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Tabulature for Scruggs-style 5-string banjo

Arranged for banjo by me: tab text tune today

Alice's Restaurant (Arlo Guthrie) *.TEF *.PDF MIDI 05/10/08

Anything Goes (Cole Porter) *.TEF *.PDF MIDI 10/06/07

Brown-Eyed Handsome Man (Chuck Berry) *.TEF *.PDF MIDI 10/06/07

Day Tripper (Lennon-McCartney) *.TEF *.PDF MIDI 03/30/09

Deep River Blues (Doc Watson) *.TEF *.PDF MIDI 12/03/07

Don't Think Twice, It's Alright (Bob Dylan) *.TEF *.PDF MIDI 07/07/08

lyric & guitar tab

Friend of the Devil (Garcia-Hunter) *.TEF *.PDF MIDI 11/24/07

I've Just Seen a Face (Lennon-McCartney) *.TEF *.PDF MIDI 10/06/07

Just Because (Shelton-Robin) *.TEF *.PDF MIDI 10/10/07

(as recorded by Elvis, 1954)

Last Train to Clarksville (Boyce-Hart) *.TEF *.PDF MIDI 12/02/07

Lazarus Banjo (James Henry Fillmore) *.TEF *.PDF MIDI 10/13/07

(adapted from his "Lassus Trombone", 1915)

Lodi (John Fogerty) *.TEF *.PDF MIDI 11/09/07

Oh, Boy (Buddy Holly) *.TEF *.PDF MIDI 12/14/07

Peggy Sue (Buddy Holly) *.TEF *.PDF MIDI 04/20/09

Route 66 (Bobby Troup) *.TEF *.PDF MIDI 10/06/07

(as by the Rolling Stones, 1965)

Take It Easy (The Eagles) *.TEF *.PDF MIDI 12/18/07

Walk Right In (Sit Right Down) (Gus Cannon) *.TEF *.PDF MIDI 07/03/08

Arranged for banjo by somebody else but tabbed and/or simplified by me:

Linus & Lucy (Peanuts TV Theme)

(Vince Guaraldi; arr. Mike Iverson) *.TEF *.PDF MIDI 10/07/07

Nola (author unk; arr. Bill Keith, bass by me) *.TEF MIDI 10/06/07

You can get a free TablEdit viewer for reading *.tef files here.

You can also buy a copy of TablEdit. But beware -- it's addictive!

For some reason, I've been getting direct hits from Paul Krugman's blog. So, I'm

returning the favor. Whatever your politics, do read Krugman. He's one of the only columnists who knows what he's talking about.

banjo stuff:

banjohangout.org

steve martin's banjo essay

video: earl & all-stars (+steve) on letterman

(links are all to same performance:

redundancy in case a link is broken)

harmonica sites:

spah.org (society for preservation and advancement of harmonica)

harmonicaclub.com

skip landt

harptabs.com

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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