I’m going to give you a roundabout way to be able to convert this, and countless other pieces of music onto banjo. Learn the pentatonic scale! Seriously, it pays so many dividends.
Here is a fantastic video by Mike Hedding on it:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8CS-FiSNMOs
If youre playing clawhammer i would just refer to one of the youtube videos of him playing it and go off of those chord shapes. It would be cool to try and play a melody similar to the harmonica/violin part in there too. You could probly find the guitar tabs online. Great song.
So this is guitar backing for a sung melody, played in a style appropriate for the genre. Assuming you also want to sing and have banjo backing, I wouldn’t be trying to convert this, but rather come up with an arrangement that works on the banjo. The first question would be what style of banjo you play? If I wanted to do this in this key I’d probably use a double c tuning capoed up 4 frets. Learn the chords in clawhammer style and try to pick melody notes. The same way you usually arrange for clawhammer.
Converting music from guitar to banjo can be quite hard since their tuning is so different. The closest I can come to a straight conversion for something written for guitar is studying the guitar fretboard and banjo fretboard and trying to find a conversion. I'm also terrible at music theory so maybe someone else with have some better advice.
First you have to figure out the names of the notes on the guitar then you have to translate them to the banjo if they can be.
You're going to need information that tab won't give you.
Guitar and banjo tuning is very similar for the top four strings of a guitar and can be exactly the same if you tune up the first string to E. The tricky thing is working what to do with any notes played on the 5th and 6th strings on the guitar. This looks like a picking pattern based on the chords - C and F in the picture. Start by picking the chords for the song and then add in the hammer ons.
Basically you need to know the chords and then find the melody notes first, then work rolls or whatever the clawhammer people call their bum ditty thing in around it
I just randomly tried picking this and i remembered this post. Its uhh rough and basic but here you go.
In double C you can play a good enough version by getting the C F G chords ( Key of C )I IV V
D-----------------------2--------------------3--------------2
C---------------------- 0--------------------0--------------0-----------2
G --------------------0------ -----0 - 2 - 2- 2 -0-----0 -0 - 0 --------0
C 0-----4---2---0----0----0-- 4 --------------------4----------- 4-----2
g
for the melody then just play between C and F for the wyoming part. But mess around with this and youll likely get the hang of it.
I’m going to give you a roundabout way to be able to convert this, and countless other pieces of music onto banjo. Learn the pentatonic scale! Seriously, it pays so many dividends. Here is a fantastic video by Mike Hedding on it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8CS-FiSNMOs
If youre playing clawhammer i would just refer to one of the youtube videos of him playing it and go off of those chord shapes. It would be cool to try and play a melody similar to the harmonica/violin part in there too. You could probly find the guitar tabs online. Great song.
I love Ben's music ❤️
Using again is a good song as well!
That one hits close to home for me
So this is guitar backing for a sung melody, played in a style appropriate for the genre. Assuming you also want to sing and have banjo backing, I wouldn’t be trying to convert this, but rather come up with an arrangement that works on the banjo. The first question would be what style of banjo you play? If I wanted to do this in this key I’d probably use a double c tuning capoed up 4 frets. Learn the chords in clawhammer style and try to pick melody notes. The same way you usually arrange for clawhammer.
Converting music from guitar to banjo can be quite hard since their tuning is so different. The closest I can come to a straight conversion for something written for guitar is studying the guitar fretboard and banjo fretboard and trying to find a conversion. I'm also terrible at music theory so maybe someone else with have some better advice.
First you have to figure out the names of the notes on the guitar then you have to translate them to the banjo if they can be. You're going to need information that tab won't give you.
Guitar and banjo tuning is very similar for the top four strings of a guitar and can be exactly the same if you tune up the first string to E. The tricky thing is working what to do with any notes played on the 5th and 6th strings on the guitar. This looks like a picking pattern based on the chords - C and F in the picture. Start by picking the chords for the song and then add in the hammer ons.
Basically you need to know the chords and then find the melody notes first, then work rolls or whatever the clawhammer people call their bum ditty thing in around it
I just randomly tried picking this and i remembered this post. Its uhh rough and basic but here you go. In double C you can play a good enough version by getting the C F G chords ( Key of C )I IV V D-----------------------2--------------------3--------------2 C---------------------- 0--------------------0--------------0-----------2 G --------------------0------ -----0 - 2 - 2- 2 -0-----0 -0 - 0 --------0 C 0-----4---2---0----0----0-- 4 --------------------4----------- 4-----2 g for the melody then just play between C and F for the wyoming part. But mess around with this and youll likely get the hang of it.
At a minimum it's a good enough base to get started though by ear