Tunes for Clawhammer Banjo
Copyright © 1980 by Charles I. Kelly
This book is a collection of 217 tablatures I wrote to supplement my book, A Systematic Approach to Clawhammer Banjo.
Most tunes use the gDGBD tuning. Other tunings used in this book are gCGCD and gDGCD.
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You can download an image, then put it in software that allows you to resize images to enlarge the size, thus allowing you to sit further away from the computer screen. - Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-001 Title Page
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-002 How to Read the Tabs
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-003 Goodnight Ladies, Groundhog, Bingo
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-004 Au Clair DeLune, Blue Bells of Scotland
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-005 London Bridge, Long Long Ago, Tallis' Cannon
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-006 Jesus Loves Me, Fairest Lord Jesus
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-007 Hava Nagilah, Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-008 Polly Put the Kettle On, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony Theme, Are You Sleeping, Maple on the Hill
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-009 Holy Holy Holy, Shall We Gather at the River, The Old Grey Mare
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-010 Sakura (gDGCD), Go Down Moses (gDGCD), Swanee River
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-011 Dixie, The Mowing of the Hay
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-012 Old Joe Clark, Cripple Creek, Cripple Creek (with triplets)
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-013 The Merry Soldier, Thirty Years Ago
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-014 Star Spangled Banner, Jennie Jenkings
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-015 The Greenfields of America, Miss Johnson
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-016 Jack and Jill, Row Row Row Your Boat, The Wee Wee Man
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-017 The Ladies Pantalettes, Glengariff Bay, The Roving Bachelor
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-018 Drowsy Maggie, Lambeston Races, Green Grow the Rushes O!, Kiss Me Kate
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-019 The Silk Hankerchief, The Bloom of York
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-020 The Morning Star, The Youngest Daughter, The Messenger
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-021 My Maryanne (gCGCD), The Lover's Discourse (gCGCD), Skip to My Lou (gCGCD), Rubber Dolly
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-022 Old Dog Tray, John Hardy
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-023 Sure Le Pont D'Avingnon, Volga Boatmen, Little Cottage in the Woods, Reuben and Rachael
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-024 A Hunting We Will Go, Noble Duke of York, Mary Had a Little Lamb, Ring Around the Roses
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-025 Billy Boy, Bell's of Westminster, For Health and Strength, Bobby Shafto
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-026 Swing Low, Going to Boston
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-027 Angelina Baker, I've Got a Robe
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-028 Boil that Cabbage, Wise Man Built His House, Michael Row the Boat Ashore, Rock My Soul
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-029 I've Been Working on the Railroad, Fancy Ending (#77)
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-030 Alouette, Masa's in the Cold Cold Ground, Merrily We Roll Along
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-031 Ring Ring the Banjo, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Diddle Diddle Dumpling
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-032 All Night All Day, Uncle Joe
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-033 All Through the Night, This Is My Father's World, All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-034 Abide with Me, God of Our Fathers
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-035 Every Time I Feel the Spirit, My Faith Looks Up to Thee, Up on the Housetop
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-036 Good King Wencesles, O Come All Ye Faithful
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-037 O Little Town of Bethlehem, Go Tell It on the Mountain
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-038 Angels We Have Heard on High, Deck the Halls, Hark the Herald Angels Sing
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-039 College Green, St. Patrick's Day Jig
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-040 The Jolly Journeyman, The Mountains of Pomeroy
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-041 The Old Blind Bard, The Foggy Dew, The Sixpence, The Bouncying Boy
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-042 Down by the Ocean Tide, The Maid of Listowell
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-043 Isle of Skye, The Mountain Lark
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-044 Bantry Bay, Lady Day
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-045 Fill the Cup, Sing a Song of Sixpence, As I Roved Out One Morning
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-046 Kit O'Mahoney's Hornpipe, O'Gallagher's Hornpipe
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-047 The Midnight Dance, Kate Kelly's Fancy
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-048 The Strolling Mason, Shady Groves
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-049 The New Moon, The Trumpet Hornpipe
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-050 Coey's Hornpipe, Lucky Lover
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-051 The Foggy Dew, Tear the Calico
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-052 Jerry Daly's Hornpipe: Setting 1 & 2
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-053 Lord Eglism's Reel, Farmer's Curst Wife, Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-054 Going Down the Road, Lost All My Money
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-055 Shortenin' Bread, Sally Ann, Sally Ann (Variation)
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-056 Old Reuben, Hounddog Song, Joy to the World
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-057 Sourwood Mountain, John Henry
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-058 Cluck Old Hen, Chromatic Ending, Blues Ending
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-059 Flop Eared Mule, Sow Got the Measles, Little Maggie
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-060 Johnny Doyle, The Winter is Past, The Fair Mad of Cavan
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-061 O'Carolan's Concerto, Fancy Ending (155)
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-062 gCGCD: Rickett's Hornpipe, The Siege of Rochell
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-063 gCGCD: Musette, The Harvest Home
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-064 gCGCD: Arran Air, The Boys of Ballysimon, Shule Aroon)
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-065 Curse The Law that Game Me Cause, The Bold Soldier Boy, The Maid of Temple More
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-066 Going to Town, Planxty Charles Coote
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-067 gDGCD: O'Fanlon's Hornpipe, Red Rockin' Chair
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-068 Bill Cheatem, The Humors of Westport
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-069 Give the Fiddler a Dram (gDGCD), Jennie's Got a Man, For the Beauty of the Earth, John Jacob Jingle Heimer Schmimdt
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-070 Leave My Way, The Peacemaker
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-071 Astley's Hornpipe, Mississippi Sawyer
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-072 Bantry Lasses, The Merry Days of Easter, Caisson Song (2 Versions)
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-073 Little Maggie, America (for 3 banjos)
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-074 Silent Night (2 keys: gDGBD & gCGCD)
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-075 Devil's Dream, Calder Fair, Roger O'neil
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-076 The Halfway House, The Banks of the Ilen (gCGCD)
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-077 Murphy's Hornpipe, The Fair Maidens
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-078 The Tinware Lass, The Post Office
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-079 The Mullinger Races, The Wicklow Hornpipe (gCGCD)
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-080 Miss Brady, Minstrel Boy, A Bright Morning in May
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-081 Buckley's Fancy, Youghal Harbour
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-082 Miss Gayton's Hornpipe
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-083 Planxty George Brabazon, Big Pat's Reel
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-084 The Avonmore, Innisfal Hornpipe
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-085 O Sacred Head (& harmony part), Softley Now the Light of Day (& harmony part)
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-086 Young William Plunkett, You'll Not Deceive Me Again
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-087 The Boys of Portaferry, Bridget McBride
- Kelly-Banjo_Tunes-088 I'm Waiting for You, The Green Branch
MIDI FILES: 217_clawhammer_banjo_tunes_midi_files_001-020.zip
These MIDI files go along with the first 20 tunes (Contributed by Stephen McConnel)