Korobeiniki (The Peddlers)

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

A Russian folk song to a poem by Nikolay Nekrasov (1861): a peddler and his sweetheart. Known worldwide since the video game Tetris; this is the traditional tune. Arranged in A minor: the tune in first position, with a thumb bass on the first beat of each bar and at each chord change.

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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.
• Play the basses (strings 6, 5 and 4) with the thumb and the tune with i and m. When a bass and a melody note fall together, pluck them at the same time and let the bass ring. Practise the tune alone first. The highest note is played at the 5th fret of the high E string.

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Source : Arrangement Note after Note d’après la chanson populaire russe · Public Domain