ONLINE SUBSCRIPTION PAGES – TABS, TUTORIALS AND VIDEOS
Thanks so much for your interest in my Patreon page! This page tells you what you can expect and also serves as a quick link to everything I’ve posted there to save you scrolling back through months of stuff. Once you’re ready, head over to the page to sign up by clicking here.
TIERS:
COVER SONG – £2
Every month I post a cover version of a well known song, quite often from rather unlikely sources! The video usually takes the form of a split screen where I play multiple instruments and harmonies. So far sources have included Queen, The Human League, The Beatles, S Club 7 and many more…
JUST THE PERFORMANCES – £5
This is really if you’re a fan of my music and want to see some exclusive videos that are not posted anywhere else. You’ll get two exclusive performances plus the cover song mentioned above.
BANJO TABS – £10
This is really the meat of the page – for banjo players! In this tier as well as the above you’ll get four banjo tabs a month, two easier and two harder. There’s a wide range of material here and I’m very open to requests!
BANJO HEAVEN – £15
The most popular tier, this includes all of the above plus a full video tutorial for every tab running through every aspect of it in detail. In addition, there’s also two videos a month spotlighting a particular area of banjo technique.
THE LIBRARY
Here’s what’s been posted since the page began and links to all of them – please note to unlock access you will need to sign up as a patron and be logged in!
COVER SONGS:
Solsbury Hill
Don’t You Want Me
Radio Gaga
We Can Work It Out
Don’t Stop Movin’
Some Might Say
Walking On Sunshine
I Can See Clearly Now
Alright Now
Hard To Handle
Time Of Your Life
Mighty Quinn
Couldn’t Get It Right
Merry Xmas Everybody
Jumpin’ Jack Flash
Mad World
Crash
Give Me One Reason
Overkill
Late In The Evening
Don’t Go
Babylon
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
Budapest
Tangled Up In Blue
Stop The Cavalry
Something In The Way She Moves
About You Now
2 Princes
PERFORMANCES:
Foggy Mountain Breakdown
Real Late Starter
Yamen
Out Of Here
Midnight Train To Moscow
My Lagan Love
In The Gravel Yard
Big Country
Dorian
I Don’t Have To Live This Way
Leave This Land
Glen Cottage
Road To Errogie Set
Turkish Delight
Northumbrian Tunes
Somebody Somewhere
Every Time You Say Goodbye
Tribute To Debashish
Under African Skies
Road To Mexico
Pointless Greedy Figures
Lost At Sea set
Old Model T
Just Listen
Moonshine 68
Only A Miner
Connected By A Runway
No Way Out The Maze
Jack Crawford
Plan B
Boat Up The River
Last Chance
Light Of Day
Falls Of Richmond/Fine Times
Meet Me On The Corner
Tuesday Night Session
The River
Rainy Days
Lockdown Hoedown
Sullivan’s Breakdown
Mwashah
When A Man’s In Love
Haunting Hounds
King Of California
Laird Of Drumblair/Reconciliation
Never Mind The Strangers
It’s A Sin To Tell A Lie
Pressed For Time
Never Forget My Name
Old Joe Clarke
Snows They Melt The Soonest
Wobbly Trolley
Rescue Me
The Cuckoo
Go To Sea No More
Lease of Life
Hammer and Nail
Snow In March
Vrindavini Sarang
Up The Line
New Farming Scene
Washington’s March
Joxer’s Tune/Hornpipe
Nancy Whisky
Dust On The Roses
Through The Window Of A Train
Still A Town
West Road/Susan Couper’s
Blackberry Blossom
On The Border
The Beginning Of The End
Tom Paine’s Bones
Trip To Brighton/Foggy Dew
Late Night Drive
Saturday Night Shuffle
Late Night Scotch
The Suilin
With A Memory Like Mine
Curse Of The Cheese Pyramid/The Getaway
One Eye Open
Sleep
