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Wabash Cannonball mandolin tabs

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    Mandolin Wabash Cannonball tab

    Simple

    Doc Watson

    • Difficulty
    • Key
      G
    • Tempo
      70 bpm
    • Tuning
      GDAE

    Wabash Cannonball is a well known train song popularized by Doc Watson. This arrangement gives you a way to play this song out of G position.

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  • Jam

    Doc Watson

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

    There are more up and down strokes in this arrangement of Wabash Cannonball to fill out the sound of the song.

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  • Bluegrass

    Doc Watson

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

    You’ll hear much longer phrasing in this arrangement of Wabash Cannonball, so take it slowly (around 80 bpm to start) to really get all of the articulations down.

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More about Wabash Cannonball

Learn how to play the melody of Wabash Cannonball 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 Wabash Cannonball 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.

Get creative with this arrangement of Wabash Cannonball 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 Wabash Cannonball. Shuffle all of the licks in this tab to create an entirely new version of the song.

All 3 Wabash Cannonball 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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