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Boil Them Cabbage Down mandolin tabs

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  • Tablatures
    Mandolin Boil Them Cabbage Down tab

    Simple

    Traditional

    • Difficulty
    • Key
      A
    • Tempo
      120 bpm
    • Tuning
      GDAE

    Boil Them Cabbage Down is one of the first tunes many mandolinists and fiddle players learn and it’s a good one for learning your notes on the second string.

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  • Jam

    Traditional

    • Difficulty
    • Key
      A
    • Tempo
      120 bpm
    • Tuning
      GDAE

    All double-stops, all day! This is a perfect exercise to get your double-stop playing sounding nice and even.

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  • Licks

    I - V Chord Lick #5

    Fill Lick

    • Difficulty
    • Key
      A
    • Tempo
      120 bpm
    • Tuning
      GDAE

    This is a good lick if you're a beginner looking for some new phrasing to add to your playing because it's straightforward and melodic.

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  • I - V Chord Lick #4

    Fill Lick

    • Difficulty
    • Key
      A
    • Tempo
      120 bpm
    • Tuning
      GDAE

    This is a fairly simple double stop lick that incorporates some sliding around to give it a little edge.

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More about Boil Them Cabbage Down

Learn how to play Boil Them Cabbage Down from a very basic level. With the beginner tab you’ll learn the melody of this song. Using this tab is a great way to set a solid foundation for your development on the mandolin. After you have completed the beginner version get cracking on the intermediate and advanced versions of Boil Them Cabbage Down tabs. These arrangements still follow the melody line but a little more technique is required to get them down.

There are a ton of tools in the Tunefox app that will help you learn Boil Them Cabbage Down tabs more efficiently and effectively. Use the tempo control slider to slow down the whole song, or isolate problematic measures. You can also activate the "Speed Up" tool to speed up isolated measures each time they loop. Use the "Memory Train" tool to hide more and more notes each time you play through the song.

Want to learn how to improvise over Boil Them Cabbage Down on mandolin? Use the Tunefox Lick Switcher to change some of the measures into different style licks. You can basically create your own arrangement of the song, depending on what you want to learn. Pretty cool! If you want to randomly shuffle the licks in the song, go down to the bottom toolbar and click on Shuffle Licks.

Need to work on jamming? Use the Tunefox backing tracks, which are included with each arrangement of Boil Them Cabbage Down. You can mix the volume of mandolin, full band, and metronome to whatever level you’d like.

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