Hear this tune played with guitar rhythm backup (slow, medium, fast) starting at 15:00. Guitar chords are provided on-screen.
This is an instructional tutorial 5-string bluegrass banjo lesson teaching my version of a traditional fiddle standard, "Bile Them Cabbage," a.k.a. "Bile 'Em Cabbage Down," "Boil That Cabbage Down," etc. It's usually played on fiddle in the key of A with lots of double stops and shuffles, and can go quite fast. There have been a ton of versions, among my favorites being the Smothers Brothers' comedy version from 1963 (watch for pumas):
• Smothers Brothers Cabb...
and Clayton McMichen's super fast version from 1937:
• Bile Dem Cabbage Down ...
As usual I teach the tune lick by lick, line by line, providing on-screen tablature, then I put it together -- slowly at first, then faster toward the end, adding rhythm guitar audio overlay and on-screen chord prompts. I also teach it in two parts, parts A and B, similar to Cripple Creek, Old Joe Clark, Blackberry Blossom and many other fiddle tunes.
Free tab sheets (PDF) and play-along tracks (MP3) for this and many other tunes are available at my website, littlerockbanjo.com.
Hope you enjoy.
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