Banjo tablatures for I'm on My Way Back to the Old Home
Bill Monroe
Recomended level: Beginner
This is a classic tune written by the father of Bluegrass: Bill Monroe. As always, start with the melody. Memorize it! After that, check out the Scruggs Style - Beginner version. Then if you work on some Vamping and Rolling Backup you'll be ready for any jam! Add in a few licks to impress the local pickers or challenge yourself.
If you want to dive into some serious Scruggs style playing then check out the Crowe Style, and Blake Williams style arrangements. J.D. Crowe is one of the best to ever play the banjo and we will learn a lot each time we put his playing under the microscope. Blake was a bluegrass boy - meaning he played for Monroe - so that alone tells us we'll be learning some authentic licks that were approved by Bill himself.
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Rolling Backup
- Difficulty
- Key G
- Tempo 80 bpm
- Tuning gDGBD
Here's some nice simple rolling backup. There's a few concepts to glean from this arrangement. First, we are hitting the downbeat of each measure with a single eighth note. Thi...
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Scruggs Style - Basic
- Difficulty
- Key G
- Tempo 80 bpm
- Tuning gDGBD
This is a very simple version that's based on the melody. If you've learned the melody well and tried a few licks there, this should come together for you fairly nicely. If you look...
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Crowe Style
- Difficulty
- Key G
- Tempo 80 bpm
- Tuning gDGBD
J.D. and the rest of the Bluegrass Album Band played this in the neighborhood of 150 BPM! Don't try to learn it at that speed. Practice playing and listening using the Tunefox player...
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Blake Williams Style
- Difficulty
- Key G
- Tempo 80 bpm
- Tuning gDGBD
This one is based on the playing of Blake Williams. Blake was a Bluegrass Boy, meaning that he played in Bill Monroe's band. That alone tells us that the father of Bluegrass approved...
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