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Clawhammer Tune of the Week: “Tallapoosa Bound”

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(NOTE: I’ll be teaching a live, step by step “tab walk-through” for this tune for Breakthrough Banjo members on April 15. Click here to learn more, and see the full schedule.)

Roughly 60 miles west of Georgia, and walking distance to the Alabama line, sits the small town of Tallapoosa.

Old Time Music enthusiasts will recognize it as the home city of one of Georgia’s most decorated contest fiddlers, Ahaz Augustus Gray. Or, to avoid the twisting of tongues, just A.A. Gray.

Fortunately, Gray wrote a rollickin’ fiddle tune to help us remember that factoid, one he recorded in a studio in Atlanta back in 1930, along with guitarist John Dilleshaw, aka “seven foot Dilly” (he was actually but 6 foot 7 inches, but rounding up was the convention).

While Gray may have shed his mortal coil back in 1939, 80 years later “Tallapoosa Bound” still enjoys heavy rotation in jams around here.


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 “Tallapoosa Bound”

gDGBD tuning, Brainjo level 3

Tallapoosa Bound clawhammer banjo tab part 1

Tallapoosa Bound clawhammer banjo tab part 2

Notes on the Tab

Notes in parentheses are “skip” notes. To learn more about these, check out my video lesson on the subject.

For more on reading tabs in general, check out this complete guide to reading banjo tabs.

[RELATED: Level 2 arrangements and video demos for the Tune (and Song!) of the Week tunes are now available as part of the Breakthrough Banjo course. Learn more about it here.

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