Für Elise guitar tab
The opening of Beethoven's bagatelle: the E–D♯ figure and its two answers, written in eighth notes with a bass A under the pickup.
- Level
- Classical
- Key
- A minor
- Time
- 3/4
- Tempo
- ♩ = 96
- Tuning
- Standard, EADGBE
Für Elise
Ludwig van Beethoven · arranged by guitarnotation
How to play it
- Bar 1 is an introduction: the open fifth string as a bass, then the pickup E D♯, the open first string and the fourth fret of the second.
- Bar 2 is the figure everyone knows, E D♯ E B D C, all on the first two strings. Keep the eighths even and let the open E ring.
- Bars 3, 4 and 5 each hold a note for a beat and a half and then play three eighths: C E A, then E G♯ B, then E E D♯. The G♯ is the first fret of the third string.
About the song
Beethoven's Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor, dated 1810 and published in 1867, forty years after his death. Beethoven wrote it in 3/8 with sixteenth notes; here each note is an eighth in 3/4, which plays the same.
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