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We Three Kings of Orient Are Guitar Tab

Composer
John Henry Hopkins Jr.
Year
1863
Key
Am
Time
6/8
Tempo
144 BPM
Difficulty
Easy · ★★
First note
E4

We Three Kings of Orient Are 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 - -

eBGDAEAm0312E7Am0102Am0312E7Am0102eBGDAECG1133CEm00310DmE730310AmG7203eBGDAEC1110FC121C1110FC121AmG1130eBGDAEFG1030C1110FC121

John Henry Hopkins Jr., 1863 — public domain.

How to practise this on guitar

We Three Kings of Orient Are is in Am and the tab opens on E4 — 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 144 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 62 notes across 16 bars, from G3 up to G4 in 6/8 time.

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