Classic Banjo Arrangements Available for Printing

Learning to play the Classic Banjo is not that difficult, provided you have arrangements to follow. To encourage others to try their hand at this music, first banjo arrangements in standard notation are available below in either Adobe Acrobat or TIFF format.

If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader you can download it here.

The TIFF files are rather large, so they have been zipped and will have to be extracted after downloading. You will also need appropriate software, such as Adobe Photoshop, to view the TIFF files. The TIFF files were created by scanning old sheet music, so the print outs are not a very high quality; but they are useable. The TIFF files provide better print quality than that obtained by converting the scanned images into Adobe Acrobat format.

Classic Banjo arrangements have their own symbols and annotations added to standard musical notation. If you are not familiar with this type of music you can view a short primer here. (15KB)

The following pieces are relatively easy to learn:

The following pieces are medium in difficulty: The following piece is very challenging and will require quite a bit of practice to get it up to tempo: As time permits, additional pieces will be added to this site.

 
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Created December, 2001. Last updated, February, 2003.