ISBN 9781513455082. 8.75 x 11.75 inches.

This comprehensive collection features over 100 note-for-note skillfully-crafted clawhammer banjo arrangements of old-time Southern fiddle tunes, in clear tablature - with suggested guitar chords at a wide variety of skill levels. It contains most of the tunes played in concert or recorded by author Ken Perlman and renowned Appalachian-style fiddler Alan Jabbour, plus over 50 more classic tunes from Ed Haley, Edden Hammons, John Salyer and many other iconic roots fiddlers. Also included: Instruction on basic and advanced techniques Tips on improving your musicianship How to play syncopated rhythms and melodies in clawhammer style Frameworks for dealing with crooked tunes and modal tunes Historical notes and picturesque backstories Ken Perlman demonstrates all tunes and most musical illustrations on 124 online audio tracks *Online Audio Includes: 24 tracks featuring excerpts from recordings of the author performing with the virtuosic fiddler Alan Jabbour, to whom the book is dedicated.

Song List:

Andy Renwick's Ferret

Angus Campbell

Archie Menzies

The Banks Hornpipe

Bear River Jig

Bee's Wing Hornpipe, The

Belfast hornpipe, The

Belfast Jig

Big John McNeil

Bonaparte Crossing The Alps

Bonniest Lass in a' the World, The

Bonny Lass of Fisherrow, The

Bonny Lea Rig, The

Brae Reel, The

Braes of Auchtertyre, The

Brenda Stubbert's Reel

Caber Feidh

Cape Breton Wedding Reel, The

Captain Campbell

Carleton County Breakdown

Carnie's Canter

Chaisson Reel, The

Cheticamp Reel, The

Chorus Jig

Come Under My Plaidie

Compliments To Buddy Macmaster

Cutting Ferns

Darlin' Don't You Meddle Me

Delphine's Reel

Democratic Rage, The

Devil In The Kitchen

Dillon Brown

Dinkie's Reel

Don't Be Teasing

Dr Keith, Aberdeen

Dragger's Reel, The

Drunken piper, The

Dublin Porter

Duke of Gordon's Birthday, The

Durang's Hornpipe

East Neuk of Bear River, The

Emil Gaudet's Reel

Farmer's Daughter, The

Farmer's Reel, The

Fay's Hornpipe

Fermoy Lasses

Fig For A Kiss

Fisher's Hornpipe (F Setting)

Fred Wilson's Hornpipe

Glencoe March

Green Meadow Reel

Haggis, The

Hector's Fancy

Hector's New Dance Hall

High Level Hornpipe, The

Homeward Bound

Honeymoon, The

Inverness Jig

Irishman's Heart To The Ladies

Iron Man, The

Island Boy

Jack Webster's Reel

Jackson's Jig

Jenny Dang The Weaver

JEROME'S FAREWELL TO GIBRALTAR

Jerry Holland's Jig

Joe Kearney's Reel

Joe MacInnis' March

Kenmure's On and Awa', Willie

Killiecrankie

Koehler's Hornpipe

Lad O'beirne's Reel

Lasses of Glenaladale, The

Levantine's Barrel

Light and Airy

Little Donald In The Pigpen

Little Jack's Reel

Londonderry Hornpipe

Lord Gordon

Lord MacDonald's Reel

Macdonald's March Reel

Mackinnon's Rant

Marchioness of Tullibardine, The

Marie ? Pierre

Marquis of Huntly, The

Meeting of Waters, The

Miller o' Drone, The

Miller's Reel

Miramichi Fire, The

Miss Barker's Hornpipe

Miss Georgina Campbell

Miss Gordon

Miss Lyall Strathspey

Miss Maxwell

Mr. Murray

Munlochy Bridge

Munster Lass, The

North Side of the Grampians, The

Northside Tune

Orange and Blue, The

Ottawa Valley Reel

Paddy On The Turnpike

Pigeon On The Gatepost

Plains of Boyle, The

Poppy Leaf, ThePride of the Ball

Prince Edward Island Wedding Reel

Princess Reel

River Bend Jig

Robert Cormack, Aberdeen

Robert Stubbert

Rock Valley Jig

Rose in the Garden, The

Rose of Tennessee, The

Rothiemurchus Rant, The

Royal Circus Jig

Shandon Bells

Shores of Lough Gowna, The

Silver and Gold

Sleepy Maggie

Souris Breakwater

Southern Melody

St Anne's Reel -Original Version

St Anne's Reel -Prince County Version

St Kilda Wedding

Stack Of Barley

Stella's Trip To Kamloops

Stool of Repentance, The

Teviot Bridge

Trip To Windsor

West Point Jig

When I Go Out the Door

Where the North River Flows

Whiskey Jig

Wilfred's Fiddle

You Married My Daughter, and Yet