Tabulature for Scruggs-style 5-string banjo
Arranged for banjo by me: tab text tune today
(as recorded by Elvis, 1954)
(adapted from his "Lassus Trombone", 1915)
(as by the Rolling Stones, 1965)
Arranged for banjo by somebody else but tabbed and/or simplified by me:
Linus & Lucy (Peanuts TV Theme)
Nola (author unk; arr. Bill Keith, bass by me) *.TEF MIDI 10/06/07
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banjo stuff:
steve martin's banjo essay
(links are all to same performance:

redundancy in case a link is broken)
harmonica sites:
spah.org (society for preservation and advancement of harmonica)
I got my first banjo a couple of years ago, picked at it on-and-off with some "teach yourself" books (highly recommended: Bluegrass Banjo for the Complete Ignoramus), gradually ran out of verve. Then last spring (2007) my enthusiasm perked up when I took some classes at Chicago's venerated Old Town School of Folk Music. I don't think I'll ever be a great performer but I love working on arrangements.
I can play (sort of) all these arrangements. Any novice with eight or ten months experience and more stick-to-it-ive-ness than I have (no difficult feat) should be able to play them.
Blasphemous confession: I often get bored by bluegrass music. It's too repetitive. But I love to play Scruggs-style bluegrass banjo. My project here is to adapt songs I like into the Scruggs idiom. Who knows? Maybe rock-n-roll banjo is the NEXT BIG THING!!
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