Banjo tablatures for Greensleeves
Traditional
Recomended level: Intermediate
This is a beautiful melody from an old English folk tune. The melody was also used for the popular holiday song, "What Child is This". There's two Scruggs style versions of this tune. One in double C and one in drop C. Check them both out to get some different ideas of how to interpret this classic English folk tune. The melody for Greensleeves is also used for "What Child is This".
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Scruggs Style- Double C
- Cm
- 80 bpm
- gCGCD
Double C tuning is more common in clawhammer playing, but it can also work great with Scruggs style! Give this a shot, you may fall in love with this unique tuning.
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Scruggs Style - Drop C
- Cm
- 80 bpm
- gCGBD
Earl Scruggs would often play in Drop C tuning. C minor was much less common. Still, there's a lot of classic Scruggs vocabulary to draw from and that's what we're doing here. Notice...