-tension banjo), Shane Lail on guitar, Keith Cole on upright bass, David Heavner on mandolin, and George Giddons on fiddle. At the time, Shane and George were members of the Rodney Dillard Band.

Original Cello Banjo 3-finger picking Tuning: A C# A B E

Arrangement for banjo: Bill Keith

OK National finger pick Unknown

Part B of a three part blind sound comparison

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

Reference recording for the tab posted--<a href=&#39/tab/browse.asp?m=detail&v=25311&#39>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&#39t 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&#39ve noticed over the years that it&#39s becoming more commonplace, part of a growing shared repertoire at jams and get-togethers.

Fun tune to play.

Top Tension CannonBell with resonator

A few F#dim Licks

A tune off the Feinberg Brothers CD &#34Party for One.&#34 Played in G Tuning.

My annual new composition around the holidays. For all my Hangout friends and the rest of the Hangout crowd, I wish you a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, or whatever you might celebrate. And as always, whether you mark the season or not, I wish you peace, and a safe, healthy new year. In Double C (gCGCD).

fun old Canadian fiddle tune

Flatt and Scruggs on the WSM radio show &#34Sunday Singing,&#34 13 May 1956. Paul Warren does some spectacular bass singing.