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Fire On The Mountain mandolin tabs

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  • Tablatures

    Simple

    Traditional

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

    Fire On The Mountain is fairly straightforward except for the fact that it's fast. To gain speed, practice slowly until it's second nature, then move the tempo up.

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  • Jam

    Traditional

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

    This arrangement of Fire On The Mountain builds nicely upon the beginner version by adding in hammer-ons and more bluegrass vocabulary.

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  • Bluegrass

    Traditional

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

    Fire On The Mountain is a burning instrumental tune that's often played by fiddle players. It switches keys in the B section to the key of D and then back to A for the last tag lick.

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More about Fire On The Mountain

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.

Use Tunefox’s unique practice tools to take your playing up a notch or two. The tempo slider allows you to set the perfect tempo for your practice, depending on your goals. Work up to your ideal speed for the song using the Speed Up tool and once you’re ready to commit Fire On The Mountain tab to memory, use Memory Train to gradually hide the notes in the song each time it loops.

If you ever wondered how to play Fire On The Mountain on mandolin more creatively, try changing out the licks! Most of the measures can be changed into a different style, so you can gain an understanding of how other musicians may approach this tune. You can also shuffle all of the licks in the song to create a unique arrangement of the entire tab.

All 3 Fire On The Mountain mandolin tabs include backing tracks, so you can change the volume of a mandolin, band or metronome to suit your liking.

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