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Oh Susanna guitar tabs

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    Guitar Oh Susanna tab

    Beginner

    Traditional

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

    Oh Susanna is a classic American song that most people learn when they are kids. Practice tip: On your computer you can use the “Hide Notes” function to challenge your ears to learn this melody.

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  • Intermediate

    Traditional

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

    In this arrangement of Oh Susanna you’ll hear the melody start to morph into a Bluegrass tune due to adding in slides, hammer-ons, and pull-offs.

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  • Advanced

    Traditional

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

    This version of Oh Susanna gives you a more fiddle-like approach and will challenge you if you’re not used to playing long lines. Practice Tip: Play along with the backing tracks at 60-80 bpm to achieve maximum note clarity.

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More about Oh Susanna

With Tunefox, you can learn 3 bluegrass guitar arrangements to Oh Susanna, starting with the Beginner tablature. This tab will give you a foundation for the melody so you can easily modify it along your journey to the intermediate and advanced versions, which will each progress in difficulty. This helps you develop a bluegrass guitar vocabulary while also staying true to the melody of Oh Susanna.

Use Tunefox’s unique practice tools to improve your speed and get off the tab faster so you can jam sooner. The "Speed-Up" tool will incrementally increase the tempo of the song so you can build up to your ideal tempo for the tune. Use "Memory-Train" to liberate yourself from the tab. This practice tool will make the notes in the song gradually disappear, forcing you not to look at the tab anymore. Click on measures to isolate and loop them for practice.

Use Tunefox’s backing tracks to practice this bluegrass guitar version of Oh Susanna with a real-sounding band. Go to the Settings menu to mix the volume of the guitar, band or metronome to your liking.

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 Oh Susanna. 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.

When you’ve finished creating your arrangement of Oh Susanna, export your song arrangement to PDF file. This feature is for members of Tunefox, only.