#Usoe songbook movie#

>The five string banjo standard C tuned (aka Drop C) is (g4 C3 G3 B3 D4) just the same as the open G tuning (gDGBD), except that the fourth string is a step lower. >Standard Banjo Tuning – Between 18, most five string banjos were tuned most of the time to what we now call “C tuning.” (In fact, the earliest four-string “plectrum” banjos and guitars – used in early Jazz – used the same tuning as well, minus the high G note.) I’ve also used C tuning for Folk/Rock & Rock in the “peoples Key” of C.

#Usoe songbook movie#

The movie Bonnie and Clyde with Foggy Mountain Breakdown (Theme From Bonnie & Clyde) played by Flatt & Scruggs sadly over popularized G tuning as recent as 1967.

>Started playing 5 string banjo in the late 60’s with Pete Seeger’s book & LP record using standard C tuning (gCGBD) as that was what Pete seemed to emphasize, and it fit well for the folk tunes of that era, using the “basic strum” and/or frailing style. Hope this helps and keep up the good work! The ‘x’s to mark rests at the beginnings of bars.įinally, I’ve also included the little riff that marks the end of the bridge section, bringing the verse back in (it’s sung in the Spanish original).

I’ve added a line of dashes too, with the chord symbols embedded so that they display above the appropriate bar in the tab. Hopefully it’ll just slot straight in to yours. I tried to make use of the edit facility but it didn’t save (a wise precaution on your part no doubt.įortunately, I use a program, Songsheet Generator, that relies on the same formatting source code that you use, so I’ve included below my markup text correcting the errors I mention. There’s 6 notes in the opening bars of each line in the verse, not 4, and in the bridge while the notes are correct, the bar markers are in the wrong place. I was looking at Sway ( ), and noticed some errors in the tab.