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    Mandolin Cripple Creek tab

    Bluegrass

    Traditional

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

    This version of cripple creek follows the core melody and works great at the easy or hard setting on the difficulty slider. There's a nice variety of licks to use here. Some are notey fiddle tune style riffs, and some use drones and 16th note tremolos for that old-time mandolin sound. Check this one out and have a blast!

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  • Mandolin Cripple Creek tab

    Bluegrass - Low Octave

    Traditional

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

    You open up a whole new world of sound when you learn Cripple Creek using those low strings!

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  • Mandolin Cripple Creek tab

    Melody

    Traditional

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

    This basic melody is a great place to start for beginners. It's also great intermediate and advanced players when learning to play at higher tempos. Lastly, it has some very simple licks that are variations of the basic melody.

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  • Melody - Key of G

    Traditional

    • Difficulty
    • Key
      G
    • Tempo
      80 bpm
    • Tuning
      GDAE

    To give you some practice on Cripple Creek in a different key, here's the key of G. The melody is the same but because of the key change the positions are different.

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More about Cripple Creek

The Tunefox Beginner tab is focusing on accenting the melody notes of the vocal line. Intermediate arrangement features more 16th note up and down strokes than the beginner version and Advanced version adds some tasty melodic flare.

There are a ton of tools in the Tunefox app that will help you learn Cripple Creek 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 Cripple Creek 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.

The backing tracks included in all tab versions of Cripple Creek are a great tool for practicing the melody or improvisation. Go to Settings to change the volume levels of the mandolin, full band tracks, and metronome to suit your practice needs.

If you’re a Tunefox member, you have the ability to export your arrangement to a PDF file.