Fakebook medley arrangement with ALL lyrics and simple Scruggs style Back-Up throughout.
No solo, per se...
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My experiences on the Banjo Hangout began in 2008 when I saw someone requesting a Beatles tune... I was working a truck route over in Illinois and was gone from my house between 70 and 80 hours a week. When I'd get home on the weekends, you couldn't pry my banjo out of my hands... I would play/practice for 5 to 6 hours a day... and then back on the road... One January I came home, worked out Day Tripper and Blackbird... I saved them into a file folder and that was that. 2 months later, I was on the Hangout or the first time in a long time and saw the Beatles requests. I just had folks contact me for the arrangements. I received requests from England, Ireland, Scotland, Germany, Canada, Italy... The requests came in at about 50 per weekend for quite a while for those 2 arrangements... I was knocked over by the experience... and thus began my association with the Banjo Hangout.
I remember when I first started playing music, the guitar specifically, there came a time when I was bored out of my skull with 3 chord tunes...
I didn't know what to do about it at the time, so I just kept studying with my then instructor.
It took many years and a long uphill battle (which continues to this day) to satisfy my own need for better picking and musical thinking abilities from myself...
The Beatles had all kinds of interesting chord progressions beyond the 1,4,5 and that fired me up that much more to figure as many of their tunes out as possible.
Coupled with the fact that I was a tried-and-true, died-in-the-wool Beatles head since about age 4 in 1964.
Remember the Beatles cartoon where they had the 'bouncing ball' on the lyrics as they passed at the bottom of the screen?
That was my beginnings with the Beatles music...
Then I saw them not long after on the Ed Sullivan show on our Black & White television.
4 years later at age 8, I was taking guitar lessons... that was the summer of 1968.
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I have worked out quite a few Beatles tunes for basic, Scruggs style banjo over the last 5 to 6 years. I have found on many occasions that it takes every brain cell available to get the arrangements worked out... and then a day, a week, a month, a year or more later... I look at something I did back when and see all sorts of things that would improve the arrangement that didn't occur to me while in the middle of it.
I think this is going to be one of those... I started the arrangement almost 2 years ago... and struggled all the way through it... Had to decide to keep it a Fakebook arrangement, i.e., no solos per se... some of the crazy rock guitar solos just wouldn't work.. and I probably couldn't come up with a good banjo alternative... so, we have a simple melody arrangement with Scruggs style accompaniment... Hopefully as time passes, more and better ideas will happen and I'll be able to do more with this one.
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Golden Slumbers - Carry That Weight - In the End - Tabledit
Golden Slumbers - Carry That Weight - In the End - MIDI
Golden Slumbers - Carry That Weight - In the End - PDF
Tom
www.banjotom2.com