Key: F/Dm*
Form: Reel or march
MP3: Do you or your friends play this tune? Please contribute a non-copyrighted recording (smartphone jam recording or equivalent is fine). Meanwhile, check out the YouTubes below.
Sheet Music: Click image to enlarge.
Sheet Music in PDF: Last_Chance
ABC:
X: 1 T: Last Chance R: march S: Fiddle Hell Online 2022-3-26 handout for Fiddle Hell jam session B: the Portland Collection 2 p.115 Z: 2022 John Chambers M: C| L: 1/8 F:http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/session/FiddleHell/march/Last_Chance_PC-D-32-2.abc 2026-02-14 004751 UT K: D |:\ "D"d4 dBAB | d2d2 B2d2 | "A"e3f e2f2- | fefe dBAB ||\ "D"d4 dBAB | d2d2 B2A2 | F4 FED2 | "Bm"[D3B,3][DC] [D4B,4] :| |:\ "D"F4 FEDF | B2A2 FEDF | B2A2 FED2 | "Bm"[D3B,3][DC] [D4B,4] ||\ "D"F2F2 FEDF | B2A2 FED2 | "Bm"[D4B,4] [D3B,3][DB,] | [D2B,2][D2-B,2-] [D2B,2] [1 DE :|2 A2 |]
YouTube:
Brad Kolodner playing fretless banjo:
Source: Hobart Smith
Genre/Style: Appalachian claw-hammer banjo tune
Other Tunes in Set:
Region: USA, southern
*Notes: Site visitor Douglas Wilson writes, “The original was a banjo tune by Hobart Smith, in G/Em, but it is often played in F/Dm. The only D/Bm version I’ve heard is by Brad Kolodner played on a fretless gourd banjo (which are often tuned unusually low).” The sheet music and ABC above are in D.