Tom Adams Banjo Tab Books
Adams County Banjo Tablature
Right Hand Man Tablature
Only Way to Fly Tablature
Storm Still Rages Tablature
Fired Up Tablature
Adams County Banjo Tab Book
Song List:Ginny Whitt's
Box Elder Beetles
Funky Mountain Special
Sawmill Shuffle
Three Sailors From Dublin
Farmer John
John Henry
Santa Cruz
Worried Man Blues
The Village Bear
Brushy Creek
Alice Chickabee
Lowlands of Holland
Swing Low Sweet Chariot
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Adams County Banjo
Best-Selling Book of Tom Adams
original banjo tunes & more
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59 pages, Features tab for all of the banjo solos on each of the 15 tunes on the CD.
Seven original banjo tunes written by Tom Adams.
Tunings used in the tab book: 12 of the 15 tunes are in standard open G-tuning, two tunes are in C-tuning, and one tune,
Lowlands of Holland, is in open C minor tuning.
The material ranges from traditional bluegrass - John Henry and Worried Man Blues - to more contemporary sounds -
Santa Cruz and Box Elder Beetles.
Tom's arrangement of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot provides an excellent example of how to play the same tune in different keys. Starting and ending in the Key of G, the middle solo is played in the Key of C.
Three Sailors From Dublin moves through four key changes, starting in the Key of F and moving through the Keys of Gm and Dm before ending in the Key of G.
The tab varies in difficulty from less complex arrangements such as Farmer John and
Brushy Creek through more challenging tunes like Santa Cruz and
Ginny Whitt's.
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Adams County Banjo CD
Photo by Jim McGuire, 2001
Photo by Jim McGuire, 2001
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Right Hand Man Banjo Tab Book
Song List:Bluegrass Breakdown
John Hardy
You Are My Sunshine
I Saw The Light
Old Rugged Cross
Old Joe Clark
Fire Ball Mail
Little Maggie
Cumberland Gap
Boil That Cabbage Down
Right Hand Man
10 Popular Bluegrass Standards
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This 39-page book contains banjo tablature transcribed from the Rounder CD "Right Hand Man".
The tab arrangements make each tune easily recognizable on these melody-oriented bluegrass standards.
All of the tunes are in open G-tuning.
While the titles will be familiar to most players, the arrangements provide an opportunity to add subtle and interesting variations to tunes you may already play.
For example, Cumberland Gap and Fire Ball Mail, both based on Earl Scruggs' playing, receive a unique treatment on Right Hand Man.
Boil That Cabbage Down has an added third part that takes the tune into Em before passing it back to the fiddle.
From the slow triplets on Old Rugged Cross to the driving forward rolls on
Bluegrass Breakdown, there's plenty of traditional bluegrass banjo playing to be learned from these 10 tunes.
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The Only Way To Fly Banjo Tab Book
Song List:The Only Way To Fly
Steal Away Somewhere And Die
Wildwood Flower Blues
Living Like A Fool
Which Way To Turn
Don't Wake Me
A Fool Such As I
Sorrows All Around Me
Voice Of My Savior
Pages of Time
The Only Way To Fly
Tom Adams' hard-driving Jimmy Martin-style banjo
as recorded on Audie Blaylock's debut CD in 2001
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34 Pages with descriptive notes on the tab and the songs.
This book captures the playing style Tom used as a member of Jimmy Martin's Sunny Mountain Boys, especially the backup rolls and licks.
Tom's breaks and backup reflect the excitement and energy that was a hallmark of the Jimmy Martin sound.
Contains banjo tab for 10 Songs, all songs in open G-tuning
11 Lead Breaks from 6 songs
20 Backup segments with examples from all 10 songs
About the Recording
With "Trains Are The Only way To Fly" Audie Blaylock (with Tom Adams on banjo!) has created a CD filled with music straight from the Jimmy Martin school of bluegrass. Two of the songs were co-written by Martin, three others were written by alumni of Martin's band and three of the album's ten songs were recorded by Martin during his long career with Decca Records.
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Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain BoysBean Blossom IN, 1985
L to R: Audie Blaylock, Ray Martin, Jimmy Martin, Tom Adams, Charlie Cline.
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The Storm Still Rages Banjo Tab E-Book
Song List:Cry of the Whippoorwill
Is the Grass Any Bluer
Don't Lie
Drivin' Nails in My Coffin
I'm Not Over You
Bluegrass Express
Just Someone I Used to Know
On Solid Ground
Each Season Changes You
My Sweet Love Ain't Around
You Don't Love God If You Don't Love Your Neighbor
When the Angels Sing
The Martha White Theme
The Storm Still Rages E-Book
Tom Adams with Rhonda Vincent on the 2001 album "The Storm Still Rages" on Rounder Records.
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The tab includes all of the banjo breaks on the CD plus many examples of backup covering a wide range of tempos and styles.
Included is open, rolling down-the-neck backup (up-tempo), two-string up-the-neck backup (medium-tempo), and bluesy triplets on a slow vocal number.
Transcribed from the Rounder CD "The Storm Still Rages" recorded by Tom with Rhonda Vincent, as a member of Rhonda's award-winning (2001 IBMA Entertainer of the Year) band, The Rage.
Four of the songs give the student a chance to work out the backup for songs in different keys without using a capo - backup for songs in the Keys of E, Eb, F, and F# is played while the banjo is still in open G-tuning.
A bonus section includes tablature for Tom's backup on 3 songs as he played them on the band's live shows.
All songs are in open G-tuning, including the hard-driving Bluegrass Express.
Rhonda Vincent & The RageCambridge Folk Festival, UK 2001
L to R: Tom Adams, Rhonda Vincent, Mickey Harris, Audie Blaylock.
Tom Adams, 2001
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Fired Up! Banjo Tab E-Book
Song List:Dixie Special
Big Wide Strum
I'm Yours
I'm Gonna Ride That Steamboat
Goin' Up Dry Branch
The Nights Are So Long
Untrue Blues
I've Got The Railroad Blues
Slowly
Monster Truck
Hard Time Banjo Blues
Going Back To Old Virginia
Maine Line
Bigger Hands Than Mine
Cindy (bonus track)
Fired Up E-Book: Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper
Tom Adams transcriptions of the banjo playing of Jessie Baker on "Fired Up!", the Rounder Records release by Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper with Tom Adams on guitar and lead vocals.
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Straight-ahead traditional banjo playing from Jessie Baker, one of the hot, new pickers on the acoustic scene.
You get all of the recorded banjo solos on "Fired Up" plus many examples of backup for vocals and backup for mandolin and fiddle from the recording by Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper.
Tab by Tom Adams with Jessie Baker, plus descriptive notes for each of the 15 tracks.
Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper20th IBMA Awards, Nashville TN, 2009
L to R: Jesse Brock, Tom Adams, Marshall Wilborn, Jessie Baker, Michael Cleveland.
Michael Cleveland & FlamekeeperPhoto by Jim McGuire, October 26, 2010
L to R: Tom Adams, Marshall Wilborn, Michael Cleveland, Jessie Baker, Jesse Brock.
Tom Adams, guitar 2010Photo by Jim McGuire
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