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When the Saints Go Marching In Guitar Tab
- Composer
- Traditional
- Year
- —
- Key
- C
- Time
- 4/4
- Tempo
- 120 BPM
- Difficulty
- Beginner · ★
- First note
- C4
When the Saints Go Marching In 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 1 — Oh, when the saints
Bar 3 — oh, when the saints
Bar 5 — oh, when the saints go marching in
Bar 9 — Oh Lord, I want to be in that number
Bar 13 — when the saints go marching in
Trad. American gospel — public domain.
How to practise this on guitar
When the Saints Go Marching In 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 120 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 35 notes across 16 bars, from C4 up to G4 in 4/4 time.
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