Cripple Creek: Part Four

Putting It All Together

Let's put the pieces together and get cookin' with Cripple Creek!

Now it's up to you to take the parts you've been practicing and piece them together to form a cohesive song. Remember that you repeat both sections once and the form is AABB. Not all songs have this form, but it is a popular one in the bluegrass genre for instrumental tunes.

Cripple Creek Video Tutorial

Notice the repeat signs at the end of measures 2 and 4. These look like vertical lines with two dots to the left of them and they are there to let you know to go back to the beginning of the song. When you repeat once, you won't repeat again unless otherwise notated.

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  Song

  Scruggs Style

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  • Key
    G
  • Tuning
    gDGBD

  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 fir...

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  Song

  Melodic Style

  • Difficulty
    
  • Key
    G
  • Tuning
    gDGBD

  A classic arrangement of "Cripple Creek" with a little single string style added in. The B section features some fancy up-the-neck m...

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  Song

  Backup

  • Difficulty
    
  • Key
    G
  • Tuning
    gDGBD

  This is a forward roll driven backup variation of Cripple Creek based on Earl Scruggs's playing on the original recording. There's ...

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