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Mandolin tablatures for The Ballad of Jed Clampett

Flatt & Scruggs

Recomended level: Beginner

Tags: #medium-tempo, #vocal song

A hit song, from a hit TV show! Make sure to start with the melody first. Knowing the basic melody to any song is important. If you can sing the lyrics as you play it will help you memorize the notes better and internalize the rhythm, pitch changes and more.

  • Mandolin The Ballad of Jed Clampett Melody

    Melody

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

    This classic melody works great on the mandolin. Make sure to pay attention to pick direction markers and fret hand fingerings in the tabs. While it's totally fine to only place do...

    Mandolin The Ballad of Jed Clampett Melody
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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.

Tunefox features several amazing learning tools to aid you in practicing The Ballad of Jed Clampett tabs. For example, the tempo control slider will let you set an ideal tempo for practice and you can also click on measures to isolate specific sections of the song. The Speed Up tool will gradually increase the tempo each time the song or selected measures loop and the Memory Train feature will steadily hide notes in the song each time it loops.

If you ever wondered how to play The Ballad of Jed Clampett 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.

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The Ballad of Jed Clampett lyrics

Come and listen to a story 'bout a man named Jed
Poor mountaineer barely kept his family fed
Then one day he was shooting for some food,
And up through the ground come a bubbling crude
(Oil that is, black gold, Texas tea)

Well the first thing you know old Jed's a millionaire
Kin folk said Jed move away from there
Said California is the place you oughta be
So they loaded up the truck and they moved to Beverly
(Hills that is, swimming pools, movie stars)

Well now it's time to say goodbye to Jed and all his kin
They would like to thank you folks for kindly dropping in
You're all invited back again to this locality
To have a heaping helping of their hospitality
(Beverly Hillbillies, that's what they call 'em now,
Nice folks Y'all come back now, ya hear?)