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Hark! The Herald Angels Sing Guitar Tab

Composer
Felix Mendelssohn
Year
1840
Key
D
Time
4/4
Tempo
104 BPM
Difficulty
Easy · ★★
First note
A3

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing 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 - DU

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Felix Mendelssohn, 1840; words Charles Wesley — public domain.

How to practise this on guitar

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing is in D and the tab opens on A3 — 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 104 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 76 notes across 20 bars, from A3 up to B4 in 4/4 time.

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The same melody is graded across 6 Playsoloist instruments. See every version, with difficulty and provenance, on the Hark! The Herald Angels Sing cross-instrument hub.

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