Ground Hog - Traditional - Fakebook style arrangement in G with 2 verses and a basic, Scruggs style solo... Open and closed positions (up the neck) - Added 2-2-2012 - Listen to MIDI sample file - MIDI
Georgia in C - For Lew Stern - Instrumental in C - Added 1-31-2012 - Listen to MIDI sample file - MIDI
Dear Abby - John Prine - Fakebook arrangement with ALL lyricsin G - Complete banjo accompaniment and open-position solo between verses. Added 1-27-2012 - Listen to MIDI sound sample file - MIDI
Jackson - Johnny Cash - Fakebook arrangement in G. Contains ALL lyrics and a relatively esasy, mostly open-position solo. Added 1-27-2012 - Listen to MIDI sound sample file - MIDI
When You Wish Upon A Star - Walt Disney Theme Music - This instrumental arrangement is mostly Chord-Melody, the bridge is Scruggs style... NO lyrics in this arrangement. Key of G. Added 1-20-2012 - Listen to MIDI sample file - MIDI
Dire Wolf - Grateful Dead - With ALL lyrics... Fakebook style arrangement and 2 solos... Key of G - Added 1-16-2012 - Listen to MIDI sample file - MIDI
Sponge Bob Square Pants Theme Music - With ALL lyrics and banjo solo. Key of G. Added 12-27-2011. Listen to the MIDI sample file - MIDI
Today I Started Loving You Again - Merle Haggard - Key of G - Fakebook with all lyrics and banjo solo. Listen to the MIDI sample file - MIDI
Landslide - Stevie Nicks - Key of F - This is a Fakebook arrangement with all lyrics and melody played in a harmonica voice to imitate it's human counterpart. The Banjo only plays back-up in this arrangement. Added 12-15-2011 - Listen to the MIDI sample file - MIDI
Baby Elephant Walk- Henry Mancini - A banjo instrumental in G... melodic style... The arrangement is supported by 2 banjos. One playing the boogie pattern in the bass... and the other adding variations while the 1st banjo continues the theme... Not really a solo, but the melody is there and I would probably call it a study or a Banjo Trio, since there are 3 banjo parts. Added 12-6-2011 - Listen to the MIDI sample file - MIDI
Dooley - The Dillards - A fairly easy-to-play Scruggs style characterization of the Dillards famous melody. No Lyrics. Mostly Open Position. A great warm-up tune for any Scruggs style player. Added 12-6-2011 - Listen to the MIDI sample file - MIDI
Take Me In Your Life Boat - Chris Hillman - Fakebook arrangement with ALL lyrics in the key of G. The arrangement starts out with a Chord-Melody solo that quotes the melody of the chorus, using bar chords that move around the neck. The actual Scruggs style banjo solo happens twice and is mostly in the open position and is not at all hard to play if you have basic Scruggs style in your paws. A great bluegrass standard by Chris Hillman. Added 11-26-2011. Listen to the attached MIDI sample file - MIDI
God Bless America - Irving Berlin - Fakebook arrangement with ALL lyrics in the key of G. This arrangement has a built-in "Chord-Melody" solo on the second staff from the top. Because the arrangement contains the melody as sung on the top staff, it also has a staff for back-up banjo that not only supports the melody as sung, but also adds effect and support to the Chord-Melody solo played on the second staff. This arrangement is challenging, in that it uses slightly advanced bar chords all over the neck of the banjo. The back-up banjo part is mostly bum-ditty style, uses practically no bar chords and only simple ones when it does. I'm very fond of the type of supportive harmony used in this arrangement and found specifically in the Chord-Melody solo. Check out the attached MIDI sample file. Added 11-25-2011 - MIDI
Wait So Long - Trampled by Turtles - Fakebook arrangement with ALL lyrics in the key of G. Because of the odd, flatpicked nature of the original banjo solo in their video, I chose to use a facimile solo... not hard to play... Check out the attached MIDI sample file - Added 10-26-2011- MIDI
Pancho & Lefty - Townes Van Zandt - Fakebook arrangement with ALL lyrics in the key of G. Contains a mostly open-position Scruggs style solo that features the melody of this great Van Zandt tune. It's hard to have a favorite Van Zandt tune... I like everything he wrote, but this one got covered by a lot of folks... just a great tune. I released this tune previously, but this particular arrangement has been greatly re-done. The guitar accompaniment has been converted to rhythm banjo and the back-up banjo part has been completely re-done... The back-up banjo part now is entirely 'bum-ditty' style to reflect Townes' choice of Travis style guitar. Check out the MIDI sample file. Added 10-25-2011 - MIDI
Rainbow Connection - A Fakebook arragement with ALL lyrics in the key of G. Features the famous intro banjo riff that Kermit played. After the initial signature riff, the banjo plays back-up to support the melody. Not at all hard to play. Check out the MIDI sample file. Added 10-20-2011 - MIDI
Rawhide - Television Theme Music - performed by Frankie Laine - This is a fakebook style tune in that it has ALL lyrics and all verses, choruses, etc. It is not a solo per se, but an arrangement featuring the banjo playing mostly back-up and separately as a rhythm instrument. Not hard to play. Check out the MIDI sample file. Added 10-19-2011 - MIDI
Are You Praying Hard or Hardly Praying? - The Chigger Hill Boys - This is a fakebook arrangement with ALL lyrics and a Scruggs style banjo solo in the key of gm. The banjo is tuned to standard G tuning, but plays in such a way as to sound minor and modal rather than major... not hard to do... Check out the MIDI sample file. - Added 10-18-2011 - MIDI
Simple Man - Lynard Skynard: This is an orchestrated, multi-part, instrumental arrangement that begins with the well-known arpeggiated guitar part in the original key of C. In this particular arrangement, I converted all former guitar parts, except the intial signature arpeggiated guitar part, to banjo... including the lead and rhythm parts specifically... There are no lyrics... just the instrumental parts. Listen to the attached MIDI sample file. Added 10-17-2011. MIDI
No Sugar Tonight - The Guess Who - A complete, Fakebook arrangement with ALL lyrics and lead guitar parts worked out for banjo... also includes the 'New Mother Nature' song. Added 10-10-2011 - MIDI
Carolina In The Pines - Michael Martin Murphy - This is a re-work of a formerly released arrangement by me. In this rendition, I added the lyrics under the solo itself... not a fakebook arrangement, but a Scruggs style solo that follows the melody if Murhy's tune... and the lyrics to the first verse and chorus added under the solo. Added 10-12-2011 - MIDI
Going to California - Led Zeppelin - This is a complete Fakebook style arrangement with all parts (including the signature mandolin riffs) being played by the banjo. All lyrics and parts included. Added 10-1-2011 - MIDI
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - The Band - Fakebook arrangement with ALL lyrics. Not a solo per se, but does include a chord-melody rendition of Dixie as the intro to the tune. Added 9-25-2011 - MIDI
Copperhead Road - Steve Earle - This is a Fakebook arrangement with ALL lyrics that features the repeating signature mandolin riffs played as back-up entirely on the banjo. Not hard to play. MIDI
The Mountain - Steve Earle - Fakebook arrangement with ALL lyrics in the key of D... out of standard G tuning... Not hard to play. MIDI
Oxycontin Blues - Steve Earle - This is a Fakebook arrangement in the key of Gm. It uses the gm tuning, same as standard G major tuning, but the 2nd string B is lowered to a Bb. Not hard to play. Features a repeating solo in gm. MIDI
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