Here in one place are all banjo solos recorded by Pete Wernick from 1971 to 2018. We invite you to browse the entire archive and select tabs of interest for one quick and easy download. Themed collections (Pete’s Faves, Bluesy Banjo) are discounted.
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“This unique archive is largely thanks to the dedicated and generous work of Brian Ford of Duluth, MN. Brian’s years of diligent effort now allows others to explore my life’s work as a banjo player. I sincerely hope you’ll enjoy learning to play these solos with the blending of melody and meaningful ornamentation I’ve tried to create.”

Tabs are marked either $1 or $0.75 per title (includes all solos for that title) — according to whether they’re double-checked for accuracy. The $1 tabs are “as accurate as possible” — checked carefully by Pete and Brian. The $0.75 tabs are generally 90-100% exactly as played, though not yet double-checked by Pete.
![]() | Country Cooking – 26 Bluegrass Instrumentals | 12 tabs available individually or as a collection. | $0.75 – $8.00 |
Big Ben Shot From Guns Cedar Hill Armadillo Breakdown Pow Wow the Indian Boy | The Old, Old House Orange Mountain Special Theme Time Huckling the Berries | Tequila Mockingbird Morning Glory Barrel of Fun Western Wind |
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![]() | Music Minus One Banjo | 12 tabs available individually or as a collection. | $0.75 – $8.00 |
Ballad of Jed Clampett Foggy Mountain Breakdown It's In My Mind to Ramble Salty Dog Blues Late Last Night (Way Downtown) | Dueling Banjos Mountain Dew Lonesome Road Blues Little Maggie | All the Good Times Are Past and Gone Roll On Buddy Sitting On Top of the World Jesse James |
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![]() | Pete Wernick – Dr. Banjo Steps Out | 17 tabs available individually or as a collection. | $0.75 – $8.00 |
Whiskey Before Breakfast Plane 45 Wichita Lineman Cross-Eyed Fiddler Beatin' My Time Gnu Breakdown | Life's Too Short Plain and Fancy Shady Grove Western Wind Lost in the Woods Sally Ann | The Highest Place Red Clay of Georgia White Fences Blueberry Ripple Big Rock in the Road |
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![]() | Hot Rize – 1st (“Biscuit”) album | 12 tabs available individually or as a collection. | $1.00 – $8.00 |
Blue Night Empty Pocket Blues Nellie Kane High On A Mountain | Ain't I Been Good To You Powwow The Indian Boy Prayer Bells Of Heaven This Here Bottle | 99 Years Old Dan Tucker Durham's Reel Midnight On The Highway |
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![]() | Hot Rize – Radio Boogie | 11 tabs available individually or as a collection. | $1.00 – $8.00 |
Radio Boogie Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow Wild Bill Jones Land of Enchantment | The Man In The Middle I Long For The Hills Just Ain't No Brakes | Walkin' The Dog Tom And Jerry Gone But Not Forgotten |
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![]() | Hot Rize – In Concert | 10 tabs available individually or as a collection. | $1.00 – $8.00 |
Let Me Love You One More Time Goin' Across the Sea My Little Darlin' I've Been All Around This World | I'm Gonna Sleep With One Eye Open Martha White Theme Sally Goodin | Your Light Leads Me On The Sugarfoot Rag Shady Grove |
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![]() | Hot Rize – Traditional Ties | 11 tabs available individually or as a collection. | $1.00 – $8.00 |
Hard Pressed If I Should Wander Back Tonight Walk the Way the Wind Blows Hear Jerusalem Moan | Frank's Blues Lost John Montana Cowboy Leather Britches | Working On a Building John Henry Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning |
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![]() | Hot Rize – Untold Stories | 9 tabs available individually or as a collection. | $0.75 – $6.75 |
Are You Tired of Me, My Darling? Untold Stories Country Blues | Bluegrass Part 3 Won't You Come and Sing for Me Life's Too Short | You Don't Have to Move the Mountain Shadows in My Room Wild Ride |
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![]() | Hot Rize – Take It Home | 10 tabs available individually or as a collection. | $1.00 – $8.00 |
Colleen Malone Rocky Road Blues Bending Blades Gone Fishing | Think Of What You've Done Climb the Ladder Money To Burn | The Bravest Cowboy Lamplighting Time in the Valley The Old Rounder |
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![]() | Pete Wernick – On a Roll | 16 tabs available individually or as a collection. | $1.00 – $15.00 |
Spring Break Ruthie Down In The Valley To Pray Cindy Broken Vow Boulevard On A Roll | An Old Box Of Memories Limber Jack Strut Birdsong Creek When The Snow Falls On My Foggy Mountain Home | June Apple Haystack Rock Man Of The Mountain Farewell Blues Lost At Sea |
