Needlecase

Posted by hobogal, written by Sam McGee

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Size: 2,870kb, uploaded 3/6/2015 3:34:06 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

played on a SS Stewart 'Imperial' banjeaurine

Paint Creek

Posted by hobogal, written by Tony Ellis

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Size: 1,581kb, uploaded 7/20/2014 8:51:05 AM
Genre: Bluegrass / Playing Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)

Double C tuning (LeVan banjo)

Pretty Little Dog

Posted by hobogal

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Size: 2,586kb, uploaded 9/21/2014 8:28:05 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

3-finger in A modal

Pretty Polly

Posted by hobogal

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Size: 1,017kb, uploaded 2/6/2009 3:31:56 AM
Genre: Bluegrass / Playing Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)

Played in G - I play it first in an old-time style then more bluegrassy.

Ragging the Scale (Ragtime Banjo Commission)

Posted by hobogal, written by Edward Claypoole

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Size: 5,392kb, uploaded 3/31/2018 4:23:06 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen / Playing Style: Unknown/None Chosen

Rock Andy

Posted by hobogal, written by Owen Snake Chapman

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Size: 2,213kb, uploaded 7/26/2012 12:30:40 PM
Genre: Bluegrass / Playing Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)

Inspired by Paul David Smith

Shady Grove

Posted by hobogal

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Size: 727kb, uploaded 1/28/2009 7:40:12 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)

I'm playing this in G modal

Shady Grove (open F)

Posted by hobogal

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Size: 2,196kb, uploaded 8/14/2013 10:45:26 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

FDGCD tuning - LeVan banjo.

Shaeffer's Jig

Posted by hobogal

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Size: 2,312kb, uploaded 4/21/2014 8:39:48 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Classic

This is a banjo tune that you may recognise from Clive Palmer's playing with The Incredible String Band - I've added variations from the 'Clifford Essex' arrangement. Can't quite play it up to speed yet - it's tricky playing with bare fingers. I get in a tangle!

Shaking the Blues Away

Posted by hobogal, written by Jimmy Mazzy (Irving Berlin)

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Size: 3,390kb, uploaded 2/21/2019 11:10:48 AM
Genre: Jazz / Playing Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum)

Shawnee Schottische

Posted by hobogal

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Size: 1,991kb, uploaded 12/15/2013 10:58:01 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen / Playing Style: Classic

from 'Buehling's Folio', the composer isn't named but it is from the 'classic period'. Played on a nylon-strung 'CE Special' - trying to get used to playing without fingerpicks!

Skeleton Dance

Posted by hobogal, written by Norman Greenup

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Size: 3,276kb, uploaded 11/6/2015 9:10:48 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Classic

Snowdrop

Posted by hobogal, written by Sam McGee

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Size: 1,195kb, uploaded 5/20/2011 9:23:10 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

In open C...an attempt at a fingerpicked version based on Sam McGee and Stephen Wade's playing.

Soldier's Joy

Posted by hobogal

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Size: 2,315kb, uploaded 1/12/2013 10:13:03 AM
Genre: Bluegrass / Playing Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)

Drop C tuning. Played on my new Ken Le Van open-back (with 'U-tube' tone-ring)

Sourwood Mountain

Posted by hobogal

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Size: 1,220kb, uploaded 7/6/2009 10:10:48 AM
Genre: Bluegrass / Playing Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)

The Bell Chimes

Posted by hobogal, written by Herbert J Ellis

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Size: 3,368kb, uploaded 11/1/2014 8:06:49 AM
Genre: Classical / Playing Style: Classic

Classic Banjo (CE Special)

The Cuckoo

Posted by hobogal

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Size: 7,008kb, uploaded 8/7/2013 10:15:18 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Anne Steel (main vocals, guitar), Jo Carley (mandolin, vocals), Lucy Ellis (fiddle, vocals), Jaki Alden (cello vocals), me - banjo! (LeVan open-back)

The Hailstorm Jig

Posted by hobogal, written by Joe Morley

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Size: 3,690kb, uploaded 1/3/2015 8:00:08 AM
Genre: Other / Playing Style: Unknown/None Chosen

Played on my LeVan banjo - in the key of Cm

The Spanish Fandango

Posted by hobogal

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Size: 2,937kb, uploaded 4/13/2015 6:52:13 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Classic

G tuning (CE Special banjo) - from the Bradbury book

Waterbound

Posted by hobogal

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Size: 4,617kb, uploaded 1/13/2013 12:00:41 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Unknown/None Chosen

Recording of a recent practice session - Jo Carley (main vocals/mandolin), Lucy Ellis (fiddle), Anne Steel (uke/guitar), Jackie (cello) and me, banjo (Nechville Zeus)