bluegrass banjo tab collection

for the serious bluegrass banjo student

 

This is a set of tabs of  99 essential and classic bluegrass banjo solos, (see list below,) that I have developed over the years for my students. It is not an instruction manual for beginners.

These easy-to-read (LARGE) tabs are printed on photocopied, 3 hole-punched sheets intended to go into your own binder. They are all excellent arrangements of well-known bluegrass banjo standards for any serious banjo student who is at least at the advanced beginner or intermediate level. With this collection, I have carefully created arrangements that I felt were either very mainstream and definitive or,  if a song does not really have a definitive version, then I arranged something that made a lot of musical sense, sounded good and "real" yet was easy enough to learn play. 

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Ben Freed

45 Evergreen Row

Armonk, NY

10504

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1.        Alabama Jubilee

2.        Angeline the Baker

3.        Arab Bounce

4.        Auld Lang Syne

5.        Back Up and Push

6.        Ballad of Jed Clampet

7.        Banjo Signal

8.        Beaumont Rag

9.        Big Mon

10.     Big Sandy River

11.     Bill Cheatham

12.     Billy in the Lowground

13.     Black Mountain Rag

14.     Blackberry Blossom

15.     Blackjack

16.     Blue Night

17.     Blue Ridge Cabin Home

18.     Bugle Call Rag

19.     Cherokee Shuffle

20.     Clinch Mountain Backstep

21.     Crazy Creek

22.     Cripple Creek

23.     Cumberland Gap

24.     Dark Hollow

25.     Dear Old Dixie

26.     Devil's Dream

27.     Dixie Breakdown

28.     Dixie Hoedown

29.     Down Yonder

30.     Farewell Blues

31.     Fireball Mail

32.     Flop Eared Mule

33.     Foggy Mountain Breakdown

34.     Foggy Mountain Special

35.     Follow the Leader

36.     Forked Deer

37.     Georgia Rose

38.     Gold Rush

39.     Goodbye Liza Jane

40.     Grandfather’s Clock

41.     Grey Eagle 

42.     Groundspeed

43.     Hot Burrito Breakdown

44.     How Mountain Girls Can Love

45.     I Saw the Light

46.     John Hardy

47.     John Henry (G tuning)

48.     John Henry (C tuning)

49.     June Apple

50.     Katy Hill

51.     Leather Britches

52.     Lime Rock

53.     Limehouse Blues

54.     Little Cabin Home on the Hill

55.     Little Maggie

56.     Lonesome Road Blues

57.     Long Journey Home

58.     Molly and Tenbrooks

59.     Monroe’s Hornpipe

60.     Nashville Skyline Rag

61.     Nine Pound Hammer

62.     Old Home Place

63.     Old Joe Clark

64.     Paddy on the Turnpike

65.     Pike County Breakdown

66.     Ragtime Annie

67.     Red Haired Boy

68.     Red River Valley

69.     Red Wing

70.     Remington Ride

71.     Reuben

72.     Road to Columbus

73.     Roanoke

74.     Rocky Top

75.     Roll in My Sweet Baby’s Arms

76.     Sailor’s Hornpipe

77.     Sally Ann, Scruggs version

78.     Sally Ann, old time version

79.     Sally Goodin’

80.     Salty Dog Blues

81.     Salt Creek

82.     Shenandoah Breakdown

83.     Shuckin’ the Corn

84.     Sitting on Top of the World

85.     Sled Ridin'

86.     Soldier’s Joy

87.     St. Anne’s Reel

88.     Sweet Dixie

89.     Sweet Georgia Brown

90.     Take Me in Your Lifeboat

91.     Temperance Reel

92.     Theme Time

93.     This Land is Your Land

94.     Turkey in the Straw

95.     Wheelhoss

96.     Whitewater

97.     Will the Circle be Unbroken

98.     Wreck of the Old '97

99.     Your Are My Sunshine

Mail $30(personal check is OK if within the USA, ( and if outside the USA, mail $35 cash only)  to cover the cost of duplication and mailing to

Ben Freed

45 Evergreen Row

Armonk, NY

10504

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