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  • Beginner

    Nothing but the melody in this arrangement of Jesse James. Use rest strokes for tone, especially on those long notes.

    • Key G
    • 70 bpm
    • Tuning EADGBE
    Play Beginner

  • Intermediate

    This arrangement of Jesse James goes best with a new set of strings and some fast fret! That's because we are going to slip and slide our fingers up and down the neck to play this tune. The slide is a very useful and expressive tool as a guitarist, and you should definitely get a work out here. Remember to accent the melody notes and have fun. If you don't know which notes are the melody notes, go check out the beginner arrangement and listen to Grandpa Jones sing this a couple times :)

    • Key G
    • 80 bpm
    • Tuning EADGBE
    Play Intermediate

  • Advanced

    Triplets are cool, but paying attention to pick patterns is even better. Okay, that's it for my three-pointers :)

    • Key G
    • 95 bpm
    • Tuning EADGBE
    Play Advanced

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Guitar Jesse James tab

Choose from 3 different versions of Jesse James 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.

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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 3 variations of Jesse James. 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.

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