Tablatures of Fiddle Tune Arrangements


A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M|N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|Y

Check out my first book of tabs, Fifteen Fiddle Tunes for Five String Banjo
self-published in 1974, 50
years ago.

TABLATURES LISTED BY KEY
A - C - D - G


TABLATURE LIST

(Tabledit Format, click to download TefView.exe, the free Tabledit Reader)

MIDI...PDF...TAB...Abe's Retreat (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Altamont (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...And the Cat Came Back (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Angeline the Baker (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Angeline the Baker, Easier Version (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Arkansas Hoosier (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Arkansas Traveler (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Ashland Breakdown (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Ask That Pretty Girl To be My Wife (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Avalon Quickstep (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Back Up and Push (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Back Up and Push- Georgia Organ Grinders
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Barlowe Knife (aDF#AD)

MIDI...PDF...TAB...Bath House Blues (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Beaumont Rag (gDGBD, Key of F)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Benton's Dream-Benton Flippen (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Betty Likens (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Bibb County Hoedown (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Big Eyed Rabbit (gDGBG)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Big Footed Man in the Sandy Lot (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Big Hoedown (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Big John McNeill (gDGBD)

MIDI...PDF...TAB...Big Scioty (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Bill Brown-John M. Salyer (gDGBD)

MIDI...PDF...TAB...Bill Cheatum (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Billy in the Lowground (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Billy in the Lowground, Leonard Rutherford Version (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Billy in the Lowground, John Salyer Version (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Billy in the Low Land (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Birdie, Henry Reed Version (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Birdie, J.P. Fraley Version (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Black Eyed Suzie (aDF#AD)

MIDI...PDF...TAB...Black Jack Grove (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Black Mountain Rag (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Black Mountain Rag-Arthur Smith (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TEF...Blackberry Rag (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Black Mustache (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Boatin' Up Sand on the Little Sandy (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Boatin' Up Sandy-Snake Chapman (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Boatman (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Boatsman, Marcus Martin Version (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Bonaparte Crossing the Rocky Mtns (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Bonaparte's March (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Bonaparte's Retreat (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Bonaparte's Retreat, Reed Version (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Bonaparte's Retreat, Stepp Version (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Booth Shot Lincoln (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Boys, Them Buzzards Are Flying (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Breaking Up Christmas (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Briarpicker Brown (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Brickyard Joe-Doc Roberts (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Brushy Fork of John's Creek (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Brushy Run (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Buffalo Nickel (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Bull of the Woods-James Bryan (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Bully of the Town (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Bumblebee In a Jug-George Lee Hawkins (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Bye Bye My Honey, I'm Gone (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Cacklin' Hen (gDGBD)

MIDI...PDF...TAB...Cacklin' Hen-Hammons (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Cairo in the Cabbage Patch (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Calico-Jim Bowles (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Calico-Marcus Martin (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Callaway-Ralph Roberts (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Callaway, Lee Hammons/Ralph Roberts Version (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Campbells Farewell to Red Gap (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Camp Chase (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Camp Chase-French Carpenter (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Camp Meeting on the Fourth of July (aDF#AD
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Can You Dance a Tobacco Hill-Snake Chapman (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Captain George, Has Your Money Come (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Carroll County Blues-Doc Roberts (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Catlettsburg (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Cattle in the Cane (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Cat Tracks (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Charleston No. 1 (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Chattanooga-Blaine Smith (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Cherokee Trail (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Chicken in the Snowbank-James Bryan (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Chicken Reel (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Chicken Reel-Ralph Roberts (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Child Grove (aDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Chilly Winds (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Chinese Breakdown (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Chinkapin Hunting, Norman Edmonds Version (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Chinquapin Hunting, Art Stamper Version (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Cindy (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Cluck Old Hen (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Cluck Old Hen-Ed Weaver (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Cluckin' Hen-J.P. Fraley (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Coleman's March (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Cookhouse Joe (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Coon Dog (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Cornstalk Fiddle and a Shoestring Bow (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Cotton Eyed Joe (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TEF...Cousin Sally Brown (gGDAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Cowboy's Dream (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Cowboy Waltz, The (aADF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Cranberry Rock (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Cripple Creek (gDGBD)

