Tater Joes Old-Time Musical Mercantile - Clawhammer Banjo Tab. Folkstreams » The Best of American Folklore Films. Nashville Old Time String Band Association. Banjo Newsletter - Home. Strum your banjo for an instant banjo uke! Strum your banjo for an instant banjo uke!
Here are a couple of lessons showing how you can strum your five-string banjo ukulele style. You can quickly switch to high-energy strumming when you want to kick some energy into a dance or just as a break from regular clawhammer. Here’s an introduction to the strum I use most often: I use my index finger for both frailing and strumming, but I recommend you use a different finger for each approach. The strumming wears your nail down fast. For happy strumming, you need to know what chords to play. Links Jim Bottorff’s site of American popular songs for strumming funFind any chord in any tuning at ChordFind.comMany more Illinois tunes at Dear Old IllinoisTab and a solo banjo MP3 for the tune you hear in the videos Other uses for the strum If you’re at a big, noisy jam and the players have wandered apart rhythmically, you can (politely) switch to the uke strum to bring them back together.
Why not open G? Like this: Like Loading... Strum your banjo for an instant banjo uke! Mike Iverson's Clawhammer Tab & Instruction. If you are viewing this page from my old website (bluesageband.com - no red borders) please visit the new website (banjoutah.com).
You can still access my tab page in the "Progressive Clawhammer" section and enjoy much more banjo related content in the process! Thanks - Mike Iverson (You can help make this the biggest and best collection of clawhammer banjo tabs on the internet through the generosity of your donations: Support Mike's Clawhammer Tab Website) Clawhammer Banjo During the later part of the 1800's the banjo was one of the more popular instruments (thanks to the traveling minstrel shows) and clawhammer, or "stroke style" as it was called back then, was the style of playing most often used. For those not familiar with the banjo, the style that I play has been variously called frailing, clawhammer, stroke style, or downpicking; the later because all the notes are produced with a downward motion of the picking hand.
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Download this TABrite file viewer/printer for the PC. TABrite file viewer/printer for the Macintosh. NOTE: Click To Read How To View The TABrite Zip Files For more Clawhammer Tabs and Instructions, check out Bart Veerman's and Mike Iverson's Pages. Amazing Grace (TablEdit file) Click here to download the viewer for this file. Folkstreams » The Best of American Folklore Films.
Old-Time Fiddle Tunes. Nashville Old Time String Band Association. Little Rock Banjo. Freebanjotabs. Database of Tunes - Old Time Frederick. Banjo Meets World. Here’s a video version of a Finnish polka that I posted earlier as an MP3.
This time I’m playing it on my Gold Tone OT-800. The banjo is tuned gEGBE. Download MP3 (different banjo) | Tab | PDF of tab A Finnish polka that works for contra dancing. The banjo is tuned gEGBE. Played here at a brisk tempo for contra dancing. Audio Player Download MP3 | Tab | PDF of tab. Index to Tune/Song of the Week - Discussion Forums. You are invited to submit a Tune/Song of the Week Please join the T/SOTW crew.
NOTE-03/22/2012: BanjoJudy has passed on the role of keeping track of volunteers to J-Walk, and he has now passed the torch to EggerRidgeBoy. If you want to volunteer, send him a private message through his BHO account. What are the requirements? (there is more on this topic in this topic of TOTW FAQs) 1. My feeling is that if the tune/song is interesting to you, then you can make it interesting to a large enough audience to make it worth posting as a "Tune of the Week.
" Also, don't feel required to post your own version if you are a "newbie" or otherwise uncomfortable with recording yourself. TOTW Index Here is an index of the Tunes of the Week. Also, there is a similar index over at the Fiddle Hangout for their TOTW, and the Bluegrass side of the BHO has a TOTW (BG). I have created an alphabetized and sortable version on my personal site at I'll keep that synced with this list.
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