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Yankee Doodle: guitar chords and tab for beginners

United States, 1750s

Yankee Doodle

by Traditional

Tempo
116beats per minute
Count
4beats in each bar
Key
C majorthe home note
Level
1 of 3easiest
Bar 1:1 of 16Tap play to turn sound on
Key C major
0
Higher or lower, to match a voice.
Tempo116beats 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.

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

C×321EADGBe

Coming up: G7

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 Yankee Doodle

3 chords, all open shapes: C, G7, F. 4 beats in each bar, 116 beats per minute, in C major.

About the song

A marching tune from the 1750s that both sides sang in the American Revolution. It is a march, so every note lands square on the beat, and the chorus moves down to the middle strings for a change of colour.

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