Banjo Without A Master - 1865 (ukulele tabs, pdf + mp3s)
Banjo Without A Master - 2024 ukulele tablature edition
Here's a wonderful collection of banjo music from 1865. Frank Converse published this in standard notation in a much lower tuning for the banjo. This new tablature edition makes it possible for anyone with a ukulele to learn all of these classic banjo tunes. All of the tunes in the book use C tuning, gCEA. Your purchase comes with mp3s of the entire book to help you learn each song.
With re-entrant tuning, this means that the strings aren’t tuned lowest to highest like on a guitar. Most ukuleles that you see are strung and tuned like this by default with the lowest pitched string being the third string of the instrument. If you have a soprano, concert, or tenor ukulele, you generally need to buy a special set of low G ukulele strings to get non re-entrant tuning. The 5-string banjo is also a re-entrant instrument which is something that makes these work on ukulele so well.
Here's the list of songs included in this ebook:
- Juba
- Calabash Dance
- Cane Brake Reel
- Original Essence of Old Virginny
- Oh Susanna
- Yankee Doodle
- Cotton Pod Walk Around
- Hoop De Dooden Doo or Rattlesnake Jig
- Raccoon Walk Around
- It Will Never Do To Give It Up So
- The Boatman’s Dance
- Bee Gum Reel
- Matt Peel’s Walk Around
- Rumsey’s Jig
- Luke West’s Walk Around
- Bully For You
- Walk Into The Parlor
- Boston Jig
- Hyde’s Favorite
- Union Cockade
- Callowhill Jig
- My Love Is But A Lassie
- Butler’s Jig
- Lanagan’s Ball
- O’Flarharty’s Wake
- The Charcoal Man
- Whole Hog Or None
- Operatic Jig
- Brighton Jig
- Arkansas Traveler
Kyle Gray Young is a fiscal year 2024 recipient of a Creative Individuals grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.