Hi, I was just wondering if anyone knows where I can find the dueling banjos tune, otherwise known as battling banjos.
Or more simply, "That tune from deliverance" Any help would be appreciated
I think it was originally “Feudin’ Banjos” composed by Arthur Smith and performed on banjo by Don Reno (awesome player) in the 50s. You're right though, dafydd, it's usually performed as a duel between one banjo and one guitar!
Don Reno's sons form the nucleus of festival stalwarts "Hayseed Dixie" and you can see them playing "Feudin' Banjos" more-or-less as she was written with a bit of extra va-va-voom at a festival or pub near you any given summer
I recommended "Deliverance" to a fellow musician who hadn't seen it, when it was going to be on tv.
Nearly freaked him out when I saw him next, and played the opening riff. Not everyone enjoys the film, or being reminded of its images.
I played in bluegrass bands for 10 years back during the 70's revival. I liked many of the instrumentals, especially the old Appalachian tunes (most of which began life in Scotland or Ireland). But I never could get my heart wrapped around the genre's peculiar mix of bible-baptismal gospel and followed-her-little-footprints-through-the-snow-and-slit-my-sweetie's-throat-down-by-the-river ballads.
I read somewhere that the tune was originally called
"Mocking Banjos". My favorite version ever of this tune is by
a bluegrass-leaning group known as the
Kruger Brothers, from Switzerland. In concert, the brothers play banjo and guitar and do things with this tune that I never would have imagined. I don't know if there are any recordings or videos of them doing this tune, but it would be a great find.
I tracked down the original and it is one banjo and one guitar,I know they were rednecks but why on earth did they call it "Feudin' Banjos" Surely they must have noticed?
Dueling Banjos
Dueling Banjos
Hi, I was just wondering if anyone knows where I can find the dueling banjos tune, otherwise known as battling banjos.
Or more simply, "That tune from deliverance" Any help would be appreciated
# Posted on May 3rd 2007 by Joneser
Re: Dueling Banjos
Pedant mode on.
The title is really "Duelling Banjo" because there is only one banjo.The earliest recording I have of the tune is on The Dillard's album "Back Porch Bluegrass" under the title "Duellin' Banjo" and it's a duel between the mandolin and the banjo.I've never heard a recording of it with two banjos,so how did it acquire the name?
Helpful mode on.
http://www.guitaretab.com/d/deliverance/24195.htmlhttp://www.cowboylyrics.com/tabs/traditional/dueling-banjos-1420.html
http://www.banjohangout.org/tab/browse.asp?m=byletter&v=D
http://www.911tabs.com/link/?246891
# Posted on May 3rd 2007 by dafydd
Re: Dueling Banjos
Or you could learn it be ear from this, Joneser:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=esl2NNOtHQE
# Posted on May 3rd 2007 by Ptarmigan
Re: Dueling Banjos
I think it was originally “Feudin’ Banjos” composed by Arthur Smith and performed on banjo by Don Reno (awesome player) in the 50s. You're right though, dafydd, it's usually performed as a duel between one banjo and one guitar!
# Posted on May 3rd 2007 by fidkid
Re: Dueling Banjos
Try this:
X:1
T:Doolin Banjos
M:2/4
K:G
Bc|"G" d2B2 c2A2 | B2G2 A3 z | B2Bd A2B2 |
G2B2 A2 z G| G2G2 A2B2 | G2 G,2 A,2 B,2 |
"C"C2 Ec egGe|gAdg dGed|"G" G2gG dgGd |gGdg e2 d2|
"D"d2 cd gddg| cdcd gddg|"G" GdgB ABgB|G4 z4|
....................G
E----------|--------------------|--------------------|-------------------------|
A----2-3--|---5--2--3--0---|--2----------0-----|-----------2----0---2--|
D----------|-------------------|------5-------------|--5-----5---------------|
G----------|-------------------|---------------------|-------------------------|
E-|---------------------|----------------------|--------------------|
A-|-----2-----0--------|-----------0---2----|--------------------|
D-|-5--------------5---|---5---5------------|---5---------------|
G-|---------------------|----------------------|---------0--2--4--|
........C......................................................................G
E-|-------------0---3----0---|---3------3-------0-----|------------3------------3--------|---3-------3-------0----------|
A-|----------3----------------|------0-5-------5----5--|----------------------5--------5--|---------5----------------5----|
D-|-------2-----------5------|--------------5-----------|---5----------5------------5------|-----5-------------------------|
G-|-5-------------------------|---------------------------|------------------------------------|--------------------------------|
...D............................................................................G
E-|----------------3------3--|---------------3-----3-|-------3------------3----|------------------|
A-|---5----3-5-----5-5-----|---3-5-3-5----5-5---|----5---2----0-2---2--|------------------|
D-|---------------------------|-------------------------|-5-----------------------|---5---------------|
G-|---------------------------|-------------------------|--------------------------|------------------|
# Posted on May 3rd 2007 by fidkid
Re: Dueling Banjos
Thanks alot guys, its true that all trad players are helpful
(urban myth?)
