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Head Over Heels Banjo Tabs

Flatt & Scruggs

Head Over Heels Banjo Tablature: One Song, Many Styles

Recomended level: Intermediate

Tags: #vocal song, #medium-tempo

Head Over Heels for Banjo is a captivating vocal song, set at a medium tempo, perfect for intermediate banjo players. Dating back to traditional roots, it brings an amazing blend of uplifting lyrics and catchy beats. Its well-balanced complexity will challenge and engage intermediate-level musicians, boosting their fingerpicking precision and timing skills.

Learn how to play Head Over Heels on Banjo with this selection of tablatures:

  • Banjo Head Over Heels Scruggs Style

    Scruggs Style

    • Difficulty
    • Key
      G
    • Tempo
      120 bpm
    • Tuning
      gDGBD

    This is a really fun Flatt & Scruggs song that is a must-learn for any bluegrass banjo player!

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  • Banjo Head Over Heels Melodic Style

    Melodic Style

    • Difficulty
    • Key
      G
    • Tempo
      120 bpm
    • Tuning
      gDGBD

    This is a complex melodic arrangement with a lot of fun ideas for spicing up Head Over Heels. Watch out for measure 6!

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  • Banjo Head Over Heels Backup

    Backup

    • Difficulty
    • Key
      G
    • Tempo
      120 bpm
    • Tuning
      gDGBD

    This arrangement has a nice mixture of vamping and Scruggs licks to give you a solid down-the-neck version of Head Over Heels.

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Practicing Tips

Learning Overview

This comprehensive guide provides tailored learning resources for the bluegrass banjo song 'Head Over Heels'. The resources are tailored for intermediate players, offering tablatures in Scruggs, Melodic, and Backup Styles. The song features a medium-tempo vocal song, providing learners a diverse range of learning features that provide an immersive learning experience.


Practice Tips

One of the key elements of your practice should be using the Tunefox platform. Its unique features like the Lick Switcher enable you to see the song in a new, enlightening way, while adding versatility to your practice. You can use it to add new licks for individual measures, offering you numerous variations of the song. This way, you can personalize the song's arrangement while learning novel ways to interpret the tune.


Other useful features include the Arrange slider that enables you to easily and accurately set a customized difficulty level. Slide it to the left to remove "fill-in" notes, showing a simple, core arrangement. Sliding it to the right fills the arrangement with extra notes, revealing the song in its entirety. Also, you can use the tempo slider to change the tempo.


Experiment with playing along with backing tracks for a fun learning experience. As one of the crucial parts of learning the bluegrass genre, playing along with real-sounding backing tracks prepares you for your forthcoming jam sessions. You can isolate selected measures and repeat them. Utilize the 'Speed Up' function to gradually increase the playback tempo; this is an excellent tool for progressively moving to higher speeds. Start at a comfortable speed, then ‘Speed Up’ will incrementally increase the tempo with each playthrough.


In summary, practice and learning this song can be simplified by leveraging the innovative features available on the Tunefox platform. Explore all its functionalities and use them to customize your learning experience.


Head Over Heels lyrics

I think I'll go across the ocean,

If I don't change my notion,

I've just got to forget you if I can.

(Chourus)

I'm feelin so blue,

I don't know what to do,

Because I'm head over heels in love with you.

Every day is sad and lonely,

For I'm thinkin of you only ,

I just can't sleep when I lay down.

Oh I'd like to be forgiven,

But this life ain't worth livin,

If have to sit and worry over you.

Oh the nights are long and dreary,

All I do is sit and worry,

I just can't bear the thought of losin you.