Backup Banjo
January 2nd, 2025These three videos will get you well on your way to playing Scruggs style backup.
Video
The Jerry Book
December 31st, 2024
The Jerry Book isn’t only for fans of Jerry Garcia’s banjo playing with Old & In The Way. It’s also a master class in Scruggs style backup playing.
I’ve spent countless hours transcribing Jerry’s banjo playing and this book is the culmination of those efforts.
As you can see from the contents page, the book includes all of the songs from the original Old & In The Way album as well as Old & In The Way Breakdown from the bootleg: The Boarding House, San Francisco, CA. 7/23/73
Package includes eBook in PDF format (104 pages). Links to download the 39 MP3 files as well as all 39 tabs in TablEdit format. Instantly delivered to your email upon order completion.
The Jerry Book
(Digital Download – PDF, MP3 & TablEdit format)
Price: $50
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The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)
December 18th, 2024The Christmas Song
(Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)
Here is my arrangement to a Christmas classic, played as closely to the Nat King Cole version as I could get.
The tab is free for all. It includes the banjo melody and chords along with the guitar chord chart and bass line.
Merry Christmas,
Sean
Big Mon (Guitar Tab + Slow Jam)
May 28th, 2021Bill Monroe’s tune Big Mon is a staple among Bluegrass jam sessions.
This video plays the melody twice. Once at the beginning and once at the end. In between there are four choruses for you to jam over on any instrument you like.
This song is usually played quite fast but this slow jam is about 50% slower than the usual tempo.
Get the tab!
Tab in PDF and TablEdit formats - $6.00
The Dukes of Hazzard
August 25th, 2020The Dukes of Hazzard Theme “Good Ol’ Boys”
Here’s my version of the original Dukes of Hazzard theme intro & outro.
Sean Ray: Vocals & Instruments.
Banjo tab only (no electric guitar tab).
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Tab in PDF and TablEdit formats - $6.00
Angeline the Baker
April 22nd, 2020Angeline the Baker
Key of D
Virtual slow jam with the melody played on guitar the first and last time around. The rest of the video is for you to play over on whatever instrument you have laying around.
The tab includes the guitar arrangement I play in this video.
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Tab in PDF and TablEdit formats - $6.00
Banjo Lick No. 8
January 19th, 2020This is a must know chromatic lick from the 70’s.
Banjo Lick No. 7
January 18th, 2020Here’s a simple lick that runs up a G scale with a few embellishments.
Banjo Lick No. 6
January 4th, 2020This blues lick is reminiscent of what you might hear from an electric guitar. It’s closed position so you can play it in any key very easily.
Banjo Lick No. 5
December 29th, 2019This lick makes for a good exercise in playing double-stops up and down the neck in 6ths. It’s demonstrated in the key of G but can easily be transposed into other keys. The variations are limitless.
