Joy to the World guitar tab
The carol in D, beginning with the descending scale from D to D, with the dotted rhythms written as quarters and eighths.
- Level
- Easy melody
- Key
- D major
- Time
- 4/4
- Tempo
- ♩ = 92
- Tuning
- Standard, EADGBE
Joy to the World
Lowell Mason, after Handel · arranged by guitarnotation
How to play it
- Bar 1 to 4 is the D major scale falling from D on the third fret of the second string to the open fourth string: D C♯ B A G F♯ E D. The C♯ is the second fret of the second string.
- Bars 9 to 12, “and heaven and nature sing”, are two runs of D C♯ B A. Bar 13 repeats F♯ four times on the fourth fret of the fourth string.
- Bar 17 leaps from F♯ up to D and back to B before the last line settles on D.
About the song
Isaac Watts wrote the words in 1719. The tune, “Antioch”, was arranged by Lowell Mason in 1848 from phrases he attributed to Handel.
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