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Amazing Grace Guitar Tab
- Composer
- Traditional
- Year
- —
- Key
- G
- Time
- 3/4
- Tempo
- 84 BPM
- Difficulty
- Beginner · ★
- First note
- D4
Amazing Grace on guitar
The full melody, rendered as six-string guitar tab in standard tuning you can read on screen or print for the stand — free, and never truncated.
Lyrics
Bar 1 — Amazing grace, how sweet the sound
Bar 5 — that saved a wretch like me
Bar 9 — I once was lost, but now am found
Bar 12 — was blind, but now I see
Traditional American melody “New Britain”; hymn words by John Newton, 1779 — public domain.
How to practise this on guitar
Amazing Grace is in G and the tab opens on D4 — find that fret, settle your hand there, and notice how little it has to move: the arrangement is worked out with a fret-hand position economy, so consecutive notes stay under your fingers instead of leaping up and down the neck. Read the numbers, not the note names: string line plus fret is the whole instruction, and an open string costs you nothing.
Play it well under around 84 BPM with a metronome and let each note ring into the next — the tails under the numbers show you how long. When your take review marks a bar, loop just that bar until the fret-hand shift inside it feels automatic, then rejoin the line. Speed is the last thing you add, never the first. By the numbers, this setting runs 31 notes across 15 bars, from D4 up to D5 in 3/4 time.
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