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    Guitar Big Sandy tab

    Bluegrass

    Bill Monroe

    • Difficulty
    • Key
      G
    • Tempo
      110 bpm
    • Tuning
      EADGBE

    This is a great Bill Monroe tune. A chromatic walk is one of the main themes in the melody. If you want more ideas on how to incorporate chromaticism check out the licks. There's some great Crosspicking ideas, and some Kenny Baker licks in there too.

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  • Guitar Big Sandy tab

    No Capo

    Bill Monroe

    • Difficulty
    • Key
      A
    • Tempo
      110 bpm
    • Tuning
      EADGBE

    Playing a familiar tunewuo a capo can help you unlock new ideas, and understand the fretboard better. If you haven't learned this tune in the traditional way, which is with a capo, we suggest you do that first. Learn the rules then break them.

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More about Big Sandy

A great Bill Monroe tune.

Choose from 1 different versions of Big Sandy for bluegrass guitar based on your skill level. The beginner arrangement of this song will teach you a basic melody and from that place you can move to the intermediate tab and then to the advanced version, which will get you playing some more popular bluegrass guitar vocabulary.

Tunefox features unique tools to assist with practicing Big Sandy. "Speed-Up" will gradually increase the tempo of a looped section or the entire song so you can build your technique. When you select "Memory-Train", Tunefox will make the notes disappear from the tab each time the song loops, so you’ll learn how to get off the tab with ease. To isolate a section of the tune, simply click on the measure and it will loop.

Want to practice with a band? Use the Tunefox Big Sandy backing tracks! These real-sounding tracks sound great and the settings will allow you to adjust the volume of the guitar, band, or metronome.

Are you looking for a way how to be more creative while playing this song? Our content creators prepared different ways to play most of the measures in all 1 variations of Big Sandy. We call them "licks" and you can change these by clicking on the "Original Measure" text above the measure. You can also shuffle all of the licks in the song to get a completely new arrangement.

Members can also export all of their banjo Big Sandy arrangements into PDF files.