Banjo Hangout Newest 100 Classical Songs

Main melody played 5 ways on the fretboard. Played on helix midnight zephyr with medium weight chris sands nylon strings.

When I originally learned this I used clawhammer tuned to double D. Then I learned it in open G 3-finger picking style. Now I&#39m trying it again with clawhammer after more than 30 years. It&#39s coming back to me and I still think it&#39s amongst the prettiest tunes ever written. The story goes that Sheebeg, Sheemore was the blind harpist&#39s first composition in 1691. It&#39s meaning is &#34Li...

A version from tab by John Bullard from his Bach on the Banjo book and CD. I now have 104 measures out of 136 memorized. Hopefully will be able to play it all well some day. This version is not current, but representative of what I have done so far.

Some selections my new book of Christmas carols arranged for 5-string banjo. The entire collection, volumes 1 and 2, comprise 37 classic carols, and is available through my website www.countjockula.com, or see my ad in the BHO classified section. Mp3&#39s are available for download at CDBaby.com/Jocko. Enjoy, and Mer-r-r-r-r-y Christmas! (all arrangements (c) 2012, Jocko MacNelly)

The theme of the ballet Coppelia adapted for a duet banjo/guitar

After posting a fast version of Dry and Dusty, here&#39s a slowed up one on the little gourd banjo. The title insinuates struggles, perhaps relating to the Dust Bowl era, since the Morrison brothers most credited with this tune came from Arkansas.

My version of my hero alan Munde

One of the tunes I grew up on. 5-string cello banjo in gCGCD.

&#34Hard Times&#34 by Stephen Foster, played 2/3-finger style on a Bart Reiter Standard banjo with nylon strings, tuning gDGBD.

This is a Macedonian folksong that my stepdaughter Abigail and I did as part of a Christmas/Hanukka present for her mom. Abby sings with the Yale Slavic Chorus and has been schooling me in the various GREAT Eastern European choral traditions. We were in a hurry, since in the three hours Madame was out of the house we got the idea, came up with three tunes, rehearsed, recorded and burned CD's of th...

a Mantovana is a sixteenth century song composed by the Italian tenor Giuseppe Cenci, also known as Giuseppino del Biado, (d. 1616). Its earliest known appearance in print is in del Biado&#39s 1600 collection of madrigals. The melody, later also known as &#34Ballo di Mantova&#34 or &#34Aria di Mantova&#34 gained wide currency in Renaissance Europe, being recorded variously as the Scottish “My mist...

This is a great piece to demonstrate the added sustain from a banjola. Ave Maria on a five-string. Gold Tone PC Banjola.

On a banjola. Trying to get the melody correct. Just starting on this in prep for Valentine's Day.

&#34Brahms op. 39 no. 15 in A&#34, Bart Reiter Standard banjo, nylon strings, tuning aEAC#E. Arranged for banjo by Kevin Holmes.

"Lo How a Rose E'er Blooming", Grizzly kit banjo tuned aDADE, Rover RM-50 mandolin, violin

"Ding Dong Merrily on High", Bart Reiter Standard banjo, tuning gDGBD.

"The Holly and the Ivy", Bart Reiter Standard banjo (gDGBD), violin, Gold Tone banjola (gDGBD), 'cello

"Joy to the World", Bart Reiter Standard banjo w/nylon strings, tuning gDGBD.

Bonaparte crossing the Rhine as played by "The Old Grey Dogs" I chose to play this out of double C tuning as i love the bottom end of the banjo in this tuning. Hope you all enjoy i.t

canon in D

A song, i made for my son :-)

this is a waltz i composed for my wife Katja