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Phule Phule Dhole Dhole Guitar Tab
- Composer
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Year
- 1882
- Key
- G
- Time
- 3/4
- Tempo
- 100 BPM
- Difficulty
- Beginner · ★
- First note
- D4
Phule Phule Dhole Dhole 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 2 — Phule phule dhole dhole
Bar 4 — Bohe kiba mridu bay
Bar 10 — Tatini hillola tole
Bar 12 — Kallole chole jay
Rabindranath Tagore, 1882, on the Scottish air "Ye Banks and Braes" — public domain.
How to practise this on guitar
Phule Phule Dhole Dhole 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 40 notes across 17 bars, from D4 up to D5 in 3/4 time.
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