Banjo Hangout Top 100 Classical Songs

Beethoven banjo tune...

3rd part of this sonata. I'm always working on the 1st ......

Composed this years ago but just decided to record it. Added some guitar backup to fill out the sound a bit. It's not bluegrassy or Old-Timey, but it sounded a bit classical to me so at the risk ...

Ric Hollander - My arrangement of two Turlough O'Carolan tunes - Sheebeg and Sheemore, Planxty Irwin. Recorded using the Romero strung with steel strings. Tuning: eCGCD, capo 5th fret. Arrangeme...

From Partita No.3 and originally written for the violin....

This is from Partita No.1 in B minor...

That was a real pleasure to work with a great musician, thanks Laurence....

Cello Banjo performance by Rob MacKillop of a Bach Cello piece...

Solo banjo arrangement of J.S. Bach's Bourree from his third cello suite....

This reminds me of the swirling leaf eddies that keep my first graders from having an orderly line every fall by the cafeteria....

Played on a Deering Eagle II Tenor Banjo tuned a minor third lower and the resonator removed....

Wooden banjo: gCGCD Original Recorded without EQ or effects...

Part of the lute suite BWV 998. I have also seen this written in Eb but what do I know? I think we can blame the guitar players for putting it in D (but I'm grateful)....

a tune i made up...

This is from the “Notebook for Anna Magdalena." Apparently there is some controversy over the actual authorship of this minuet. Christian Petzold is believed to have composed two of the pieces fr...

im going to send this tune to joe,he likes this kinda tunes...

Reference recording for the tab posted--view my tabs here....

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This is #1 of 14 from the ever popular Two-Part Invention series that Bach wrote as instruction materials for his students, to demonstrate "how it's done". He'd probably tell me I'm pla...

Ric Hollander - A request from my friend Marc Nerenberg. Arrangement: Copyright 2011 Ric Hollander - All Rights Reserved...

My first post in this genre....

Reference recording for the tab posted--view my tabs here....

Here's the audio track from the youtube video I posted of myself playing this. Thanks for listening! I've also posted a pdf of the tab and notation here....

this is for don b,and i got a few months to get don d c tune ready...

tune for chris...

a tune i made...

Apologies for the imprecisions. Big movements of left hand ......

Original 3-finger picking melody on Gold Tone BC-350+ in double C, capoed at 2nd fret; 5th string tuned to A. Please post comments on Sound Off thread:...

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Played as close as I could get to the oiano version...

Here's my arrangement of the Christmas classic "Carol of the Bells" also known as "The Ukrainian Carol." This is from an article I wrote for BanjoSessions.com, a Mel Bay website that I ...

I wrote this yesterday ... recorded the demo this morning ... MEASURE 8 starts a direct rip off of the famous J.S. Bach cello-lute suite ... for 8 measures or so ... the rest is "in the style of&#...

The music is from the second chorus of a contata by Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) written in 1840 to commemorate Johann Gutenberg and the invention of printing. The words are from a hundred years earl...

Finally! I've just recorded this classical tune played by me on 5-string banjo and now I can share it with you! This is the second song I played on my new Athena banjo :) And I wish you a Happ...

Let me show you a new contemporary banjo and violin piece of mine featuring the Bb-minor-tuning. The harmony progressions of the fast stuff are similar to those found in compositions of vivaldi. The t...

Skeleton Dance is a parlor music piece which I found somewhere in the internet. It works quite well on the 5 string. This is a new recording of this piece as I was not completely satisfied with the ol...

If you want to hear bluegrass I have to disappoint you. I think this one is not really bluegrass. Now you can chose which version you prefer. The Prelude played solo or with 2 additional violins. It i...

This marks the beginning of my classical recording works. Now after I have recorded it I feel that it is a little too slow. Many thanks to Mr. Bill Knopf for providing a great tab of the piece. I adde...

The is a piece that I wrote for the banjo with a baroque flavor to it. The guitar is somewhat hard to hear since it is being played by Sibelius music software. I have this version on sibeliusmusic.com...

An old favorite children's march from 1913, played in the Classical style. I used my B&D Silver Bell #1 on this one, with the resonator taken off the banjo. Just bare fingers- no picks!...

Here is my Prelude for Banjo. I composed this piece in 2003. On this recording I use a big reverb to simulate a big concert hall. The piece is mainly about altering chords slightly and also about crea...

Classic Banjo tune played on a Geo. C. Dobson Victor A....