There are ten tunes in drop C tuning, with favorites like Soldier’s Joy, Farewell Blues, and Dig A Hole In The Meadow among them. Special pleasures include complete transcriptions for novelty numbers like Mama Blues and Polka On A Banjo, crowd favorites during the days when Lester and Earl stood together on stage. On several of the vocal numbers, Earl’s distinctive backup licks are also included, as on Six White Horses, I’ll Just Pretend, and I’d Rather Be Alone. For tunes like Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Lonesome Road Blues, both in the earlier book, we get transcriptions for all the banjo solos together in one place. Very few of the tabs presented are for material already included in Earl Scruggs and the 5 String Banjo, and between them both you very nearly have every important Scruggs instrumental he performed. It hard to decide which treats to sample first among the many on offer. The tabs are arranged in alphabetical order, making it a simple thing to find a particular song or tune, and each shows a recorded source still available for purchase.įor any Earl Scruggs fan, it’s a bit like handing a 7 year old some money and ushering them into a candy store. Produced in an oversized 9” x 12” format, the pages allow for the tab to be displayed in a large enough font to make them easily readable.Īmong the 84 pieces transcribed we find music from the width and breadth of Earl’s career, including recordings with Bill Monroe, his long partnership with Lester Flatt, and classic albums on which he appeared after the dissolution of Flatt & Scruggs. Unlike the evergreen Earl Scruggs and the 5 String Banjo, which serves as both an instructional method and a tune book, the Banjo Songbook is chock full of tab, covering 180 of its 187 pages. The book carries the extended title, Selected Banjo Tab Accurately Transcribed For Over 80 Tunes, which perfectly describes its contents. At least all who have an interest in the music of Earl Scruggs, which should be every five stringer alive. We finally got our hands on a copy of the new Earl Scruggs Banjo Songbook from Hal Leonard, which will surely have a place on the bookshelf of every serious banjo player or student worldwide.
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