Wrong Sample
Red Haired Boy
Wrath Of The Rain
No Place To Hide
Lost Rambler (Live)
Clatterbug
King Of California (Live)
TABS:
EASIER:
I’ll Fly Away
tab tutorial
Sunset Over Ayr
tab tutorial
500 Miles
tab tutorial
Jimmy Ward’s Jig
tab tutorial
Blowin’ In The Wind
tab tutorial
Shout Little Lulie
tab tutorial
Wild Colonial Boy
tab tutorial
Star Of The County Down
tab tutorial
Parting Glass
tab tutorial
Possum on Rail
tab tutorial
The Mermaid
tab tutorial
Shady Grove
tab tutorial
Free Fallin’
tab tutorial
Old Joe Clarke
tab tutorial
Scarborough Fair
tab tutorial
Cripple Creek
tab tutorial
In Hell I’ll Be In Good Company
tab tutorial
Mississippi Sawyer
tab tutorial
Carol Of The Bells
tab tutorial
Drunken Sailor
tab tutorial
Clinch Mountain Backstep
tab tutorial
Paper Jam
tab tutorial
Cluck Old Hen
tab tutorial
Dink’s Song
tab tutorial
Country Roads
tab tutorial
Man Of Constant Sorrow
tab tutorial
Calm After The Storm
tab tutorial
Rakes Of Mallow
tab tutorial
Keep On The Sunny Side
tab tutorial
Lift The Latch
tab tutorial
Give Me Your Hand
tab tutorial
Snowdrop
tab tutorial
Molly Malone
tab tutorial
Parting Shot
tab tutorial
Big Rock Candy Mountain
tab tutorial
Rare Old Mountain Dew
tab tutorial
Solidarity Forever
tab tutorial
Undone In Sorrow
tab tutorial
Squirrel Hunters
tab tutorial
Sally Wheatley
tab tutorial
Long Time Travelling
tab tutorial
If You Have No Love In Your Heart
tab tutorial
Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow
tab tutorial
St James Infirmary
tab tutorial
The Boxer
tab tutorial
Barlow Knife
tab tutorial
O Come O Come Emmanuel
tab
City Of Refuge
tab tutorial
Marino Waltz
tab tutorial
Sunderland Lasses
tab tutorial
The Boatman
tab tutorial
Planxty Fanny Powers
tab tutorial
Buffalo Girls
tab tutorial
Swimming Song
tab tutorial
I’ve Just Seen A Face
tab tutorial
Norwegian Wood
tab tutorial
If I Had A Hammer
tab tutorial
The Fox
tab tutorial
Sugar Baby
tab tutorial
Dirty Old Town
tab tutorial
South Australia
tab tutorial
I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry (with harder variation)
tab tutorial
This Land Is Your Land
tab tutorial
Johnny Todd
tab tutorial
My Favourite Things
tab tutorial
You Are My Sunshine
tab tutorial
Wayfaring Stranger
tab tutorial
Budapest
tab tutorial
Cindy
tab tutorial
Georgia Railroad
tab tutorial
Bull At The Wagon
tab tutorial
Irish Rover
tab tutorial
Foggy Dew
tab tutorial
Jaybird
tab tutorial
Needle Case
tab tutorial
The Gambler
tab tutorial
Will The Circle Be Unbroken
tab tutorial
Old Dan Tucker
tab tutorial
Sally In The Garden
tab tutorial
HARDER:
The Banshee
tab tutorial
Salt Creek
tab tutorial
Windy Day
tab tutorial
Boys Of Malin
tab tutorial
I Wish I Was A Mole In The Ground
tab tutorial
Dill Pickle Rag
tab tutorial
Kerr’s Negro Jig
tab tutorial
Jerusalem Ridge
tab tutorial
Scottish a Bethanie
tab tutorial
Bourree de Thiers
tab tutorial
Whiplash Reel
tab tutorial
Late Night Scotch
tab tutorial
Church Street Blues
tab tutorial
Egypt Cottage
tab tutorial
Solomon’s Dhaba
tab tutorial
Deep Down
tab tutorial
Solokov’s Polka
tab tutorial
Troubadour’s Lament
tab tutorial
Monsters Of Polska
tab tutorial
Spike Driver Blues
tab tutorial
Crookit Bawbee
tab tutorial
Gravel Walk
tab tutorial
Battle Of New Orleans
tab tutorial
Wrong Sample
tab tutorial
Whistling Rufus
tab tutorial
Music For A Found Harmonium
tab tutorial
The Butterfly
tab tutorial
Solsbury Hill
tab tutorial
St Patrick’s Cathedral
tab tutorial
Poll Ha’Penny
tab tutorial
Angry Drivers
tab tutorial
Wild Mountain Thyme
