A cool addtion to the Braille-Friendly Banjo Tab project! Mike in Maquoketa surprised me this morning with a batch of tunes from The Outlaws & Scalawags Songbook in braille-friendly format.

The Outlaws & Scalawags Songbook is a collection of songs about villains, assassins, hoboes, bad boys, badder girls and other folks you wouldn’t want to bring home to meet mom arranged for frailing banjo. It is available in print as well as freely available under a Creative Commons license.

Mike writes:

Just thought I’d let you know where I was at in converting this. I didn’t get started very promptly, but if I can keep my pace up I should get through in the next week or so. I have the first five songs finished, they are attached. Thanks for all you do.

Banks of the Ohio, Captain Kidd, Texas Rangers, Gypsy Girl and Worried Man Blues!

Outlaws & Scalawags - first five songs: http://somersetbanjo.com/OaS1.txt

So far Tim from Korea, Pat from Michigan and Ytske from Sweden have taken the time to jot down tunes with this alternative tab system.

• Whiskey In The Jar
• Rosin The Beau
• The White House Blues
• Going Down That Road Feeling Bad
• Mountain Dew
• Little Maggie
• Shady Grove
• The Baltimore Fire
• Wildwood Flower
• Death Letter Blues
• Deep Blue Sea
• Greenland Whale Fisheries
• Roving Gambler
• Little Maggie - melody
• Flop Eared Mule
• Foggy Mountain Fakedown
• White House Blues

A Book Of Five Strings has also been converted!

A Book Of Five Strings
Strategies for mastering the art of old time banjo

• Title & Dedication
• Creative Commons License
• Introduction
• About Your Banjo
• Practice, Perspective & Speed
• Tuning
• The Frailing Strum
• • The Basic Technique
  • Rhythm
  • Tablature
  • Practice Patterns
  • Chords
  • Playing and Singing
• Scales, Chords & Chord Progressions
• • The Chromatic Scale
  • Scales
  • Chord Progressions
  • Transposing
  • Minor Progressions
  • Chord Construction
  • Moveable Chord Forms
  • "Root-Five"
  • Chopping And Vamping
  • Putting It All Together
• Jamming
• Timing And Phrasing
• • Quarter Note Patterns
  • Eighth Note Patterns
  • Slides
  • Double Thumb
  • Phantom Effects
  • Arranging Tunes
• Finding The Melody
• • Open Position Scales
  • Closed Position Scales
  • Chord Patterns
  • Other Scale Patterns And Modes
  • Chording The Scale
  • Putting It All Together
• 3/4 and 6/8 Time
• • 3/4 Time
  • 6/8 Time
• Drop Thumb
• Bluegrass & Blues
• • Bluegrass
  • The Blues
  • Delta Blues
  • Gus Cannon
• Walking The Walk, Talking The Talk
• • Teaching
  • Improvising
  • Stage Presence
  • Moving On To The Next Level
  • Dealing With The Fifth String
  • Alternate Tunings
  • Learning Tunes In Three Easy Steps
• Why I Play The Banjo

We are quickly getting to the point where we will need a separate web page to keep this project organized. If you want to get involved in any way please don’t hesitate to contact me.