This book captures the playing style Tom used as a member of Jimmy Martin's Sunny Mountain Boys, Tom Adams' hard-driving Jimmy Martin-style banjoĪs recorded on Audie Blaylock's debut CD in 2001ģ4 Pages with descriptive notes on the tab and the songs. While the titles will be familiar to most players, the arrangements provide an opportunity to add subtle and interesting variations to tunes you may already play.įor example, Cumberland Gap and Fire Ball Mail, both based on Earl Scruggs' playing, receive a unique treatment on Right Hand Man.īoil That Cabbage Down has an added third part that takes the tune into Em before passing it back to the fiddle.įrom the slow triplets on Old Rugged Cross to the driving forward rolls onīluegrass Breakdown, there's plenty of traditional bluegrass banjo playing to be learned from these 10 tunes. The tab arrangements make each tune easily recognizable on these melody-oriented bluegrass standards. This 39-page book contains banjo tablature transcribed from the Rounder CD "Right Hand Man". The tab varies in difficulty from less complex arrangements such as Farmer John andīrushy Creek through more challenging tunes like Santa Cruz and Three Sailors From Dublin moves through four key changes, starting in the Key of F and moving through the Keys of Gm and Dm before ending in the Key of G. Starting and ending in the Key of G, the middle solo is played in the Key of C. Tom's arrangement of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot provides an excellent example of how to play the same tune in different keys. The material ranges from traditional bluegrass - John Henry and Worried Man Blues - to more contemporary sounds.
Lowlands of Holland, is in open C minor tuning. Tunings used in the tab book: 12 of the 15 tunes are in standard open G-tuning, two tunes are in C-tuning, and one tune, Seven original banjo tunes written by Tom Adams.
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