Lightly Row guitar tab
The first tune in many method books: eight bars of quarter notes on the top two strings.
- Level
- Beginner melody
- Key
- C major
- Time
- 4/4
- Tempo
- ♩ = 108
- Tuning
- Standard, EADGBE
Lightly Row
Traditional German · arranged by guitarnotation
How to play it
- The tune falls in pairs: G E E, then F D D. In bars 1 and 5 the G is the third fret of the first string; in bars 2 and 6 the F is the first fret.
- Bars 3 and 4 walk up from C to G one note at a time, C D E F, then three Gs. Keep your first finger near the first fret and your third near the third.
- The last two bars, C E G G and E E E, end on a half note: let the final E ring for two beats.
About the song
The German children's song “Hänschen klein”, with words by Franz Wiedemann from 1860, known in English as Lightly Row.
The melody is in the public domain. This arrangement is ours, and you're welcome to download, print and play it for your own practice.
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