Banjo tablatures for Foggy Mountain Breakdown
Earl Scruggs
Recomended level: Intermediate
This song has inspired countless people to play and learn Scruggs style banjo. Obviously the Foggy Mountain Roll is prerequisite to play this one. Make sure you have that down. If you need extra help check out our Foggy Mountain Breakdown Roll Mini-Lesson. Incorporating the slurs with the roll can be quite a challenge. Take it a note at a time, and use the focus feature to loop and really nail down tough measures.
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Rolling Backup
- G
- 80 bpm
- gDGBD
Here is some basic rolling backup for Foggy Mountain Breakdown. Being able to do a simple rolling backup and vamping rhythm for each song you play is an essential skill if you plan ...
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Scruggs Style - Beginner
- G
- 80 bpm
- gDGBD
This is a simplified version of Foggy Mountain Breakdown. It removes the complex fretting hand embellishments and allows us to focus on developing the picking hand first. This is al...
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Scruggs Style
- G
- 140 bpm
- gDGBD
The ultimate Scruggs tune! Foggy Mountain Breakdown is an essential bluegrass banjo song, and it's great for working on slurs and right hand drop thumb. This arrangement is closely b...
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Earl Scruggs
- G
- 120 bpm
- gDGBD
This break is a transcription of Earl's playing from the "Town and Country" album by Flatt and Scruggs in 1965. Take a close look. It's different than the Scruggs style arrangement w...
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Ending Lick
- G
- 80 bpm
- gDGBD
This ending lick is iconic. Measure one is what Earl is playing over the D chord. Nothing too crazy going on here. Make sure to slide up the neck after playing that second fret note...
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Up the Neck
- G
- 100 bpm
- gDGBD
Here's the classic high break for Foggy Mountain Breakdown. At the beginning of this arrangement you'll hear Earl's iconic chokes on the 10th fret.
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Melodic Style
- G
- 140 bpm
- gDGBD
This melodic version of Foggy Mountain Breakdown will challenge you at fast tempos. It's got a lot of tasteful melodic playing along with some fancy chromatic work To get some practi...