MIDI...PDF...TAB...Crockett's Honeymoon (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Crook Brothers Breakdown (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Crow Creek (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Cuckoo's Nest, The (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Cumberland Blues (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Cumberland Gap-Rothfield (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Cumberland Gap-Williamson (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Cumberland Gap-Reece (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Dance All Night (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Davy, Come On Back and Act Like You Ought To-Delbert Hughes (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Deep River Blues (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Denver Belle (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Devil Eat the Groundhog (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Dinah (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Dixie (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Doctor, Doctor (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Don's Trip to Clifftop-Jim Reed (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Double File (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Drowsy Maggie (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Drunken Hiccups (gGDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Dry and Dusty (aDF#D)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Ducks in the Millpond (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Ducks on the Pond (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Duck River (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Dull Chisel (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Dunbar (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Durang's Hornpipe, Old Time (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Dusty Miller-Frank George (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...
East Tennessee Blues (gCGCD)
MIDI
...PDF...TAB...Ebb and Flow (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Ebenezer (gDGBD
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Eighth of January (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Elk River Blues-Ernie Carpenter (gDGBD)

MIDI...PDF...TAB...Elzic's Farewell (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Emminence Breakdown (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Falls of Richmond (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Farewell Princeton (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Farewell Trion (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Feed My Horse On Corn and Hay (gGDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Fine Times at Our House (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Fire on the Mountain (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Five Miles from Town (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Flop-Eared Mule (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Florida Blues (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Flyin' Clouds (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Folding Down the Sheets (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Forked Deer-Salyer (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Forks of Sandy (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Forky Deer (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Fortune (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Frosty Morning (gDGAD)

MIDI...PDF...TAB...Garfield's Blackberry Blossom-Ed Haley (gDGAD)
MIDI
...PDF...TAB...Gaspe Reel (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Georgia Camp Meeting (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Gilda Roy-John Salyer (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Gilsaw-Pete McMahon (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Girl I Left Behind Me (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Glory in the Meeting House (gEGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Going Down the River (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Going to the Free State-John Ashby (gDGBD)

MIDI...PDF...TAB...Going Up to Hamburg-John Hatcher (gDGAD)
MIDI
...PDF...TAB...Golden Slippers (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Golden Slippers (gDGAD)

MIDI...PDF...TAB...Granddad's Favorite (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Grasshopper Sittin' on a Sweet Potato Vine (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Greasy Coat (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Greasy String-Tommy Jarrell (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Green River March (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Green Willis (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Grey Eagle (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Grey Eagle-Booker (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Grover Jones's Waltz-Henry Reed (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Growling Old Man and Woman (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Grub Springs (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Gumbo Waltz (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Half Irish-Snake Chapman (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Half Past Four (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Hall's Old Reel (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Hamilton's Special Breakdown (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Hangman's Reel (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Happy Hollow (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Hard Times (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Hawk Shot a Buzzard-Sherman Hammons (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Hell Among the Yearlings (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Hell's Broke Loose in Georgia (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Henry Fords Waltz-Henry Reed (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Hickman's Rag (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Highlander's Farewell (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Hobb Dye-Kenny Hall (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Hog Eyed Man, Hiram Stamper Version (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Hogeye (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Hogskin, Paul Goodman Version (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Hollow Poplar (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Home with the Girls in the Morning (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Horny Ewe, The (gDGBG)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Hy Patillion (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...I Don't Love Nobody, Doc Roberts Version (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Iberia Breakdown (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Ida Red (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Ida Red-McCumbers (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Indian Ate the Woodchuck-John Salyer (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Indian Corn (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Indian Eat the Woodchuck (gCGCD)

MIDI...PDF...TAB...Irish Polka (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF..TAB...It's All True, And Even Worse-Alan Kaufman (aDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Jack of Diamonds-Snake Chapman (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Jack Wilson-John Salyer (aDF#AD)
MIDI
...PDF...TAB...Jaybird in a High Oak Tree (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Jeff Sturgeon (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Jenny Get Around (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Jenny Run Away in the Mud in the Night (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Jerusalem Ridge- Bill Monroe (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Jim Shank (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Jingle Bells (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...John Brown's Dream (gDGBD)

MIDI...PDF...TAB...John Brown's March (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...John's Tune (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Johnny Don't Get Drunk (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...John Riley the Shepherd (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...John Stinson's #2 (aDF#AD
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Josie Girl-Charlie Acuff (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Julianne Johnson (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...June Apple (gDGAD
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Kansas City Reel (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Kay Did (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Katy Hill (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Kentucky Wagoner-Sisson (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Keys to the Kingdom (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Kitchen Girl (gDGAD)

