Banjo Hangout Top 100 Classical Songs

Beethoven banjo tune

3rd part of this sonata. I'm always working on the 1st ...

Composed this years ago but just decided to record it. Added some guitar backup to fill out the sound a bit. It's not bluegrassy or Old-Timey, but it sounded a bit classical to me so at the risk of offending the purists out there that's how I classified it, and that's how I settled on the title, which may be pronounced Broken if you so desire. :>) In G tuning.

Ric Hollander - My arrangement of two Turlough O'Carolan tunes - Sheebeg and Sheemore, Planxty Irwin. Recorded using the Romero strung with steel strings. Tuning: eCGCD, capo 5th fret. Arrangement and performance copyright 2014 Ric Hollander - All Rights Reserved

From Partita No.3 and originally written for the violin.

This is from Partita No.1 in B minor

That was a real pleasure to work with a great musician, thanks Laurence.

Cello Banjo performance by Rob MacKillop of a Bach Cello piece

Solo banjo arrangement of J.S. Bach's Bourree from his third cello suite.

This reminds me of the swirling leaf eddies that keep my first graders from having an orderly line every fall by the cafeteria.

Played on a Deering Eagle II Tenor Banjo tuned a minor third lower and the resonator removed.

Wooden banjo: gCGCD Original Recorded without EQ or effects

Part of the lute suite BWV 998. I have also seen this written in Eb but what do I know? I think we can blame the guitar players for putting it in D (but I'm grateful).

a tune i made up

This is from the “Notebook for Anna Magdalena." Apparently there is some controversy over the actual authorship of this minuet. Christian Petzold is believed to have composed two of the pieces from the 1725 Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach: the familiar "Minuet in G major" (BWV Anh.II 114) and its partner piece, "Minuet in G minor" (BWV Anh.II 115). These were traditionally believed to have been composed by J.S. Bach but scholarship, particularly on the part of Hans-Joachim Schulze, has recently pointed to Petzold. The Minuet in G Major is catalogued as a BWV Anh. piece because to this day, nobody knows if Christian Petzold or J.S. Bach was the one who composed it. Petzold acted as an agent of J.S. Bach keyboard Partitas. Soprano 4 string banjo & Baritone 4-string banjo.

im going to send this tune to joe,he likes this kinda tunes

Reference recording for the tab posted--view my tabs here.

This is #1 of 14 from the ever popular Two-Part Invention series that Bach wrote as instruction materials for his students, to demonstrate "how it's done". He'd probably tell me I'm playing these all wrong

Ric Hollander - A request from my friend Marc Nerenberg. Arrangement: Copyright 2011 Ric Hollander - All Rights Reserved