It is packed from one end to the other with interesting licks and ideas, but remains true to the original tune. It starts with a down the neck arrangement, followed by melodic and up the neck arrangements, and closes out with two more down the neck arrangements. Visit John's BHO page to the video of him playing it. Notes: This is wonderful version of Clinch Mountain Backstep from the playing of John Apfelthaler. Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Expert If you don’t have a Keith tuner on your 4th string, you can just end it with a C note on the 2nd string 1st fret. Finally, in his Outro to the tune Keith used a Keith tuner on the 4th string to go from D to C. Note also that the Intro includes the banjo’s alternating between G7 and Ab Dim, whereas the backing instruments alternated between G7 and Ab7 throughout Part A of the tune. Note that in live performance Keith would start the tune with some appropriate noodling, and I have included a fragment in the tab. It is not a note-for-note copy of Keith’s version, but I did include a number of his nifty ideas, or at least my interpretation of them, that are worth examining. The tab is based on Keith’s arrangement, and it is mostly the way I have played Caravan for the last few decades. Notes: In memory of Bill Keith, whose recording of Duke Ellington’s Caravan on his 1976 album “Something Auld, Something Newgrass” introduced the tune to the world of bluegrass banjo and gob-smacked me when I first heard it. Posted by corcoran, updated: - 6 Member Comments Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: Cm Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
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