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Home on the Range Guitar Tab

Composer
Daniel E. Kelley
Year
1873
Key
C
Time
3/4
Tempo
108 BPM
Difficulty
Easy · ★★
First note
G3

Home on the Range 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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Melody by Daniel E. Kelley; words by Brewster M. Higley, 1873 — public domain.

How to practise this on guitar

Home on the Range is in C and the tab opens on G3 — 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 108 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 81 notes across 33 bars, from G3 up to G4 in 3/4 time.

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The same melody is graded across 8 Playsoloist instruments. See every version, with difficulty and provenance, on the Home on the Range cross-instrument hub.

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