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Ave Maria Guitar Tab

Composer
Franz Schubert
Year
1825
Key
G
Time
4/4
Tempo
72 BPM
Difficulty
Easy · ★★
First note
G4

Ave Maria 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.

Tuning: E A D G B e (standard) · Strum: D - D -

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Franz Schubert, 1825 — public domain, simplified setting.

How to practise this on guitar

Ave Maria is in G and the tab opens on G4 — 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 72 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 27 notes across 8 bars, from E4 up to C5 in 4/4 time.

Also playable on

The same melody is graded across 7 Playsoloist instruments. See every version, with difficulty and provenance, on the Ave Maria cross-instrument hub.

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