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Auld Lang Syne: guitar chords and tab for beginners

Scotland, 1788

Auld Lang Syne

by Traditional

Tempo
92beats per minute
Count
4beats in each bar
Key
C majorthe home note
Level
1 of 3easiest
Bar 1:1 of 17Tap play to turn sound on
Key C major
0
Higher or lower, to match a voice.
Tempo92beats per minute right now

Level 1. Strum one chord per beat. Start here.

Chord names above, strum arrows below. Down arrow = strum down toward the floor, up arrow = back up.

0102030405060708091011121314151617CCG7CFCG7CG7CCG7CFCG7CG7C↓↓↑↑↓↑↓↓↑↑↓↑↓↓↑↑↓↑↓↓↑↑↓↑↓↓↑↑↓↑↓↓↑↑↓↑↓↓↑↑↓↑↓↓↑↑↓↑↓↓↑↑↓↑↓↓↑↑↓↑↓↓↑↑↓↑↓↓↑↑↓↑↓↓↑↑↓↑↓↓↑↑↓↑↓↓↑↑↓↑↓↓↑↑↓↑↓↓↑↑↓↑
Where your fingers go● press here · the number is which finger
EADGBeopen12345678910111232010

Hold this chord

C×321EADGBe

Numbers are fingers: 1 index, 2 middle, 3 ring, 4 pinky.

Space bar plays and pauses. Left and right arrows jump a bar.

The chords

The chords in Auld Lang Syne

3 chords, all open shapes: C, G7, F. 4 beats in each bar, 92 beats per minute, in C major.

About the song

Robert Burns set the words down in 1788 to an older Scottish tune. The world sings it at midnight on New Year’s Eve. The melody skips around more than a nursery song, so it is a good test of finding notes on the B and thin e strings.

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