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Old Joe Clark guitar tabs

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  • Tablatures

    Beginner

    Traditional

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

    A popular fiddle tune with a bluesy flair. The cool thing about this song is that it sounds great regardless of what difficulty level arrangement of Old Joe Clark you’re playing at!

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  • Intermediate

    Traditional

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

    This intermediate version of Old Joe Clark will show you how to blend more 16th notes into your playing to create a fuller, more melodic sound.

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  • Advanced

    Traditional

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

    Channel your inner fiddle player here, because this arrangement of Old Joe Clark is exactly how a fiddle player may approach the melody. Practice tip: Use the metronome when you’re jamming with friends for the ultimate timing challenge.

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More about Old Joe Clark

On Tunefox, there are 3 versions of this song for you to learn. The Beginner arrangement gives you a good foundation of the verse melody. The Old Joe Clark Intermediate tab is a slidey arrangement of this song, which is a little more technically challenging and finally, the Advanced version introduces more typical bluegrass vocabulary.

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.

The Old Joe Clark backing tracks allow you to practice this song with an entire band and you can change volume of a guitar, band or metronome according to your needs.

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 Old Joe Clark. 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 Old Joe Clark arrangements into PDF files.