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Swan Lake (Theme) Guitar Tab

Composer
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Year
1876
Key
Am
Time
4/4
Tempo
76 BPM
Difficulty
Easy · ★★
First note
E5

Swan Lake (Theme) 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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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, 1876 — public domain.

How to practise this on guitar

Swan Lake (Theme) is in Am and the tab opens on E5 — 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 76 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 46 notes across 13 bars, from A4 up to F5 in 4/4 time.

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