Crossroad Blues mandolin tabs
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Low Octave
This version is a little more challenging, and based off of Eric Clapton's legendary take on this blues standard. How blue can you get?
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Key
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Tempo
105 bpm -
Tuning
GDAE
Up the neck! You don't have to sell your soul, but you will need to practice. Heads up!-Sometimes the second measure of the song goes to a D chord, but it doesn't have to. There's recordings of EJ playing it both ways.
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More about Crossroad Blues
Written by Robert Johnson, made famous by Eric Clapton
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.
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