Product Number:
30224M
Format:
Book + Online Audio
Skill Level:
Intermediate-Advanced
Notation Type:
Standard Notation and Tab
Pages:
140
Binding:
Squareback Saddle Stitched
Size:
8.75 x 11.75
ISBN:
0-7866-8629-4
ISBN13:
978-07866-8629-2
Publisher:
Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
Date Published:
9/24/2015
This book and accompanying audio download include popular and lesser-known old-time tunes for the clawhammer banjo. This book is a followup to Dan Levenson's Old-Time Festival Tunes for Clawhammer Banjo (MB20313M) and includes 62 more tunes of varying difficulty. Old favorites as well as new additions are presented, including many time-tested standards. The material is presented in standard notation and basic/advanced tablature. Suggested chords are also included to help you along the way. Fiddle players will enjoy the companion to this book, Old-Time Favorites for Fiddle and Mandolin (MB30225M), which shares the same basic standard notation. Includes access to online audio.
Dedication
Introduction
About the CDs
About the Tunes
About Written Music
Reading the Tablature
A Final Note of Encouragement
And the Cat Came Back
Angelina Baker
Arkansas Traveler
Bitter Creek
Black Hills Waltz
Bob Tailed Mule
Bonapart’s Retreat - Wm H Stepp version
Booth Shot Lincoln
Briar Picker Brown
Cluck Old Hen
Cold Frosty Morning - modal - Henry Reed; Mel
Durham version
Cold Frosty Morning - major - Melvin Wine
version
The Cuckoo
Cumberland Gap
Doctor Doctor
Duck River
Ducks on the Millpond
Ebenezer
(Mr) Fishar’s Hornpipe - part version
Folding Down the Sheets
Forked Deer
Fortune
Great Big Taters in A Sandy Land
Grey Eagle
Johnson Boys
Katy Hill
Little Dutch Girl
The Merry Blacksmith
Mississippi Sawyer
(Wooliver’s) Money Musk
Needlecase
Old Belle Cow
Opera Reel
Over the Waterfall
Policeman
Polly Put the Kettle On
Push the Pig’s Foot a Little Further Into the
Fire
The Rattlesnake
Rock the Cradle Joe
Sal’s Got Mud Between Her Toes
Salt Creek - aka Salt River
Salty River Reel
Shady Grove - modal version
(Doc Robert’s) Shortnin’ Bread
Snowbird
Soldier’s Joy
Spotted Pony
Step Around Johnny
Sugar Hill
Three Thin Dimes
Three Way Hornpipe
Waiting For the Federals - aka Seneca Square
Dance
Walk Along John to Kansas
Walking in the Parlor
West Fork Gals
Whitesburg
(There is a) Wild Hog in the Woods
Wild Horses at Stony Point
Wooden Nickel
The Year of Jubilo - aka Lincoln’s Gunboats
Yellow Barber
Y Z Hamilton’s Special Breakdown
Other products by Dan Levenson
About Dan
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