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Little Rosewood Casket – Free Bluegrass Guitar Tab
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Little Maggie – Free Bluegrass Guitar Tab
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A Word About These Free Clawhammer Banjo Tabs
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These free clawhammer banjo tabs are written out in the simplest possible way. Like “normal” tab, the five horizontal lines represent the five strings of your banjo. The numbers on the lines represent the fret that you play on that string.
What’s not so “normal,” is that I have not included the rhythmic clawhammer stroke as part of the tab. What you have here is only the naked melody.
If you already have the basic clawhammer banjo rhythm nailed down, you know that it sounds like “bum dit-ty,” or “claw-ham-mer.” The “bum” or “claw” is the melody, the “dit”
Say Darling Say – Free Clawhammer Banjo Tabs
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Willie Moore – Free Clawhammer Banjo Tabs
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Single Girl – – Free Clawhammer Banjo Tabs
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Cluck Old Hen – Free Clawhammer Banjo Tabs
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Shady Grove – Free Clawhammer Banjo Tabs
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Man of Constant Sorrow – Free Clawhammer Banjo Tabs
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A Word About These Free Bluegrass Banjo Tabs!
Howdy!
If you’re thinking that the free tabs look a little sparse, you’re right! What I’ve provided you is just the bare bones skeleton of the melody.
Why did I do that, and where are the rolls?
As you know, bluegrass banjo plays the melody using rolls, which consist of 4 or 8 note patterns that are repeated over and over.
Virtually every single bluegrass banjo method out there teaches you a tune with the rolls already incorporated into the melody. That is a BIG MISTAKE.
Why?
Because you need to be able to figure out how to add the
