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Foggy Mountain Breakdown - Ukulele

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Uploaded by on May 13, 2007

A famous fast fingerpicked instrumental from 5-String banjo great Earl Scruggs adapted for ukulele

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  • Sounds really great. The tone of your uke is great for a soprano. Have you tabbed this out or do you have the tabs on hand? Thanks!

  • Thanks. I play it by ear and have not tabbed it out. That sounds like work :-).

  • I can feel my eyes turning yellow. Any advice for someone looking to learn how to play foggy mountain on the uke?

  • The key is the right hand. The right hand rolls I use are pretty close to the way 5-string banjoist pick it. My left hand is different, but that's easier to see from the video.

    5-string banjo tablature is easy to find by googling "foggy mountain banjo tablature". Also,Earl Scruggs has a good book called "Earl Scruggs and the 5-String Banjo" out with explanations and tablature.

  • I use standard gcea uke tuning, but if you tune the first string down one note to "g", you can play from 5-string banjo tablature, albeit in the wrong key and missing the low 4th banjo string

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  • I would love to hear a tutorial from this song on uke, you play it so well!

  • @heftone lol at "That sounds like work."

  • WOW! That's pretty hot picking....it even gets a banjo sound.

    I loved it!

  • Awesome.  Is that an OS wide

  • Ooo, lawdy, that man sho kin pick one!

  • I've been dieing to hear one of those 5k's in action. That uke sounds amazing. I love all those banjo rolls you're playing, and all the cascading on your other videos. You have inspired me to learn some tune using the cascading technique.

  • could you messege me the tab for this song and blackberry blossom and cripple creek if you could thanks.

  • hello my name is stephen i play the banjo guitat and ukulele but i would like to larn this could you email me the tab at stephenwelch2010@hotmail.co.uk plz

  • Oh now u are just showin off!!!!!!! Masterful stuff LOVED it!

  • Excellent!

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