MIDI...PDF...TAB...Knoxville Rag (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...L&N Rag (gCGCD)
MIDI
...PDF...TAB...La Bastrange (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Last Chance (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Last Shot Got Him, The (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Lazy John-Clyde Davenport (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Leather Britches (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Lee Highway Blues (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Let's Hunt the Horses-Edden Hammons (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Liberty (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Liberty Off the Corn Licker Still (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Lily of the Valley-Luther Davis (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Limber Jim, You Can't Go (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Listen to the Mockingbird (gCGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Little Billy Wilson (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Little Dutch Girl (gGDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Little Princess Footsteps (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Little Rabbit (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Liza Jane in D (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Liza Jane in G (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Liza Jane, Easier Version (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Liza Jane-Frank George (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Lone Pairie, Wade Ward (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Lost Girl- John Salyer (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Lost Indian (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Lost Indian, Ed Haley Version (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Lovely Jane (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Mad as a Hornet (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Maggots in the Sheep Hide (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Magpie (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Maid of Monterey (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Man Eater-Jim Booker (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Martha Campbell (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Maysville-J.P. Fraley (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...McMichen's Breakdown-Clayton McMichen (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Meg Gray- George Hawkins (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Meriweather (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Midnight on the Water (aADF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Mike In the Wilderness (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Mississippi Sawyer (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Missouri Waltz (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Monkey in the Dog Cart (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Moon Behind the Hill (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Morpeth Rant (aDF#AD)

MIDI...PDF...TAB...Muddy Roads (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Muddy Road to Ducktown-James Bryan (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Nail That Catfish to the Tree-Steve Rosen (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Nancy (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Nancy Dawson (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Nancy Rowland (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Needlecase (aDF#AD
MIDI...PDF...TAB...New Money (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...New Orleans (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Nightingale Song, The-Ralph Roberts (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...No Turning Back Waltz (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Obama's March to the White House (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Oiling Up Julianne (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Ol' Bob (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Old Ark's A-Movin' (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Old Aunt Jenny With Her Nightcap On (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Old Beech Leaves-Sid Hudnall (gDGBD)

MIDI...PDF...TAB...Old Bell Cow-Benny Thomasson (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Old Billy Hell (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Old Bunch of Keys-Tommy Jarrell (gDGAD)

MIDI...PDF...TAB...Old Drake-Burl Hammons (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Old French (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Old Granny Blair (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Old Hen Cackled, The (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Old Horse and Buggy (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Old Joe-Walters (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Old Joe Clark (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Old Kentucky Whiskey (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Old Melinda (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Old Mose (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Old Mother Flanagan (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Old Time Grey Eagle-Manco Sneed (gCGCD)

MIDI...PDF...TAB...Old Yeller Dog (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...On the Banks of the Kaney (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Over the Waterfall (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Paddy on the Handcar (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Paddy on the Pike (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Patty on the Turnpike-Fiddlin' Cowan Powers (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Parkersburg Landing (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Peep O'Day (gCGCD)
MIDI
...PDF...TAB...Petronella (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Pig Ankle Rag (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Pike's Peak (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Piney Ridge (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Piney Woods-Burl Hammons (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Polly Put the Kettle On (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Poor Little Mary, Sitting in the Corner (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Porter's Reel-Stafford Harris (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Possum on the Rail (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Possum's Tale is Bare, The (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Pretty Little Dog (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Pretty Little Shoes (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Quince Dillon's High D (aDF#AD)

MIDI...PDF...TAB...Quit Kicking My Dog Around (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Rachel (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Rabbit in the Pea Patch (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Ragged Shirt-Roberts (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Ragtime Annie (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Railroad Runs Through Georgia (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Rebels Raid- Stepp (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Red Haired Boy (gDGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Red Priairie Dawn (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Red Rocking Chair (gDGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Red Steer (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Richmond Cotillion-Lundy (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Road to Malvern (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Roaring River-Monte Sano Crowder (gDBGD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Robinson County (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Rochester Schottische- Tommy Jarrell (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Rock Andy (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Rocking the Babies to Sleep (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Rock the Cradle Joe (aDF#AD,
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Rocky Mountain Goat (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Rocky Pallet (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Roscoe-Kyle Creed (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Roscoe Parish's Waltz (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Rose Division (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Rose in the Mountain, The (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Rose Tree (aDF#AD, D)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Rosin the Beau (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Rueben (aDF#AD)

MIDI...PDF...TAB...Rymer's Favorite (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Sadie At the Back Door-Jere Canote (aDF#AD)
MIDI
...PDF...TAB...Sail Away Ladies (gDGAD)

MIDI...PDF...TAB...Sail Away Ladies-Davis (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Sail Away Ladies-Fraley (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Sailing Over England (aDF#AD)

MIDI...PDF...TAB...Sally Coming Through the Rye (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Sally Ann Johnson (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Sally Goodin (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Sally in the Garden (aDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Sally Was a Poor Girl-Albert Hash (gDGBD)

