Banjo Hangout Top 100 Bluegrass Songs

This arrangement of Big Mon mixes melodic, Scruggs, and single-string approaches....

I first heard this lovely tune a few weeks ago in a jam session and it showed up twice in other sessions. Hence, it was time I learned this tune. I set up a backing track and played with it until I wa...

Original Cello Banjo 3-finger picking Tuning: A C# A B E ...

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Song written by a friend of mine and recorded by our band, Robertson County Line....

I posted another Tommy Jackson tune unknowingly the other day..."Snowflake Reel". JanetB was kind enough to give me some background on the tune and add a very nice clawhammer arrangement. This...

Andantino in G Major, composed by Ferdinando Carulli and published in 1825. Performed on guitar, banjo and bass banjo. "Classical" parlor guitar based on 19th century design by the La Patrie Gu...

I present four distinct treatments of this tune which hopefully hang together as some kind of cohesive whole in the end. The great Travis Wright finishes it off on clawhammer banjo....

A little over a month in as a second time beginner, with now a "playable" banjo. Attempting to play some Jimmy Arnold stuff...no metronome or backing track, just went for it in the bedroom with...

American Traditional. Earliest known documented version 1784. Performed on Gourd Banjo with Vocal. Gourd Banjo by Noah Cline....

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traditional mountain lament to a lost lover...

Making some sound files with the new select maple bridge wood....

Seldom Scene song in C minor...

Grassabilly version of a Monroe sonf that transcends genre...

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Laurence Diehl banjo, Paul Diffin bass, Tom Berghan guitar & vocal...

My 1st Cubase project. Playing all instruments - banjo, guitar, mandolin and bass. Again, 1st project so not perfect, but fun!...

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I've been messing with my Fostex MR-8HD recording machine over the past week as I had a little time. Someone asked me about the Don Reno tune Sockeye. I never really played it so I decided that w...

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A tune from Alan Munde's Banjo Sandwich album. Key of F....

Don Wayne Reno playing one of his dad's favorites....

One of the greatest bluegrass instrumentals ever.Here's my attempt....

Named after the Cascade mountain range, I have had the privilege to visit there many times as a resident of the Pacific NorthWest....

Just a couple of days ago I decided to learn how to play this incredibly melodic tune written by Paul Craft (as played by Ben Eldridge of The Seldom Scene), and I think I've about got it down. Ther...

I learned this from one of those Flinner, Grier, Phillips albums....

Thanks to Randy (Mopick) for the link to flatpickapprentice.blogspot.com for the guitar backing track. This is my mahogany banjo with the old maple flooring bridge....

Great old tune...

Great song from the Dueling banjo's record ......also known as New Dimmensions in Bluegrass...with Clarence White on guitar!!WOW!!...

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This if for TOTW August...

a tune of my cd...

aDF#AD . . . not Foster's original chords. I just played harmonies that sounded nice to me. I couldn't resist using a diminished chord in the chorus....

My latest amateur, multi-track recording effort playing all of the bluegrass instruments :-) I borrowed most of the banjo lead from Tony Trischka's "All Star Bluegrass Jam Along Book" for ban...

Gordon lightfoot...

Original tune in double C tuning G C G C D in the key of C min...

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Recorded with Hard Ryde..our take on an old standard....

This is a sample of my group's first studio recording. Hope you enjoy listening!...

Me with Flamekeeper in 2008...

My latest project. I've wanted to learn this tune for a long time. Hope it's OK....

Playing an archtop RB-250 (sort of) got me to thinking about those old Allen Shelton breaks on the Jim and Jesse tunes....

tune off my cd...

I recorded all the parts in this attempt at Salt Creek. Mighta aughta dropped the fiddle for another guitar break, but what the heck.... Scratchin away!...

Hillbilly O Canada...

Tom Berghan - Soprano Banjo, Laurence Diehl - Guitar...

D-Tuners... etc...