SIXTY note-for note transcriptions from Earl Scruggs’ recordings, from Jack’s 1970’s Banjo Newsletter columns. This is still the most complete and accurate source of transcriptions of Earl’s classics available anywhere. Available only from Hatfield Music. (Find the digital PDF download here.)
Arrangements include:
- A Hundred Years From Now
- Bluegrass Breakdown
- Bugle Call Rag
- Coal Miner’s Blues
- Cora is Gone
- Crying Holy
- Dig a Hole in the Meadow
- Dixie Home
- Doin’ My Time
- Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down
- Down the Road
- Farewell Blues
- Fiddle and Banjo
- Fireball
- Foggy Mountain Breakdown
- Get in Line Brother
- Head Over Heels
- If I Should Wander Back Tonight
- I’ll Never Shed Another Tear
- I’ll Stay Around
- I’m Gonna Sleep With One Eye Open
- Is it Too Late Now ?
- John Hardy
- Leather Britches
- Little Maggie
- McKinley’s Gone
- Molly and Tenbrooks
- My Little Girl in Tennessee
- Old Folks (Soldier’s Joy)
- Old Home Town (The)
- Old Fashioned Preacher (The)
- Pike County Breakdown
- Pain In My Heart
- Polka on the Banjo
- Reuben
- Roll In My Sweet Baby’s Arms
- Sally Goodin’
- Salty Dog Blues
- Saro Jane
- Shuckin’ the Corn (two arrangements)
- Somehow Tonight
- Steel Guitar Rag
- Sunny Side of the Mountain
- Swimming Song (The)
- Take Me in a Lifeboat
- Thinking of You
- ‘Till the End of the World Rolls ‘Round
- ‘Tis Sweet to Be Remembered
- We Can’t Be Darlings Anymore
- We’ll Meet Again Sweetheart
- When the Saints Go Marching In
- Will the Circle Be Unbroken?
- Will You Be Lovin’ Another Man?
- Wreck of the Old ’97 (two arrangements)
- Your Love is Like a Flower
- Six study topics:
- Chord Formations
- Fiddle Backup (four examples)
- Rolls
- Syncopation
- Two-Measure Backup Patterns
- Upper Neck Fingerings
