“Father Finger” Banjo Tab
Tommy can not get enough of this song, so I picked this out on the banjo. My first attempt at building my own tab:
-----0-0-----0-0--|-2-------2-------|---0-0-----0-0---|------------------ ---0-------0------|-----3-------3---|-----------------|-----0--------0--- -0-------0--------|-----------------|-----------------|-2-2---0--2-2---0- ------------------|-----------------|-----------------|------------------ ------------------|---0-------0-----|-0-------0-------|------------------ G B D D G B D D E G D E G D G D D G D D A A B G A A B G
As a total total total newbie, the wife helped me pick the notes out on the piano. I then shifted them left 3: C –> G, E –> B, because that is what was sounding right on the banjo. And I had picked out my own notes chart using the “Fine Chromatic Tuner” app:
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 (fingers on frets..) D D# E F F# G B C C# D D# G G# A A# B C C# D D# E F F# G G# G -----------------
The revelation was when I “discovered” (I’m sure I have been told but it hadn’t been relevant at the time) that the fifth “G” string matches first string, fifth fret. Before that I was picking 2, then 5 on the D string.
With any luck I can pick around on this and mush it into some roll somehow. It would be nice if the second bit mapped to a chord . . .
Good times!
