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Explore Tabs and LessonsScruggs Style Banjo
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This arrangement features some essential Scruggs-style roll patterns, especially in the B section of the song. Check out the preview measure below to learn the MTMT ro...
PlayThe Foggy Mountain Breakdown Roll Mini Lesson
3 Lessons
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Tuning guitar, holding a pick, and strumming with confidence.
8 Lessons
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Three Finger - Key of D Banjo
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Spike that fifth string at the 7th fret and lets go to work! Playing in D without a capo opens up some glorious new sounds. This basic arrangement here isn't exactly S...
PlayTuning, holding the pick, and strumming your mandolin.
7 Lessons
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Tuning, reading tab, and playing roll patterns
8 Lessons
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Tuning, Reading Tab, Holding your Banjo, and the Claw
11 Lessons
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Scruggs Style Banjo
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This version of the Cripple Creek is designed to teach you how to play slides, hammer-ons, and pull-offs. Take each one slow at first to get them sounding nice and cl...
PlayBluegrass Guitar
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Here you’ll learn a lot more about the C position, especially it’s major and pentatonic scales. This version of Arkansas Traveler blends in more melody notes for a ful...
PlayLearn essential mandolin chords with ease.
7 Lessons
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Intermediate Mandolin
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This is much closer to the way you will hear the fiddle tune played at jams. Check out all the variations of Chinquapin Hunting by using the substitution licks. If you...
PlayLearn tremolo speed, rhythm, and the A minor scale with 'Wayfaring Stranger'.
4 Lessons
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Advanced Mandolin
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There are many more slurs in this version of Big Sciota than the other two and the B section is really exciting as it slides around the C and Em chords. Have fun!
PlayUsing Tunefox Tools to Learn by Ear
1 Lesson
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Exchange licks in the context of the song you’re learning to hear multiple possibilities for improvisation.
More...With the swipe of a finger, one song arrangement can go from simple to complex. The Level Slider means one arrangement can cover beginner through advanced. The arrangement grows with you!
More...One of the most important parts to learning bluegrass is actually playing the music and experimenting! Play along with real sounding backing tracks to get ready for your next jam.
Whether you’re finding your first chords or you’ve been playing for years, we’ve got you covered with an extensive library of bluegrass music for you to learn and jam along with.
More...Switch licks, hide notes, and jam with backing tracks - these are just a few of the revolutionary ways to learn music with Tunefox.
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Practice at home or on the go! Tunefox will auto-save your progress and preferences.
Every song comes with multiple arrangements so you always have something new to learn. Use the lick switcher to create a personalised solo and then practice with real-sounding backing tracks. Creative learning at it's best!
Melody Guitar
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Here's a wonderfully simple version of the melody for Church Street Blues on guitar. It helps you get a basic understanding of the melodic arc and phrasing in this cl...
PlayMelody Clawhammer banjo
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This version of Garden Song for Clawhammer banjo is just the basic melody. It's always important to learn the melody and the corresponding chord changes for a song. ...
PlayMelody Banjo
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When you are "Working on a Building", you should start by building a solid foundation. In the case of learning this song, begin here - with the melody. First learn...
PlayScale Mandolin
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Easy, fun, and very important. The A minor pentatonic scale for mandolin is a blast to play and foundational to many genres. Follow the fingering in the mandolin tabl...
PlayBluegrass Guitar
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Shady Grove is a jam classic! Sprinkle in a few licks after you get the basics and listen to the Doc Watson reference recording regularly! Repeated listening is...
PlayMelody Banjo
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Garden Song for the banjo is a wonderful melody that is simple and sweet. Read through the banjo tablature and listen to the song in Tunefox before each practice. Jus...
PlayChet Atkins Style Fingerstyle Guitar
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Here is Mister Sandman for Fingerstyle guitar. Remember to palm mute the bass strings throughout this song. That is one of the signature elements of Travis Picking. ...
PlayClawhammer banjo
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This version of Skip to my Lou for Clawhammer banjo is in drop C tuning. It combines the melody with chords for a full and rich sound. Check out those licks to add in...
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