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Sound Files
This is a well-known banjo and fiddle tune that isn't played often enough. Tab
This is a fun little tune that I can play all day!
Done on my Deering Goodtime, it is the first recording with the Fyberskin head and No-Knot tailpiece. Standard G tuning.
This is an old tune I learned from a tab by Bob Carlin. I really like the simplicity of the tune.
A traditional fiddle/banjo tune rendered on my new Chuck Lee banjo.
Vocal and Banjo. This is a nice hobo/love song. I
like the fact that the basic clawhammer stroke works great for 3/4 time tunes. Tab
A favorite folk song of mine from the days of the
Underground Railroad. Done in Am on the banjo, my vocal is in the general area.Tab
I was fooling around with the banjo tuned to double
C and capoed the other day and came up with this simple tune. Lots of drop-thumb, kind of a nice cooler after the heat of
an Arizona summer day.
Fiddle, Banjo and Vocal. The song was orginally titled
"My Western Home," and never contained the well-known phrase "Home on the range." For more information on the origins of the
story, check the NPR story at: NPR
I did this on the fiddle and banjo. I used a two-finger picking pattern on the banjo, because the fiddle work was so out of
time.
Clawhammer Banjo and Vocal. I was fooling around one
day with the double C tuning, trying to see if I could figure out "Rolling Mills," when this song just sort of popped up.
It seemed to fit well to the tuning, so I went searching for lyrics different from the well-known, well-worn lyrics usually
sung.
This is what I came up with. I like the sound that the modal tuning gives the song, and the sound that the added 3rd (E) gives
the second line of the verse.
I achieved the plunky dead sound by slipping a strip of foam cushioning material under the strings at the bridge to deaden
the sound.
Tab
I haven't really played Classical guitar in almost
20 years, but recently I felt my Goya G-10 longing to try some. So, I dug out an old notation book and spent a couple of hours
practicing a few of the short ones I used to play. Here is a Ländler by Joseph Küffner and a Caprice by Ferdinando
Carulli.
An old fiddle/banjo tune. This one has a slight twist to the B part. Also known as Little Liza Jane
An original tune for Clawhammer banjo. I came up with this one
while sitting on the patio watching a lizard running along the face of my garden wall while being pursued by a Cardinal. The
lizard won this round! Tab
A Henry Reed fiddle tune rendered on my Chuck Lee Lone Star openback banjo. I hope to one day add
the fiddle to this catchy melody.
Done in the key of G.
Written quickly for the song of the month thread for
May.
You may be able to guess that I have been listening to a lot of Carter Family music lately.
Another original tune, but I think it a bit of that old-time sound to it.
Guitar and Vocal. This is a little song I wrote because
one of the members of the ezFolk forum wanted some April Rain songs. I tried to put an Hispanic/Flamenco sound to it, and rather like the guitar work.
Clawhammer banjo and Vocal. This is my version of
an old traditional tune, "Rolling Mills."
I have only heard 2 other versions, and have used some from both.
A rolling mill is a factory that rolls steel into sheets. My best guess about the song is that back in the late 1800's-early
1900's, the industry was undergoing a bad time, and the song probably reflects a bad time in a mill town when the mills burned
down, and the owners had no intentions of rebuilding.
I had originally learned this in the key of A, and
the previous recording was in that key. Recently I have been playing around with putting it into its "proper" key of D. After
a few days of experimenting, this is what I came up with. Played on a Deering Goodtime banjo, clawhammer style.
Can you hear the pony trotting down the road?
A pretty little traditional tune in the key of D. Often done as a fiddle/banjo duet (which I hope to accomplish in the near
future).
Performed on my Chuck Lee Lone Star openback banjo sitting on my patio. The fountain in the background adds a certain nuance
to the music, I think.Tab
This is a fiddle tune I am working on, I recorded
the banjo first for rythmn, then added the fiddle. I finally threw in a couple of choruses of vocal just for fun.
Vocal and Banjo I have always liked this tune, and
finally got around to working up a clawhammer arrangement for it. Tab
Lady Margaret Clawhammer banjo and vocal of the oldtime version of Child 74.
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