Intermediate: Many vocal arrangements first presented in Beginner level are expanded upon, with left hand techniques added and fewer quarter notes. More mixing of rolls and using partial rolls (for example, half of a four-beat forward roll followed by an alternating thumb roll). Upper-neck solos are included for most vocal songs. More frequent left-hand techniques are added to draw attention to melody notes, and bends (chokes) are used occasionally in the upper neck solos. More position changing than Beginner arrangements. Fiddle tunes and a few swing or popular music instrumentals are common, typically in G or in G but capoed to the key of A. Melodic style is used in most fiddle tunes, and some mixing in of single string style if melodic style will not suffice to render a melody phrase. More exotic chord progressions are introduced, and four-note formations including the use of the 2, 3 and 6 minor and seventh chords. A few banjo tunes with chord scales are introduced. There are more more “off-melody” hot licks. A few tunes are presented in alternate tunings, either C tuning, D tuning or G minor tuning. Unless otherwise noted, tablature arrangements are in Scruggs style.
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Unless otherwise noted, tablature arrangements are in Scruggs style.
Legend
s – Scruggs style
m – melodic style
ss – single string style
c – classical style (usually chord melody)
pp – pedal point technique
utn – up the neck
 | Achey Breaky Heart | $2.00 | |
| Amazing Grace (utn) (c) | $2.00 | |
| America the Beautiful | $2.00 | |
| Angeline the Baker (capoed) (D out of CC) | $2.00 | |
| Angeline the Baker (D out of G) | $2.00 | |
| Arab Bounce | $2.00 | |
| Arkansas Traveler (s) (ss) | $2.00 | |
| Auld Lang Syne | $2.00 | |
| Auld Lang Syne (utn) | $2.00 | |
| Away in a Manger (c) | $2.00 | |
| Away in a Manger (c) | $2.00 | |
| Away in a Manger (s) | $2.00 | |
| Back Up and Push | $2.00 | |
| Ballad of Jed Clampett | $2.00 | |
| Banjo Boogie | $2.00 | |
| Battle Hymn of the Republic | $2.00 | |
| Battle of New Orleans (m) (twin) | $2.00 | |
| Before I Met You | $2.00 | |
| Bells of Saint Mary’s | $2.00 | |
| Big Mon (m) (ss) | $2.00 | |
| Big Sciota, The (m) | $2.00 | |
| Bill Bailey Won’t You Please Come Home? | $2.00 | |
| Bill Cheatham (m) | $2.00 | |
| Bill Cheatham (s) | $2.00 | |
| Billy in the Lowground (m) (C out of G) | $2.00 | |
| Birdie | $2.00 | |
| Black Mountain Rag (s) | $2.00 | |
| Blackberry Blossom (m) (s) | $2.00 | |
| Blowin’ in the Wind | $2.00 | |
| Blowin’ in the Wind (C out of G) | $2.00 | |
| Blowin’ in the Wind (utn) | $2.00 | |
| Blue Christmas (s) | $2.00 | |
| Blue Moon of Kentucky (3/4) (4/4) | $2.00 | |
| Blue Ridge Cabin Home (s) | $2.00 | |
| Bonaparte’s Retreat (D out of G) | $2.00 | |
| Bugle on the Banjo (utn) | $2.00 | |
| Bury Me Beneath the Willow (s) (Gm) | $2.00 | |
| Bury Me Beneath the Willow, variation 1 (utn) | $2.00 | |
| Carolina in the Pines | $2.00 | |
| Carroll Best Backstep [Jack Hatfield original] (m) | $2.00 | |
| Cherokee Shuffle (s) (m) | $2.00 | |
| Cherokee Shuffle, variation 1 (s) (m) | $2.00 | |
| Cherokee Shuffle, variation 2 (m) | $2.00 | |
| Church in the Wildwood | $2.00 | |
| Cindy (Get Along Home) | $2.00 | |
| City of New Orleans | $2.00 | |
| Clinch Mountain Backstep (s) | $2.00 | |
| Cotton-Eyed Joe (s) (m) | $2.00 | |
| Cripple Creek (m) (ss) | $2.00 | |
| Crying Holy Unto the Lord (utn) | $2.00 |
Jack has spent fifty years learning to play and teach banjo and in publishing banjo instruction materials. He has acquired the knowledge and ability necessary to plot the most efficient left-hand fingering and right-hand sequencing while still rendering an accurate melody, which has resulted in playable, easily memorized melody-oriented arrangements can be proud to play in any jam session or public performance. Many feature creative and esthetically pleasing variations which can be used to win banjo contests. He has spent hundreds of hours on (expensive) state-of-the-art Finale software creating these clear, legible tablature arrangements.
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