Railroad Bill Fingerstyle Guitar Tabs
Traditional
Railroad Bill Fingerstyle Guitar Tablature: One Song, Many Styles
Recomended level: Intermediate
Railroad Bill is a folk song that has been done in many different genres. It's been done by Bob Dylan, Crooked Still, Etta Baker and many others. It usually opens with and features a "major III" chord, which gives it a unique sound. Freight Train is another tune which features that chordal movement.
Learn and memorize the melody. This helps you know the important notes to highlight when fingerpicking a lot of notes in a more full arrangement. After becoming familiar with the melody check out one of the finger style guitar arrangements.
The Etta Baker version is based on her legendary playing and features a few licks in her style.
The Highwaymen Style is based on the guitar playing from their recording of this song. It has a really nice ending lick. There's even more variations to explore and musical vocabulary to learn in the lick switcher as well.
Learn how to play Railroad Bill on Fingerstyle Guitar with this selection of tablatures:
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LearnEtta Baker Style
- Difficulty
- Key C
- Tempo 85 bpm
- Tuning EADGBE
This version of Railroad Bill is based on the finger style blues guitar playing of Etta Baker. Etta had an astounding amount of variations, and could play this on the banjo as...
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Learn
Fingerstyle
- Difficulty
- Key C
- Tempo 80 bpm
- Tuning EADGBE
This version of Railroad Bill for finger style guitar is based on a recording by The Highwaymen. They played this in the key of F. To get there on guitar you'd play with "C shapes" ...