Buzzard Banjo – Clawhammer Style

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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.

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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

  1. Beasties in the Sugar
  2. Bitter Creek
  3. Black Widow Romp
  4. Booth Shot Lincoln
  5. Briar Picker Brown
  6. Doctor Doctor
  7. Duck River
  8. Flying Indian
  9. Folding Down the Sheets
  10. Forked Deer
  11. Hangman’s Reel
  12. Hell Amongst the Yearlings
  13. Katy Hill
  14. Liza Poor Gal
  15. Little Dutch Girl
  16. Nail That Catfish to a Tree
  17. Needlecase
  18. Old Bell Cow
  19. Snake River Reel
  20. Texas Gals
  21. Three Thin Dimes
  22. Tilden
  23. Wild Horses at Stoney Point
  24. Year of Jubilo (Lincoln’s Gunboats)
  25. Young Guns and Miners