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Raghupati Raghava Raja Ram Guitar Tab

Composer
Traditional
Year
1931
Key
C
Time
4/4
Tempo
92 BPM
Difficulty
Beginner · ★
First note
C4

Raghupati Raghava Raja Ram 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 D DU

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Lyrics

Bar 1 — Raghupati Raghava Raja Ram

Bar 3 — Patita Pavana Sita Ram

Bar 5 — Raghupati Raghava Raja Ram

Bar 7 — Patita Pavana Sita Ram

Trad. Ram Dhun, melody V.D. Paluskar (d. 1931) — public domain.

How to practise this on guitar

Raghupati Raghava Raja Ram 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 92 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 48 notes across 8 bars, from A3 up to F4 in 4/4 time.

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