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Las Mañanitas Guitar Tab
- Composer
- Traditional
- Year
- —
- Key
- G
- Time
- 3/4
- Tempo
- 100 BPM
- Difficulty
- Beginner · ★
- First note
- D4
Las Mañanitas 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 — Estas son las mañanitas
Bar 4 — que cantaba el rey David
Bar 6 — hoy por ser tu cumpleaños
Bar 8 — te las cantamos a ti
Bar 10 — Despierta, mi bien, despierta
Bar 12 — mira que ya amaneció
Bar 14 — ya los pajarillos cantan
Bar 16 — la luna ya se metió
Trad. Mexican birthday serenade — public domain.
How to practise this on guitar
Las Mañanitas 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 100 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 60 notes across 17 bars, from D4 up to D5 in 3/4 time.
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The same melody is graded across 6 Playsoloist instruments. See every version, with difficulty and provenance, on the Las Mañanitas cross-instrument hub.
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