I'll Be Home For Christmas

Here is a new solo banjo recording I did of 'I'll Be Home for Christmas'... I'll Be Home for Christmas - Solo Banjo

Here's the tab...

Happy Christmas!

White Christmas

Recorded a few Christmas tunes for family this year and this is one of them.

Thanks to Mike Manyshen for vocals and recording everything as well as Chris Russell for providing guitar and Jacob Russel for his mando.  I play banjo, dobro and bass on this one.


White Christmas

Silver and Gold

This is a little solo banjo arrangement of the classic tune from the Rankin Bass Christmas special 'Rudolph the Res Nosed Reindeer'.  I posted the tab last year but thought I might post a video to show what it sounds like.  Aiming to post a few more Christmas tunes before the 25th if I can...

Greensleeves (Written Arrangement)

Sort of one for the holidays ('What Child is This?' uses the same melody) this is Greensleeves.  A great melody that evokes courtly midieval imagery (at least to me).

Here it is in jpeg form...

Silver and Gold (written arrangement)

Tune from the old Rudolph special arranged for C tuning...

I'll Be Home for Christmas (Written Arrangement)

Here is an arragement I came up with for 'I'll Be Home for Christmas' in C tuning.  I tried to get as much of the harmony from the piano part as possible while keeping to the banjos strengths.

Here it is (click to enlarge)...

Deck the Halls - Counterpoint Arrangement

Here is a quick arrangement I made of Deck the Halls.  Fairly counterpuntal in style and in the key of F (using open G tuning).  May post a video in the next while but for now here is the written arrangement...

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Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy

Getting to be that time...

The Little Drummer Boy (video)

Recorded a video for the arrangement I tabbed out last post. Was pressed for time and ended up having my son make a surprise appearance towards the end of the song. He gave me a round of applause at the end so I forgive him...

The Little Drummer Boy (written arrangement)

Doing a little holiday banjo arranging and came up with this for 'The Little Drummer Boy.

It begins in the key of G with the low D string as a drone then modulates to D keeping the same drone and the goes back to G and ends.

I will put up a video as soon as my camera's battery charges and I have the time but for now here is the written arrangement. If you want to view it in tabledit form (clearer and with MIDI so you can listen to it but requires a tabledit browser) go HERE.

Here it is in picture form (click to enlarge)...

Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer----Transcribed

This here is old arrangement for Rudolph which I've just got around to transcribing.

It's in the key of C.

Here's the tab...







And here's the video...


Also, if you want to download the tabledit tab file (you'll need a free viewer which you can get from their website) you can find it HERE. *Ben commented that measures 21 and 22 were played differently than written. Here are those two measures closer to the way they are played in the video... Measures 20-21