# Posted on May 3rd 2007 by Joneser
Re: Dueling Banjos
Don Reno's sons form the nucleus of festival stalwarts "Hayseed Dixie" and you can see them playing "Feudin' Banjos" more-or-less as she was written with a bit of extra va-va-voom at a festival or pub near you any given summer
# Posted on May 4th 2007 by Bren
Re: Dueling Banjos
I recommended "Deliverance" to a fellow musician who hadn't seen it, when it was going to be on tv.
Nearly freaked him out when I saw him next, and played the opening riff. Not everyone enjoys the film, or being reminded of its images.
# Posted on May 4th 2007 by Guernsey Pete
Re: Dueling Banjos
I played in bluegrass bands for 10 years back during the 70's revival. I liked many of the instrumentals, especially the old Appalachian tunes (most of which began life in Scotland or Ireland). But I never could get my heart wrapped around the genre's peculiar mix of bible-baptismal gospel and followed-her-little-footprints-through-the-snow-and-slit-my-sweetie's-throat-down-by-the-river ballads.
# Posted on May 4th 2007 by Will CPT
Re: Dueling Banjos
I read somewhere that the tune was originally called
"Mocking Banjos". My favorite version ever of this tune is by
a bluegrass-leaning group known as the
Kruger Brothers, from Switzerland. In concert, the brothers play banjo and guitar and do things with this tune that I never would have imagined. I don't know if there are any recordings or videos of them doing this tune, but it would be a great find.
# Posted on May 4th 2007 by halfwaythere
Re: Dueling Banjos
Here´s one: http://youtube.com/watch?v=HA5xPMOZjKw
# Posted on May 4th 2007 by Björn
Re: Dueling Banjos
I tracked down the original and it is one banjo and one guitar,I know they were rednecks but why on earth did they call it "Feudin' Banjos" Surely they must have noticed?
# Posted on May 4th 2007 by dafydd
Re: Dueling Banjos
well, "Feudin' Pluckers" would've been a DJ's nightmare
# Posted on May 4th 2007 by Bren
Re: Dueling Banjos
Good one.
# Posted on May 4th 2007 by dafydd
Re: Dueling Banjos
-Every time I see that title a curiosity arises as to whether they're a matched set of dueling banjos, inlaid with filigree and ivory.
-O.K., Here's the rules: Stand back to back, take ten paces, turn around -and strum!
# Posted on May 5th 2007 by pubpersona
Re: Dueling Banjos
http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~blagger/the_duel.html
# Posted on May 5th 2007 by Clear Drops
Re: Dueling Banjos
Yee haaaaaaaaaaaa!
# Posted on May 5th 2007 by Clear Drops
Re: Dueling Banjos
just never ask a bluegrass player to play this. you're likely to get the banjo swung at you.
# Posted on May 5th 2007 by alyssak
Re: Dueling Banjos
Yearh, if you play banjo "Play duelling banjos."
If you play fiddle "Play the devil went down to Georgia."
Yuk!
# Posted on May 6th 2007 by Clear Drops
Re: rapid response
well,you could adopt the rk response when muppets bark out their requests and it goes like this:
'feck off,i'm not a feckin' jukebox'
except it was n't the feck word.
# Posted on May 6th 2007 by biggus dave