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Jingle Bells

intermediate mandolin

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This is simply a fun tune to play. It starts out in the key of G then modulates to C. There's nothing too tough about it, but there are enough tricks to keep it interesting. Merry Christmas!

Key of C Key of G Theory Transpose

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  1. Buddy Vann ·

    My fingers know it but my brain doesn't yet — I can't play it without the tab in front of me. How do you all commit these to memory?

  2. Dale Hutchins ·

    Not just you. I still count this one out loud and I've been at it four years.

  3. Katie Clark Support ·

    Answered over in the tab thread too, but short version: play what's comfortable, the tab is a map not a law.

  4. Ann Marie Boyd ·

    Count it out loud. Everyone says it and everyone's right.

  5. Tom Vasquez ·

    Count it out loud. Everyone says it and everyone's right.

  6. Theresa Nickels ·

    Metronome at 60 and no faster until it's clean twice through. Boring but it works.

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