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My Country, 'Tis of Thee Guitar Tab

Composer
Traditional
Year
1831
Key
C
Time
3/4
Tempo
88 BPM
Difficulty
Beginner · ★
First note
C4

My Country, 'Tis of Thee 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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Trad. melody (God Save the King), 18th c.; words Samuel F. Smith, 1831 — public domain.

How to practise this on guitar

My Country, 'Tis of Thee is in C and the tab opens on C4 — 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 88 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 41 notes across 14 bars, from B3 up to A4 in 3/4 time.

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