tab tutorial
Calliope House
tab tutorial
Shove The Pig’s Foot A Little Closer To The Fire
tab tutorial
Foggy Mountain Breakdown
tab tutorial
Foggy Mountain Breakdown high section
tab tutorial
Arthur McBride
tab tutorial
Fraulein
tab tutorial
Bag Of Spuds
tab tutorial
In The Jailhouse Now
tab tutorial
Beeswing
tab tutorial
Finn’s Breakdown
tab tutorial
Laird Of Drumblair
tab tutorial
Darling Cora
tab tutorial
Broken Pledge
tab tutorial
Hills Of Mexico
tab tutorial
Idumea
tab tutorial
King Of The Fairies
tab tutorial
Gnossiene no 1
tab tutorial
Durang’s Hornpipe
tab tutorial
Big Country
tab tutorial
Cuckoo
tab tutorial
Sounds Of Silence
tab tutorial
Maple Leaf Rag
tab tutorial
Kitchen Girl
tab tutorial
Lonesome Moonlight Waltz
tab tutorial
McArthur Road
tab tutorial
Moonshine 68
tab tutorial
St Anne’s Reel
tab tutorial
Washington’s March
tab tutorial
Summertime
tab tutorial
Roll In My Sweet Baby’s Arms
tab tutorial
Wicked Game
tab tutorial
Bosun Bill
tab tutorial
Right Where You Want Me
tab tutorial
Lost Rambler
tab tutorial
Hopak Katsatke
tab tutorial
Carraroe Jig
tab tutorial
Athol Highlanders
tab tutorial
La Belle Catherine
tab tutorial
Sidney Smith’s March
tab tutorial
Silver Dagger
tab tutorial
Road To The North
tab tutorial
The Great Remember
tab tutorial
Lads of Alnwick
tab tutorial
Stop The Cavalry
tab tutorial
Never Going Back Again
tab tutorial
Marquis Of Huntley’s Strathspey
tab tutorial
Mwashah
tab tutorial
Red Haired Boy
tab tutorial
Maid Of The Mill
tab tutorial
Stormy Mojito
tab tutorial
Lute Song
tab tutorial
The Dreadnought Tea Clipper
tab tutorial
Dusty Windowsill
tab tutorial
IRISH TUNE TUTORIALS
The Old Bush/Humours Of Ballinacarrig/Jenny Picking Cockles/Salamanca Reel
Strop The Razor/Kesh Jig
Roudledum/Dairy Maid
Contradiction Reel
Crabs In The Skillet/Miss Crawford
Fermoy Lasses/Sporting Paddy
Hag With The Money/Saddle The Pony
TECHNIQUE TUTORIALS:
Right hand basics
Grace notes
Slurs
Syncopation/Funkhammer
Drop thumbing
Composing a tune
Left hand fingering
Tune types
Arranging a Tune
Theory – figuring out notes
Chord theory
Playing along/backup
Jigs
Rolls
Bluegrass in clawhammer
Variations
Eastern European music
Bass line/Pinches
Vibrato/bends
Double C tuning
3/2 time
Filling the spaces
Waltzes
Triplets
5th string fretting
Skin Percussion
Harmonics
Slip Jigs
Endings
Capos/keys
Bars with different time signatures within a tune
Muting
Blues grooves
Using open strings to move position
Dotted notes
Speeding up
Changing tones
Moveable chords
Double time
Playing in different keys
Playing in bands
Barring
Singing and playing – getting started
Droney tunings
Weaning off tabs
Writing a harmony
Using double C for D Minor
Tuning by ear
Skips instead of brushes
Reels
How best to approach tab
4/4 Timing
Solutions to downward travel
Getting started playing up the neck
Slur-free runs
12/8 groove
What to do at a jam
Effective slow playing
Dynamics
Preparing to perform
Melodic or frailing
Constructing a medley
Don’t just play the notes
5th string usage
332 Rhythm
Arranging a non-banjo song
Safe notes
No need to fear the pinkie!
Dispelling the myth of gifted!
Timing the gaps
The importance of energy
Subconscious playing to aid singing
Analysing complex bars
Anticipation
Jazzy chords
Prepping the thumb
Fretted pull offs
Choosing a tuning
Writing a riff
Brushes without thumbs
C minor in double C tuning
Double grace note
Transposing
The ‘Red Haired’ intro – tapped harmonic effect
Constructing a lead break
First and second endings