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Row, Row, Row Your Boat: guitar chords and tab for beginners

United States, 1852

Row, Row, Row Your Boat

by Traditional

Tempo: 100beats per minute
Count: 3beats in each bar
Key: C majorthe home note
Level: 1 of 3easiest

Bar 1:1 of 8Tap play to turn sound on

Speed 100%Slower is fine. Start at 60%.

Key C major

Higher or lower, to match a voice.

Tempo100beats per minute right now

RepeatStart over when the song ends.

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.

Where your fingers go● press here · the number is which finger

Hold this chord

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 Row, Row, Row Your Boat

2 chords, all open shapes: C, G7. 3 beats in each bar, 100 beats per minute, in C major.

About the song

First printed in 1852 and sung as a round ever since. It sits on one chord until the very end, and its rocking rhythm is a good way to feel three beats in a bar. Count it in two big swings, one per bar.

Row, Row, Row Your Boat: guitar chords and tab for beginners