Eight More Miles to Louisville mandolin tabs
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16th notes with a little breathing room. Great licks and great fun. Eight miles to Louisville, but you take them as slow or fast as you feel. Watch out for measure 5. The rhythm is a bit tricky. Click on that measure to isolate and loop it. Use the tempo slider to practice it repeatedly at a manageable tempo.
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When asked, Grandpa Jones said he got the idea of this song from “Eight More Miles to Louisville,” which came from another song with the title “Fifteen miles from Birmingham.” The song is not a rip off of the “Fifteen Miles from Birmingham,” and Grandpa Jones stated clearly that the only that he got was an idea, not the lyrics itself. The song has appeared on a number if traditional Ozark Mountain fiddle tunes. All of this tune was compiled by Van Rudolph, who is also recorded to have been part of several other bluegrass and oldie music. The tune that inspired grandpa was from the Delmore brothers. Grandpa lived from 1913 to 1998, and during this period, he was able to play the clawhammer music banjo, inducted into the grand Opry in 1948, and was inducted into The Country Music Hall Of Fame in 1978.
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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Get creative with this arrangement of Eight More Miles to Louisville by using the Tunefox Lick Switcher feature. This tool lets you decide what licks you’d like to learn in the song and helps you better understand improvisation and creativity within the chord changes of Eight More Miles to Louisville. Shuffle all of the licks in this tab to create an entirely new version of the song.
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