Banjo Hangout Top 100 Classical Songs

Beethoven banjo tune

3rd part of this sonata. I&#39m 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&#39s not bluegrassy or Old-Timey, but it sounded a bit classical to me so at the risk of offending the purists out there that&#39s how I classified it, and that&#39s how I settled on the title, which may be pronounced Broken if you so desire. :>) In G tuning.

Ric Hollander - My arrangement of two Turlough O&#39Carolan tunes - Sheebeg and Sheemore, Planxty Irwin. Recorded using the Romero strung with steel strings. Tuning: eCGCD, capo 5th fret. Arrangement and performance copyright 2014 Ric Hollander - All Rights Reserved

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&#39m grateful).

a tune i made up

This is from the “Notebook for Anna Magdalena.&#34 Apparently there is some controversy over the actual authorship of this minuet. Christian Petzold is believed to have composed two of the pieces from the 1725 Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach: the familiar &#34Minuet in G major&#34 (BWV Anh.II 114) and its partner piece, &#34Minuet in G minor&#34 (BWV Anh.II 115). These were traditionally believed to have been composed by J.S. Bach but scholarship, particularly on the part of Hans-Joachim Schulze, has recently pointed to Petzold. The Minuet in G Major is catalogued as a BWV Anh. piece because to this day, nobody knows if Christian Petzold or J.S. Bach was the one who composed it. Petzold acted as an agent of J.S. Bach keyboard Partitas. Soprano 4 string banjo & Baritone 4-string banjo.

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

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

This is #1 of 14 from the ever popular Two-Part Invention series that Bach wrote as instruction materials for his students, to demonstrate &#34how it&#39s done&#34. He&#39d probably tell me I&#39m playing these all wrong

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:

Played as close as I could get to the oiano version

Here&#39s my arrangement of the Christmas classic &#34Carol of the Bells&#34 also known as &#34The Ukrainian Carol.&#34 This is from an article I wrote for BanjoSessions.com, a Mel Bay website that I edit. You can find the full article at http://archive.banjosessions.com/dec03/carolbells.html

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 &#34in the style of&#34 ....... My daughter, Molly needed something &#34classical&#34 to play for her &#34juries&#34 at college ... Pat Cloud is helping her with Chick Corea&#39s &#34Spain&#34, and she&#39s learning my rendition of Joe Zawinul&#39s &#34Birdland&#34 ... we were weak in the classical category ...

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 earlier, written in 1739 by Charles Wesley. In 1855, after both Wesley and Mendelssohn were dead, Dr. William Cummings put the words and music together in spite of evidence that neither author nor composer would have approved, and voila, we have a Christmas Carol. I play it here on my Nechville Classic Eclipse.

Finally! I&#39ve 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 Happy Christmas Holydays!

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 title was an idea from Jammer and I thought it fits well. It has a slow intro and ending which is supposed to be kind of spacy. The middle part is more from Earth. Picked on the HUBER BANJO.

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 old recording. At the end I have added a second banjo. The violin features more rhythmic stuff than on the old recording now. Picked on the HUBER BANJO.

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 is the same piece as one click above. But eyerything is recorded again. The banjo you hear on this recording is my new huber. The solo version features my old japanese fake RB-250. On the huber the intonation is much better and the notes are clearer. The hardest part was composing the piece and finding two matching melody lines. On banjo this piece seems to be easy, but as far as sound is concerned it is difficult. As usual everything is played by myself. Tab is ready for email, just ask.

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 added and modified some little things but basically the banjo break is his arrangement. The violin accompaniment is the same stuff as in the original. But as the violin cannot play low bass notes I transposed some of the accompaniment stuff 1or 2 octaves higher. Picked on my japanese FAKE GIBSON.

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 in sheet music but have not posted the tabs to it yet. The tableture would be crucial to learning this piece since it has a lot of melodic and single string picking. Thanks for listening, enjoy!

An old favorite children&#39s 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 creating a line in all those notes. It seems to be easy but the hard thing is to let all notes ring as long as possible. Some notes seem to be delayed but this is done to emphasize those notes as melody notes. The hardest part is the end of the second half where you have to play some scales. This work is dedicated to Jesus Christ. If you are interested in the tab just contact me. Picked on my japanese FAKE GIBSON.

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