Bradley Laird's Jam Session Survival Kit • The 100 Most Played Bluegrass Jam Session Tunes

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FREE CHORD PROGRESSIONS - by Bradley Laird

WHAT IS THIS PLACE?
This website is a jam session survival kit! I prepared this list of the 100 most popular bluegrass jam session tunes by attending a large number of jam sessions in the Southeast over many years and writing down every tune which was played and the key it was played in. After dozens of sessions, I crossed off the oddball tunes and kept the ones that were coming up over and over.

This site is designed for learning the chord progressions to these most common tunes which you will encounter at jam sessions. Scroll down for the list of tunes and free chord progressions.

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Below is a list of the top 100 bluegrass songs played in bluegrass jam sessions. The top 10, most often played songs are presented here free. They are links so you can easily find them. Print them out and use them at your next jam session!

INDEX OF THE MOST POPULAR CHORD PROGRESSIONS:

Tune or Song Title

Instructions for Using These Charts*

Free stuff is marked with "*"

1. All The Good Times Are Past And Gone

2. Amazing Grace

3. Angel Band

4. Angeline The Baker

5. Arkansas Traveller

6. Banjo Signal

7. Banks of the Ohio

8. Big Sandy

9. Big Sciota

10. Bill Cheatum

11. Billy in the Lowground

12. Blackberry Blossom*

13. Black Mt. Rag

14. Blue Moon of Kentucky

15. Boil Em Cabbage Down*

16. Bury Me Beneath The Willow*

17. Cherokee Shuffle

18. Columbus Stockade

19. Cripple Creek*

20. Crying Holy

21. Cumberland Gap

22. Dark Hollow

23. Dear Old Dixie

24. Devil's Dream

25. Don't This Road Look Rough & Rocky

26. Dooley

27. Down The Road

28. Dusty Miller

29. East Virginia

30. Eighth of January

31. Fair and Tender Ladies

32. Fisher's Hornpipe

33. Foggy Mountain Breakdown*

34. Footprints In The Snow

35. Forked Deer

36. Fox On The Run

37. Friend of the Devil

38. Good Woman's Love

39. How Mountain Girls Can Love

40. I Am A Pilgrim

41. I'll Fly Away

42. In The Pines

43. I Saw The Light

44. Jesse James

45. John Hardy

46. John Henry

47. Katy Daly

48. Kentucky Waltz

49. Knoxville Girl

50. Liberty

51. Little Cabin Home On The Hill

52. Little Maggie*

53. Lonesome Fiddle Blues

54. Lonesome Moonlight Waltz

55. Lonesome Road Blues

56. Long Black Veil

57. Long Journey Home

58. Love Come Home

59. Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor

60. Man Of Constant Sorrow*

61. Midnight On The Stormy Deep

62. Mississippi Sawyer

63. Molly & Tenbrooks

64. More Pretty Girls

65. Mountain Dew

66. New River Train

67. Nine Pound Hammer

68. Old Home Place

69. Old Joe Clark*

70. Over The Waterfall

71. Paradise

72. Pig In The Pen

73. Ragtime Annie

74. Rank Stranger

75. Red Haired Boy

76. Red Wing

77. Reuben's Train

78. Rickett's Hornpipe

79. Road To Columbus

80. Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms

81. Saint Anne's Reel

82. Sally Gooden

83. Salt Creek

84. Salty Dog Blues

85. Shackles & Chains

86. Shady Grove (Major)

87. Shady Grove (Minor)

88. Sittin' On Top Of The World

89. Soldier's Joy

90. Sweet Georgia Brown

91. Swing Low Sweet Chariot

92. Temperence Reel

93. Think Of What You've Done

94. Train 45

95. Turkey In The Straw

96. Wabash Cannonball

97. Whiskey Before Breakfast*

98. Wildwood Flower

99. Will The Circle Be Unbroken*

100. Worried Man Blues

Free Bluegrass Jam Tracks

Other Free Information:

Free: How to Transpose to Any Key*

Free: How to Use a Capo to Play in Any Key*

Download the full sized version to print out or the mobile version formatted for phones and tablets.

CLASSIC VERSION PDF

jam session survival book by bradley laird

Less than the price of a set of strings at only $5!

All 100 chord progressions in an 8.5" x 11" pdf format. Great for printing out and carrying to a jam session.

MOBILE VERSION PDF

jam session survival mobile edition

Less than the price of a biscuit and coffee at only $5!

All 100 chord progressions in a pdf file customized for smart phones, tablets and other mobile devices.

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More Information About These "Cheat Sheets"

When you drop in on a jam session you will soon discover that there are a lot of songs being played which you have never heard. This group of the 100 most popular jam session tunes should give you an advantage and help you play better. You can study them in advance and I can guarantee that the experienced players will know all of these songs! You can also print these out and bring them with you. So, if they ask you what YOU want to play just suggest one of these bluegrass and old-time standards.

free jam session chord progression cheat sheet

Click here for free Instructions for Using These Charts

I used to call this the "Cheater's Bible" but it's not really cheating to look at a cheat sheet if it helps you play better. In time you will memorize the songs and you will not need the crutch any longer. Think of these sheets as jam session training wheels.

As I said already, be sure to read the instruction information page so that you understand how I put these charts together.

Note: Sometimes there will be more than one song which uses the same chord progression so if you learn one you have learned the others too! That, by the way, is why chord progressions cannot be copyrighted. Too many songs share the same chords. The same goes for song titles.

free bluegrass jam session chord progression cheat sheets

Have fun and happy pickin.

Thanks, Bradley Laird.

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