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Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms mandolin tabs

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    Mandolin Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms tab

    Simple

    Flatt & Scruggs

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

    This arrangement of Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms gives you an opportunity to work on your down and up strokes. Make sure when you're transitioning from quarter notes to 8ths that you have a nice metronomic feel.

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  • Jam

    Flatt & Scruggs

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

    This version of Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms gives you a lot to work on in terms of double-stops and even introduces some slides to make your playing sound really bluegrassy!

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  • Bluegrass

    Flatt & Scruggs

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

    This arrangement of Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms demonstrates how you can incorporate parts of the A major scale to create interesting melodies based on the intermediate version.

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More about Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms

Learn how to play the melody of Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms with the beginner mandolin tab on Tunefox. From there you can work your way up to the intermediate and advanced arrangements, which feature an emphasis on technical playing while still holding true to that original melody.

There are a ton of tools in the Tunefox app that will help you learn Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms 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.

If you ever wondered how to play Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms 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 arrangements of Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms include flexible backing tracks, allowing you to change the volume of the main instrument, full band, or metronome to suit your practice needs.

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