Auld Lang Syne — open G

Traditionnel écossais · Level 2 (Beginner) · traditional · Guitar, sheet music and tablature

The Scottish tune sung to Robert Burns’s poem (1788), in G major and open G: open basses on beats 1 and 3, the dotted tune on the treble strings. John Fahey recorded it on The New Possibility (1968).

▶ Play this piece with the interactive score

How to practise it

• Listen first: the site plays it while the score scrolls.
• Wait mode: the score waits for you at every note, at your own pace.
• Tempo challenge: play in time, with a score and a map of the bars you got right.
• Pickup: the tune’s low D (open 4th string) before the first beat. Dotted quarter-eighth rhythm, sung and sustained; the bass rings under the long note. Bars 4 and 12: C chord, bass at the 5th fret of the 5th string, high E at the 2nd fret of the 1st string.