Webpages with Banjo Tablature and related useful stuff

Tab is for 3-finger (bluegrass/melodic) playing unless otherwise noted.

Sites with fiddle-tune notation &/or recordings

Chords to tunes, song lyrics

My free TablEdit banjo tabs below...

All free or some free tabs...

Al Badger (mainly clawhammer)

Alltabs.com (a major resource; TablEdit)

Banjo Hangout (a major resource; mix of TablEdit, Tabrite, pdf)

Banjo in the Hollow (Xavier Baron's and others; mostly zipped TablEdit)

BanjoTrain (Lee Kaufman's instructional site)

Bart Veerman (mix of bluegrass and clawhammer; pdf)

Dave Marshall, Virtual Bluegrass Band (mainly clawhammer)

Don Borchelt (fiddle tunes for banjo--major resource; TablEdit)

EzFolk.com (clawhammer; html)

Five Strings Inside (clawhammer; html)

Folk of the Wood (a few tabs, instructional site)

FreeTabs.com (.zip files only) (mix of bluegrass, clawhammer and other instruments)

Hetzler's Fakebook (good fiddle tune reference--mostly midi, some pdf)

Hicham Azzouzl's banjobluegrass.free (a major resource; TablEdit)

Howzee-bee (Hans Holzherr?) (TablEdit)

Jack Baker in NYC (a major resource; TablEdit)

Jack Tuttle

Jay Buckey (pdf)

Mike Iverson (clawhammer)

Philip Mann (bluegrassbanjo.org) (major resource, all TABrite)

Richie Dotson

Ross Nickerson (instructional site; TablEdit)


Not free tabs...

Accurate Custom Tablature (A.C.T.) pdf list of tabs

Banjo Newsletter (a major resource)

Ben Freed

Eddie Collins

Jack Hatfield (a major resource; most are printed, only new additions areTablEdit)

Lee Marcus (a major resource; TablEdit)

 

Chords and/or Lyrics to songs

UK Traditional Bluegrass Music page (a major resource: no banjo tab, but a large collection of tunes, song lyrics, and chords)

Jim Bottorff's page

UltimateGuitar.com

Fiddle tune notation--free

Hill Country Tunes by Sam Bayard

Digital Tradition Folk Music Database

Fiddle Tunes from Bernie Waugh

JC's ABC Tune Match at trillian.mit.edu

Library of Congress

Digital Library of Appalachia

Honking Duck -- listen to free old-time music from 78's etc.

A few bluegrass and melodic tabs by me in TablEdit format (.tef)

Download the free TablEdit viewer (Tefview) here.
These tabs may or may not include right-hand fingerings and have no accompaniment---just pure synth-banjer.

Angeline the Baker (Angelina Baker), melodic style (key of D, G tuning)

April's Reel, melodic/Scruggs style (G tuning)

Black and White Rag, melodic style (G tuning)

Blackberry Rag, more melodic than Scruggs style (key of C, G tuning)

Breaking Up Christmas, melodic style (G tuning)

Breaking Up Christmas, Scruggs style (G tuning)

Carroll County Blues (G tuning)

Cluck Old Hen, Scruggs style (G tuning)

Cluck Old Hen #2, Scruggs style (G tuning)

Country Boy Rock 'n Roll (G tuning)

Cripple Creek, chromatic version (G tuning)

Daley's Reel, melodic style (G tuning)

Darlin' Corey in D (G tuning)

Deep Ellum Blues in D (G tuning)

Fireball Mail (G tuning)

Greensleeves in E minor (G tuning)

Hey Good Lookin' (G tuning)

Jenny Lynn (or Lind) (G tuning)

Katy Hill, Scruggs-ish (G tuning)

Keep My Skillet Good 'n Greasy (G tuning)

Little Annie (key of D, G tuning, capo A)

Little Boxes [On the Hillside] (G tuning)

Little Darling Pal of Mine, up-the-neck break (G tuning)

Little Maggie (G tuning)

Man of Constant Sorrow (G tuning)

Miller's Reel, melodic style (G tuning)

Miss McLeod's Reel, melodic style (G tuning)

Miss McLeod's Reel, Scruggs style (G tuning)

Molly and Tenbrooks (key of C, G tuning, uncapoed)

Pig in a Pen (G tuning)

Pig in a Pen, mainly forward-rolled (G tuning)

Remington Ride (G tuning)

Saline Canine Blues (G tuning)

Shady Grove, BG style (G tuning)

Shady Grove, up-the-neck break, modal-style (G tuning)

Shortnin' Bread

Smith's Reel #1, melodic style (key of D, G tuning)

Soldier's Joy (key of D, G tuning, 5th to A)

Soppin' the gravy, melodic style for moderate tempo (key of D, G tuning)

Soppin' the gravy, scruggs/melodic style for faster tempo (key of D, G tuning)

Soppin' the gravy, 100% scruggs style for keeping up with Stuart Duncan at 150bpm (key of D, G tuning)

Streets of Laredo (key of D, G tuning)

Wheel Hoss (G tuning)

White House Blues (G tuning)

White Xmas (G tuning)

Wildwood Flower (key of C, G tuning)