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![]() | Chris Thile – Leading Off | 7 tabs available. | $0.75 – $1.00 |
Shadow Ridge Slime Rock Holdin' Down the Fort | Shipwrecked Trail's End Old Dangerfield Chris Cross | ||
![]() | Pete Wernick’s Live Five – I Tell You What! | 12 tabs available individually or as a collection. | $0.75 – $8.00 |
Sky Rider Fire Dance Dear Old Dixie D-Funk | Playground Swing Huckling The Berries Go Cheetahs Go Free As the Wind | June Apple Plain and Fancy Round the Horn Daybreak In Dixie |
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![]() | Jeff White – The White Album | 9 tabs available. | $0.75 |
Cold, Cold Heart Right Before My Eyes Old Plank Road Cabin Among the Trees | Leavin' Town Little Lies Little Joe Promises You Made I'm Goin' On | ||
![]() | Jeff White – The Broken Road | 10 tabs available. | |
The Broken Road Lonesome as It Gets Stay Away From Me Cliffs by the Sea Rich Gal | Cheater's Heart This Lonely Heart of Mine I'll Make My Way I Wonder The Only Girl | ||
![]() | Pete & Joan Wernick – Windy Mountain | 12 tabs available individually or as a collection. | $0.75 – $8.00 |
I've Endured Nobody's Darling But Mine Mama's Hand Windy Mountain | Caves of Jericho There'll Always Be a Rocking Chair Walking In The Air Be Proud Of The Gray In Your Hair | Setting the Woods On Fire Each Season Changes You My Love Is A Rider Dark Hollow |
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![]() | Pete Wernick’s Live Five – Up All Night | 12 tabs available individually or as a collection. | $0.75 – $8.00 |
Alabamy Bound Hold It Spirit In A Bottle Seven Come Eleven | Foggy Mt. Breakdown Owensboro Hop Pick and Roll On A Roll | Sweet Georgia Brown The Doctor Is In Foggy Mountain Special Soldier's Joy 5 Ways |
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![]() | Hot Rize – So Long of a Journey | 18 tabs available individually or as a collection. | $0.75 – $8.00 |
Blue Night Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning Empty Pocket Blues Radio Boogie Climbing Up a Mountain Walkin' the Dog Frank's Blues | A Voice on the Wind Shadows In My Room Nellie Kane The Butcher's Dog Working On a Building Walk the Way the Wind Blows | Foggy Mt. Breakdown High On a Mountain Colleen Malone Life's Too Short Won't You Come and Sing For Me |
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![]() | Flexigrass – What The | 12 tabs available individually or as a collection. | $0.75 – $8.00 |
Blue Train The Highest Place Waiting for Daylight Leavin' Town | Snowbird Traveling Home Just Thinkin' of You Blackberry Blossom | Opal Luxury Liner Air Mail Special Bye Bye Blackbird |
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![]() | Long Road Home – Live at eTown Hall | 11 tabs available individually or as a collection. | $0.75 – $8.00 |
Two Soldiers Keep Rolling Butcher's Boy Shackled to a Ball and Chain | Ain't No Use Leaving Mary Lou If You're Ever Gonna Love Me | Ninety Nine Years 2:19 Broken Vow |
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![]() | Hot Rize – Classic Hot Rize (DVD) | 3 tabs available. | $1.00 |
Blue Night Sally Ann Wheel Hoss | |||
![]() | Hot Rize – When I’m Free | 11 tabs available individually or as a collection. | $1.00 – $8.00 |
Western Skies Blue Is Fallin' Come Away Sky Rider | You Were On My Mind Doggone A Cowboy's Life Never Met a One Like You | Burn It Down Glory in the Meeting House Clary Mae |
![]() | Full Tablature Archive | All of Pete’s solos from almost 50 years of recording, some 300 in all. All tablatures are included in PDF format contained in a single zip file for easy download. | $99.00 | |
![]() | Pete Wernick – AcuTab Transcriptions Vol I "On a Roll" | All breaks from Pete’s On A Roll solo album, includes special bonus section of selected Hot Rize solos, 45 breaks in all, with chord diagrams | $15.00 | |
![]() | Dr. Banjo Plays Hot Rize | Download the tablature for all 36 banjo solos from Hot Rize’s first two albums. Many photos and playing hints. | $15.00 | |
![]() | Three Book Tablature Set | Get all three and save!
| $29.00 | |
![]() | Pete’s Favorite Breaks and Tunes | 32 examples of Pete’s style at its best. Click for list. | $18.00 | |
![]() | Greatest Hits | 15 of Pete’s most requested solos. Click for list. | $10.00 | |
![]() | Bluesy Banjo | 43 tunes. “I like making bluesy music. That meshes well with a lot of Hot Rize songs, and it often surfaces in tunes I write. Blues typically involves a loose and dynamic rhythmic feel, as well as an edgy tonality usually including a lot of flatted thirds and sevenths, even flatted fifths despite being in a major key.” — Pete | $18.00 | |
![]() | Hot Rize instrumentals | 20 tunes. Click for list. | $12.00 | |
![]() | Songs and Tunes by Hot Rize in D, E, and F | 16 solos out of the “G comfort zone”… Many great and playable ideas that explore the possibilities of the “D in G tuning” zone, and even going “no capo” in E and F. | $10.00 |