MIDI...PDF...TAB...Sal's Got Mud Between Her Toes (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...
Sal with the Run Down Shoes (Jenny Lind Polka) (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Sandy-Kenny Hall (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Sandy Boys (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Sandy River, Marcus Martin (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Sandy River, Oscar Wright (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Sandy River Belle (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Santa Annas Retreat (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Sarah Armstrong's Tune (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Saturday Night Breakdown (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Say Old Man, Can You Play the Fiddle (aDGAD)

MIDI...PDF...TAB...Say Old Man, I Want Your Daughter (aDF#AD)
MIDI..
.PDF...TAB...Senaca Square Dance (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Shady Grove, Henry Reed (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Shady Grove-John M. Salyer (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Shady Grove, Phil MacArthur (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Shady Grove, Lee Sexton (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Shaving a Dead Man (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Shebeg Shemore (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Sheeps in the Meadow, Cows in the Corn (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Shelvin' Rock-Burl Hammons (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Shenandoah Falls (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Shepherd's Wife, The (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Simon Stole a Turkey Egg (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Shaking Down the Acorns (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Shipping Port-Doc Roberts (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Ships Are Sailing (aDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Shoe Heels Cracking On the Floor-Darley Fulks (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Shoes and Stockings (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Shooting Creek (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Shoot the Turkey Buzzard (gDGBD)
MIDI
...PDF...TAB...Shove That Pigs Foot a Little Closer to the Fire (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Shuckin' the Brush (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Sleeping Lulu (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Smith's Reel (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Snake Chapman's Tune (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Snake River Reel (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Snouts and Ears of America, The (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Snow Deer (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Snowflake Breakdown (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Snowflake Reel (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Sol Carpenter's Tune (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Soldier's Joy (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Sopping the Gravy-Clark Kessinger (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Sourwood Mountain (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Speed the Plow-John Salyer (g(DGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Spider Bit the Baby (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Spotted Pony (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Spring Creek Gals (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Squirrel Heads and Gravy (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Squirrel Hunters (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...St. Anne's Reel (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Stacked 'Em Up in Piles-Melvin Wine (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Standing Rock-Don Couchie (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Star of Bethlehem (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Staten Island Hornpipe (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Step Around Johnny (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Stone's Rag (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Stoney Point (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...The South Wind (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Stump Tailed Dolly-John Salyer Version (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Stuart's Long Bow (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Sugar Hill (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Sugar in the Gourd (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Sugar Tree Stomp (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Sullivan's Hollow (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Sweet Ellen (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Sweet Marie (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Sweet Nell (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Swing Nine Yards of Calico-J.P. Fraley (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Take Me Back To Georgia (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Tater Patch (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Tennessee Mountain Fox Chase (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Tennessee Waltz-Pee Wee King (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Texas (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Texas Gales (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...That's My Rabbit, My Dog Caught It-Draper Walter g(CGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Three Forks of Cheat (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Three Thin Dimes (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Tipping Back the Corn (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Trouble On My Mind (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Turkey in the Straw (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Turkey in the Straw (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Twin Sister-Helton (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Twin Sisters (aDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Uncle Henry-Viola Hensley (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Up Jumped the Devil-Roberts (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Vally Forge (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Wagoner One-Step (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Waiting for Nancy (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Waiting for the Boatsman (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Walk Chalk Chicken (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Walking in the Parlor (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Walking That Pretty Girl Home (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Walking the Water-Marcus Martin (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Washington's March (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Waynesburg (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Ways Of the World, William Stepp Version (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Ways Of the World, Luther Strong Version (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Wes Muir's Tune (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...West Fork Gals (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...West Virginia Gals (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...West Virginia Polka-Harvey Taylor (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...West Virginia Rag (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Westphalia Waltz-Cotton Collins (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Where's the Red Chook-Smithard (gDGBD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Whiskey Before Breakfast (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Why Do a Preacher Like Chicken So-Garry Harrison (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Wild Rose of the Mountain (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Wildwood Flower (gCGCD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Willott's Hornpipe (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Wilson's Clog-Melvin Wine (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Wimbush Rag (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Wind That Shakes the Barley (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Winder Slide-Joe LaRose (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Wolf Creek (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Woodchopper's Reel (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Wounded Hoosier (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Yearlings in the Canebreak (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Yellow Barber (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Yellow Rose of Texas (aDF#AD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Yew Piney Mountain-Carpenter (gDGAD)
MIDI...PDF...TAB...Yew Piney Mountain-McCumbers (gDGAD)

TOTAL TABS: 490

The tabs in the Banj'r collection are in both Adobe PDF and Tabledit format. The Tabledit files are opened through TablEdit's TEFView tab viewer. The viewer is available free from the Tabledit website. The easiest way to open the tab file is to left click on the file link, and it should open automatically. If the file doesn't open, it is probably because Windows does not associate the file extension with the program. To fix that, In Windows 10 you right click on the Start button on the lower left corner of your screen, and left click on the Default apps option. Scroll to the bottom and left click on the Choose default apps by file type link. It may take a little while for the list to display. Scroll down to ".tef", and if it does not already have Tabledit or TefView selected, click the "Choose a default" button. Iit should give you TefView (or Tabledit if you have it). That usually solves the problem.

