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Canon in D: guitar chords and tab for beginners

Germany, about 1680

Canon in D

by Johann Pachelbel

Tempo
66beats per minute
Count
4beats in each bar
Key
C majorthe home note
Level
1 of 3easiest
Bar 1:1 of 12Tap play to turn sound on
Key C major
0
Higher or lower, to match a voice.
Tempo66beats per minute right now

Level 1. Strum one chord per beat. Start here.

Chord names above, strum arrows below. Down arrow = strum down toward the floor, up arrow = back up.

010203040506070809101112CGAmEmFCFGCGAmEmFCFGCGAmEmFCFG↓↓↑↑↓↑↓↓↑↑↓↑↓↓↑↑↓↑↓↓↑↑↓↑↓↓↑↑↓↑↓↓↑↑↓↑↓↓↑↑↓↑↓↓↑↑↓↑↓↓↑↑↓↑↓↓↑↑↓↑↓↓↑↑↓↑↓↓↑↑↓↑
Where your fingers go● press here · the number is which finger
EADGBeopen12345678910111232010

Hold this chord

C×321EADGBe

Coming up: G

Numbers are fingers: 1 index, 2 middle, 3 ring, 4 pinky.

Space bar plays and pauses. Left and right arrows jump a bar.

The chords

The chords in Canon in D

5 chords, all open shapes: C, G, Am, Em, F. 4 beats in each bar, 66 beats per minute, in C major.

About the song

Pachelbel wrote this around 1680 and it was almost forgotten for two centuries. Its eight-chord loop is now the most borrowed progression in pop music. We play it in C so every chord is an open shape; the original is in D, which needs barre chords.

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