Bluegrass Guitar TabsBonaparte Crossing the Rocky MountainsBluegrass guitar tabs -- free! -- for Bonaparte Crossing the Rocky Mountains. Standard treble clef notation for fiddlers along with free guitar tablature and chord symbols.
The video below doesn't feature a guitar player -- I couldn't find one playing Bonaparte Crossing the Rocky Mountains. The Fiddler's Fake book the fiddle player mentions is one I have, too... highly recommended! I have also played out of The Guitar Picker's Fakebook, which seems to have all the same songs in it, but with guitar tablature only.
Your students who are new to flatpicking melodies may struggle initially with the "down,up,down,up" motion of the pick. I like to get my students used to this technique by doing fret-by-fret scales up the neck of the guitar from string 6 to string 1, going "down, up" on each fret. I play along with them, singing the notes like this: "Open, open; one, one; two, two; three, three; four, four; open-open (that's the next string)," etc. Then, with my eyes watching their pick hand, I'll switch to singing, "Down, up; down, up..." Sometime we try it with a metronome to even out their strokes, and I'll assign metronome work at home, too.
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