One of the most useful features of TEFView is that it is virtually a full function MIDI software package. TEFView contains most of the playback control features available in the MIDI format, some not found in basic players like Windows MediaPlayer or WinAmp. Taking full advantage of this, each tablature arrangement in this collection has been written with a guitar and bass accompaniment, and sometimes fiddle, clawhammer banjo, or lead guitar. . Through the MIDI Options window, you can speed up or slow down the tempo, or change the relative volume of each instrument, or temporarily turn off an instrument altogether, by unchecking the checkbox next to the title of the instrument track. Thus, you can turn the banjo voice off, and practice playing along with the MIDI accompaniment. The MIDI Options window can be accessed through the icon on the toolbar, or through the Play Menu selection on the Menu bar.

When you open TEFView, the tablature will be scaled to a particular note, either a 1/16th or a 1/32nd note. I have found generally that the tunes in 2/4 and 3/4 time are best viewed at the 1/32nd scale, while the handful of 4/4 tunes are best viewed at the 1/16th scale. The scale can be reset from the Display Menu item on the top Menu Bar. The time signature is located in the upper left corner of the tablature.

Tab is merely a technique, a relatively efficient one, for communicating how one musician has decided to render a certain musical piece. The goal is not to learn to sight read. Instead, you should memorize the arrangement as soon as possible, internalize it, changing it as little or as much as you want to suit your own taste and style. This is not classical music, where the composer's notes, written down on paper, must be taken as gospel, not to be altered. Once you have memorized the arrangement, you should continue to practice by playing along with the MIDI, but don't follow the tab itself unless you forget part of it. You don't want to play forever with a music stand in front of you, whether real or virtual.

When you work through a tab, you essentially "get inside the picker's head," and see how he or she chooses to solve a particular musical problem. As bluegrass style five string banjo is still primarily a type of pattern picking, as opposed to the more linear approach of other instruments and other types of music, there is ultimately an immense variety of solutions to that "problem" presented by a particular phrase of melody. So as you study the work of other pickers, through tab, by slowing down a recording, or by any other method, you should be selective, borrowing the sounds you like best, and substituting a different approach for the others. In the end, assuming you are putting in the effort, your arrangements will reflect your own musical tastes better than any other picker, and you will essentially be your own favorite banjo picker.

Tab also functions as a memory aid. Trust me on this- that becomes more important as you get older. More than once I have worked out an intricate arrangement, only to find a few weeks later that I have completely forgotten how I did it. After doing that a number of times, I started transcribing my arrangements as soon as they had pretty much settled down. There is nothing more ridiculous than having to slow down your own recording to half speed in order to figure out how you picked something, to motivate you to make an accurate transcription at the start.

I cannot overemphasize how useful it is to practice along with the MIDI playback. I practice with the Tabledit files for most of my practice time. While there is obviously still a very big difference between using Tabledit and actually playing with other musicians, it is still a great learning and practice tool, and I think as time goes on and more material is published this way, it is going to speed up the learning curve considerably for new bluegrass pickers.

I've read arguments that Tabledit is not as effective in developing smooth, even timing as a metronome. That may well be true in the early stages of learning, when it is best to use the metronome with one tick for each note, to guarantee an absolutely smooth roll. But in the long run, I think Tabledit is the best learning tool to come along since Earl himself. The whole MIDI playback capability also shifts the "tab as a crutch" dynamic, since as you gradually speed up the tempo, you are forced to rely more on your memory and ear, and less on the tab itself.

If you write tab, I strongly recommend acquiring the full software package. It is easy to use, creates great printed output, and has a very well organized and complete set of MIDI tools. All of the MIDI files used as background music on these web pages were created from the Tabledit program. Customer support by Keith Saturn (the American rep) and Matthieu Leschemelle (the program's author, on those rare occasions when Keith doesn't know the answer) is timely and excellent. Their website is www.tabledit.com. While the TEFView viewer can be used free of charge, I highly recommend upgrading to the TablEdit software package for anyone who intends to transcribe arrangements for five string banjo.

 

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