Minuet in G major guitar tab

How to play it

• Bar 1 sets the pattern: a quarter note D on the third fret of the second string, then four eighths walking up from the open third string.
• The F♯ in bars 7 and 15 is the fourth fret of the fourth string. Reach for it with your fourth finger.
• The high G in bar 4 is the third fret of the first string; everything else lies under the first four frets, so the hand never moves.

About the song

Copied into the 1725 notebook of Anna Magdalena Bach and long credited to J. S. Bach, the minuet is now known to be by the Dresden organist Christian Petzold.

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.