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Free Gospel Banjo
Tablature
Welcome to the Walkin’ on
Water gospel banjo tablature web pages. The tablature is free for
you to download and print for your own use. Because it is often
difficult to learn new a new song without first hearing it, each
song has a streaming link for your listening as needed.
To open the tab, click on the
song title; to hear a song, click on
the  symbol.
Standard open G tuning is used on all songs.
The tablature was created using
BEGINNER TABS
Just
two songs here, but they are designed to teach you how to change
picking patterns to add some variation to your playing.
Do Lord – forward/reverse roll
Do Lord – thumb in & out pattern
INTERMEDIATE TABS
Some of these arrangements
are quite simple, but they use more complex picking patterns and
greater use of the thumb; you will notice the thumb often ranges
from the 5th string to the 2nd string, depending on where the melody
line is. You can always substitute a different fingering to simplify
things, but as your playing progresses your thumb becomes the most
important factor in making the melody stand out for listeners.
One other melody enhancement
technique you will see is the use of rests following melody notes as
a different way to make them stand out.
Do
Lord – variation 1
I’ll
Fly Away
Church in
the Wildwood
Church
in the Wildwood – variation 1
Simple
Gifts
Will the
Circle Be Unbroken
Will the
Circle Be Unbroken – variation 1
Just a
Closer Walk with Thee
Swing Low,
Sweet Chariot
I'll
Be Somewhere Listening
Sweet
Bye and Bye
ADVANCED TABS
These songs are advanced
only because the arrangements use minimal open strings when compared
to the intermediate tabs, and none are in the key of G
I
Surrender All
Joshua
Fought the Battle of Jericho
'Tis
So Sweet
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