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Banjo in Neil Young's "Old Man"

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(@gutfiddle)
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Anyone know how to play the banjo run just before the chorus on Old Man on guitar? Would be most helpful is someone could tab those few notes out for me :)

Thinkin' bout the times we had
Some were good and some were bad
guitar fightin' the tv
i was thinkin bout you and me


   
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(@doug_c)
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If you have or can get "TABLEDIT" or "TABRITE ," you might be able to get something from this page: http://www.banjohangout.org/tab/browse.asp?m=byletter&v=O . Or the HyperRust page http://hyperrust.org/Music/?s224t might have something you could use.
David Hodge did a lesson on the song back in Feb. '04, so something in there might work for the banjo part, too. https://www.guitarnoise.com/article.php?id=434
That's James Taylor playing banjo on that, if you didn't already know.


   
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(@gutfiddle)
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thanks, i should've known to look at David's lessons when having a Neil question! James Taylor just played here, I shoulda let him know I was workin on this song and we couldve had a jam session.....

Thinkin' bout the times we had
Some were good and some were bad
guitar fightin' the tv
i was thinkin bout you and me


   
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(@chalkoutline)
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And thanks to just watching the DVD "Heart of Gold" I now know that it was a 6 string banjo tuned the same as a guitar.

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(@off-he-goes)
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And thanks to just watching the DVD "Heart of Gold" I now know that it was a 6 string banjo tuned the same as a guitar.

I played a 6 string banjo tuned like a guitar once. The local shop owner had it in, and didn't know how to tune it. We tuned it to a EADGBe, and give it a test run, it was neat. He tuned it differently a few days after though.

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