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Fisher's Hornpipe mandolin tabs

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  • Tablatures

    Simple

    Traditional

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

    Fisher's Hornpipe is an incredibly fun song, mostly due to how fast the chord changes occur. Practice playing the chords with the backing tracks to get a feel for the big picture of the song.

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  • Jam

    Traditional

    • Difficulty
    • Key
      D
    • Tempo
      95 bpm
    • Tuning
      GDAE

    Compared to the advanced version, this is a slightly abbreviated arrangement of Fisher's Hornpipe. It gets you ready for what's to come!

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  • Bluegrass

    Traditional

    • Difficulty
    • Key
      D
    • Tempo
      105 bpm
    • Tuning
      GDAE

    The full-on arrangement of Fisher's Hornpipe. It's a good one! If you haven't listened to it already, check out Chris Thile and Mike Marshalls's take on this tune.

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More about Fisher's Hornpipe

Learn how to play Fisher's Hornpipe 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 Fisher's Hornpipe 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 Fisher's Hornpipe 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 Fisher's Hornpipe 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.

All 3 Fisher's Hornpipe 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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