Provides the intermediate clawhammer (5-string) banjo player with a fresh repertoire of 25 tunes as played by the author with the Boiled Buzzards Old Time String Band. The book briefly addresses clawhammer basics with a few pages of exercises and scales before presenting the tunes. The banjo tunings in this book are: double C tuning (gCGCD), modified double C tuning (eCGCD), G tuning (GDGBD), A tuning (aEAC#E), D tuning (aDADE), and Double-D tuning drop 5th (f#DADE). Written in banjo tablature only with suggested backup chords. Voted one of the top 10 clawhammer banjo players by “Banjo Newsletter” readers, Levenson advises the reader that the tablature in this book is to be used only as a guide and to “play the tune as you hear it, not slavishly as written”. This approach allows the reader to play within his/her style and level of ability. Includes access to online audio.
Tunes Taught
- Beasties in the Sugar
- Bitter Creek
- Black Widow Romp
- Booth Shot Lincoln
- Briar Picker Brown
- Doctor Doctor
- Duck River
- Flying Indian
- Folding Down the Sheets
- Forked Deer
- Hangman’s Reel
- Hell Amongst the Yearlings
- Katy Hill
- Liza Poor Gal
- Little Dutch Girl
- Nail That Catfish to a Tree
- Needlecase
- Old Bell Cow
- Snake River Reel
- Texas Gals
- Three Thin Dimes
- Tilden
- Wild Horses at Stoney Point
- Year of Jubilo (Lincoln’s Gunboats)
- Young Guns and Miners
